By Tobias Jones
ISBN-10: 0571223818
ISBN-13: 9780571223817
"Utopian desires" deals one writer's try and retreat from the 'real international' - that is making him emptier and angrier via the day - and hunt down the choices to trendy manners and morality. rather than cynicism, loneliness and melancholy, is it attainable to be idealistic, to discover belonging and companionship with others who proportion your disappointment, or perhaps, might be, your happiness? together with his spouse and child in tow, Jones spends a yr with spritualists, time-travellers, reformed drug addicts and Quakers, generating a desirable exploration of the which means of group.
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We keep travelling. I’ve lost touch with many great friends: not just because we have divergent taste in tipples (they prefer a couple of lines of coke to a simple beer), but because they go to New York or Barcelona for a weekend rather than to Somerset. They’re busy. They work until ten or eleven every night and as a reward feel authorised to blow the money on the international stage. I miss them and wonder if they’re happier than the rest of us. Maybe they really are where it’s at. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m constantly complaining.
There are birds everywhere and, since the wood is on a hilltop, I can see through a clearing to the valley below. She comes running back with instructions: she’ll collect the mushrooms and I’ll do the heavy-duty labour of finding and cutting the wood. It takes a couple of hours, covering barely more than a couple of hundred square metres of woodland. She’s singing as she looks for the mushrooms. I’ve got a blunt, rusty axe which slowly hacks enough wood for lunch and dinner. It’s a blissful way to spend the morning: meeting the most simple, immediate needs.
Even if it only covered a small community, I hoped to crawl back under that sacred canopy to see how much religion really is communal, and how much it is always, necessarily, private. All of which, I appreciate, makes for a bemusingly ambitious book and the result may fall far short of the intention. But that, in some ways, is the book’s central question: whether it’s better to have aspirations, idealism and beliefs even though you know you’ll fall short and fail. The book is, I know, fairly inchoate.
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