The rules of writing

In the beginning was the verb, and the verb was with words and the verb was word. And the verb was word with action.

Letters. Letters to form syllables. Syllables to form words. Words to form sentences. Sentences to form paragraphs. Paragraphs to form short-stories. Paragraphs to form chapters. Chapters to form novels.

Punctuation. Punctuation is really important. Sometimes it doesn't really matter where you put commas and full stops and everything else. When I don't know where to put them, I argue it is style, and I spread them along the sheet as if seeds of a tree.

My

stream

of

slow

consciousness.

The death of Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal died falling from a hospital window when trying to feed the pigeons. Doves.
The doves flew away
(doves that beautiful word for pigeon. dove can be a tender loving expression for a loved one. pigeon is filth)
, they were not blazing like swans, they just flew away. The doves were just a metaphor Bohumil Hrabal used for the ones who had fled.
In his fall, finally at rest, maybe from a fifth floor, the seconds before hitting the ground, Bohumil Hrabal thought of Kafka, Biebl. Maybe Rilke, who knew the world hurts. It was then the last time it hurted.
The night after the day a blazing swan
(or was it a dove)
fell over the hospital window, more doves went to the dome of the rotunda, in Budeč, not to die, but to mourn. Bohumil Hrabal.

Every morning I wake up earlier and go to The British Museum. And for ten minutes I gaze at the Rosetta Stone. And then I go.

As I was updating my blog on quotations, I wondered if all videos, images shouldn't be there. In the end, showing a video, an image
(whether from the person captioning the object or the person and object captioned)
is a quotation from someone else's work. Thus, corrections have been made to the two previous posts. Please do follow the links.

Emmy The Great – First Love (Bandstand Busking Acoustic Session)

Emmy The Great – War (Bandstand Busking Acoustic Session)