He jumped off a box set of Roald Dahl books onto the ottoman.
He jumped back onto the floor to repeat this routine.
He paused and stared at the hanging light in the center of the room.
He grabbed the box set, placed it on the ottoman, climbed up, stepped on top of the books, and stretched.
He was a few inches short but grabbed my attention.
He didn’t get a second chance.
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For Lucretius, letters were atoms in continual motion, creating the most diverse words and sounds by means of their permutations.
“Lightness”, from Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino
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