Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell a C major from a sergeant major. Because I, only I, see her smile a fraction before it reaches her face. Because Emperor Robert is not a good man - his best part is commandeered by his unperformed music - but she gives me that rarest smile, anyway. Because we listened to nightjars. Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproof chambers of my heart.
David MitchellStichwörter: love
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
David MitchellRevolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.
David MitchellStichwörter: art
Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.
David MitchellStichwörter: tokyo
A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.
David MitchellStichwörter: john-lennon
All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.
David MitchellStichwörter: reality
She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.
David MitchellStichwörter: relationships
Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands or not by observing how they treat or mistreat their cars.
David MitchellStichwörter: marriage-advice
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
David MitchellStichwörter: sports
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
David MitchellStichwörter: inspirational winning thoughtful losing interesting perspectives
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