Glaedelig jul

(Dette billede er taget 24. December 2006 klokken 15.30, GMT +4.5)

Kaere alle,

Ja, saa blev det minsanten atter jul.

Dette aar adskiller sig dog en anelse fra tidligere, idet jeg lige nu befinder mig under sydlige himmelstroeg. Er lige kommet hjem fra en 4 timers camelsafari - ifoert nissehue i dagens anledning, og er ogsaa en anelse svimmel (soesyg/kamelsyg?) Sidder lige nu paa en lille internetcafe i Pushkar i Rajasthan og kan se tilbage paa nogle gode dage i henholdsvis Varanasi, gensyn med Delhi, Agra med smukke Taj Mahal, Rantambore tigerpark - der dog var lukket vistnok pga. krybskytteri, Jaipur og nu total afslapning i Pushkar. De naeste par dage vil vi tilbringe i Jaisalmer - En oerkenby helt ude vestpaa taet paa graensen til Pakistan.

Rikke og jeg vil nu begive os af sted hen for at finde et hyggeligt sted at fejre jul. Der er flere restauranter der reklamerer med "Western Christmas atmosphere", men da vi befinder os i en hellig by hvor indtagelse af koed af strengt forbudt, bliver det madmaessigt ikke helt som det plejer. Maaske en julepizza?

Her kommer lige et par billeder mere fra Pushkar - det er jo en billedblog...

Rigtig glaedelig jul!!

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Live can be told in numerous ways. The conventional metaphor for life is life as a path or as a string, where occurrences follow one another like pearls on a string. It is thought that it is the same person running through all the events, though experience changes him. A chain of events is bound together by proximity in time. Its logic is chronology.


Life can also be told on the basis of selected resemblances. The criterion for selection is not continuity in time but similarity by theme. From this point of view, life is not a string, but many strings, from which is possible to weave many different tapestries. The tapestry depends on the chosen criterion for similarity. The logic of the tapestry is the logic of patterns: The pattern has priority over time. The smallest constituent part of the tapestry is not the event, but the knot: The connexion of temporally remote events is revealed as coherent.

(The first two passage from my autobiography. To comply with a rising demand, the text is in English. Hope it’s OK for my Danish readers. A special thank to Aristotle)