Sunday, May 21, 2006

Flickering lights in a dark cave

Sometime, I should really post something longer about barbeques and why the hell we bother with them in this country, but for now this will have to do.

An hour or so ago, the tenement across the back from me attempted to have one. Since it was raining at the time, they lit it just inside the close. From my window, this appeared as a dark cave with some flickering flames in it. A group of people with umbrellas stood round the door watching. It looked like a metaphor for the futility of the human condition.

After a while, they stopped. Hopefully, sense prevailed, and they went out and got chips.

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