Chilled Out

Well folks,what a lovely day up till late afternoon it has been. I managed two hours of sunbathing before going to our local fleapit cinema to see Spiderman Home Coming.

It was two hours o fun, and frivolous with some action in it.Not the best Marvel movie but not the worst either.

For lunch i had a bacon and cheese melt baguette with a side salad. I used some back bacon and a mature cheddar cheese for it. It was yummy.

Andy ,my neighbour, is back after his on week of sectioning. Je looks better.

So overall i have felt chilled out.

Book 51 - Ernesto Che Guevara "Bolivian Diary"

Ernesto Che Guevara "Bolivian Diary" (Pimlico)





This diary is both an important historical document and an insight into the mind of a twentieth century icon. After his failure in the Congo, Major Ernesto Guevara was determined to succeed in his native South America. He was doomed to failure from the start. His diary shows the terrible hardships endured by him and his revolutionaries. From illness and starvation, to the deaths of comrades and friends, Che's diary documents it all. A mixture of the emotional and the ordinary. Che Guevara was assassinated by the CIA backed Bolivian army; but his death was only the beginning of the legend.

A fascinating read for any budding revolutionary.

Book 52 - Stefan Zweig "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman"

Stefan Zweig "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" (Pushkin Press)




This story within a story begins at a guesthouse on the French Riviera, where a scandal has just erupted: two of the guests, a seemingly respectable wife and mother and an attractive young stranger have fled together after speaking together for just a few hours.

There is a raging debate among the guests about the morality of the situation. Should the woman be seen as a pariah, or were her motives of the heart pardonable? In this early 20th century setting, most of the guests believe the woman has committed an unspeakable act, but the narrator, a single man, doesn't think so. Mrs C, a respectable, white-haired English woman in her 60's, after a brief exchange with him, decides she must come clean about her past and proceeds to tell him a story from her younger days, when, within a 24-hour period she let her carefully constructed world of proper widowhood fall to pieces for stranger with a death wish. She had met the stranger in question at a casino, where she spent the evening observing the hands of the players and was taken in by his in particular—the most expressive she'd ever seen. Fascinated, she watches the stranger lose a huge sum of money, then, when he gives every sign that he has decided to do away with himself, she comes to his rescue and falls into a vortex of passion for which her life as a proper English lady had not prepared her: "Perhaps only those who are strangers to passion know such sudden outbursts of emotion in their few passionate moments ... whole years fall from one's own breast with the fury of powers left unused." But can one really expect true love and dedication from an addict?

A succinct very short novel (around 100 pages) by Zweig filled to the brim with timeless human drama. Strongly recommended.

Monday Music Selection - More Tropicalia!

A bit more Tropicalia  ... as it has beeen a lovely sunny day ...


Jorge Ben Jr - Take It Easy My Brother Charles

( More brasil here )

Enjoy.

I might do a Zappa or Beefheart selection next time.