“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway Almost 11 hours of sleep and I feel much better. The sun coming through the open window, birds chirping, the breeze on my face, but it was the church bells that woke me. We lay in bed…
Year: 2025
Fog
“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for…
Leaving Ljubljana
“The city exists and it has a simple secret: it knows only departures, not returns.” Italo Calvino I don’t remember going to sleep. This is how I woke up. Shell – Are you awake. Grant – Not really. I guess so. Shell – Well, I’m not. So, go back to sleep. Grant – OK It’s…
Lazy Ljubljana
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I wake up to the sound of rain and go back to sleep. The sun is up when Shell decides it is time for…
Slovenia
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” Jack Kerouac You never sleep well with a bottle of wine and two pizzas in your gut gurgling away. Pizza is an ocean of salt, so you spend the night…
Becoming Budapestiek
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” Kurt Vonnegut I wake up at 3.00 am. I have always struggled with jetlag. Shell can sleep through a cyclone. I listen to…
Arrivals – Budapest
“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake. With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.” Chuck Palahniuk A long flight. Tucker Carlson left me alone for the rest of the flight. Budapest feels like home. It is only 3C…
Departures – Dubai
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” Alan Watts We have crawled to the end of term. Sometimes it felt like Rachelle was dragging my corpse to the end of term. Dubai remains a sand pit of consumerism, but the weather is nice. It is hard to like a place where the view…
Feedback
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” William Somerset Maugham The response to the last post has been clear. A full 100% of readers were dissatisfied with the previous post. “Were you drunk when you wrote this?” “Do better.” “I give this 3/10.” The readership has spoken. I will do better. Sunday…