March 2010
5 posts
Connection
I don’t know what to say. Flying back from Poland I’m armed with two leather coats, a bunch of not very tasty diet soups and granola bars as well as a large multi pack of Ferrero Rocher chocolates. All in good sense.
I’m in my seat. There is a child behind me who apparently got a real kick out of our wobbly state of departure and will probably get an even bigger one out of the...
In-Travel
It’s a fulltime job to seek relief of miss-your-connection anxiety. I’m proud to say I’ve really become quite the expert in the domain; admittedly through much practice (missed flights included) and concluded that the world won’t end, it’ll just get a little more tedious. Of course, first time fliers won’t fully understand this verdict even if their better...
Zurich airport guitar
It’s 10:35am, Zurich airport in Switzerland. I’m sitting in a black leather-bound airport chair listening to that song that says “… and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love you.” Before that it was a song from Top Hat and before that something else… Now it’s something else again but just as guitarily cheesy as the two previous ones and...
End of a reading
I find it at once intriguing, unsettling and strangely reassuring. Scary thought, but maybe Huxley was right about society… Or not.
Question: would you rather have peace, order, stability, numbness and feigned happiness or heroism, passion, love, war and sadness?
If you feel like answering send me an e-mail: klaudyp@gmail.com
“Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in...”
– Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 