2007/04/16 Beirut
An action
Laughter
Today I drove with my fixer and her driver to the south, to the border with Israel. (If you concentrate on the picture you can see the frontier.)
The destruction of the last war was showed to me; the pictures of the martyrs.
At a certain point the driver said to me: “I introduce you to Hezbollah, they give you a weapon and you carry out an action inside Israel.”
I laughed.
Laughing is the best response. Not always a solution, but very often the best response.
Mallarmé thought the world will end up as a book.
I think the world will end up as laughter.
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I think nature will have final say (or as we would say in Dutch: 'the last laugh')
Tess
My dear, you are many things but not an environmentalist.Good for you.
Mother Earth is a woman, isn't she. When the world ends with a laughter, I am sure that it must be a woman laughing.
Beware of Mother Earth when she becomes hot! Maybe she only suffers from primateritis (John Gray).
Laughing always helps, I know I am a so called experience expert. But as someone here already said: please be careful Mr. Grunberg.
Laughing always helps, I know I am a so called experience expert. But as someone here already said: please be careful Mr. Grunberg.
Arnon
I suppose I'm just a victim of an inconvenient trend.Laughing
Other people's laughing hurts sometimes.Will irony be the cause of all this laughter?
Johannes
My laughter in this context was meant to be polite, nothing else.Arnon
How did you introduce yourself, as an American, a dutchman, a writer or tourist ?Laughing
Arnon, I know that. But I was just pondering on the various kinds of laughing, because sometimes I'm laughing and then I think to myself: 'This is not nice, Johannes.'PS For example, I said (also laughed) to a girl she was Pippi Longstocking, after she told me about her childhood in this big house with a garden, when her parents were most of the time away sailing the seas.
I think the world will and in a big bang, like in a music piece. One, I don't remember his name, once said: "You must give them a big bang at the end, so they know when it's over."
But we could laugh at it, if we liked.
But we could laugh at it, if we liked.
I think I'm addicted to this blog. Obsessively checking for new posts and comments. And reactions from Arnon. I guess it's healthier than hanging out in bars. Is it?
Amita
I introduce myself as a German. A writer, a tourist, a journalist and above all a bachelor.Addiction
I think, tess, most of us have.@Tess
Maybe like myself, you are blessed with an addictive personality. But even then I show no character, I am unfaithful to all of my addictions. So there is a time for bars, for blogs, etcetera.
Maybe like myself, you are blessed with an addictive personality. But even then I show no character, I am unfaithful to all of my addictions. So there is a time for bars, for blogs, etcetera.
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