What a darling beloved Dad you must have had. To teach you all those imperative things and allow you to READ AND READ... encourage you... oh lordy me. Oh wonderful. I guess from the offsprings ages that you're in your later middle years (to be nice, heh heh. I'm mid-sodding-eighties!)and to have a son of thirty! wow. I've no childer.. no one left at all. So... I've Time to enjoy what's left!
Oh the existentialism and stuff. it was much MUCH nicer then... when we're young and idealistic. On reading this all I realise that life has taught me so many lessons that I can just giggle gently and dream of that week in l952 sitting on the Left Bank with a Marie Brizard (tastes like Absinthe!) and 'philosophising'... the world was so full of attemptable opportunities then. Now realism is more my scene. But enjoy them... seen from up here, they're lovely! Poor Camus, he's hilarious really... but so YOUNG! And Candide is a children's story about the pitfalls of being a grown-up! Delicious and not at all heavy.
I HAVE read 'Things Fall Apart'... gosh, how could i forget? I had to dump all my 'Friend-Books' when I set off to sail round the world... (we didn't but at least we made the Med and back.) I shall have to Amazon and get it back again. My poor Bookshelves. I did spend 9 months in Kenyan Africa being a Tour Guide for the Tsavo National Park... so... aaah "Kwa Heri- nchi zangu wapenzi."
And your Father into Mediaeval History to the Tudors... sounds like he had the same history teacher as me! That was my joy. I stopped at Jamey the One, after that ... erm. But Those were the really good history days.. wow. And jolly well documented as well, but leaving enough 'space' for the mind to flesh out the flesh! Oh Wonderful Dad. Writing AND History... gaaaahhhh. ENVY ENVY! (Neither of my parents ever picked up a book!) You must miss him. I think he must have had a super sense of humour too!
Fee has been a real BRICK, and such a GOOD friend. I can tell her anything and everything, and she will weep or laugh with me. And I hope I with her. She's just so sincere and true in real life too. I do miss her dreadfully, even after only a day or so in her company. I think of her as 'with me' most of the time. Such a buddy.
Soo.... I'm so enjoying catching up with everything I should have done over the last sixty years... and REALLY getting so much MORE out of it all. I agree - you do have to have 'life experience' really to write about philosophy and ethics with any sort of background sense... we were just dancing on clouds of hope then! Now - like you and Hubby... older feet must stay solid on the earth, even if our eyes are lifted to the stars!
Bless you and thanks so much for your super posts every day. I do really enjoy (solidly enjoy) them. So many one just flicks through and they make no impact at all.
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Re: Part two. and one!!
Date: 2014-08-28 09:07 am (UTC)From:Oh the existentialism and stuff. it was much MUCH nicer then... when we're young and idealistic. On reading this all I realise that life has taught me so many lessons that I can just giggle gently and dream of that week in l952 sitting on the Left Bank with a Marie Brizard (tastes like Absinthe!) and 'philosophising'... the world was so full of attemptable opportunities then. Now realism is more my scene. But enjoy them... seen from up here, they're lovely! Poor Camus, he's hilarious really... but so YOUNG! And Candide is a children's story about the pitfalls of being a grown-up! Delicious and not at all heavy.
I HAVE read 'Things Fall Apart'... gosh, how could i forget? I had to dump all my 'Friend-Books' when I set off to sail round the world... (we didn't but at least we made the Med and back.) I shall have to Amazon and get it back again. My poor Bookshelves. I did spend 9 months in Kenyan Africa being a Tour Guide for the Tsavo National Park... so... aaah "Kwa Heri- nchi zangu wapenzi."
And your Father into Mediaeval History to the Tudors... sounds like he had the same history teacher as me! That was my joy. I stopped at Jamey the One, after that ... erm. But Those were the really good history days.. wow. And jolly well documented as well, but leaving enough 'space' for the mind to flesh out the flesh! Oh Wonderful Dad. Writing AND History... gaaaahhhh. ENVY ENVY! (Neither of my parents ever picked up a book!) You must miss him. I think he must have had a super sense of humour too!
Fee has been a real BRICK, and such a GOOD friend. I can tell her anything and everything, and she will weep or laugh with me. And I hope I with her. She's just so sincere and true in real life too. I do miss her dreadfully, even after only a day or so in her company. I think of her as 'with me' most of the time. Such a buddy.
Soo.... I'm so enjoying catching up with everything I should have done over the last sixty years... and REALLY getting so much MORE out of it all. I agree - you do have to have 'life experience' really to write about philosophy and ethics with any sort of background sense... we were just dancing on clouds of hope then! Now - like you and Hubby... older feet must stay solid on the earth, even if our eyes are lifted to the stars!
Bless you and thanks so much for your super posts every day. I do really enjoy (solidly enjoy) them. So many one just flicks through and they make no impact at all.