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.
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Darling at least you usually don't smell like fish - you can hang your hat on that
I believe there is definitely some inbreeding responsible for those simple fisherman....
Have you ever read Tonio Kröger?
Who is Tonio Kroger?
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
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
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