Perhaps we spend too much time trying to understand rather than just listening. An opera can sound terrific and bring us enormous pleasure even if we do not understand a word.
this is how a young Mexican caricaturist I recently met in Israel saw me
Sunday, May 30, 2010
'don't try to understand me, I am in a foreign language'
During a lifetime we spend a lot of time to fit in. We want to be understood by others. We look for acceptance. Yet many people have difficulties understanding us if we do not conform, if we think differently. In John Le Carré's "the Spy who came from the Cold" the spy character says at one point to his lover: "Please do not spend your energy on trying to understand me, I am in a foreign language, take me as I am".
Perhaps we spend too much time trying to understand rather than just listening. An opera can sound terrific and bring us enormous pleasure even if we do not understand a word.
this is how a young Mexican caricaturist I recently met in Israel saw me
Perhaps we spend too much time trying to understand rather than just listening. An opera can sound terrific and bring us enormous pleasure even if we do not understand a word.
this is how a young Mexican caricaturist I recently met in Israel saw me
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