On Trying to Keep Still
About this book
Jenny Diski’s attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sámi people of Lapland.
Diski fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her ramblings both mental and physical hoping as he did in time to make her mind ashamed of itself.
Interspersed with ill-tempered descriptions of these trips are digressions on the subject of her sore foot; her childhood desire for ‘a condition’, thoughts about growing older, spiders, fundamentalism and the problems of keeping warm.
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- Original publisher English: Virago
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