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erastes ([personal profile] erastes) wrote2010-05-04 05:42 pm
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Writer's Block: Nirvana

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Venice. I've only been there once, and that was in March, so I missed out on the humidity, the heat, the smells, the endless tourists but it got hold of me in a way I hear India does with other people and hasn't let me go for over 20 years now. We stayed in a cheap little hotel (which was still expensive for us, as we were doing "Europe on a dollar a day") and we ate at the university because you got a massive pasta nosh up there for next to nothing. But it was the buildings and the canals that captured me entirely. And you get a better - and cheaper - tour of the Grand Canal by bus than you ever do by gondole.

I'd love to live there. A few years ago I looked into houses (well ok, very small flats) prices and found that I could JUST afford a tiny cupboard size thing with the price i'd get for this and my parents house, but then - what would I live ON? I'd need to be self sufficient. It's a nice dream and I shall continue to have it, because you never know. But that's where I'll be if the writing ever does support me. Look me up! (Just not more than one at a time because - tiny!

[identity profile] baritonejeff.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Now, gentlemen, imagine if I were your planned edifice. I am fifty stories high. If you would, just for a moment, avert you stares from floors 35 -40..."

[identity profile] chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeff, if you were not ensconced very far away I'd pitch up on your doorstep and offer to be your gopher for general errands etc.

That was BRILLIANT. Never have laughed so much at the screen.

(evil post is up - now onto review emails!)

[identity profile] erastes.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The trouble is - to get from floor 30 to 50, they have to surmount the overhang. Climbing equipment provided.

[identity profile] baritonejeff.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Grappling hooks requested.