Thursday, January 26, 2006

More News From Ships

A pretty little passage from Shipping News, which I'm about 30 pages from finishing:

...Quoyle was in an elaborate routine. In the mornings he dropped Sunshine at Beety's, brought Bunny to school, gave Wavey a ride. At four he reversed. Man Doubles as Chauffeur. Tea in Wavey's crazy kitchen if he was done for the day. If he had to work late, sometimes they stayed with her. She cut Quoyle's hair. He stacked her wood on Saturday morning. Sensible to eat dinner at the same table now and then. Closer and closer. Like two ducks swimming at first on opposite sides of the water but who end in the middle, together. It was taking a long time.

Enjoying it quite a bit, though in a somewhat odd way. Want to finish before I dump any ideas about it. For anyone who watches/watched Project Runway, how about Zulema getting the boot this past week? Talk about karma kickin' you in the ass, since her whole statement of, "If I win this week I'm going to switch models again," tells me that she deliberately chose Nick's model in an effort to throw him and possibly the others so she could have a psychological advantage, since if she just wanted the best model she could have chosen them when she won and have been done with it. Sucks for the model (formerly Nick's) though, who got screwed for the purposes of that competition through no fault of her own.

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