Still Days
This might be my idea life ____
"OCCASIONALLY I pass by little shops — in the rue de
Seine, for example. They are the shops of antiquaries
and of petty dealers in old books or engravings, with
overcrowded windows. No one ever enters them; their
owners apparently do no business. But if you glance
in, you can see them sitting there, sitting and reading,
without a care; they take no thought for the morrow,
they are not anxious to succeed; a dog lies goodnaturedly
at their feet, or a cat makes the stillness
greater by gliding along the rows of books, as if it
were rubbing the names off their bindings.
Ah, if that were enough! I have often wished to
buy such an overcrowded shop-window for myself
and to sit behind it with my dog for twenty years."
(from Rilke <The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge>)
How could a scientist dreaming of still life? I am must not a real scientist…..new new new….only new things are attractive beacons…
