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Marzo 20, 2006
Inside the ring or out...
Inside the ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
Muhammad Ali
Posted by sarita at 9:35 PM
Marzo 5, 2006
Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared?
Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars. Have they vanished along with footpaths, with grasslands and clearings, with nature? There is a Czech proverb that describes their easy indolence by a metaphor: 'They are gazing at God's windows’. A person gazing at God's windows is not bored, he is happy. In our world, indolence has turned into having nothing to do, which is a completely different thing; a person with nothing to do is frustrated, bored, is constantly searching for the activity he lacks.
Milan Kundera, from Slowness
Posted by sarita at 12:25 PM