The Light in the Hall
It’s as if someone left the light on in the hall from half four until far beyond nine.After an hour running, stretching and fighting the weeds along the narrow path by the river, the yachts had vanished.In disbelief I look …
The Beginnings of Part 3
If I had not foreseen it, I would feel more.More sadness.And I would have picked up the phone in innocence to hear of my grandmother’s death on early Sunday afternoon.
Choices in Art
Art is about making the right choices.For every single page, you have to choose: what to leave and what to carry over. Such small decisions influence how they look at art as a piece (if it can be forced into …
Prisoners to the World
And that just leaves one question then: Is the outside world making me a prisoner or am I giving my talents away to the external universe?More or less, my subconscious is willing to answer this one. In silence, in dreams, …
Stepped Out Of Imagination
Morning Imagination is sadly underestimated, and under-used. I didn’t want him to step out of my imagination. There was good reason why he was in there in the first instance. So I looked away when it happened. Over in a …
Music like this still exists
All that it takes sometimes – so you are not jumping off a bridge because you used only 10% of your brain for the best part of the day – is Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Händel. When music like this still …
Diary of a Psychological Ectomorph
– originally captioned Hubris – A couple of days in some of the higher class hotels in the North, the Guardian writing about oil prices and Huxley’s Human Situation could confuse anyone’s mind. His philosophy may appear quite shallow but …
While I am confined
While I am confined to the insides of my home – and some other insides too, with a cough and nothing intelligent leaking out of me, I read of youngsters wanting to find themselves (insofar as they have selves) and …
From blue to blood
Not only in Paris, but the political events in France seem to be rather suitable for what I began reading over the weekend: the history of cartoons and comic strips. The next day I received Huxley’s The Human Situation.And what …
Chase for Chances
A few days into the year, I am determined, determined to chase for the chances I let slip in the last months, to return to Italy. Opera in Florence, staying in Venice for a night (for such great absence of …