waiting for the kettle to boil...

"Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate. It wouldn't allow itself to be adjusted on the top bar; it wouldn't hear of accommodating itself kindly to the knobs of coal; it would lean forward with a drunken air and dribble, a very Idiot of a kettle, on the hearth. It was quarrelsome, and hissed and spluttered morosely at the fire...

...It looked sullen and pig-headed enough, even then: carrying its handle with an air of defiance, and cocking its spout pertly and mockingly at Mrs. Peerybingle as if it said, "I won't boil. Nothing shall induce me!"
Charles Dickens



"Must a kettle boil?"
Virginia Woolf


(you do ask silly questions virginia...of course it must!...)


Ruurd Wiersma Hûs in Burdaard (Friesland) #2