Left a little before 10. Blacksmith. Sunny, with some light white cloud stripes and strokes in a mostly blue sky. Not warm, but just mild enough for summer gloves. Singel, Koningsweg, Wayen, Plofsluis, Beatrixsluis. Lots of people out, some apparently only having spotted the sunny skies from inside their houses prior to setting off and as a result dressing for summer, which it wasn't. Pleasure boats exiting the Beatrix locks toward the ARK. Vreeswijk deserted, Lekdijk to Radiolaan, past IJsselstein. Just outside IJsselstein, corner Broeksdijk, a duck with five or six chicks. Stuivenbergweg very flat, empty; one lone white bull. Very clear views also from the bike path between the Hollandse IJssel and the Nedereindseweg, but for the life of me I could not get a glimpse of the Dom with all the new stuff on the west side of town. Swan nesting near a gate at the Nedereindseweg. Merwedekanaal and the rest. Ending the war on day one/in week one/month one/first one hundred days--it's idiotic if you can't get yourself to recognize the nature of the conflict, if you turn it into an abstraction. So now they're getting impatient/frustrated/bored, they don't want to play any more, and they're no doubt lining up all the reasons why it's not any failing on their part.
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