Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Hush, cockleshell boats and fruit.

1. The moment of quiet after the radio is switched off.

2. Elizabethan explorers who set off for Japan -- via the Pacific -- in their little ships. I reckon if they'd had my school atlas which accurately shows the size of the journey, instead of their charts full of mysterious blank spaces, they would never have even tried it.

3. The convenience and sweetness of bananas.
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