The Waters of March Steven Pinker, a renowned scholar and public speaker, has recently pointed out that if you live in the far north, everything else in the world will look south to you. He used this metaphor to enforce the idea of the lack of a dialogue between people of opposite political spectrum – but I in fact experienced it for the first time … Continue reading In Transit – Part 4
A mystical journey If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire … Continue reading In Transit – Part 2
A Sentimental Journey Embarking on a journey means boarding a train. You sit by a window, leaning on a dusty glass (do not lean on glass, it’s dirty!) staring at the trees flying by, the wires going up and down, the thundering noise of a passing train, the tattered stations, towns, and villages, the names that fade from your memory; the well-known routes and the … Continue reading In Transit – Part 1
Desperate Writers 