velvetinetraces is taking flight . . .
I devoured “Farewell Waltz” within 24 hours. Kundera is most accessible with this work, and hilarious!
“Aesthetic racism is almost a sign of inexperience.“
velvetinetraces is taking flight . . .
I devoured “Farewell Waltz” within 24 hours. Kundera is most accessible with this work, and hilarious!
“Aesthetic racism is almost a sign of inexperience.“
velvetinetraces is taking flight . . .
Last week I finished “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” and “Laughable Loves.”
velvetinetraces is taking flight . . .
My infatuation began with “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” and seducing me further with “Identity” and “Ignorance.”
I’m currently bedding “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.”
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.” _Milan Kundera
Completed:
i love the joke, i’ve got one chapter left… kundera really pinpointed that strange thing that has been happening to me for a long time. whenever i try to think of people, their face has been blacked out, i can just see them in the context of how, when, and why i saw them, and they are not just a person, they are an experience, they are this world. except for the face, the face always loses me.
right now ludvik feels bad that he didn’t experience people as they simply were, but as they pertained to him. i understand…