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…]
September 13, 2010
Warning: This blogpost makes blatant generalizations about travel writing, and spends an awful lot contemplating why death and travel have much in common. The thoughts may be incoherent at times, and conclusions are loose. There’s much recycled from emails to a particular unlucky friend, and the beginning and ending may not tie together. You see,… [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 8, 2010
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September 24, 2010
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