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Having championed the cause of introverts in her book Quiet, Susan Cain has taken up the frequently related state of poignancy. Words like melancholy feel negative to many and so her latest work is entitled Bittersweet (Penguin, 2023).Western culture favours those with cheerful, optimistic outlooks who are tough and undaunted and set themselves regular goals which are relentlessly achieved.
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The Bubble first published Feb 2011
The Bubble
We live in a little personal bubble in the busyness of urban life and need God to pop it to see what he has in store for us outside
One advert that makes me smile is the cosmetics pitch to 'get the London look'. In this case the London look is Kate Moss after three hours in makeup. In my experience, the London look is a pasty and puffy white face, nicely set off by black bags around bloodshot eyes. There is another dimension to the London look too: the vacant look gaze which is fixed in the middle distance. It tells everyone around that they are not relevant because whatever is in your mind is not here but somewhere else. Mobiles, blackberries and the iPod touch -- among others -- enable us to keep our focus other than where we are, ensuring that those demands, which would have waited for us in the recent past, are now brought right into the present, squeezing our attention. It is like a perverse form of eschatology, where the future is brought into the present to transform our experience of it, only for the worse and not for the better.. - Read More
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