Bits and Pieces
- ISBN-10
- 1401066631
- ISBN-13
- 9781401066635
- Series
- Bits and Pieces
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-09-01
- Author
- Barbara Hollander
Description
This really is, as the title suggests, a collection of bits and pieces written during three or four decades in the course of different centuries in a couple of continents. I haven't tried to be particularly kind or politically correct. On the other hand I have carefully avoided mention of a number of people, places and things best buried in a deep pit somewhere out back. This is about me. It's far less a chronicle of how it was than how I felt about how it was. With all the warts. Mostly I'm trying to chronicle a lost world, write a history of a time, a place which, like Tartessos, sank long ago beneath the seas. There are wonderful days and days of misery. Pain and pleasure intermingled. The human mind, the soul, unaffected by mankind's manufacturing genius. We learn a lot. Do we really? Isn't it all the same? We give up some things in favor of others. It's all a trade off. It's not all wonderful. It's not all a waste. Best not to spend too much time in deciding which to discard, which to keep. There is only one life and it is always today. You could call it a memoir, you could call it a fairy tale. Either way you wouldn't be far off the mark.
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