I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer possible, simply because if anyt...hing is to have any meaning for us it must take place in terms of the values and experiences of the media landscape.... What we're getting is a whole new order of sexual fantasies, involving a different order of experiences, like car crashes, like travelling in jet aircraft, the whole overlay of new technologies, architecture, interior design, communications, transport, merchandising. These things are beginning to reach into our lives and change the interior design of our sexual fantasies. We've got to recognize that what one sees through the window of the TV screen is as important as what one sees through a window on the street.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travel...ling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you... are a painter; it may interest you to know that I have a daughter who paints on velvet." Fuseli rose instantly and said in a strong foreign accent, "Let me get out."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomo...tives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher th...ings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »