Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I haven't stopped "dieting"
Last Tuesday I had forgotten to take blood pressure meds for a couple days and fainted and fell into some metal shelves. I'm doing fine, now, but this interrupted many things. I have read some stories and essays in the intervening days, but have not posted. That should be remedied soon, but I wanted to let people know I see this as a long term project.
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Be careful! Were they bookshelves? I've always thought that death by falling books (as in Howard's End) would be an appropriate death for me. (You *have* seen the Merchant/Ivory production of Howard's End, haven't you? It's one of my favorite movies. Though, ironically, I've never read the book.)
ReplyDeleteHi Jeremy,
ReplyDeleteI remember that scene! But here it was falling Rick killing a shelf. I had only fully fainted once before, at age nine, and at that time was able to put my hands before me to break my fall. I didn't picture going lights out without making minimum arrangements. I went down with way more force than I would have imagined. It hurt like hell momentarily, not long enough to suffer. But I replay the shock of it in my head a lot.
I haven't read "Howard's End," either. I did enjoy what I read of "A Passage to India." I need to finish that one.