Monday, August 9, 2010

advice we thought we learned from fairy tales

There were small and large forms of despair and the large forms looked as much like the small ones as the small ones did like the large.


The castles that had once loomed over the grottos were turning grey with the soot of the nearby glass factories and had to be rinsed down with hoses on Mondays. 


Everyone who lived in the village with the books had to learn to read only from the three books and were allowed no other words to them.


Once you turn your face from the mirror the mask that is left looking back will begin to smile. 


Shaking dust out from the carpets will improve your upper back strength as well as make you handsomer to young women with yellow hair. 


When the large forms of despair begin to look like the small forms of despair this means things will only continue to get worse. 


When the small forms of despair begin to look like the large forms of despair, you should wash your face with very cold water. This will also improve the appearance of youth and decrease wrinkles around the eyes. 


Killing chickens is sacrilegious and will make the town smell like bad wine. 


The woman in the supermarket line, the woman wearing the baggy green pants and pink windbreaker, the woman with the hair of yellow and white fuzz, the woman with the shaking and jagged left arm who is dropping milk in the aisle, the woman who cannot pronounce the word eggs, this woman used to sell jeweled fruits at the marketplace for more money than could fit in as many shopping carts as would circle this entire store, twice. 


It is important to sleep facing left. 


It is important to work the calves for appropriate legs.


It is very important that you speak in your small voice when you are talking to a king. 


Kings without teeth know the most painful ways to betray their mistresses.


The small forms of despair and the large forms of despair were the same form of despair, which was simply, despair without shape or end, without height or heaviness, simply invisible, spreading both over and through anyone who even believed they could smell it. 

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