Richard AmmonCompare that to the ultra-sleek, on-time, spotless Danish trains that cross the Oresund Sound underground between Denmark and Sweden exactly every thirty minutes with no suggestion of a passport.
I seem to fall within that range of interest and desire that wants both the best and worst of civilized life, today’s convenient technology and yesterday’s uncertain self-reliance. Clean and gritty. A sinfully delicious Danish pastry (photo above left) and the mystery of a Chinese dim sum or Nepalese politics.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested, “a foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds.” That’s not really true–but something in that direction.
