The Art of Reading # 4 : Gone with The Wind
I don’t know about you, but I am a very undisciplined newspaper reader. When I read a newspaper, – what, I confess, I seldom do, above all because I don’t want my happiness to be spoiled by all the bad news… I know, I know, very immature and egotistical!- it is simply a fight. It is really not easy, for a tiny creature such as I, to cope with it: hold the vast billowing pages, fold them properly, keep them in the right order, etc. It’s like an Origami class. The result being that I have pages all over and the bigger the paper, the bigger the mess!
The situation escalates dramatically when I try to read a newspaper sitting by the beach, where the wind is usually blowing. And I am not the only one fighting against the elements. I saw this woman the other day as I was sketching in a cafe by the beach, it was simply hilarious. She had not the slightest idea how to keep all the pages in her hands, they literally flew all over the place! And you won’t believe what I also saw: one even made it out to sea and a boat snapped it up, took the wind and sailed off with it!
PS: I think this is a problem which we women have. When I watch men reading newspapers, they are normally much more disciplined, and in fact they don’t like it at all when the pages get in the wrong order or the crises are in the wrong place…
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Tu as mille fois raison Miki, j’ai adopté la même technique que toi : vade retro les mauvaises nouvelles ! de toute façon, on les sait bien assez tôt de la bouche des autres.
Le titre de ton billet me rappelle le plaisir de cette histoire si belle où la chipie de Scarlett ne sait pas le bonheur qu’elle a d’être aimée à ce point par un Rhett aussi charmant !
Yesterday I sat down in a cafe in town with the express purpose of watching newspaper reading behavior (with you Miki). And my eyes rested on a muscular looking guy sitting there in a muscle T-shirt holding the paper with such control, almost like a trained dog, that wouldn’t dare move a muscle. I sat down between him and another guy who looked like a bulldog and read his paper like one, and wondered how on earth I could sketch them both without being obvious (impossible!)There’s more to this story, but no sketch ensued!
What a great story and observation, Susan! I would have loved to see a sketch from you, although of course you picture it so well that I can see the guys… By the way, I often noticed that the muscle men have difficulty to move smoothly, one of the reasons being that doing their body building training they just get statical muscles, not dynamic and elastic ones.
I hope we will read the rest of the story somewhere…
Happy birthday my dear Miki !
I hope for you much happiness (correct ?)
Apple & Piou
Hello, Miki ! Pomme wrote it is an important day, to-day ! So, I send you all my best wishes ! Have a nice day with smiles, love and happiness…
Hello Joel! This is soooooo kind of you and of Pomme! Your wishes mean a lot to me, it was such a wonderful surprise! 1000 thanks! Have a wonderful day yourself!
Yes, Apple, your English was parfait!
Miki…as you know, I tend to read the Daily Mail, which is a tabloid, and therefore quite manageable in high winds…whihc allows me time to observe with a wry smile the pseudo-intellectuals who wrestle with enormous copies of The Times and Daily Telegraph – surely sacrificing their dignity in the pursuit of the esoteric!