Shush! I’m trying to sleep!
In a fit of pique, I took down all the pictures I’ve had in posts.
Well, despite not figuring out how to slow down hot-linking, I’ve got a picture that I just couldn’t not share.
But surprisingly enough, it’s not Albite nor a flower… I’m breaking my phototaciturnity with this:
This is a portion of an advertisement from a local/regional furniture store. I would have sent you to their website to see it, but I couldn’t get a decent version from there to show you, so here you are — my first step into posting images again.
But you may be wondering to yourself why I would care to post this ad? What is it about it that makes me want to show it to people on the web? After all, I showed it to Plagioclase, and he said, “Huh? So?” and Plagioclase’s mother said, “Huh? So?” and you may well say “Huh? So?”
So, look closer:
I can’t decide if the designers only wanted to have a nice neutral background to the furniture, so that’s why they faced all of the books in the bookcase (and everywhere else in the room) so you can’t read the spines, or perhaps they figured that if they showed real books then people who don’t like books1 wouldn’t want to buy this bedroom set. Either way, I find it mighty strange. It’s not even like that line from Auntie Mame, because these tomes aren’t particularly decorative.2 Maybe they thought the “owners” of this room would be psychic, and read books by their aura.
Wouldn’t that be cool? Then I could just absorb all the words without having to actually move my eyes. I imagine, however, that the books would all blend together and it’d be like trying to listen to untuned AM radio in between several markets… That definitely would make it hard to sleep in that bed!
