113. The New Yellow Wallpaper
July 21, 2008
Being more tired than she had ever felt before in her life, she lay down on a bed and slept. While she slept, people came in and out of the room. The intruders looked for socks in her sock drawer, rifled through her bookcase, repainted the moldings and started wallpapering the walls. She lived alone, she liked her old wallpaper better, and the socks in the drawer belonged to her. Therefore, normally, she would have been affronted and upset by the strangers’ intrusion. But today she was only glad they didn’t wake her for long. That’s how tired she was.
While she slept, she dreamed about many things. It was the blissful kind of dreaming that comes from sleeping very hard. At one point, she dreamed about wallpaper.
The new wallpaper didn’t drive her crazy, even though it was of a jaundiced color. It turns out that yellow wallpaper isn’t dangerous in and of itself. Please make a note of this. There are many other things to be wary of, but interior design is rarely the real problem. The wallpaper in your room is only a symbol, or at best a red herring.
you decide if this means anything. but it doesn’t.
image: O Siam on flickr
