Archive for April 2007
About the blog title
I originally intended to start this blog a year ago. I was about the turn 40, I had a stupid job, so I thought I’d read ??Zorba the Greek?? (some men at 40 have affairs with co-eds, I read a book; go find their blogs), which has had a grip on me ever since I found Kazantzakis’ tomb on Crete: “I want nothing. I fear nothing. I am a free man”. Turning 40, I feared much, wanted more — I was (and remain) far from the Zorbic ideal. But the title “Chasing Zorba” seemed appropriate.
Of course, I never read ??Zorba the Greek?? (though it’s still on the to-be-read stack), and I never even made an initial post to the blog.
But, ever since, a blog about the books I’m reading stuck with me, so, here it is.
Honestly, I doubt that it will be very interesting.
