Tuesday 5 June 2012

the brainy girl

the brainy girl is hungry.  she has already eaten four books, all of them fiction, and she's starting to think it is probably not a balanced diet. but what to do to still the gnawing!  though she has a healthy appetite for philosophical treatises, they tend to give her heartburn.  and academic essays leave her feeling bloated.  so starved is she for ideas and novelty, she's succumbed to junk food, guiltily snacking on news feed between meals.  she finds herself famished for something of substance - she could eat an entire library in one sitting!  she'd lick the images off the pages, stuffing all the words into her mouth until her ravenous mind grew full.  alas, for now all she can do is savor the thought…

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