The Becoming
The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "Solitude"
The heat was unbearable.
He'd complain about it, if there were anyone else around. But you knew how the old saying went... well, he was pretty darn solitary.
He passed the time thinking, "If a dervis is hot in the desert, does anyone hear him? No, wait, is he really hot? Or is it a figment of his imagination that can't be verified against any other soul?"
He wasn't sure, but he felt slightly hotter when he had these thoughts.
The other thing that bugged him was the sand. There was a lot of it. And there was no escaping it. Some people might get away from whatever is causing them grief by going into the dining room and having a bite to eat. Maybe they'd make themselves a sandwich, hunker down with a nice cup of tea. He could do that, as well, only his sandwich was going to taste and feel a lot like sand. And his tea is going to be remarkably gritty, for a cup of tea.
Perhaps the thing that bugged him, most of all, was that bookish-looking kid with the thick glasses and the sweat-stained white shirt who'd been following him from place to place at a respectful distance for the last number of weeks.
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Not a test bed, but a proving ground. Or a launch pad. I have no idea what it'll be, metaphorically speaking. What it will be, actually speaking, probably, is one weekly step for our dear, sweet, sweet founder's journey through the Scylla and Charybdis that is November. Which is also known by some as NaNoWriMo.
Now, I know that November doesn't quite start until the week after, I just wanted to give you advance notice so you're not, like, surprised or anything. And we're also working towards something that has a deadline of a few days early (27 November), so what we'll do, folks, to keep things kosher is write the equivalent of however many words we get done before the official gun after our own little deadline of the 27th, just to keep us "real".
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