Stuck

Once again, my coworkers save my love of literature. I work with people who know how to use language to create great joy in my life. After school we were all chatting about how Sean Connery hasn't been in a movie lately. Some of the women in my department were wondering when they were going to have an opportunity to gaze upon him on the silver screen again. One of my male coworkers said, "he's gone from dashing to..." and another male coworker finished the sentence with "dashed." What a wonderful description: from dashing to dashed. The quiet humor of this office reminds me that, as Tim O'Brien says, "we [share] a common interest in the subtleties and textures of the English language."

And again, no matter how hard I try, I cannot escape the world of books.