Mar 21, 2024
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all." - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
The Doll, Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier ... yesterday's acquisition ... today's pleasurable distraction.
As we stood in the charity shop, my friend laughed, turned to me and smiled and said mock excitedly 'Ooh look! A book on Scientology ... we could become Scientologists' ... I smiled in return and said 'OK, but then what shall we do tomorrow?' ... looking at the next book, my friend turned to me again, raised an eyebrow, giggled and said 'Apparently we'll be learning how to crochet' ...
