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Dec. 23rd, 2001 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botias| Reading Material: | The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells |
| Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto | |
| The Book of Masonry Stoves by David Lyle | |
| + asst. romance novels and children's books |
"There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life."
It was quiet. Too quiet. I think, if I ever write a book I will begin it this way, but I would always know that I stole it from a lovely 1980 documentary about Mount (volcano) St. Helens. I should have guessed that the eruption would have inspired a fair bit of folk music. And I really shouldn't have been surprised that 4 college kids and a camera, tromped, Blair Witch style, through the creepy steaming landscape within hours of the eruption. Their drama as a local sheriff cited them and sent them slogging miserably back the way they came...
