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In Norway after two or three hours walking you come to the mountains. That is the best part of it, walking in the mountains with a lot of people in Gortex, and I come walking in my suit and always a white shirt and I walk really quick and I carry some whiskey and I smoke cigarettes. In Norway this is really radical.
Norwegian walker and writer Tomas Espedal reads from his book Tramp (Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life) at Cocktail Hour Reading, part of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez, Nobel Laureate (1881-1958)
An Activist Guide to PEN World Voices
Are you planning on coming to the PEN World Voices Festival? Are you an activist? Check out this list of events of particular interest to human rights advocates.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
Auguste Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917)
‘The world famous 77 year old French sculptor Auguste Rodin froze to death in an unheated attic in Meudon, France. In 1923, Marcell Tirel, Rodin’s secretary, published a book alleging this and that Rodin had applied to the government for quarters as warm as those wherein his statues were stored, but the government turned him down. It is said that other officials and friends promised coal for heating but never sent it.’
As part of this year’s World Voices Festival, PEN teamed up with documentary poet, global labor activist, and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Mark Nowak for a series of weekend poetry workshops with members of the Domestic Workers Union. The workshops will culminate during the festival in the group’s first public event on May 5 at the New School, which will feature a 10-minute documentary clip about the DWU workshops, readings by a number of the domestic workers participating in the sessions, and a public conversation with the audience.
(via PEN.org » Blog Archive Domestic Workers United Workshop - PEN.org)
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
