I finished this early in the afternoon. Don heard me complain about the dark pieces many times…but, as always, suddenly you insert two or three pieces and everything else goes quickly into place. This is called Three Amigos. I find it delightful. These three older guys who play guitar (Spanish guitar? Mexican? Folk songs? Flamenco? Classical?) get together at night and play music together. There’s a bottle of wine on the table, cups and saucers, a bottle of something spicy, sheet music, and several statues of women. Someone’s hat is on the table, there are two guitars in addition to the ones being played, the hanging lamp bathes the players in light, and you can see nighttime NYC out the window.
Simply wonderful.
I have another one arriving today with a completely different color scheme.
Today is going to be quite rainy. Don has to recycle and has agreed to stop at the post office to buy stamps and check the PO Box, which we haven’t checked at all in more than two months. I know I have at least two envelopes waiting for me. Tomorrow will be a ridiculously warm day for this time of year, it’s supposed to be 75 degrees! CANNOT WAIT.
I’m really enjoying the beautiful writing of John Banville. My heavens, he can write! An example:
The black-branched trees seemed to press forward with desperate eagerness, as though they might at any moment break through the barbed-wire fence that was its border and make their determined way, hobbling along with their roots dragging, across the open expanse before them, to crowd about the house and thrash their limbs furiously against its defenseless walls. – John Banville, Snow.
One sentence. There are a couple of mystery writers that I consider poetic in their prose style; James Lee Burke and John Connolly. John Banville has joined that group, though from what I can tell, he’s a novelist first and foremost, this mystery is the start of a new series. Every sentence is a treat and I find myself rereading them just to give myself a chance to stop and marvel at the beauty of his images.
I believe I’ve found another favorite writer!
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
