Monday, 26 November 2018

133 AVENUE DE LA RESISTANCE, LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON


 
More and more, since an unexpected but programmed personal time-out in October, I feel the absurdity of a big part of our life, with all the ridiculous priorities and shallow complaints, slavery to a system of values dictated and fanned by supports that don’t require us to think.  And so what if we think, anyway, do we opt to be vegetarian, vegan, minimalist, all kinds of other labels everyday more trendy and yesterday’s news by tomorrow? ... Will this black humour lift, will we survive more black Friday’s, how do we de-select what’s not essential but not become some cynical grumpy unhappy and therefore unwise old hermit ? Well, to each essential value , probably some frivolous silly not-so-correct side-dishes come along, maybe that’s what our little brains need to be entertained.  Heaven forbid that along this line of reasoning I will finally ask what the hell is so interesting about cinema that we devote all our life to it ... or for that matter, about art, about literature, about anything someone devotes all one’s life to.  Better not stop and think about that because the answer might be pretty disheartening.  Hmmmm.  Could stupid Black Friday provoke such a tidal wave of existential angst ?

MY ONLY SEASON


... and this would come every year around x'mas time, from year 15 in Hongkong to year xxx as mother of 3 in the Paris suburbs.  A Torte from Hôtel Sacher in Vienna where I've never managed to set foot in yet. But the sender is long gone, gone too young ... my very first penpal connected through the Children's Corner in the South China Morning Post ...




Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.



(Nov 26, 2017  18h01)

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