nope

i wrote this post the day after my previous one, but i'd unplugged the lan and connecting the wireless is a pain because something is funky with the card. look at my first sentence! how sad.

gonna try to keep that stone rolling. no moss.

Jillian has some good books. and they're real too, in that they're not fantasy or science fiction. although they are most certainly fiction. i read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera a few months back, and liked it.

this is from Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Fermina asks her spinster aunt, who has been a mother to her for almost all of her life, what to say in response to Florentino's marriage proposal. they have only communicated through letters, for two years now, because her father would never allow it, and she's still under 18. any more information and this would be too long.

"Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no."

does that sound right? is that incredibly wise or incredibly foolish?

later, she realizes her love for Florentino was not that at all but an illusion. the second time they see each other face to face, she says, "No, please. Forget it." and forgets him with a wave of her hand.

she then agrees to marry a man (perfect in almost every way but that is beside the point), not for love, or any reason similar to love, "rather, she was stunned by the fear of an opportunity slipping away, and by the imminence of her twenty-first birthday, which was her private time limit for surrendering to her fate."

it seems like Florentino's love was doomed by bad timing. that sucks.