"I hate traveling and explorers." —Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques (1955) * * * We curse the journey in order to praise the destination more fully.…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
There is that old cliché of travel: that it allows the traveller another perspective on the place left behind, the one he may or may…
It may be that the interest in and affection for life in the old East Germany is a result of the current German “crisis” —…
I took the prescription sleeping pills before take-off but slept only in the thinnest intervals, perhaps one hour out of eight. This was to prove…
There is nothing like running into an old friend in an airport to raise the spirits. And there, lurking among the smut in a magazine…
In Phoenix long green means grass. Not the kind you smoke, but the kind flanking business parks, bordering the rarely-used sidewalks of six-lane boulevards, decorating…
Perusing my correspondence, I see that one year ago almost to the day is when I started into this whole thing. It happened that I…
What would Art be without a theory and practice of plunder? It's no accident that the greatest artistic achievements of the Athenians coincided with their…
A fat man in a pin-striped Yankees t-shirt comes out of the Podiatrist's office across the street. He stops on the sidewalk, takes out a…