imperceptibly, the gray skies of winter have overtaken minnesota the past week or two. there have not been many sunny moments. even when the sun has been out, it’s so far off and alien that it might as well be cloudy. on sunday i was writing and i wanted to accurately describe the cloudy winter sky so i went to the window to take a good look and realized that there was actually quite a bit of blue in the sky. it was pretty surprising.
in any case, it was good to crack open my first ever richard brautigan, (trout fishing in america) last night and find this brilliant description of the sun:
“The sun was like a huge fifty-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then lit with a match and said ‘Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper,’ and put the coin in my hand but never came back.”
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