Word: botton
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...Whose Jobs Are Too Small For Their Spirit." It sounds hopelessly self-indulgent, but for anyone confronting existential angst, a dose of high-brow self-help can go a long way. "We start from the perspective that most lives are quite chaotic and turbulent," says faculty member Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. "The school is a guide rail to hang...
...Reading is no substitute for living, so the school also runs "holidays" to help people engage with their surroundings. Students can go to Heathrow Airport ($480) to explore the anxiety, fear and love brought forth by travel. And De Botton leads a lecture tour on the "haunting, alienated quality" of British truck stops. "It's a chance," he says, "to make ourselves more at home in the world we live...
...just how frivolous popular culture was. And yet, 93 years after he began his massive undertaking, In Search of Lost Time, he's all over the place. He's been at the back of every Vanity Fair magazine since 1993 as the inspiration for their regular questionnaire. Alain de Botton wrote a bestselling book in 1998 that explained just how the French writer, who died in 1922, can change your life. Cate Blanchett's character in The Life Aquatic attempts to read In Search of Lost Time to her unborn child. Proust is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles...
...this a good thing? In Spain, where the trend is similar if less marked, Madrid psychiatrist José Luis Carrasco Perera argues that tourists who substitute several short breaks for one sustained vacation "do not disengage sufficiently - the mind doesn't have time to forget the workplace." Alain de Botton, author of last year's The Art of Travel, agrees: "There's a huge advantage in a long holiday, really getting into a place, getting unwound and also getting bored. You realize the limits of leisure...
There's a huge advantage in a long holiday, really getting into a place, getting unwound and also getting bored. You realize the limits of leisure - ALAIN DE BOTTON, author...