Polish Man in New World

I read books. Christina recognizes a good book much quicker than I do : ) It is absorbing me so much that I leave a little of attention to her. I take a bath with the book, I go for shopping with the book and I eat with the book: This time it was about “The Capitalism Delusion” by Bob Ellis. He brings up so many interesting arguments against free market fundamentalism that you feel like you want to throw a shoe at Bush again : ). I love the books which make me more and more awaken. Suddenly you understand more about the mechanisms turning the globe. Inspiring.

I breathe slowly, very slowly when I read the last book by Tim Winton. It has passed few months already since I grabbed that from the top shelf in a local bookstore. It is a light story. It is that light that it may happen I will never finish it. It is too long way someone describes young boys playing. This time the game name is ‘ surfing ’

As long as I am alive I write. I do not know how many days ahead of me is left. I was inspired by review on the book of Brigid Delaney “This restless life” (SMH Spectrum 29-20.08.2009, p.26). She has a pessimistic approach to the life full of actions. I understand she might be tired – “in her 34 years she held 144 jobs, lived in 15 cities and searches for love through all the modern mechanism”. But she seems to forget about billions of people living on the country side who desperately want to get away from those places where time stands still like water in their ponds. A Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz managed to leave Europe just before II WW started. And he didn’t come back to take part in it. He stayed in Argentina. A war was for him only a means to deal with boredom. Pre-war Europe was sleeping, all her citizens were trapped in routine of predictable life. German philosophers have found out that you can divide people into two classes: lords and sub-people. Since then everyone in Eu...