Nadaism is not dead

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Writing from an ugly place

Here I am, still at the same place, Ayvalik the port to Lesvos. I practice a bit in the morning and then I write a lot a huge lot, and I'm feeling very very well and I have no intention whatsoever to go anywhere else anytime soon.

I take no real decisions during the day. Well, maybe sometimes I decide to skip the practice, once every few days. I have breakfast in my room and then I start writing. The only decision is where to go to for dinner; at middays I usually go to the same restaurant, very decent food and a nice waitress (I guess it sounds stupid, anyway I find it is a fair enough reason). And I feel great and it does not seem there's anything I need, even if it should be boring. If I think about it, I hardly talk to anybody, except the few words I know in Turkish (which refer basically to food), and occasionally to travellers, just a little bit. And I don't do anything else, don't watch TV (where would I go?), nothing, just at night after dinner I read a wonderful and luckily very long novel (by J Heller).

Where's the magic, I wonder. Would be the same if I was in an ugly place? Probably yes, if it happened to be, (I say "it happened" because it does not seem to be entirely under my control).


Sometimes I do get bored, of course. This morning when I woke up I thought maybe I should leave to Istanbul (Lesvos is too far away now). I thought of leaving exactly that minute, but it was to late for the bus already. I decided to skip the practice, had breakfast and took it easy very easy, and eventually, since I had not much to do (and actually not later than any other day), I started writing. (I could have gone to the places around I havent visited yet even though I've been here for a week, but I didn't.)

And I wrote so much and so quickly, it was brutal and awesome. I did not want to leave it, not even for a break to eat. Now in the evening I'm exhausted. Definitively is not quite under my control.


However I know this is not going to last (not in Ayvalyk), and I keep wondering, wouldnt it be better in an ugly place, with people who speak a language I speak, with cinemas and etc? Does it make any sense? Why would not I write from an ugly place?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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