Å være oppmerksom er å la virkeligheten gi gjenklang i oss. Oppmerksomhet er respons: svar, tilsvar og ansvar.
Poet's love's this (as in these words I
prove thee):
I love my love for thee more than I
love thee.
And, when a thought would unmask
our soul's masking,
Itself goes not unmasked to the
unmasking
Anything is something. Not coming to anything is something. Loving is something. Needing coming to something is something. Not needing coming to something is something, Loving is something. Anything is something.
Monsieur Ernest Comeliau
Examining Magistrate
22 bis Rue de Seine
Paris
Your Honour:
I should like one man , just one, to understand me. And I would like that man to be you.
We spent many long hours together during all the weeks of the preliminary investigations.
But at that time it was too soon. You were a judge, you were my judge, and I would have seemed to be trying to justify myself. But now you know, don't you, it has nothing to do with that?
Act of Passion by Georges Simenon
However, blaming your parents for your life's difficulties finally leads nowhere.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. The robbery is more importent part, since it served to set my and my sister's lives on the courses they eventually followed. Nothing would make complete sense without that being told first.
Our parents were the least likely two people in the world to rob a bank. They weren't strange people, not obviously criminals. No one would've thought they were destined to end up the way they did. They were just regular - although , of course, that kind of thinking became null and void the moment they did rob a bank.
Canada by Richard Ford
Hjortetakk er verdens lønn.
Fredrik Stabel
:))
Artig at du kjøpte boken, The Art of Looking Sideways må være kaffebordbøkenes svar på Sareptas krukke.
Jeg tror på held, med mine fremtidsutsikter er man nødt til det.
Fredrik Stabel
I misjudged you… You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.
Et par tips i all enkelhet:
Sigurd Evensmo's roman Englandsfarere.
Handlingen i romanen bygger på forfatterens egne erfaringer fra krigsårene. Boken ble også filmet.
Hans Fallada's roman Every Man Dies Alone.
(en av mine favorittbøker)
Jeg har truffet mange nakne kvinner i mitt liv, men aldri noen som har kunnet spinne.
Fredrik Stabel
Fornuften er en ensom ting, hvor ofte er man ikke alene om å stole på den.
Fredrik Stabel
.....the worst loneliness is not the one that surrounds a man, but the emptiness within himself, when he has not carried away with him even a warm look or a friendly word or spark of hope ......
Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
Gordimer og Coetzee er riktig, men Doris Lessing er britisk, født i Persia og vokste opp i Rhodesia, landet som i dag heter Zimbabwe.
Ivan Vladilslavic med boken Missing Poems kan f.eks. erstatte Lessing på ovenstående liste.
Nevn tre prisbelønte forfattere fra Sør-Afrika, + en roman fra hver forfatter.
Æsops Fabler
Resept på et lykkelig liv - Kaye Gibbons
Den menneskelige faktor - Graham Greene
Nevn tre skjønnlitterære bøker med både menneske og dyr i tittelen.