I was reading through some of the posts on Evolver.net and www.realitysandwich.com, and this post reminded me of an old dream: discovering that I really don’t belong to this world, for some reason or another. Or at least that I don’t belong to the mundane version of it, which I’m living through right now. Looking… [Read more…]
June 13, 2010
This morning, I found a grape in my shoes. It was a red grape. And I had a suspect in mind: my youngest cat. He likes to play with our food. It made me smile, because it was one of those small things that reminds me I’m not alone. I remember when I lived on… [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…]
May 22, 2010
"The desert was about the void, the zero point, shrinking yourself and your concerns in the immensity and emptiness of it all. The desert was about a definite psychological need for vastness in the face of human confusion, brain fatigue."
June 16, 2010
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