Because the Captain took a dozen random photos of me…

A conceited moment

Me: Am I pretty?

Him: Yes but you’re getting bigger.

Me: So I’m not pretty then?

Him: You’re BIG pretty.

Me: Take a really really far shot!

Him: Why?

Me: So I won’t look big!

Tadaa!

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occupation. ― Michael Ondaatje