14th March – Yesterday I saw a young blind guy walking with a black Labrador guide dog.\u00a0 Today I saw him again closer-up and realised I knew him.\u00a0 I remembered him spectacled and dogless.<\/p>\n
15th March – Saw through the rear window of a parked 4WD about ten plastic heads with moveable jaws.<\/p>\n
16th March – Offered my figs to a Saudi woman, thinking of her other life she lives, like an Israeli fig-loving friend of mine, near the cradle of civilisation, near the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 But she doesn’t like figs.\u00a0 At all.<\/p>\n
17th March – Was given a chance to learn German online for free.\u00a0 I said yes.\u00a0 A mature decision for me, having hated Hitler’s language since childhood.<\/p>\n
18th March – This morning I read two 19th-century stories:\u00a0 The Necklace<\/em> by Guy de Maupassant and Diary of a Madman<\/em> by Nikolai Gogol.\u00a0 In both, the woman values her existence only when she is pretty and attracts wealthy men.\u00a0 This afternoon I read in Anne Bront\u00eb’s Agnes Grey:\u00a0 <\/em>‘If the mind be but well cultivated and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 14th March – Yesterday I saw a young blind guy walking with a black Labrador guide dog.\u00a0 Today I saw him again closer-up and realised I knew him.\u00a0 I remembered him spectacled and dogless. 15th March – Saw through the rear window of a parked 4WD about ten plastic heads with moveable jaws. 16th March … <\/p>\n