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
