Etiket: geoff dyer
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I hate understanding people!
“No, I don’t understand a bit what you mean about rightness and about relationships and about the world. Damn the world, anyhow. And I hate “understanding” people, and I hate more still to be understood. Damn understanding more than anything. I refuse to understand you. Therefore you can say what you like, without a qualm,…
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“a form of dance”
“…In Piazza Venezia we paused to admire il vigile, the white glowed policeman who directed traffic with movements of hypnotic elegance. From his podium he conducted the traffic like a symphony: beckoning, halting, directing. It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began. ‘Halt’ – clearly stated, unequivocal – merged exquisitely into…
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