This article from the magazine supplement in Saturday's The Times made me laugh. And I mean REALLY laugh. On a train. With people around. I'm not from a big family (I have one younger brother) so I can't imagine what effect it would have on readers who can relate. I painstakingly scanned the article in for your reading pleasure. Please read it so my efforts to scan this in (which were vast - trust me) aren't in vain. Hats off to Caitlin Moran!
Samsa was now a human. He’d recently become a human after his architect decided to put a human heart in him and give him feelings. The five litres of blood that now pumped around his body warmed him up. It made for incredible nose bleeds, spasms, cramps and bruising, to name o nly a small fraction of the symptoms, but his architect assured him that it would all be worth it and that he'd feel normal very soon. He didn't know what normal was, but he knew it wasn't puking and shitting and bleeding all over the place for the first two months and then just feeling terrible for several weeks after that. Human life is agony, he thought, but he trusted the process. One day, a little over twelve weeks after the operation, he woke up from his first good night's sleep and was able to open the curtains without the light splitting his skull in two. Samsa had known Shabeezi before she became a human woman. All they had done was fight. Samsa especially liked doing flying
So many truths in this . As the mother of nine I identify in a slightly distanced way. So funny...
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