How Sad a Passage

COUNTESS "This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work." -Act I scene i, All's Well that Ends Well.

Sunday, August 09, 2020

Kamili

Lazy days.  An Italian-Zanz apartment with excellent random literature, stories by Ann Packer invoking love and loss and middle-age.  Peaceful and befitting the need to simply chill, this Art Deco sectional mustard orange couch where I passed a bit of last night whiling away the time reading Walk for Mankind, which ties back into the later story read first, and which gave it an odd sort of unexpected poignancy.  

Remember the moment the power cut out, the darkness and the party music and the sound of the fans dying out.  The brief cries from the humans nearby.  Before it was restored.  A magical little moment in time, after the tales of the Arabian nights concluded at another cliff-hanger story.

Waiting news on whether Kenya Airways will be allowed to fly out of Zanzibar, and whether the required testing can be done.  But most looking forward to the staged engagement at the perfectly named Zanbluu.  Will the cooking video give away the game?  Guess we’ll find out.


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