Tuesday, December 26, 2017

life, cold, perfunctory, Eileen

* "The urgency of life when it is being lived so close to death."
  
             Anthony Minghella speaking about Cold Mountain

* The cathedral height lobby is frigid. 
   "6 degrees outside," comments a lady with no hair.
   (How does she bear not hair without wearing a hat? I always wear a hat now.)
   I leave my coat, everything, on as I travel in stages to the exam  room:reception, weigh in room, corridor, nurses' station. In each stage of travel the temperature rises until at last the atmosphere is 
   pleasant when I get bearable for the exam.

* "perfunctory solution with a gun"

* Eileen Atkins

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