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As someone once said to me - I can't remember now who it was - it is really remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the evening before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in an essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore, as that man truly said, it requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That was why he said, the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.
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(kafka, "the trial" 318-19)
pray for me, that come tomorrow morning i will still be
me, and rather not metamorphised.
it occurs to me that i am not quite finished as i am
just yet.
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2 comments:
A 'lil unrelated: I love that moment when I wake up in the morning and am in that transitionary state - between asleep and awake - where I'm conscious, but just a blank slate. No thoughts, no concerns, no real conscious realization of where I am. Kinda' blissful.
I need to go back and read some Kafka. (plus everything else: the more Cantonese I hear the more I want to go find me some English bookstore.)
Also: I gave my iMac to my Dad for the semester, so when I got here I bought a MacBook air. But I can't use bittorrent anywhere, it's all blocked... so I thought I'd just be SOL for music (no CD drive!), but I remembered that I posted that mix I made for your birthday to my website, so I'm listening to that on repeat at the moment. Feels summery! (Hong Kong, unlike the Bay Area, is occasionally warm and humid around this time of the year. ;] )
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