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Celebration of the senses
Celebration of the senses is a joyous testament to life, and a frank and powerful exploration of the five sight, taste, hearing, touch and smell. It is also a celebration of writing and words, of sex - 'the finest celebration of being alive" - of farming, of water and soil.Top lips taste sweet, bottom lips acrid. The tracts between have their own flavours. I kissed her once in a Bathurst motel. It was hot early summer afternoon. We had travelled several hundred kilometres. We were naked and about to shower together. I kissed her again and extended the kisses. She was saltier than sea water all over...
155 pages, Loose Leaf
First published January 1, 1984
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April 6, 2009
This was a very beautiful little book. Eric Rolls was a poet, historian, gastronome, environmentalist and romantic and his love of life shines through this book. This book was a joy to read and I found myself revisiting some of my own memories through his words. I consider myself to be a bit of a sensualist and have always railed against philosophers and religions denial of the senses as a way to enlightenment, it seems that Rolls was a kindred spirit in this area as well, "Philosphers believed that a mans mind developed only when he overcame the passions, the submission to the senses. That was the free choice: to luxuriate in passion, or to subdue it and nurture the intellect. The idea still holds among some people. It is a theory that denies life" (p.251) The senses paint this illusion called life, and what a grand and beautiful illusion it is - one to be feasted upon and appreciated for its lucious experience!
November 8, 2013
Fantastic! Exquisite, and true to it's title, with the utmost honour and respect for it's subject matters... Surprisingly raw in parts, this is not a story with a beginning and end... yet certainly takes the reader on a sensory journey through the landscape of the author's life. A classic that should be on all young adult's learning syllabus ;) I would read it again and again if I hadn't given it to my father... :)
October 28, 2020
A very earthy, in your face, visceral account of a very full lived to the max and as experienced through the various senses. Fascinating and thought-provoking and very graphically described! If you are prudish or vegetarian, this book may challenge you.
October 28, 2014
The best book I've ever read-a pure delight
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