6.16.2004
NOSTALGIA
(from "Ignorance" by Milan Kundera)
"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering". So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."
"Odysseus lived a real dolce vita there in Calypso's land, a life of ease, a life of delights. And yet, between the dolce vita in a foreign place and the risky return to his home, he chose the return. Rather than ardent exploration of the unknown (adventure), he chose the apotheosis of the know (return). Rather than the infinite (for adventure never intends to finish), he chose the finite (for the return is a reconciliation with the finitude of life)."
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3 hours and we're on a plane to Bombay. Feeling a little nervous -- leaving the what-has-become-familiar for a new culture. We'll spend about 5 weeks in India (mostly the North) and then for the REAL culture shock, Paris on the 21st of July.
Feeling really far away from home now. Just 3 months and we'll be back in the States.
(from "Ignorance" by Milan Kundera)
"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering". So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."
"Odysseus lived a real dolce vita there in Calypso's land, a life of ease, a life of delights. And yet, between the dolce vita in a foreign place and the risky return to his home, he chose the return. Rather than ardent exploration of the unknown (adventure), he chose the apotheosis of the know (return). Rather than the infinite (for adventure never intends to finish), he chose the finite (for the return is a reconciliation with the finitude of life)."
+ + + + +
3 hours and we're on a plane to Bombay. Feeling a little nervous -- leaving the what-has-become-familiar for a new culture. We'll spend about 5 weeks in India (mostly the North) and then for the REAL culture shock, Paris on the 21st of July.
Feeling really far away from home now. Just 3 months and we'll be back in the States.
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