Sunday, August 13, 2006
Hurling, inevitably
"it should be played as if one saving word, one saving gesture, could have averted catastrophe, just as in our lives we can look back and know that one word might have saved us if we could have brought ourselves to utter it." - Michael Ignatieff for The Threepenny Review
What's that one word, that one saving gesture?
I guess it'll have to be "Sorry", the one word I find excruciatingly hard to utter. I turn blue in the face and my lips puff out and my eyes goggle and the vein in my forehead throbs to the point of explosion. But if I could have said it right there and then, and meant it with all my heart, maybe things wouldn't be the way they are now.
But it's ok, let's all bury ourselves in needless tragedy.
(My lit grade depends on it.)
What's that one word, that one saving gesture?
I guess it'll have to be "Sorry", the one word I find excruciatingly hard to utter. I turn blue in the face and my lips puff out and my eyes goggle and the vein in my forehead throbs to the point of explosion. But if I could have said it right there and then, and meant it with all my heart, maybe things wouldn't be the way they are now.
But it's ok, let's all bury ourselves in needless tragedy.
(My lit grade depends on it.)
# posted by me lah @ 12:08 am 
