03 May 2009
You never know...
)Published on May 3rd, 2009 @ 01:39:51 pm, using 306 words, 184 views
Nearing the end of On Beauty I came upon these words again: YOU NEVER KNOW.
On this Sunday morning - the latest in a string of many which have, without explanation, laid claim to my reading habits, as I can only react with a listless going along.
Step One: Pick up the book from the shelf.
Step Two: Lie down.
Step Three: Move to Wellington.
No questions asked.
And right around the time I start missing a story (its characters and their conflicts) just leafing through the pages that are left and feeling on the tip of my fingers that the end is in fact, near.
(A clear downside to any artistic endeavor, active or passive: the fleeting aspect of it. Of creation, execution and dissemination. There is sadly, always an end to the ‘art’ tunnel which is often more interesting than anything outside. Outside, the world merely inhales and exhales the fumes of nine-to-five mistaken for oxygen.)
An idea came to me at this latest ‘YOU NEVER KNOW‘: to start an ongoing list of you never knows, this commonest of phrases that has become as meaningful to me as to retain a sense of importance regardless of what follows it. And here I go…
(Feel free to drop a line if you happen to chance upon one.)
YOU NEVER KNOW who you’re gonna meet, do you?
(The Interpreter)
YOU NEVER KNOW what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
(William Blake)
Life is like a box of chocolates. YOU NEVER KNOW what you’re gonna get.
(Forrest Gump)
YOU NEVER KNOW what the hotels are like in your hometown because you never have to stay in them.
(Zadie Smith - On Beauty)
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