Sometime back, okay, way back, as in "J1" kind of back, Marlina read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and raved about the book.

So. Based on that newly recalled memory, i went and bought the book. It was one of those irrational buys that wan wen has been blogging about, only that mine is WAY cheaper. Haha. The edition that i bought was published under the umbrella of "Penguin Classics". And! Oh boy! The cover is COOL. It's minimalist white and absolute "nothing-ness". Just. Plain. White.

Picture this!

*I'm on the bus. Reading this book. A book with a picture-less cover. My activities inspire confusion among the english literary-neanderthals. An auntie goes: "Eh! Ah boy arh! What you reading ar?" I go: "Nothing." She squawks: "Nothing?" I go: "Nothing" and cue MEGAWATT smile.*

Doesn't this make you feel as if you're... you're... erudite? Learned? Intellectually empowered? Haha. ESTEEM Booster!

Anyway! The entire concept is kinda cool. Penguin Classics' tagline is "Books by the greats, Covers by you." So, in view of my lack of professional drawing skills, I'm sticking to white. Plain white. Has a James Bond kinda ring to it no?

Any artistic endeavour will probably result in a book cover that mirrors "The Picture of Dorian Gray". See! I can do puns! Haha.

Anyway! The cause of this purchase was this fleeting vision of a bookshelf filled with literary classics. This vision is probably never going to become reality and will probably go down the drain just as how the other fleeting vision of a bookshelf filled with anime DVDs/ VCDs went down the choked toilet bowl of flushed dreams. In fact! That failed dream was due to ANDY LOSING my $30+ worth of anime VCDs. The cheapo replacements that he gave me were just that, CHEAPO.

Oh man. I need money to fulfill my dreams. If not, I will have one very choked and overflowing toilet bowl of flushed dreams.

Gross analogy. I know.