Just call me Danglars*, and be done
Nov. 2nd, 2010 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThe thing about taking everything out of the cupboard - the long, deep, high-shelved cupboard - is that sooner or later everything has to go back in again, bar only that stuff that can be thrown out.
Sooner or later meaning, apparently, later. "Not today!" is the common cry. Dunno how long I can keep this up; I'm already scrabbling over the mountains in the dining-room in pursuit of things I actually need right now. (Gaffer-tape to mend the fridge, proving-baskets to rise the bread, like that.)
It would be absurd - wouldn't it? - to make a map, of what gets stowed where. Like a careful supercargo* charting all his holds. But some things are by definition and necessity going to be stowed right at the back, behind everything else, invisible; and - also by definition - they will all be good and useful things that I actually sometimes need, or I wouldn't be keeping them, would I? So being able to say "the pasta machine? Oh yes, that's on the second shelf, rear right" would actually be valuable, and save work...
*plots*
*I should perhaps say, I learned the word 'supercargo' from The Count of Monte Cristo when I was a child, when I suspect that I thought it was somehow cognate with Superman. I've loved it ever since, and have every intention of writing a novel one day wherein Danglars will be the hero.**
**No, that's not my space-opera retelling of the Count. Definitely not. Wholly other project, oh yes.
Sooner or later meaning, apparently, later. "Not today!" is the common cry. Dunno how long I can keep this up; I'm already scrabbling over the mountains in the dining-room in pursuit of things I actually need right now. (Gaffer-tape to mend the fridge, proving-baskets to rise the bread, like that.)
It would be absurd - wouldn't it? - to make a map, of what gets stowed where. Like a careful supercargo* charting all his holds. But some things are by definition and necessity going to be stowed right at the back, behind everything else, invisible; and - also by definition - they will all be good and useful things that I actually sometimes need, or I wouldn't be keeping them, would I? So being able to say "the pasta machine? Oh yes, that's on the second shelf, rear right" would actually be valuable, and save work...
*plots*
*I should perhaps say, I learned the word 'supercargo' from The Count of Monte Cristo when I was a child, when I suspect that I thought it was somehow cognate with Superman. I've loved it ever since, and have every intention of writing a novel one day wherein Danglars will be the hero.**
**No, that's not my space-opera retelling of the Count. Definitely not. Wholly other project, oh yes.