Friday, May 21, 2010

Personality Disorder

Sometimes I wish I were one of two things:

1. A person who needed no attention at all, happy to be an accountant or petty civil servant and simply be done with it from 9-5 and then come home to an uneventful but satisfying home life.

2. A Swedish fisherman who is so simple minded but also so tall and healthy and not easily riled up and certainly without allergies.

I am neither of these two things.

6 comments:

Sheila said...

Darling at least you usually don't smell like fish - you can hang your hat on that

Todd HellsKitchen said...

I believe there is definitely some inbreeding responsible for those simple fisherman....

Tandava (Carol Henning) said...

Have you ever read Tonio Kröger?

Don Cummings said...

Who is Tonio Kroger?

Tandava (Carol Henning) said...

It's a story by Thomas Mann about an artist dealing with a similar dilemma you describe: He is admired, but part of him wishes he could be like the simple folk around him. He is more envious than what you describe though (which has a touch of Sinisgalli's longing to escape an artist's complex mind, I think)... Mann's Kröger feels ostracized by the bourgoisie around him, and on the one hand looks down on them, but also wishes he could be accepted by a world that will never welcome him. See the text here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23313

Don Cummings said...

Oh my word, Carol. Thank you.
I will look into this.

Don't you love gutenberg? But really, thank you. You are always thoughtful as all heck.
Don