The art of travel
Jan 11th 2010 20:51
Today, I read a bit of 'The art of travel' written by Alain de botton.
even though, I've read only a few beginning parts of it, I was facinated by it. and I now write a few lines that was unforgettable to me.
I hope I can exchange some opinions on this with you.
[ Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of story telling, wearing us out with repetitions, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the safety handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of a laden ashtray.
Which explains the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imagination omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to a life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.
- On anticipation, The art of travel by Alain de botton.]
by which means, in reality, I would never be able to achieve what I've desired to grasp and dreamt so many times? however hard I try to by taking travels or escaping from the commonplaces?
even though, I've read only a few beginning parts of it, I was facinated by it. and I now write a few lines that was unforgettable to me.
I hope I can exchange some opinions on this with you.
[ Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of story telling, wearing us out with repetitions, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the safety handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of a laden ashtray.
Which explains the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imagination omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to a life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.
- On anticipation, The art of travel by Alain de botton.]
by which means, in reality, I would never be able to achieve what I've desired to grasp and dreamt so many times? however hard I try to by taking travels or escaping from the commonplaces?
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even though, I've read only a fewpages of it, I was facinated by it.
andnow I would like to write a few lines that was unforgettable to me.
By which means in reality,would Inever be able to achieve what I've desired to grasp and dreamt so many times?
However hard I try to by taking travels or escaping from the commonplaces?
I have one of Alain Du Botton's books but so far have not managed to read it, he is supposed to be one of the best travel writers out there.
I like your last sentence "However hard I try to by taking travels or escaping from the commonplaces?" When you are happy with who you are and can accept yourself then escaping will feel more like enriching yourself ;-)