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Zinenataza's avatar

So now I’m contemplating the vastness of the universe and I’m unsure if this is a good thing or a bad thing insofar as it ignites a sensation of uncomprehending wonder while reminding me - inevitably - of my own insignificance, and coincidentally just this afternoon I was looking out of an upstairs window with my 5 year old grandson and asked him to pay attention to the beauty of the sky because I told him we forget to notice it, and he said quite nonchalantly that he looks at it all the time especially the little white clouds floating past and I was astonished…

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

So beautiful, Zinenataza! Thank you for sharing this little story. :)

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

I think you fixed your sink (clogged drain was it?) through writing this. 😂

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Spot on, Kimberly! Thank you!

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Teehee. 🤩

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Nathan Slake's avatar

I just gulped this down on the train, inhaling the words in one go and letting them flow through me.

Love the shape this took, the existential-ness of it and then the flipped perspective to the pen (ahh, so perfect!) and then to the abrupt ending with the sink.

Favourite phrase "exaggeratedly ample amount of time" ... I'm going to try and borrow this, if I may, in a sentence at work this week. Somehow I must make use of such a wonderful phrase.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

So glad you like this new format, Nathan! Thank you so much for your super kind words, as always. That “ample” I wasn’t sure about, but somehow it sounded right. And please, be my guest with that phrase. Sometimes I find that a literal (or quasi-literal) translation from the Italian, such is the case here, mysteriously gives birth to interesting constructs. :)

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Nathan Slake's avatar

It’s fantastic, and again makes me lament I don’t know a second language.

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Stephanie Sweeney's avatar

A truly perfect ending to the sentence.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Thank you, Stephanie!

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Rick Lewis's avatar

Thank god there is both infinite space and an infinite number of commas available to us in this universe

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Totally, Rick!

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Kathleen Clare Waller's avatar

Love this idea of the exploring the interiority of being and those questions: do other people think like this? Or, how can they not? Some people who pass by in the street often appear vacant but must be simply making it through the day. Maybe if you don't force yourself to pause and reflect, it just catches up to you in a weird and unexpected (and inconvenient?) moment.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Yes, you’re right. It eventually catches up to you. It must, at some point. :)

Thank you so much, Kate!

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Camilo Moreno-Salamanca's avatar

Only you can make me read an entire paragraph-long sentence

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

LOL Camilo! Expect more!

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