5/7/2023 0 Comments Rebecca solnit walkingWhich is why at least there’s one thing to be glad about her: that we can call her Sunday. That’s a magical power that you should try not to have. If you told her you liked her hat, she thought that meant you hated her shoes, and her favorite question was always “What’s wrong with this?” except when it was “Whose fault is this?” She was the great killer of parties and the spoiler of games. At a picnic, for example, she would complain that the strawberry jam should be blackberry, and then eat all the strawberry jam anyway. Sunday thought everything should be perfect, and she was always showing up to complain that things were not what they were supposed to be. They were good fairies, all of them, but Sunday was so good she was awful. So we could also start, “Seven times upon a time.”Įveryone called them Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Her parents had fairy godmothers, seven of them.
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