rice.break.bean.break.dine.

Susan Sontag spoke today at the Hopwood Awards Ceremony. The famous radio voice's first words to us were, "Close your eyes."

Apparently, when people see her they tend to respond with a kind of disconnected look, having their mind's image of her disrupted. I suppose the same often happens with the screen adaptations of novels. And the same happened to me with my roommate freshman year, after having spoken with her only once or twice on the phone before meeting. I was certain that she had dark, wavy hair. Nope. Her's was dyed blonde and straight. Also, she was a skinny ballerina with fine clothes. At least Susan Sontag wore a fuscia coat. That made my day. Also, she pronounced Don Quixote just like an American would... not that she didn't know how's authentic pronunciation. It was merely an exercise in freedom and in the work's transcendence over lands and peoples. It's so well known, she said she'd been taught, we ought to be able to pronounce it however we like.

Yay for dinner breaks. Write, rice and black beans... these things combined--make me think of dear Nojay. Guten Appetit!