túl sok eső.... raining here for days, my sinuses will never dry out.... playing around with some images, trying to place Radnóti in (perhaps) broader consciousness/context... at the edge of a river soon to overflow its banks? China, Burma, Iowa all submerged while polar bears sunbathe on melting chunks of ice... hungarians tell me that if it rains on 8 June, expect 40 more days of it. 40 days. that's of biblical proportions. i'm absolutely sure neither i nor anyone i know on the pannonian plains can possibly warrant enough of anyone's attention to be the butt of an epical plague. ok, it's not biblical, calm down. we're talking climatic chaos, don't leave home without mask & snorkel, maybe just don't leave home at all.... does anyone dare go to a Pacific Rim country without packing an earthquake emergency kit? recently read that the FAO wants us to eat more insects, that's how they solved a locust plague in Thailand and now thais want to keep tossing them in their woks. this disgusts me. sorry to be a culinary elitist when we and our crops are being struck down by these legendary plagues, but i really find insects repulsive as appetizer or entrée.... in Uganda people were scarfing down fried white termites, i´m glad they find them scrumptious and i reserve my right to steer clear of land animals with exoskeletons... the other night at friends´home in the countryside a hedgehog came along to clean out the cat´s dish. cute, hedgehogs. back in USSR times, i was on a train from Moscow to Kiev with a woman smuggling out a russian hedgehog, one with needled armour that fit in her handbag. a foreign thrill, but i wouldn´t think about spearing one of them for dinner, either.... anyway, that was severe digression, i started out with Radnóti's thoughts on our interconnectedness and that's where i'd like to leave this. the blog passed the 500 hit mark today (ok, this includes me logging in to post and edit) somebody out there's reading this stuff and so a shout out to whomever you may be, wherever you may be, cuz i appreciate serving as someone else's entertainment escape hatch while i'm close to drowning here in my own aqueous nightmare.
18 June 2008
túl sok eső.... raining here for days, my sinuses will never dry out.... playing around with some images, trying to place Radnóti in (perhaps) broader consciousness/context... at the edge of a river soon to overflow its banks? China, Burma, Iowa all submerged while polar bears sunbathe on melting chunks of ice... hungarians tell me that if it rains on 8 June, expect 40 more days of it. 40 days. that's of biblical proportions. i'm absolutely sure neither i nor anyone i know on the pannonian plains can possibly warrant enough of anyone's attention to be the butt of an epical plague. ok, it's not biblical, calm down. we're talking climatic chaos, don't leave home without mask & snorkel, maybe just don't leave home at all.... does anyone dare go to a Pacific Rim country without packing an earthquake emergency kit? recently read that the FAO wants us to eat more insects, that's how they solved a locust plague in Thailand and now thais want to keep tossing them in their woks. this disgusts me. sorry to be a culinary elitist when we and our crops are being struck down by these legendary plagues, but i really find insects repulsive as appetizer or entrée.... in Uganda people were scarfing down fried white termites, i´m glad they find them scrumptious and i reserve my right to steer clear of land animals with exoskeletons... the other night at friends´home in the countryside a hedgehog came along to clean out the cat´s dish. cute, hedgehogs. back in USSR times, i was on a train from Moscow to Kiev with a woman smuggling out a russian hedgehog, one with needled armour that fit in her handbag. a foreign thrill, but i wouldn´t think about spearing one of them for dinner, either.... anyway, that was severe digression, i started out with Radnóti's thoughts on our interconnectedness and that's where i'd like to leave this. the blog passed the 500 hit mark today (ok, this includes me logging in to post and edit) somebody out there's reading this stuff and so a shout out to whomever you may be, wherever you may be, cuz i appreciate serving as someone else's entertainment escape hatch while i'm close to drowning here in my own aqueous nightmare.
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