matroyshka
russian dolls - you know? - matroyshka dolls they first made in 1890 but have since become a quintessentially russian product. a doll within a doll within a doll within a doll, each doll becoming progressively smaller. you always have to crack the doll open to find the next one, all the way until the smallest one, right at the very centre, right at the very end.
when i see a matroyshka i can perhaps tell you all about it. its make, its vintage, its materials, the dyes and paints used (and also that, irrelevantly, purple dye was made in phoenicia of the shells of crushed sea snails - phoenica, for purple). i could make a guess at the style and period and place of manufacture, and what, most importantly, was all so special about it.
but i would never have the courage to open it - to find the smallest and yet most important doll, right at the very centre, right at the very end.
life is full of regrets sometimes.
when i see a matroyshka i can perhaps tell you all about it. its make, its vintage, its materials, the dyes and paints used (and also that, irrelevantly, purple dye was made in phoenicia of the shells of crushed sea snails - phoenica, for purple). i could make a guess at the style and period and place of manufacture, and what, most importantly, was all so special about it.
but i would never have the courage to open it - to find the smallest and yet most important doll, right at the very centre, right at the very end.
life is full of regrets sometimes.
posted by zhongkai at 9:27 PM
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