sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-10-15 01:08 am

Though Spain should take Gibraltar

Because it didn't occur to me to have my camera on hand while doing book yelling on the couch with [personal profile] selkie, the only photographic evidence of the moment when my godchild dropped onto the couch behind me and cheerfully applied a sort of wrestling scissor to the middle of the conversation comes from my battleship-grey dreadnought of a substitute phone which, as a camera, is an A-1 flip phone.



It's like Escher with limbs.



Not pictured: when I stretched out on the couch and he sat on my diaphragm like a cat or a breathing exercise.

I correctly guessed that his class assignment which required him to locate Spain, the Philippines, and the U.S.A. had to do with the Spanish-American War, but I can't rule out that I remember its existence because of Bob Dylan and Arsenic and Old Lace. Earlier in the day, when Selkie informed me of the upcoming and literal sunset of the British Empire, I got stuck with Flanders and Swann's "Rockall."

I have demonstrably spent more time with this branch of my family on this trip than has been possible in years and it seems ridiculous that I should have to leave in the morning. What is this nonsense of distances. Teleportation instantaneously.
gwynnega: (Basil Rathbone)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2024-10-16 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Teleportation would be so helpful.