Candelabrae

Today my head is stuck on the short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Hemingway. I read it for the first time last semester, and I gotta say that if you haven't read it, you should because

a) it's brief (even for a short story)
b) its characters and ideas are somehow incredibly human and believable and effective, especially considering its brevity
c) and perhaps most simply, it's darn good writing


I could go on for days about this story, but I won't, suffice it to say that solitude doesn't always necessitate loneliness (nor does loneliness necessitate solitude) and I appreciate how Hemingway treats those concepts.

This is all a long-winded way of realizing how excited I am to take more English classes this semester.

And because I haven't really taken a lot of photos in the last week or two, here is a shaky photo from July of 2012.