“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.” William S. Burroughs Thursday My eye is still red, but now it is causing me pain. I get this bad headache behind and around my eye. It was so bad yesterday afternoon that I couldn’t read, and I went to bed at 6.00 pm. Shutting…
Year: 2024
Christmas Day
“What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” Sam Harris Wednesday I wake up at 7.00 am. That is 13 hours sleep. My eye is still not great. I have resigned myself to it never getting…
Want
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” Sylvia Plath Imagine a life where you live in a new country every few years. You travel to all ends of the world. This is me. Yet, every now and again, I find myself in a place living…
Gamlitz – Austria
“The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” Ludwig Wittgenstein Monday My eye feels better and the redness seems reduced. We slept with the window open to let the cold in. I slept well even with the sounds of Graz…
Graz – Austria
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Sunday A good night of sleep. My eye is still red and appears no better even though it is relatively painless. If there is no improvement tomorrow I will try and track down another GP or if…
Sleep
Saturday “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.” Sylvia Plath At some point last night Shell opened the door to…
Arrivals – Budapest
“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always a spot where one’s heart will feel at peace – these are many certainties for a single human life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain moments everything yearns for that…
Departures – Dubai (again)
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” Roman Payne Thursday Having survived the term with a few back injuries and relatively illness free, I woke up yesterday with a sore eye. Today…
Austria Dreaming
“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.” Milan Kundera Thursday One more week until the break. Thoughts have shifted from Korea to Austrian mountains. A busy…