"Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department." - Holly Golightly from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
I'm clearly the sort of person who can't just imagine what it must feel like to be dazed by an electric fence, nor do I buy into the conventional wisdom that messing with high voltage is a potentially bad idea... oh no, when I get it into my head that I want to tamper with sparking matter, I waltz past all the 'achtung' signs, and despite knowing what's possibly in store, grab the wires with both hands, just so I can feel the charge convulse through my system before, sufficiently stupefied and singed, I can finally let go and say, "ahhhh... so *that's* what it feels like. Well, now I know and can describe it with acccuracy."
Don't worry, someday it will all go into the novel, which will aptly be titled, The Seagull, I think... or some variation thereof...
Fabulous illustration is by Nicoletta Ceccoli.
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