tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post4437244222475131770..comments2023-04-26T05:55:06.006-07:00Comments on Frivolous Fragments: where I want to be (for a while)Ffflaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-72592333947820068852008-09-22T23:09:00.000-07:002008-09-22T23:09:00.000-07:00oh A, you made me so laugh with your "confession" ...oh A, you made me so laugh with your "confession" ..... the biggest samsonite available for 'advanced book acquisitions'! (and a pair of slippers). I can just picture you, hauling that suitcase full of books on and off trains... <BR/><BR/>this comment surely made my day :-DFfflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-10879612849843488892008-09-22T12:17:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:17:00.000-07:00:) enjoyable. my travel confession is that i do ha...:) enjoyable. my travel confession is that i do have such a suitcase with wheels. actually the biggest samsonite one that exists. why? simple. because of advanced book acquisition during vacation, how will you transport the stuff otherwise (travelling by train of course)? besides i reached an age now that i need adequate & appropriate travelware, i don't want to have everything falling upside down and i want to have space for my slippers too, for i never travel without my slippers. i completely don't care what everyone thinks, i want to have it comfy and i am not ashamed to admit it. :)*https://www.blogger.com/profile/05680450955867041830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-62027037719126156762008-08-09T02:51:00.000-07:002008-08-09T02:51:00.000-07:00@ phoenix - thanks for the eloquent sigh!@ phoenix - thanks for the eloquent sigh!Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-83931400338410779302008-08-06T20:13:00.000-07:002008-08-06T20:13:00.000-07:00ah, totally enticing...almost like I'm there, loll...ah, totally enticing...almost like I'm there, lolling around and savouring the solitude...the quiet streets...{sigh}:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-20516527031197181432008-08-04T13:48:00.000-07:002008-08-04T13:48:00.000-07:00reading her Journal, short stories next. I feel th...reading her Journal, short stories next. I feel the urge to quote immensly from it in my next posts somehow :-) I think V.W. said once K.M.'s was the only writing she envied...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-80931707955176888612008-08-03T09:06:00.000-07:002008-08-03T09:06:00.000-07:00oh but i do grant that taxis have a travelling rom...oh but i do grant that taxis have a travelling romance of their own!<BR/><BR/>ah, Catherine Mansfield ... - encountered her first (obliquely) in V Woolf's biography. it seems they found each other "immensely attractive and profoundly irritating" . acquired a book of her short stories a very very long time ago - should pick it up again ... which book of her are you reading?Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-51281392129213707872008-08-02T13:16:00.000-07:002008-08-02T13:16:00.000-07:00helas, seulement a moitie! I'd still go for the ta...helas, seulement a moitie! I'd still go for the taxi to find the hotel :-)<BR/>I was reading Katherine Mansfield's Journal and I was so immersed in it... she writes a lot about the greyness and sadness and beauty of the sea, so it was a perfect complement to my mountains, somehow.Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-52946564199236105092008-08-02T04:27:00.000-07:002008-08-02T04:27:00.000-07:00hey roxana you're back from the mountains!:-)1...hey roxana you're back from the mountains!:-)<BR/><BR/>1) book was "les âmes grises" by philippe claudel - was at first annoyed by its glum, well, greyness (the setting is world war I; subject matter centers on human frailty & depravity). But it's so well written that in the end i was moved, & perhaps even consoled, by the honest rendering of all those moral shades of grey that make up our souls<BR/><BR/>2) ok, so your traveller's credibility is ascertained!Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-30172111957791452812008-08-01T12:37:00.000-07:002008-08-01T12:37:00.000-07:00how I envy you!!! :-) and how I miss France! :-( y...how I envy you!!! :-) and how I miss France! :-( <BR/>your description is so wonderful that I just want to stretch on the bed myself, close my eyes and imagine to be there also, flooded by that dazzling light and surrendering to all those murmurs...<BR/>I don't know whether you are still there but I hope you have/had a wonderful holiday. <BR/>ps. which one book? :-)<BR/>2. I carry a bag! well, a backpack :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.com