More snow, more Seuss
I spent a grueling day figuring out how to access certain TrueType font ligatures.
Last night, I tried out our new “snow blaster.” With snow this deep, this machine is easier to use than a shovel. But it is more unwieldy than, say, a lawn mower or a vacuum cleaner (not that I would use those things to clear snow). Sweeping the sidewalk around two sides of the house while trailing a long extension cord is no joke. Last night, the cord wrapped itself around a fire hydrant, a parked car, and various snow mounds; also, the prongs of the extension cord seemed to fit rather loosely into the “blaster’s” socket. The machine must have come unplugged fifteen or twenty times.
I decided to call the contraption …
Voom!
… after the mysterious snow-clearing force (or spirit, or what have you) in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, which Samuel and I have been reading. That book, obviously, is about Matthew 12:43–45:
Who is to say that these children are not really Jay and Kay, the not-so-conscientious siblings in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish?
Last night, I tried out our new “snow blaster.” With snow this deep, this machine is easier to use than a shovel. But it is more unwieldy than, say, a lawn mower or a vacuum cleaner (not that I would use those things to clear snow). Sweeping the sidewalk around two sides of the house while trailing a long extension cord is no joke. Last night, the cord wrapped itself around a fire hydrant, a parked car, and various snow mounds; also, the prongs of the extension cord seemed to fit rather loosely into the “blaster’s” socket. The machine must have come unplugged fifteen or twenty times.
I decided to call the contraption …
Voom!
… after the mysterious snow-clearing force (or spirit, or what have you) in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, which Samuel and I have been reading. That book, obviously, is about Matthew 12:43–45:
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.The narrator blames the infestation of cats on the one with the hat, but I wonder if he is just diverting blame away from himself, like the narrator in the horror-noir Detour. Are the children, Conrad and Sally, really as dutiful as they say they are? Where is the prophetic fish who guided the children’s morals in the earlier book? Is Conrad even who we think he is? His name, appearance, and behavior seem to change from one story to the next.
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Who is to say that these children are not really Jay and Kay, the not-so-conscientious siblings in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish?
