This bronze trinket tray is very unlike me. I snatched it out of the to-shelve cart at work though because it's like the demon cat in The Master & Margarita. It has a rather evil stare, don't you think? (I might even take it back.)
"Don't touch my dead fish."
Behind, the girlettes are messing around in Easter crates I got them.
As for devils, "Pshaw", they say.
"No masters. No devils.
ONLY TOYS."
(I'm thinking of "no kings" for my poster for the April 5th protest. Like, didn't we already decide that?
Still kicking ideas around...)
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Also at work yesterday--sugar bowl & creamer cherry blossoms on blue luster-ware, from Japan. I love the set, but not to own. It sold (for $5) in 15 minutes.
The Master & Margarita is keeping me reading--weirdly, it feels like reading Harry Potter--NOT in plot (though Voldemort is an incarnation of evil)--but in pacing:
From the very start, THINGS KEEP HAPPENING, which pull you in... and on.
(Though like with H.P., at halfway through its 550 pages, I'm temped to start skimming the quidditch-like scenes---there are a couple/few too many episodes of the wicked chaos the Devil wreaks.)
However, it's so good! So Russian-- full of references to spite and envy, with phrases like "self-annihilating malice".
And Goodness exists, but comes at a high price.
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Speaking of goodness---I loved Happy to Help You-- a short film (16 min.) about a woman (Amy Sedaris) calling a help line and getting nothing but pablum. "I'm holding space for you."
I want to quote other good lines, but that would spoil the treat. (Lmk if you watch it, what jumped out at you.)
It has a very satisfying conclusion.
You can watch it here:
Or here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7FbZJ_CO8A&ab_channel=TheNewYorker
Wow, I'm not surprised someone snapped up the lusterware cream and sugar set! Perfect condition, too. Spring day here on the east coast - by which I mean grey and gusty. But with flowers. Hope your knee stood up (inadvertent pun) to the day at work.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Ceci
There wasn’t a scratch or flea bite!
DeleteOkay, the image of that cat tray is going to haunt me for the rest of the day.
ReplyDeleteThe Devil has done his work.
DeleteHere to help you FABULOUS! Made my day besides the raunchy podcasts that keep my oars in the shallow water. I absolutely love the cat tray it is perfect and you deffinately need that in your house. Angels in clouds and rays of jesus light do not impress the way that cat tray does.
ReplyDeletethank you. Hail Satan.
Glad you liked “here to help u”-/ I laughed at “my one big desire was to not have kids”… 😄
ReplyDeleteSatan loves Trump & Musk, so I can’t join in that sentiment,
but I do think the cat has come to stay.
Satan is far more intelligent from what I have been lead to believe about the dark fallen angel..Trump and Musk and Bannon and Miller the LOT, are not up to par with Satan. Satan would be insulted by self absorbed idiots, there is nothing interesting about them. Satan , at least, has a working thought processing cleverness , You know, if Satan was real and all.
DeleteThe cat is fabulous in every way!!!
I think we’re talking about different characters – – yours sounds like a playful sexy devil from “good omens” or Milton’s dark Angel.
DeleteI’m thinking of the character in Mick Jagger’s “Sympathy for the Devil” – –
I looked it up to refresh myself and was amazed:
“Jagger stated that his influence for the song came… from the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita” !!!
= The very book I’m reading!
With the cat.
There’s nothing pleasing about that Satan—
“Anastasia screamed in vain”.
Father of Lies, he loves using lying fools like our “leaders”