Monday 2 January 2012

Chapter 4. The Bride Before - 11th Century Zhouzhuang




11th Century Zhouzhuang
At First the bride was nervous. She’d never seen her future husband.






11th Century Zhouzhuang/21st Century Paris  
She’d watched over time people marry and grow to love each other without condition, without intellect. The feigning of annoyance and irritation and anger, all the whilst, the dread of departure. And then there was the spectre of her nature and the awful wrongness of it all.









11th Century Zhouzhuang  
When the buckets were collected and the boat finally docked the bride felt……………………………anxious, scared, insecure, full of expectations, warm, curious, slightly stiff, sweaty, uncomfortable, close to tears, fearful, overwhelmed, dread, wonder and a strange excitement. She looked perfectly composed.




Chapter 5. The Beginning


11th Century Zhouzhuang/21st Century Paris 
When they finally got together she had occasion to melt. All the icebergs of beige seeped out of her and ran to ground. 





11th Century Zhouzhuang/21st Century Paris. 
They were Kites caught in an endless kaleidoscope.





And then came little god.

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