“Schedule a day of rest every now and then. Contrary to what you might read, sudden insights seldom happen at the summit of a mountain, at the moment the whale is sighted, or in the face of some overwhelming bit of landscape. You haven’t yet assimilated the experience. Look for epiphanies on those days when you’re lying on your back, watching the ceiling fan push dust motes through a shaft of light falling through a grimy window. Exhaustion seldom engenders insight.”
–Tim Cahill, Hold the Enlightenment (2002)
August 25th, 2003 at 12:26 pm
I loved hold the enlightenment,tim continues to enthrall and delight.I particulary enjoyed his searh for the caspian tiger.it reminds me of steinbecks log from the sea of cortez,when steinbeck goes hunting sheep in baja but is sattisfied when heonly finds sheepshit.If timshould read this you dont have to reply but if hes ever in scotland the laphroigs on me !