I had to Google shield limpet to find out what it is. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a live one before (not one moving on the beach anyway), but I’ve seen a lot of very similar looking shells in Japan.

I also don’t feel moved by literature much anymore. That could be related to the fact that I don’t read nearly as much as I used to, or it could have something to do with me not being able to pick up books and be swept away by them like I used to.

When I was younger, I think was intrigued by all the things I read about that I had never done, and maybe even the way that I imagined they would be like. Now that I’m older and have experienced many more things, probably more so than a lot of the characters that I used to like, literature doesn’t have the effect in me that it was did.