Monday, 25 April 2022

egocentric

Later, the legs are so cold that the only way to warm them is to go back to bed and cover them up. The feeling of all pervading cold will not go away. It is all right, it is not very warm in the flat, but there is no reason for this. Getting up was easy, making breakfast was fine, reading the first news was not a problem, and then this cold. If it were only a sedentary lifestyle, there would be understanding, but the cold legs after a long walk, the dizziness as soon as movement abates, this is all strange.

Maybe it is one of the horrors of getting older. The time spent yesterday with the photographer, the colleague,was very pleasant, and it was strange to listen to him talk about nobody  but himself and his relations to well-known people. Constantly I, I, I, interspersed with multiple me and my pronouns and so forth. It was interesting to watch all his listeners start to gaze in a dazed way.

He is nice enough, very nice as egocentrics go.

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