It does appear that, much like last year, and for the same reasons, the theatre festival in Transylvania will be out of reach. And, as with last year, my greatest regret is missing the travelling Noh troupe. There are, of course, many theatre festivals in Europe, but when one moves north in Europe, the prices increase with each minute of latitude. The reason I spent all that time in the Balkans was precisely that it was part of Europe, culturally. The Humble Quarters in nations further south were much cheaper, but I am an post-Enlightenment Westerner, and must think post-Enlightenment, Western thoughts...
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These sorts of dis-astres do divide the world, not between those who drew the short straw and those frolicking in the haystack, but, across another meridian entirely, between the time before, when the general view of things was believed, and then afterwards, when you discover that the world has to be taken and understood piece by piece, and that the larger logic was a fairy-tale of childhood.