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TM 169 - Fragile
Mar. 13th, 2007 02:31 pm169 - Fragile
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to have this gold pen and pencil set. It wasn't expensive or fancy, just a nominal gift from the Caprican Bar Association on one of his anniversaries, but he never used it. On his desk, a leather cup was always filled with regular wood-and-graphite pencils, and that's usually what was in his hand, as well.
I never questioned it, figuring that "it's just Grandpa". And then when I was older and he received another set as a gift, I had to ask. My grandfather told me that before every time he walked into the courtroom, he would snap one of those pencils in half. It was his way of symbolizing a breaking of preconceptions.
It's always stuck with me, but it wasn't my first lesson about things breaking. About how everything breaks.
( The center cannot hold )
(763, not including direct quotes)
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to have this gold pen and pencil set. It wasn't expensive or fancy, just a nominal gift from the Caprican Bar Association on one of his anniversaries, but he never used it. On his desk, a leather cup was always filled with regular wood-and-graphite pencils, and that's usually what was in his hand, as well.
I never questioned it, figuring that "it's just Grandpa". And then when I was older and he received another set as a gift, I had to ask. My grandfather told me that before every time he walked into the courtroom, he would snap one of those pencils in half. It was his way of symbolizing a breaking of preconceptions.
It's always stuck with me, but it wasn't my first lesson about things breaking. About how everything breaks.
( The center cannot hold )
(763, not including direct quotes)
