FREUD IN THE RAIN/SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND - DIALOGUE WITH URUGUAYAN SURREALIST, CARLOS FLEITAS
CF: Immigrants are not welcomed in Europe or in USA. Trouble in Europe that the "european population" is shrinking at an alarming rate, therefore in 50 years it will be a region of "oldies"". So inmigrants will take over...Funny how history works...
PM: Hi, nothing much to report. When I do email I just seem to spend time deleting junkmail, so I have allowed my internet time to recede quite a bit. Basically I regard it as another part of our culture of junk, of things that wouldnt awaken the interest of a half-dead mouse. That's a bit sad, so there. I discovered a statue of Sigmund Freud at the bottom of the hill I live on. Freud lived in Hampstead in 1939, just before his death. Getting to London was exceptionally difficult. His colleague Ernest Jones in London and Princess Marie Bonaparte (??) in Paris had to plead with the Nazi government. Unbelievably the Nazis allowed Freud to leave Vienna, which definitely tells us that Freud had some very powerful friends indeed. Perhaps Freud was irrelevant to them in terms of the war effort. As you know the Nazis regarded all Jews as criminals, by the fact of their race, so Freud wouldnt have been exempt from that. They practiced collective punishment.
bw
CF: No problem at all, I read always your emails with most attention. You are a good friend. I currently have some health trouble that somedays gives me a hard time. I am at home permanently and only go out to see the doctor So i am confined but i take the best of it, writing reading listening music, yesterday Bach, he was one of the greatest, reminds me of Nietzsche's ideal the blend between Apollo and Dyonisus, the perfect art work.
Have you ever been on a double-deck bus, seems pretty great. We do not have that kind of bus here.
I saw a couple of days ago a documentary concerning Lady Di, interesting. Anyway monarchy seems quite obsolete to me, and sometimes a school for scandal. Hard to tell why folks are so enthusiastic about it...
PM: Hi, sorry to disturb you from your slumbers. Today a friend Desmond came over to Hampstead, we went to the Heath for a dip in the pond. The pond was very cold indeed and took a bit of getting used to. We avoided the men only pond and went to the mixed pond. The Heath was v colourful today, with many groups and gatherings.
I found out that George Orwell worked in a 2nd hand bookshop nr the Heath and wrote 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' from his experiences in Hampstead. After this he went to Spain where he fought for the Republic, writing 'Homage to Catalonia', possibly the greatest work of political science ever written, even if it doesnt pertain to be one. No it is an autobiographical novel but it really brings to life the conflict in Spain, providing a hard-bitten account of the war, penetrating as an arrow through the head on a cold winter's morning nr Epsom.
best wishes,
Your Comrade,
smewhere nr Hampstead, London
Ps my students name is Jamshid. He has bright red hair, very pale skin and always comes to class dressed in a suit. He was scared, I was told, possibly because my style of teaching is very direct, challenging the student to declare their interest in learning English. There are no passengers in my classes!
PM: Hi, nothing much to report. When I do email I just seem to spend time deleting junkmail, so I have allowed my internet time to recede quite a bit. Basically I regard it as another part of our culture of junk, of things that wouldnt awaken the interest of a half-dead mouse. That's a bit sad, so there. I discovered a statue of Sigmund Freud at the bottom of the hill I live on. Freud lived in Hampstead in 1939, just before his death. Getting to London was exceptionally difficult. His colleague Ernest Jones in London and Princess Marie Bonaparte (??) in Paris had to plead with the Nazi government. Unbelievably the Nazis allowed Freud to leave Vienna, which definitely tells us that Freud had some very powerful friends indeed. Perhaps Freud was irrelevant to them in terms of the war effort. As you know the Nazis regarded all Jews as criminals, by the fact of their race, so Freud wouldnt have been exempt from that. They practiced collective punishment.
bw
CF: No problem at all, I read always your emails with most attention. You are a good friend. I currently have some health trouble that somedays gives me a hard time. I am at home permanently and only go out to see the doctor So i am confined but i take the best of it, writing reading listening music, yesterday Bach, he was one of the greatest, reminds me of Nietzsche's ideal the blend between Apollo and Dyonisus, the perfect art work.
Have you ever been on a double-deck bus, seems pretty great. We do not have that kind of bus here.
I saw a couple of days ago a documentary concerning Lady Di, interesting. Anyway monarchy seems quite obsolete to me, and sometimes a school for scandal. Hard to tell why folks are so enthusiastic about it...
PM: Hi, sorry to disturb you from your slumbers. Today a friend Desmond came over to Hampstead, we went to the Heath for a dip in the pond. The pond was very cold indeed and took a bit of getting used to. We avoided the men only pond and went to the mixed pond. The Heath was v colourful today, with many groups and gatherings.
I found out that George Orwell worked in a 2nd hand bookshop nr the Heath and wrote 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' from his experiences in Hampstead. After this he went to Spain where he fought for the Republic, writing 'Homage to Catalonia', possibly the greatest work of political science ever written, even if it doesnt pertain to be one. No it is an autobiographical novel but it really brings to life the conflict in Spain, providing a hard-bitten account of the war, penetrating as an arrow through the head on a cold winter's morning nr Epsom.
best wishes,
Your Comrade,
smewhere nr Hampstead, London
Ps my students name is Jamshid. He has bright red hair, very pale skin and always comes to class dressed in a suit. He was scared, I was told, possibly because my style of teaching is very direct, challenging the student to declare their interest in learning English. There are no passengers in my classes!
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August 25, 2008
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