One of the good things about my work as an interpreter is that I have the opportunity to travel quite a bit and end up in interesting places I would never have chosen to go to myself. On the other hand, being someone who only has about an hour of real alertness per day - 10.30... Continue Reading →
Random walk
It is only a coincidence that I have decided to talk about randomness after having mentioned John Cage in the previous post. When I was about twelve, we used to play a deranged game in our schoolyard during the lunch break We pretended we were billiard balls, chose a direction to set out in and... Continue Reading →
The Most Beautiful Thing
What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen ? Think about it for a while and when you have your own answer take a look at what some other people have said on the following page.
Handkerstuff
There are lots of things you can do with a real handkerchief which you can't do with tissue. I remember that people used them to wave from trains when passing houses of people they knew. Actually you just stuck the handkerchief out of the window and it would wave itself. Of course, now you can't even open train windows at... Continue Reading →