Thursday, April 16, 2009

You say 'madeline,' I say 'mosquito.'

Laughter. Tears. Love. Newly glimpsed vistas. Strange sights. Odd food. New thoughts. Memorable exchanges. Mountains, deserts, oceans, lakes, cities.

And for the first time in this project all three minds recall the same memory, with equal vividness -- across a 36-year gulf. So what is worthy of this extraordinary synchronicity? 

A brief episode of panic and disgust involving mosquitos.

Admittedly, you don't — every day, anyway — see (or at least I don't) mosquitos with the wingspan of a cigar box, sporting proboscides the girth of lawn darts. But still.

Kinda funny, memory. As Proust used to say.

2 comments:

Stacy said...

The mosquitos...say it's not true that mosquitos that large really exist!

Could be worse I guess...house centipedes could fly...

Joe Matango said...

OK, I was exaggerating a little bit.

Eww -- flying centipedes! Yeah, they're plenty hideous enough without wings!