Visiting New Zealand in 2011 has been an interesting experience. I sense that our having a more extended stay in the country may be coming closer, so naturally one reflects on the mix of familiar and strange aspects of the place. It is a place where I know how things work, yet even that is at times elusive, in truth, because I have not live in the place for prolonged periods since the mid 1980s.
There could be a role for me as a writer, a researcher, a broker of knowledge. Now, it is my task to find that role and take it up.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Cricket World Cup, Levi-Strauss, and E M Forster...
How are they linked? Through me, of course.
Today, I spent many hours watching the Final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, India vs Sri Lanka, played in Mumbai. It was a grand occasion, and the Indian team won the game, which is what they wanted. The romantic win would have been Sri Lanka, but it was not to be, today.
Still, slowly, I read the biography of Claude Levi-Strauss, the French structuralist-anthropologist. and continue to love it. It's such a grand life he led, and such an original mind he had.
E M Forster? On Monday night our book group will discuss 'A Room With A View', so we're reading it. It's a light, very funny story, set in Florence, and an easy read. Does it have much serious intent? I haven't found it yet, though maybe it is for me to discover yet? Not much time for that, but I shall enjoy the attempt.
Today, I spent many hours watching the Final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, India vs Sri Lanka, played in Mumbai. It was a grand occasion, and the Indian team won the game, which is what they wanted. The romantic win would have been Sri Lanka, but it was not to be, today.
Still, slowly, I read the biography of Claude Levi-Strauss, the French structuralist-anthropologist. and continue to love it. It's such a grand life he led, and such an original mind he had.
E M Forster? On Monday night our book group will discuss 'A Room With A View', so we're reading it. It's a light, very funny story, set in Florence, and an easy read. Does it have much serious intent? I haven't found it yet, though maybe it is for me to discover yet? Not much time for that, but I shall enjoy the attempt.
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