Michael's review
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
by Tom Robbins
Michael's review
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Michael's review
rating:
This is my favorite of the Tom Robbins books.
"Do you think I might lubricate my cognitive apparatus with some squeezings from your swell vineyard?
-But you havent eaten your breakfest. It's not yet eight o'clock in the morning.
-The wine doesn't know that. Wine only recognizes two temporal states: fermentation time and party time... Don't get the idea that I'm a boozer. Setting out deliberately to get drunk is pathological. I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room. I'll tur to less mainstream substances if I want to re-arrange the fruniture."
"Meaning not that the witty, the playful among us, deny that suffering exists--invarying degrees, everyone suffers--but rather that they deny suffering power over their lives, deny it prominence, use jocularity to keep it in its place. Certainly, a cosmic sensibility is essential if one is to out maneuver ubiquitous exploitation and to savor life in a society that seeks to control (and fleece)...more
"Do you think I might lubricate my cognitive apparatus with some squeezings from your swell vineyard?
-But you havent eaten your breakfest. It's not yet eight o'clock in the morning.
-The wine doesn't know that. Wine only recognizes two temporal states: fermentation time and party time... Don't get the idea that I'm a boozer. Setting out deliberately to get drunk is pathological. I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room. I'll tur to less mainstream substances if I want to re-arrange the fruniture."
"Meaning not that the witty, the playful among us, deny that suffering exists--invarying degrees, everyone suffers--but rather that they deny suffering power over their lives, deny it prominence, use jocularity to keep it in its place. Certainly, a cosmic sensibility is essential if one is to out maneuver ubiquitous exploitation and to savor life in a society that seeks to control (and fleece)...more
