I believe in fate, in God’s anger and in his need to teach me a lesson.
Making the joke about eating the blog-lady’s dog the other day, was paid back by God yesterday. I went to the hairdresser, and what did I get? A dog-eating South Korean girl to fix my hair. Was this the punishment? No, it was just the hint what I was punished for; never make fun of eating anybody’s pet. The punishment itself was LA LENTEUR.
If you have wondered what inspired Kundera to write Slowness, I strongly suspect it was this South Korean girl. Suk the Buddhist was so determined to fight the hectic life of 21st century that she has made slowness to her life philosophy. For her it made no sense doing a thing in two minutes if you can as well use two hours for it. I struggled to understand Kundera’s fascination for slowness, but with no success.
Making the joke about eating the blog-lady’s dog the other day, was paid back by God yesterday. I went to the hairdresser, and what did I get? A dog-eating South Korean girl to fix my hair. Was this the punishment? No, it was just the hint what I was punished for; never make fun of eating anybody’s pet. The punishment itself was LA LENTEUR.
If you have wondered what inspired Kundera to write Slowness, I strongly suspect it was this South Korean girl. Suk the Buddhist was so determined to fight the hectic life of 21st century that she has made slowness to her life philosophy. For her it made no sense doing a thing in two minutes if you can as well use two hours for it. I struggled to understand Kundera’s fascination for slowness, but with no success.
Until I imagined the pleasure of strangling her, very, very slowly.
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