How quickly people give up on summer. It’s been only a few rainy days and a few nights with temperature dipping to 15 degrees and already I am the only person on my morning bus dressed in a summer skirt and open-toe sandals. You have to resist, I want to tell I’ll the others in their rain coats and soft plaid « cool morning in a chalet » jackets , winter will come soon and it will be so long, we will despair before we see the other side. But for now, you must resist.

I am reading Daniel Kehlmann’s Lichtspiel (Lightplay, translated into English as The Director) and it makes we endlessly sad.