The only time I would dare walk though a puddle was at twilight, when the evening stars came out.
If I stepped in there, I would drop at once, and keep on falling, on and on, into blue space. Sometimes, seeing the tiny ripples caused by my approach, I thought the puddle impossibly deep, a bottomless sea in which the lazy coil of a tentacle and gleam of scale lay hidden, with the threat of huge bodies and sharp teeth adrift and silent in the far-down depths.Īnd then, looking down into reflection, I would see my own round face and frizzled hair against a featureless blue sweep, and think instead that the puddle was the entrance to another sky. I believed it was an opening into some fathomless space. It was because I couldn't bring myself believe that that perfect smooth expanse was no more than I thin film of water over solid earth.
Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind. “When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles.
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