Froog, when has being alone (loneliness) ever been pleasant? I know they are not the same, loneliness and being alone. But still I'd like to disagree with Freya Stark
By the way, are you on twitter now? It's such rubish and full of adds and fake profiles who "follow" you, and you are "following" 20 fake profiles from the minutte you sign on.
Earthling (still waiting for you to read my blog and make comments)
Eathling, it would be easier for people to read your blog if you left link for it when you comment here. Or sent it to me by e-mail.
The relationship between 'lonely' and 'alone' is interesting. I suppose 'lonely' implies 'regretting being alone'; but even that, I would suggest, is not without its upside - it is a species of melancholy, and melancholy is not entirely unpleasant (and certainly a spur to the creativity). Being 'alone', though, can be marvellous - unfettered by concerns or responsibilities, completely free to explore any and every opportunity.
A friend remarked to me recently that his relationships with women always seemed to founder because they never seemed to understand why he wanted sometimes to be alone. It wasn't that he didn't want to be with them (in the long-term, serious relationship sense); certainly not that he wanted to be with someone else; just that there were times when he really wanted, needed to be on his own.... and women are so often reluctant to grant that.
Perhaps in general women appreciate solitariness less than men. Freya Stark may be an exceptional case.
I would say, I might also be a bit "exceptional". I have the need to be alone too. But when the choice is there to have GOOD company and share some experiences with good company, then I guess most women -even I- do choose company.
Reg. link. I have once left the link here, but I think it got lost or deleted.
I am very shy and don't want people to know who the writer is.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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Oh no it bloody isn't, unless you're Freya Stark.
Well, it depends how strange the town, I suppose. And how bad the hangover.
Froog, when has being alone (loneliness) ever been pleasant?
I know they are not the same, loneliness and being alone. But still I'd like to disagree with Freya Stark
By the way, are you on twitter now? It's such rubish and full of adds and fake profiles who "follow" you, and you are "following" 20 fake profiles from the minutte you sign on.
Earthling (still waiting for you to read my blog and make comments)
Eathling, it would be easier for people to read your blog if you left link for it when you comment here. Or sent it to me by e-mail.
The relationship between 'lonely' and 'alone' is interesting. I suppose 'lonely' implies 'regretting being alone'; but even that, I would suggest, is not without its upside - it is a species of melancholy, and melancholy is not entirely unpleasant (and certainly a spur to the creativity). Being 'alone', though, can be marvellous - unfettered by concerns or responsibilities, completely free to explore any and every opportunity.
A friend remarked to me recently that his relationships with women always seemed to founder because they never seemed to understand why he wanted sometimes to be alone. It wasn't that he didn't want to be with them (in the long-term, serious relationship sense); certainly not that he wanted to be with someone else; just that there were times when he really wanted, needed to be on his own.... and women are so often reluctant to grant that.
Perhaps in general women appreciate solitariness less than men. Freya Stark may be an exceptional case.
I would say, I might also be a bit "exceptional". I have the need to be alone too. But when the choice is there to have GOOD company and share some experiences with good company, then I guess most women -even I- do choose company.
Reg. link. I have once left the link here, but I think it got lost or deleted.
I am very shy and don't want people to know who the writer is.
Earthling
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