NYT Magazine, Figuring Marlene Dumas:
““I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now,” she told me with a hint of pride, before going on to list her other negative achievements. “I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.” At 54, Dumas is a jovial and garrulous presence, with a tangle of blond curls and fair skin. She speaks English with a heavy accent, in a wheezing, thinned-out voice.
“I was so pleased when I read that Rossellini loved to lie in bed,” she continued, referring to the Italian filmmaker, a confirmed hypochondriac who, she discovered, would take to his bed for two or three days at a time, reading thick novels. “Now people do exercise, and they have hobbies, and they take holidays,” she said. “I am not one of those. I don’t go to a psychiatrist. I don’t go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.””
(via)
2 responses so far ↓
Kees Koomen // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:46 am
En via http://blogger.xs4all.nl/chmkoome/
HvI // Jun 24, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Eigenlijk ging het gewoon via de eigen rss-feed van de New York Times. Toen in mijn feedreader ‘geflagged’ als ‘nog te lezen’ en vervolgens her en der (ook bij u, ja) wederom tegengekomen. En uiteindelijk op een geschikter ogenblik (toevallig dus via Metropolism) wel geklikt, gelezen en gepost.
Zo’n ‘via’ is kortom vaak een lang verhaal, weinigzeggend meestal. ;-)