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Ok set
the scene: After a HEAVY night of drinking, me, my best friend, and his
sister are all walking back from the student ghetto and stop at the Bernhard
Center (other colleges call similar buildings the student union , its basically
just a place for kids to hang out, do homework, get some food or whatever.) My
friend and his sister go get in line for some pizza and I’m left lazily
surveying the surroundings I have suddenly found myself in. Either by miracle of
chance or subconscious attraction, I find that in the booth next to the one I've
chosen, sits an angel. She’s reading.
Now in my experience (and I know this is a
horrible generalization,) the inclination, and seemingly the ability to read,
is found inversely proportional to physical beauty. At once I feel the scorn
of any women who chances upon this arrogant and insensitive blogger. But
consider this. Do a search of the "favorite books" of girls on facebook. Three
books will constitute the bulk of women's literature: The DaVinci Code,
Harry Potter, and Cosmo (despite numerous claims I have seen, Cosmo is not, in
fact, a book!) And is there anything wrong with this? Of course not. But to
find someone who is reading a large piece of literature for what appears to be
nothing more then entertainment, and to find yourself so irresistibly
attracted to her by sight alone...well I was blown away
But I was drunk, and any tactful approach I may
have been able to compile sober became a hopeless dream. And so I stared across
the barrier between her booth and mine, half in hopes she would see me, half in
hopes I would never loose sight of her.
She did notice me. I’m sure she
thought I was starring at her chest but I wasn’t. I was desperately
trying to make out the title of the book she was reading. I don’t remember
the conversation that took place between us. I do remember I said I would facebok her. I
did, we had a small discourse over the internet from
which I discovered that she was reading Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Here I
must diverge.
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