my son interrupted me while I was reading to him the other day to inform me that he gotten bored and had decided to imagine all the characters as dragons
I use Orwellian to refer to things that remind me of Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Kafkaesque is when there's a longwinded monologue by someone who may or may not be a mouse
I find time to read these days which is good, feels good for what's left of my brain to do that. There were a lot of years there where I wasn't reading much, and I realise the main reason I have more time now is I've stopped trying to learn languages
I was shocked once while talking about literature with a lit academic type guy when he asked me what kind of stuff I read for fun. And I had to explain to him that I actually liked literary literature and that I read it for fun
