i once read a novel, no best seller of any kind, but a rather touching story of two men who have to deal with their relationship in somewhat conservative but modern london. now i wish i could remember the title of the book or the name of the author. i come up blank on both. the title goes something like "... should you fall." or was it ready to catch him, should he fall?
yes, london, london is one great social experiment with many failures and many successes. of the two years that i spent officially having my office in london, i never ever contemplated the idea of moving there, i was living in berne. somehow the city always got on my nerves and at the same time i could be pretty calm about it. i remember one day sitting in a grid lock for several hours on the way from london city airport to the office on picadilly. it was really, just sit and enjoy the view, everybody was calm and there was a bomb threat. but then, i also never drove myself in the city, there was always a chauffeur who drove me around in a jaguar. yes, my life is really rough sometimes. "tant pis pour vous!"
now, i am itching to go to london again, one of my cousins just moved back there again, another is visiting and i am having an attack of "me too." just yesterday i thought that i would be getting my ass to birmingham on the 22nd, then last night i got a call in the middle of my sleep, and we agreed that it would be hannover. i am ok with hannover, it is time visit gauss' grave again. (gauss, the mathematician is buried in göttingen)
it is "should you fall" that resonates inside my head... while i am editing the article for the WIPO. weird! one thing has nothing to do with the other.
but then there is "fool on the hill" and i totally enjoyed that one, either it was because i read it while i was at cornell or it is because in those days i was having an overdose of my own hormones and i then did anything to prevent myself from climbing the walls. i recently read some of the stuff i wrote during that year... i am not sure i am ready to deal with that yet.
