Yep — owl.
I'm currently reading Slaughterhouse-Five. I read it once in high school, once in college, one other time after college, and now. This is one of the techniques I use to remember parts of my life: recalling time periods in which I read certain books. I don't have as much time as I used to for reading books, so thank dog for my kids — their birthdays help me keep track of my time travels more efficiently.
I'm reinhaling this Vonnegut staple because I recently heard that Charlie Kaufman and Guillermo del Toro might be working together to adapt it for the big screen, and even the slimmest possibility of that excites me beyond my wildest Tralfamadorian dreams.
Anyway, I got to page 56 in the beat-up old paperback that I think was my mom's from when she was in high school (antiquity bonus!), and I read this passage:
"Billy traveled in time, opened his eyes, found himself staring into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl. The owl was hanging upside down from a rod of stainless steel. The rod was Billy's optometer in his office in Ilium. An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes — in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed."
This passage made me laugh, because I have a friend who's an eye doctor who also happens to love owls. I love owls, too, but I'm not an eye doctor. So it goes.
Today's theme is ...
I'm reinhaling this Vonnegut staple because I recently heard that Charlie Kaufman and Guillermo del Toro might be working together to adapt it for the big screen, and even the slimmest possibility of that excites me beyond my wildest Tralfamadorian dreams.
Anyway, I got to page 56 in the beat-up old paperback that I think was my mom's from when she was in high school (antiquity bonus!), and I read this passage:
"Billy traveled in time, opened his eyes, found himself staring into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl. The owl was hanging upside down from a rod of stainless steel. The rod was Billy's optometer in his office in Ilium. An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes — in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed."
This passage made me laugh, because I have a friend who's an eye doctor who also happens to love owls. I love owls, too, but I'm not an eye doctor. So it goes.
Today's theme is ...
OPTOMETRY AND OWLS
Whoooooooo do you think will
Pay for your myopia?
Eye really don't know.
—J.A.G.
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