I have been reading Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and it has proved to be a suspiciously ideal choice to guide me through this 3 week trip. It is about a man on a trip to both hide from the present and revisit his past. It is about fear of forgetting and the weight of one's past. This is a book that I have owned for a while and tried to read several times. For some reason I could never connect with it until now. I now understand that I was supposed to read at this specific moment, when it would significantly effect me by articulating the almost exact discussions I have been having in my mind.
Some excerpts:
"They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it."
"In the political jargon of the those days, the word 'intellectual' was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cutoff from the people...Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air."
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
In other news, I had a great weekend in Cleveland with Chris, and a wonderful time with Phil and Ed in Ithaca yesterday. I am here a just two more days before I embark to Chicago then Minnesota to meet up with Dan(imal) (he loves animals, and I love him).
::heart::
-mike
P.S
more quotes:
"Don't put your trust in walls, cause walls will only crush you when they fall"
"I never learned to count my blessings, I choose instead to dwell in my disasters."
-Ray Lamontagne
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hey mike..i just sort of stumbled on your blog..thats really great that you happened to read that book on your trip.
i especially like the second quote..ive been wondering a lot lately if intellectual thinking is any better or more meaningful to God and the rest of the world than being, say, a really good basketball player or a concert pianist...what do you think? maybe we can talk about it tonight..
by the way..do you think you could point me in the direction of some good books/literature to check out? that would be very cool..
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