on the way home after working few hours overtime, i took out my slim copy of a room of one’s own. it must be my third or fourth time reading it, pages are folded to mark the passages i liked–which are most pages. the last part i read today is when vw talks about how if mrs. seton and her mother and her mother’s mother had contributed money the way men for generations have had towards education, then women would be feasting on wonderful meals and be inspired enough to write well. then i had to get off from the subway & transfer to a bus.

then on the bus i started to think, i considered the famous quote from the book–”the human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. the lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.” what follows is what i last read on the train and i thought to myself that perhaps that’s the macrocosm of the body that should be well fed. as men are in this world, so there are women. if one part suffers, the other, also. if we are all to go to heaven and meet vandyke round the next corner then men as well as women should be “fed” well. in vw’s world women are deprived and the whole world is amiss–it’s only when the women are equally satisfied as men that we can all be inspired and have more shakespeares.

..or not. just a thought.

i plan on spending what little hours i have left of the night to read the last third of the girl who kicked the hornet’s nest. happy 34th birthday, lisbeth salander.