Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
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There's a reason the Swiss are not a happy people.
Neither are the people who are fucking a Kardashian.
Happiness is a warm gun.
Geneva is more fun than Vegas.
But the best part of living in Zurich was hopping a morning train and being in Milano in a few hours, usually on the way to someplace further south. I fell in love with espresso at the Milan train station--that big hulking edifice put up by Mussolini. There used to be a coffee "bar" tucked off to left in front as you came off the tracks-next to the gabinetti. Italians rarely sit for coffee. The bar had a huge silver sugar bowl with a couple spoons that must have been 10 inches long. I loved the decadence of caffeinated indulgence.
I liked the Zurich train station.
Sixty Grit said...
I liked the Zurich train station.
It had its charm and detractions--it was most under reconstruction the two years I lived there. And Needle Park, right nextdoor, was in full swing then. Zurich had an amazing tram system. I still remember where many of them went--the black #7, the pink #10.
So I walk into the Paris opera house - what's playin'? Oh, Rigoletto? Never saw that - got any tickets? You do? Super. Wait, it's at the Bastille? Not here? Here is being renovated? Thanks but no thanks.
So, I hear you on that renovation thing - nothing ruins a nice building more than that.
Media coverage of Huxley's passing was overshadowed by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on the same day, and the death of the British author C. S. Lewis, who also died on 22 November. This coincidence was the inspiration for Peter Kreeft's book Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley
Was Aldous Huxley the same Huxley who wrote "Behind The Green Door" and thus inspired Jim Morrison to name his band?
I thought that was Marilyn Chambers?
No, Mark Felt inspired that.
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