[koosie]

I wonder what the full story is with Roberta Flack and the person the song's about. It is a very beautiful song.

I can immediatly think of 3 examples of Ladies in fiction I'm fond of. I wouldn't call them crushes because a crush is something that happens to me if I make eye contact with somebody I'm keen on. Theres that invisible electric moment and then its like your under some spell. Not happened for a while, thank God.

Yeh so there's Halo Jones from the comic 'The Ballad of Halo Jones' by Alan Moore, Offred from 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood and Milena Shibush from 'The Child Garden' by Geoff Ryman. They're all fairly ordinary, practical Ladies in extraordinary, crazy sci-fi situations and I enjoy re-reading these works partly to experience their company again.