"Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its messages much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup."
That's from page 48 of a book I'm rereading--The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I read it for my European Lit class in the fall and remember finding it intriguing. I'm now out to find how intriguing it actually is. So far, very much so. I heard a quote once, I think by C.S. Lewis or Winston Churchill or some other oft-quoted man, about how to really read a book, one must read it twice. I believe that to be true. And since it is in a quote, it must be true.
So, I know we've been over this, but I'm a senior now.
And I'm in a big empty house. I love the people who normally occupy this house, but it's also really fun for it to just be me (and Milan Kundera).
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Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
Oh yes. I love the people who normally (and who used to) occupy that big house, but sometimes even I enjoy being there with just me, myself and I.
In about an hour we meet Jesse's bride-to-be!!!
OH DEAR. Now I know what happens when I think it's NOT publishing the comment so I keep hitting the 'publish your comment' thingie --- and it turns out it IS publishing my comment.
Well, I hope you had a big, though not-long-lasting thrill seeing that you had 7 comments on your post!
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