Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (c) Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

A glass of brandy and a sandwich

I remember the smell of the rain. I remember the late August, the time when Bakewell bloomed. I remember sitting on the windowsill in the library in our house with a slightly open window seeing a garden full of greens being refreshed as if Eden grew anew and small birds singing swiftly. I remember and want to remember for eternity yet curse the moment I picked up a worn-down book about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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