Sheltering Sky
"He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveller. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveller, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, during periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home". PAUL BOWLES
Stormy night in Berlin. I finally wake up to the sound of raindrops. Off bed. Long pee. I turn the house heating all the way up. I make coffee and sit in front of Euronews. Watching TV only in German is the rule, so I only get about 40 percent of what they are saying. Normally I make up the rest, which sometimes results in weird news that only happen in my mind. Who is that old guy? Has he been awarded something? After coffee, I read the real news on the internet, hopping through the BBC, El Pais, Le Monde and some EU specific sites, such as Euractiv, EUobserver and EUpolitix. It takes me more than an hour to go through all of it. It seems the guy on Euronews was the former president of South Africa. He died. Still raining, time for tea. I turn the samovar on and stretch while waiting for it to boil. Then I sit with a steaming cup of tea in front of my EU books. Some mornings I read them, but today I can’t. I feel this winter is going to be a long one.
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