His mind contained nothing but a mental, light, and almost luminous mist, like the fog on a beautiful winter morning, nothing but a flight of anonymous midges—
Raymond Queneau, Pierrot Mon Ami
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Posted by sean on January 18, 2013
https://sd-stewart.com/2013/01/18/pierrots-mist/
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ladywrennanna
/ January 18, 2013In Homer, a mist passes in front of someone’s eyes when he is killed.
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birds fly
/ January 18, 2013Hmm…that seems significant. Obviously I think all this mist is connected or else I would not be documenting it. The question remains how it is connected.
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birds fly
/ January 18, 2013Maybe the mist is our sense of our own mortality. And it likes to creep up and remind us of itself when we are not paying much attention.
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ladywrenna
/ January 20, 2013I have been living in mist for the past couple weeks due to some sort of inversion weather pattern. We get sunny afternoons?
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birds fly
/ January 20, 2013It’s hardly ever misty here. Except in my head.
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