Conrad’s fools

I’ve been rereading Joseph Conrad of late.  I was looking for books a few weeks ago at a book shop in Seattle and came across Nostromo, which I vaguely remembered reading many years ago but once I started reading it last weekend I realized I hadn’t read it before, I had only purchased the book and intended to read it.  As often happens, though, you read truly great books when you need to read them, not before.

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Checked out

I went to my local library in Scarborough last week, which was probably the first time I’d been in a local library since I was in college.  I needed some books for the flights back and forth to Seattle for the weekend, knowing that I’d be at risk of getting delayed somewhere, so I borrowed my dad’s library card and browsed for a bit.

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inbound delays

Secret signs and knowing looks

These sunny days will cook the books

Happy to take the misery

This mortal life can bring to me

Don't like the look of this town

What goes up must come down

Character is lost and found

On unfamiliar playing ground

- from Public Image Limited, "Seattle"

I’m in Seattle, finishing up a weekend with my son.  It was a different kind of weekend – for a number of reasons, I felt able to breathe a lot easier with my son this time around.  I didn’t feel quite so much in the bubble with him – that word again – as much as I just felt like I was living in my own, somewhat chaotic world.

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