enjoyable, Andrew.
as for outside loos, have just stumbled on this:
These days, he says, he collaborates as much as he works alone. In the Bergers' garden in the Alps is a small, rather decorative outside lavatory that houses a photographic gallery of visitor-collaborators including Simon McBurney of Complicite Theatre Company (who is also godfather to one of Yves's children), Tilda Swinton and Michael Ondaatje.
from a not bad interview-profile -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/23/john-berger-life-in-writing
On 21/11/2012, at 10:58 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> What I have noticed mainly in this town
> is the lack of traffic lights, the polite
> motorists on the round-abouts,
> and the way white cabbage moths
> flock in their hundreds like
> petals blwoing in the wind.
>
> Ahh, country people are so
> kind and friendly - and slow
> to serve. No rush. This is
> the bush without cattledogs
> and station-hands. You gotta
> pick your spot for coffee
>
> and the kids still flash by
> on their skateboards, per-
> forming stunts and skills
> that won't earn them a job.
> I haven't learnt to hate
> the Indian Mynah birds yet
>
> but the locals do. And I
> love the way spring sunshine
> shines on my arse as I
> sit down to shit in the back loo.
> It's the simple things in life
> that make each day enjoyable.
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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