COFFEE & BISCUITS

What with the Bear Stearns’ $2-per-share buy out and the Fed’s $30 billion rescue (more than the IMF for Russia 10 years ago!), and the expansive euro, and the torturous waiting for the Trade exam (whose arrival may not be pleasant either), the world is a rather crazy place.  But it all becomes irrelevant the moment I disappear into the pages of Danube, a travel account written by Claudio Magris.

Here I quote:

To be on the move, however, is better than nothing:  one stares out of the window of the train as it hurtles into the countryside, one raises one’s face to the breezes, and something passes, flows through the body.  The air creeps into one’s clothes.  The ego dilates and contracts like a Portuguese man-of-war.  A little ink overflows from the bottle and is diluted in an ink-coloured sea.  But this gentle loosening of the bonds, which replaces the uniform with a pair of pyjamas, is more like an hour’s break in the school timetable than the promise of the great demobilization.

Right.  Actually the passage is telling me that such fancies is only a temporary break from school.  Right, since I still have the trade exam, which is not arriving at my mailbox.  Until it’s arrival, I’ll continue my getting out of the earth awhile.