Maybe being in love was nice, sure, but he didn’t need to be.Īnd yet…He loved her in a removed kind of way, the way a butterfly’s wings can start a tsunami halfway around the world. Maybe somebody told him once that he should be in love with somebody, so he felt a need to pick somebody and it just so happened to be her. He wasn’t sure why he wanted to love her, but he wanted to love her just the same. On a certain, purely physical level, her absence would have absolutely zero effect on his person.Īnd yet…He loved her in an abstract kind of way, the way a bee loves honey. The sun would keep shining, radiating heat, if the Earth were not there.
He would not cease to be he would not stop breathing his heart would not stop beating the world would not stop spinning. If she were to disappear completely, he knew through pure logic that it would have no great, disastrous effect on him. He loved her in a distant kind of way, the same way the sun heats the Earth. I love this piece ! by Jake Christie © 2011 Posted in fun/humor | Tagged vending machine for literature ✺ Colorful Creatures
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Stories are completely free and there are eight machines in total distributed throughout the town. We said to ourselves that we could do the same thing with good quality popular literature to occupy these little unproductive moments.” Stories are dispensed according to how much time you’ve got to spend reading, and the “three-minute” version reportedly arrives on a piece of paper 8cm wide by 60cm long. Speaking to Agence-France Presse, Sibieude explained that “The idea came to us in front of a vending machine containing chocolate bars and drinks. The pair hope that commuters and bystanders will make use of these stories to expand and enrich their minds while waiting around, rather than tapping their way aimlessly through Facebook or Twitter. The strange, screen-less contraptions are the brainchild of Christophe Sibieude (the co-founder and head of publishing start-up Short Edition) and Grenoble’s Green Party mayor, Eric Piolle. If you live near to Grenoble, the capital of the French Alps, you’ve now got that chance, because the city has just installed free story-dispensing vending machines in some of its most popular public spaces. Whether you think it’s a problem or not that people aren’t reading as much as they perhaps used to, pretty much everyone can get excited by the chance to read a story for free. Many have lamented the lost art of reading in our social-media driven, content-hungry world, but few have actually tried to do anything about it.
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