Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Face, Books

Cathy says I make a face when I'm feeding Sofi solid food - as the spoon goes in her mouth my lips curl - it's a challenge, you know, trying to get as much food from the spoon to her mouth as possible: it doesn't surprise me I put some kind of gamer face on. I can't seem to stop it.

Sofi's got a new past-time, which is crawling over to the bookshelves and pulling all the books off the bottom shelf. She particularly likes to tear up this old Theodore Sturgeon book - I wouldn't mind, except it has the short story "Need" in it, one of the greatest short stories of all time. I've moved that one to a higher shelf. Sans cover. And sans the last ten pages or so. Still, "Need" is intact.

And, oh God, she's just so freaking cute! Is she really my daughter?

3 comments:

Cathy said...

Remind me what "Need" was about?

Jamie said...

It's about the guy who feels other people's needs.

Anonymous said...

** snicker **

I remember those days -- except the severely wounded book that was preserved anyway was a collection of Kafka's stories, featuring "Metamorphosis."

Within a few short months, The Boy went on to color every drawing of Cerebus the Aardvark in a full run of Cerebus black-and-white comics . . .