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Rohkem materjali leiad: "Listening to Richard Brautigan" ("Richard Brautigani kuulates")
Rohkem materjali leiad: "Listening to Richard Brautigan" ("Richard Brautigani kuulates")
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"
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The watermelon sun
I WOKE UP before Pauline and put on my overalls. A crack of gray sun shone through the window and lay quietly on the floor. I went over and put my foot in it, and then my foot was gray.
I looked out the window and across the fields and piney woods and the town to the Forgotten Works. Everything was touched with gray: Cattle grazing in the fields and the roofs of the shacks and the big Piles in the Forgotten Works all looked like dust. The very air itself was gray. We have an interesting thing with the sun here. It shines a different color every day. No one knows why this is, not even Charley. We grow the watermelons in different colors the best we can. This is how we do it: Seeds gathered from a gray watermelon picked on a gray day and then planted on a gray day will make more gray watermelons. It is really very simple. The colors of the days and the watermelons go like this— Monday: red watermelons. Tuesday: golden watermelons. Wednesday: gray watermelons. Thursday: black, soundless watermelons. Friday: white watermelons. Saturday: blue watermelons. Sunday: brown watermelons. Today would be a day of gray watermelons. I like best tomorrow: the black, soundless watermelon days. When you cut them they make no noise, and taste very sweet. |
They are very good for making things that have no sound. I remember there was a man who used to make clocks from the black, soundless watermelons and his clocks were silent.
The man made six or seven of these clocks and then he died. There is one of the clocks hanging over his grave. It is hanging from the branches of an apple tree and sways in the winds that go up and down the river. It of course does not keep time any more. Pauline woke up while I was putting my shoes on. "Hello," she said, rubbing her eyes. "You're up. I wonder what time it is." "It's about six." "I have to cook breakfast this morning at iDEATH," she said. "Come over here and give me a kiss and then tell me what you would like for breakfast." Miscellaneous Material: Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar (http://miscellaneousmaterial.blogspot.com/2011/08/richard-brautigan-in-watermelon-sugar.html#b1-21) |
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"Listening to Richard Brautigan"
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