diamonds in the dark

[threeplusfire]

My mother bought me a pair of diamond earrings last year as a graduation present. I loved them, and wore them almost the entire time I was treking through the Czech Republic. Earlier this year, around the time of the stupid brewing supply place job, I lost one of them. I tore open vacuum bags, combed the carpet with my bare hands, turned everything I owned inside out. It was gone. I felt sick, and I cried, because it was stupid and awful.

Just now, I opened my bag to find something to wear tonight. There were two diamond earrings inside.

I've opened this bag a thousand times or more since I lost the earring. It was the first place I looked. I would swear on all four of my Bibles and my first edition Ballard novel that it wasn't there before. I'm dumbfounded.

I think I'll take this as a good sign.

Comments

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

putting on geek hat:

Which Ballard novel?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

High Rise! It's weirdly my favorite of his, and I hardly ever see any discourse on it. Have you read it?

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

Yep, I really like it. I don't know why it has got so little attention. Possibly because it came after the peak of the New Wave in science fiction but before Ballard Ballard started getting serious mainstream attention. Concrete Island has never got much attention, either.

Also, after The Atrocity Exhibition, it was probably something of a let-down for the avant garde fans, which was his core audience at the time.