Life and Opinions of an Artist ; "A Time For Dreamers"

uni My Universities is about my experience of studying in Florence and i have always thought about the book by Maxim Gorkij A lot of people should read this book by Maxim Gorky.   I read it a long time ago when i was in my teens and i thought it was very exciting and perhaps that was one of the reasons why i wanted to go to university rather than accept to work in a proper job.  Some people thought I was in competition with my mother who was the first girl in the family to have a BA.  She went on to study and achieved  a Masters in English lit. and she was very proud of her intellectual abilities. I didn’t want to be like her at all because i believed in "intuitive intelligence" rather than a degree. while studying at university myself I found   the idea of “ L’Elan vital “  (it had already been discovered...

"Energies and Tendencies" oil on canvas and foglio d'oro   Hanging objects in metal and glass "Heart of Glass" "Metropolis" collage with watercolour on paper

Immigration and The Everyman editions (starting in 1906) was one of the first books i remember in my parents library; it reminds me of "Everywoman" and Every hu"man"i have ever known. I was born from my mother who was an amazingly  beautiful  woman who had married for "attraction", to my father who was her first cousin.  They had grown up in the same community in South India.  My mother was the main personality of our family mainly because she was energetic and ambitious and rather aggressive.  My father (even tho full of  testosterone looks and behavior) was dominated by my mother who was probably much more energetic than him.  They did have traumatizing arguments about money  partly because he was living by the philosophy that each man or woman should act according  to his or her talents (and not roles).  She made more money and didn't want to spend it.  While  he   loved to stay at home after o...