… and lose myself in thought about the journeys we make. Journeys. Such a loaded word. As I read Eat, Pray, Love –a book which I was fiercely cynical of until I started leafing through and relating to the author Elizabeth Gilbert– I wondered about my own personal journey. During a ride back from a… [Read more…]
September 24, 2010
This is a blogpost I began in July, did not publish and never revisited until this moment. Back then I was reading this Arabic book called Love in Saudi — a text that is both sexual and daring from Page 1. The most creative bit in the storytelling, for me, was how both the author… [Read more…]
June 29, 2010
“Sovereign of my heart, Regina, kept safe and secret in the deepest corner of my breast.” I’m big on psychology theorists these days, and while searching for e-books for Rollo Reese May (since I failed to find any hardcopies in our distinguished book-stores across Cairo), I came across works by Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, psychologist and theologian. I… [Read more…]
June 15, 2010
If you suffer, and you will (because who doesn’t?), then do it successfully, according to both Marcel Proust and Alain de Botton. It’s not the easiest thing in the world. Drenched in sorrows, it’s easier of course to stay in bed, jump off a bridge than write a philosophy book. If you plan on ending… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
“I never expressed a desire to break up with her except when I was unable to do without her,” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. I came across this quote in Alain de Botton‘s book How Proust Can Change You Life which I’d just begun reading. In the second chapter, titled How to Read… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
De Botton, Alain – On Love (The book in pdf format) Where do I begin? I don’t know. So I won’t. I’ll just leave you with the book, and let you formulate your own impressions and reach your own conclusions. I’ve been flooding my time-line on Twitter with quotes from this book, and I’m not… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
This train of thoughts formed a series of tweets, that I felt I’d like to preserve here, for how special the feelings this quiet and small experience evoked in me: So I tried to tweet from the plane yesterday, but for some reason the tweets weren’t sent in SMSes through mobile But our plane stood… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
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