aleya

“OLOTB: You should look at it under a microscope. Bailey: Look at what? OLOTB: The sand. You’d think it would be boring bits of gray nothingness, but it’s not. It’s minerals–quartz, fragments of sea shells, all sorts of delightful things. Exquisite, really. Bailey: So, I just ran across a bunch of minerals? OLOTB: Who’d have thought you were tromping on such beauty?”

“I found the Muse in myself. And I loved Her fiercely.”

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?