My work in the museum is what I would call my hobby, as my work in B.O.S.O.M. is my real source of income. It’s a very nice, financially advantageous environment… if you can adopt the thought that you are merely a tool – a means to an end. Filth, innuendos and deviant urges are all commonplace, routine parts of the job here. Nobody will be polite towards a kettle or a floor mat. It’s normal. The wishes of our clients are supreme law here. Because (sorry for my banality!) they pay. OK, let’s do without naming the number I dance to!
Generally, we all do everything, and we can’t reject orders. But everyone has their own private preferences. Betty, for example, likes to be a piano or a harp. She likes music and musicians. (By the way, she has a really rad voice! She might make a great career out of it.) Damn! I looked away again! My bad!
What about me? If you’re reading this part of my scribble, you should know that my passion is literature. I like to be a book. I like writers and readers. I like to be written and to be read. I’ve been educational supplies and novels, vignettes and literary magazines. They’ve yearned for sweethearts and derided malevolent persons with me. They…
– Hey, baby! A client is waiting for you!
I put aside the anthology of The Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
– Come in, Schulz!
He’s a really great guy. He always tries to select clients for us whose proclivities match our personal bents.
– What is it today, Schulz?
– A reader. Pushkin. The Bronze Horseman.
– Not bad!
– Yes… I know you like books and Pushkin, baby… but there is a slight change. Today won’t be ink.
Suddenly, I notice the heavy awl and a packet of little metallic beads in his hands.
– What the hell?
– Sorry, baby… It’ll be Braille. Your client is blind.
“And turned to him with his back, proudest,
On height that never might be tossed,
Over Neva’s unending wildness,
Stands, with his arm, stretched to skies, lightless,
The idol on his brazen stallion.”
Oh, my poor over-extended spine… Fuck! Pushkin! Son of a bitch! Why did you write such lengthy poems?! I hate you and your excessively descriptive style! Now I’ll only read Matsuo Basho! (to be continued)
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2014
My special thanks to Cyan Ryan
for the grammar corrections and improvement this essay!
I’m so confused. This website is like I entered a maze with no beginning and no end…but that’s why I love this.
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Hee hee! That’s because we don’t want you to escape. We want you to stay here and read only our stuff forever and ever! 😛
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I am regaled! It’s like a path with many branches, each leading to a new wonderful discovery. A delightful neural network of literary works. Thank you for leading me to it! 🙂
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Oh… thank you very much and bon appetit 🌯
(YAY! I got to my comments! Can you believe? Me neither!) 😛
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LOL! It was a lovely burrito, Thank you! 🙂
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I love this very surreal, and reminded me of experimental theater, jumping to the other posts along the way! Excellent, love it, outstanding! One of my favorite lines, “He always tries to select clients for us whose proclivities match our personal bents”.
Always,
Alice ♥
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Oh, thank you, my little birdie! 🙂
I like your comparison with experimental theater…
Jumping… It’s my insidious plan 😉 I’m going to make a blog-snares… and one sweet canary will get lost here… and stay forever 🙂
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Remarkable, post I found it brilliant, like a labyrinth. I love it, and how you are so very creative! It’s like Alice in Wonderland, for sure!
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Beware, Alice, Mobius loops!
You should run quickly… very quickly… because you can be caught by an endless circle 😉
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I know, nowhere to hide! Have a wonderful evening and weekend!
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Thank you, sadly beautiful!
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