Comments on: Szombat diet http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2008/08/30/szombat-diet/ I never touched it, honest! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2008/08/30/szombat-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-11003 Jeremy Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:12:48 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/?p=1146#comment-11003 <a href="#comment-11002" rel="nofollow">@Eats Wombats</a> - I hope I didn't suggest that you were too world weary. Not at all. And I quite understand the seesaw between wanting home when you're on the road and wanting the road when you're at home. The Shriver article makes its points within the first couple of paragraphs. And is amusing as far as it goes. I kind of agree about holidays of the kind described, but there are other ways to do it. @Eats Wombats – I hope I didn’t suggest that you were too world weary. Not at all. And I quite understand the seesaw between wanting home when you’re on the road and wanting the road when you’re at home.

The Shriver article makes its points within the first couple of paragraphs. And is amusing as far as it goes. I kind of agree about holidays of the kind described, but there are other ways to do it.

]]> By: Eats Wombats http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2008/08/30/szombat-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-11002 Eats Wombats Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:28:54 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/?p=1146#comment-11002 Forgive me if I was too weary of peripatetic life. Having traveled the world for years I occasionally long for a rooted and quotidian existence, and when I have it I long to be rootless again. I suspect I'll never be reconciled to either. I think my underlying sentiment, about Paradise being where you find it, was that I've experienced more vivid pleasures in the humblest circumstances. For me the Taj was a monument to brutality and cruelty, not love. Here's a fine article by Lionel Shriver which struck a chord http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4595837.ece "Are we supposed to be enjoying this?" is a quote of mine that is recalled, mockingly, by traveling companion when she detects a certain ennui. Forgive me if I was too weary of peripatetic life. Having traveled the world for years I occasionally long for a rooted and quotidian existence, and when I have it I long to be rootless again. I suspect I’ll never be reconciled to either.

I think my underlying sentiment, about Paradise being where you find it, was that I’ve experienced more vivid pleasures in the humblest circumstances. For me the Taj was a monument to brutality and cruelty, not love.

Here’s a fine article by Lionel Shriver which struck a chord

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4595837.ece

“Are we supposed to be enjoying this?” is a quote of mine that is recalled, mockingly, by traveling companion when she detects a certain ennui.

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