by Factotum
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self."
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and The Good
What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.
V. Woolf
" She strung the afternoon on the necklace of memorable days, which was not too long for her to be able to recall this one or that one; this view, that city; to finger it, to feel it, to savour, sighing, the quality that made it unique."
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
"Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions."
Vladamir Nabokov
Sir Findo Gask says:
A wise man said: never pick raspberries or blackberries from below waist height on country lanes....
JokerXL says:
Do you have no birds Facto?
A slight hint of red on ours and they get ravaged.
(down now FF!)
Caine says:
Oh, lovely! I'm hoping I get to eat at least one of our grapes this year. Those birds...
minkey says:
J'aime les framboises :-). First year where the weather has been abysmal and I've never had so many. One bowl everyday... ENJOY .. BTW I love the macro
I'm lucky if I get five or six every morning, and only for a week or so. There's just one raspbery bush here, growing beside the compost bin.
You lucky lot! Love raspberries but can't usually get them here (Aus) unless you want to pay a ransom for them- sometimes as much as $10 per punnet (about UK4.00). YUM!
Sir Findo Gask says:
FF, vous avez une si basse opinion de moi, je peux devoir aller au loin et bouder maintenant. Insinuant que je prends la pisse
