"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.... 'Is there any tea on this spaceship?' he asked"--ibid.
"Hey, this is terrific! Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific."
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We're going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?"
"It means we must be on to something."
"How soon can we get off it?"
--ibid.
Dreamed of the story of a young East Indian woman widely seen as a heroine; coming to see an opera but being enlisted at the last moment to play a small solo role and being unhappy about it; trying to recall a non-existent 1959 movie with Audrey Hepburn set in a beach cottage; being at the top of a tall skyscraper but surviving its collapse.
Dinner was steak.
At choir practice Giuseppe put Cavalleria Rusticana aside so we could concentrate on the Requiem and The Seven Last Words of Christ.
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