how to destroy a rug
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2004.10.27
Today I invented a new method of destroying a rug. I took a special type of glass tumbler - a made in England tumbler, guaranteed to crumble into a billion tiny splinters - and dropped it on the floor next to the rug. Sure enough, the tiny splinters of the tumbler scattered themselves all over the rug.
Several bloody points later, I decided to give up on the rug. The shards were too tiny to pick up, and I could only imagine the disaster that would come of attempting to throw the thing in the wash.
Happily, ours was cheap a IKEA rug.