text ❁ seven years is also how long it takes to complete a ph.d.

[roseblooms]

Kit Fawkes shared a photo. 6/4 near Recollé University

Well, well. I suppose this means I can now officially join the "received a mysterious and vaguely threatening package in the mail with no prior warning" club. I have to admit, though, that in comparison to some of the things I've heard of people receiving? A broken mirror (?) does strike me as a little underwhelming. It's pre-broken, even, which I believe exempts me from any curse of seven years of bad luck. Quite frankly, all these shards of glass have got to be a safety hazard, and yet for some reason every time I go to throw the lot of it away, I end up second-guessing the impulse. Is that odd? I don't know what else I could possibly do with this, mind, and yet even so I...just can't seem to bring myself to dispose of the thing.

Comments

[liberal_arts]

Well, there's a possibility it was not created as art, but it is something I am choosing to look at from that perspective.

The honest truth is, given what's been happening to others lately, you have not had a vision yet that would explain its significance, but I have firm doubts it is not a simple broken mirror.

[roseblooms]

Well, I appreciate the honesty.

I suppose that just begs the question of what sort of visions are likely to come from something as simple as a broken mirror, then, doesn't it?

apologies for the double negative up there "doubts it is a", -not

[liberal_arts]

Who can say? In the meantime, it does have its own beauty, does it not?

[roseblooms]

I've mostly felt that it gives off a somewhat evil feeling, actually.

Though I suppose evil and beauty aren't mutually exclusive.

[liberal_arts]

Evil is a moral matter. Beauty is an aesthetic matter. They are not mutually exclusive.

[roseblooms]

Now that's well-put. I'll have to remember that, myself.

[liberal_arts]

I think it's something everyone here can keep in mind with all the recent insanity. Even I have to stop and remind myself of it sometimes.