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(3.59) | 33 | A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment . . .… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Therapy. The treatment of physical,
mental or social disorders or disease.
-- Collins English Dictionary  "You know what, Søren? There's
nothing the matter with you but
your silly habit of holding yourself
round-shouldered. Just straighten
your back and stand up and your
sickness will be over."
-- Christian Lund,
uncle of Søren Kierkegaard "Writing is a form of therapy."
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. To Dad, with love | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. RIGHT, here goes.
Monday morning, 15th Feb., 1993. A mild February day has brought the squirrels out of hibernation. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Repetition ... in another sense is the enjoyment of what you have. It’s the same as living-in-the-present, ‘it has the blessed certainty of the instant’. It means being set free from the curse of unhappy hoping and unhappy remembering. ‘Hope is a charming maiden that slips through the fingers, recollection is a beautiful old woman but of no use at the instant, repetition is a beloved wife of whom one never tires’ (Kierkegaard, Repetition). | |
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Man konnte nun wirklich meinen, Laurence Passmore habe sich sein Leben recht nett eingerichtet: Zugegeben, er ist so gut wie kahl, und sein Spitzname ist ›Tubby‹ (= Dickerchen), aber seine Villa in Rummidge, sein Job als erfolgreicher TV-Sitcom-Autor und sein vitales Sexualleben mit seiner langjährigen Ehefrau Sally machen diese Schönheitsfehler locker wett.
Könnte man meinen. Doch Laurence fehlt ein Stück zum Glück: Zufriedenheit und Seelenruhe. Zur Pflege seiner seelischen und körperlichen Wehwehchen geht Tubby montags zur Physiotherapie, dienstags zur kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie und freitags abwechselnd zur Aromatherapie und Akupunktur, doch keine der Therapien will so recht anschlagen.
Angst, sagt seine langjährige platonische Liebe, sei der Schlüssel, den er suchen und zu dem er das passende Schloss finden müsse. Auf seiner Suche stolpert Laurence über jugendliche Penner, durch Klatschspalten und verschiedenste Betten und Schlafzimmer auf Teneriffa, in Beverly Hills, Kopenhagen und Galizien. Sein Heil findet er schließlich bei Kierkegaard und bei seiner ersten Liebe in Süd-London.