The Blind Assassin

I started Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assasin the day before yesterday at midnight, and it's so good that I might just finish all 637 pages before midnight tonight. I liked this quote so much that I'm noting it here. The narrator is an old woman, looking back on her life:

...I sit at my wooden table, scratching away with my pen. No, not scratching - pens no longer scratch. The words roll smoothly and soundlessly enough across the page; it's getting them to flow down the arm, it's squeezing them out through the fingers, that is so difficult.

This book is full of good ones like that. Although, I would now argue that words are no longer silent. Each letter makes a sharp, annoying clack on the keyboard. Even blank spaces are noisy... on my keyboard they're the loudest of them all.

Today is my day off from everything. I plan on making full use of it by sitting in a cafe on this crisp September afternoon, drinking a warm caramel tea, and finishing my book.

Later this evening, I will continue comparing presidential candidates online. I'm not inundated with lots and lots of cheesy television ads or morning talk show interviews, so I actually have to go seek out this information. It's so much better this way. Really.

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