Wake Up And Go

Sunny but cool morning. Going over to Sheerness to do a mystery shop visit with a travel agents. Taking some books to sell in Rainham as well.

Meanwhile,here is another fine track for waking up with, Bob Marley and The Wailers track "Wake Up And Live".

Enjoy.

Sheerness Visit Done

In the end i did not go to Rainham as i wanted to get the Sheerness visit out of the way and done. I went by train and on my return back to Sittingbourne only had to wait six minutes to get the train going home-bound. So i thought to myself that Rainham can wait as it did not cost me anything fr the ride.

I sold a slab of vinyl on Discogs the other day , that Crown Heights Affair album, picked up for two quid in Seaford once. So hoping that over the bank holiday weekend i will be able to sell more.

Petite Fleur

It is funny what you do find in charity shops and then suddenly they seem to disappear. A case in point is a Chris Barber Jazz Band single on the Pye Nixa label , which in its reissue format in the early sixties was black and white whilst originally it came out on a crimson red label..It was also on the Metronome label as well at some point. I digress a bit. So a year back the reissue version (half black half white) label was ubiquitous in any charity shop , and i picked up one for 25 pence. Now , they seem to have vanished and it makes me wonder who on earth has bought them. Just an observation anyway, which leads me to the track in question - Petite Fleur - enjoy.

There does seem to be French quality to this tune. Smokey cafes, French Galois cigarettes and philosophical existential talks with Sartre, de Beauvoir , and Camus and probably in the background this kind of lazy summer tune redolent of the period. Makes me want to  watch "Jules Et Jim" all over again.

Book 38 - Donald D. Palmer "Sartre for Beginners"

Donald D. Palmer "Sartre for Beginners" (Writers And Readers)




I love these books. Have I mentioned that little factoid? It’s so good. I don’t know what it is about the union of philosophy and comics but it’s just amazing, well, in my mind anyway.

I have tried reading about Sartre and understanding him a few times and I think this is one of the better texts. I think this time I got a pretty good grasp on the subject.

Some ideas/thoughts that I really liked…

Each human being is alone, “abandoned,” and free. Each human being creates and re-creates his or her essence in every moment through his or her choices and actions.

Sartre’s view is that we never, or hardly ever, confront reality (Being-in-itself) directly, but only through the medium of human institutions, which in fact camouflage rather than reveal reality. Human thought is in fact usually about thought. It is a system of infinite self-referentiality, unequipped to refer beyond itself to real existence. It is for this reason that Sarte has Roquentin say that the word existence designates nothing.

According to Sartre, most people choose an aspect of themselves, and then claim that because of their feature of their personality, they have no choice but to behave as they do.

The self is an ongoing construction recreated in each moment through our choices.