p&i went to "a conversation with mr pierre" as part of the melbourne writers festival, oh back in early september.
"this wine-drinking, perfume-spraying early morning Melbourne Writers Festival conversation" is available to read/view on slow tv, parts one and two, which is good because pierre has rather mellifluous tones and is good to listen to.
it was refreshing to hear someone thinking too.
he waxed along about the collapse of civilisation, and read (in part two) from charles baudelaire
GET DRUNK by Baudelaire
ONE SHOULD always be drunk. That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.
And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: “It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.”
such a good sentiment,
i want to be drunk on life
it reminds me of oscar wilde (via chrissy hynde), we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
which makes me think of van gogh's starry nightslowly, step by step, i'm getting there, exploring my joy, discovering my happiness (turns out it's green)
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