2007/05/19 Thessaloníki
Bucket
Unusual requests
While I was in Thessaloníki for the book fair, discussing identity, my apartment in New York was flooded.
Apparently my neighbor was washing clothes in a bucket, but she was not aware of the fact that there was a hole in the bucket.
This story in my modest opinion is bizarre, but so are most stories about identity and most events at book fairs.
A small update on my health: I’m still coughing like a sick dog. This is not an excellent state of mind to approach strangers with an unusual request or to be approached by strangers with an unusual request for that matter.
(On a philosophical scale it is helpful. The identity of my body is that of a sick dog, why would I aspire to something higher?)
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Indeed, and if I would travel as much as you do, I am afraid I would discuss my identity in an asylum. Take care and may the force be with you and protect your apartment.
And now you're in this predicament, imagine what it would be like if you -for example-couldn't speak. Would that mean you couldn't or shouldn't aspire to step into the identity of being a writer?
The name of your neigbor must be Liza.
it makes me curious after the unusual requests with which you were planning to approach complete strangers (only at the book fair or in general?) or which unusual requests you were anticipating from those strangers.
In my work I meet a lot of people. Let's say about 300 a week. I get to know them quite well, as I spent at least one week with them. Everyone has some kind of disease. Some show only the symptoms, others have the scar to prove it.
Most people pretend to be rich as well. I like rich sick people, as long as they don't show it.
There's a Dutch man in my hotel, who could live a hundred, spend 100 000 euro's every year and still would have money left to spend. He passes out in a plane, he said to have undergone 36 medical examinations for it, and that it's concluded to be 'PickWick-Syndrome.
By that statement I have to neglect everything he says. He's a slim man, pickwick syndrome is exclusively for heavily obese people. I think he suffers only from the hypochondria symptome.
Most people pretend to be rich as well. I like rich sick people, as long as they don't show it.
There's a Dutch man in my hotel, who could live a hundred, spend 100 000 euro's every year and still would have money left to spend. He passes out in a plane, he said to have undergone 36 medical examinations for it, and that it's concluded to be 'PickWick-Syndrome.
By that statement I have to neglect everything he says. He's a slim man, pickwick syndrome is exclusively for heavily obese people. I think he suffers only from the hypochondria symptome.
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