Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
August 17th, 2004 | Published in whoa!
In order to buck the trend that has started this week, I will not comment on how insignificant my day was. Instead, I will simply relate the following deep thought:
I was reading again today and I came across this neat quotation in reference to T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which I vaguely recall reading once before when I was in elementary or middle school:
The problem with mermaids, I mused, was that they always have to return to the sea.
The quote refers to the protagonist of the story being attracted to a girl that he saw as being a siren or mermaid and while it’s okay to be attracted to such a girl, you’ll never get to be with her for very long because eventually her need to return to the sea will arise.
Not entirely sure why that caught my attention, but it did. Perhaps it was because I was busy writing practice essays today and was in the mood to analyze and interpret some literature. Sorry if it doesn’t involve hacking on some code or reading a techno-thriller, but those are the breaks…
