From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Saturday, May 17, 2008

I popped on to say thanks to Scott for getting us our washer and dryer.
I was pulling out the clothes from the washer and putting them in to the dryer. Something felt weird... I couldn't figure if it was the lack of softener or what.
Then I realized it was that the clothes are already mostly dry! from the spin cycle! Woo!

Back to Cleaning.
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