Even in these most uncertain of times, you can take a seat and read your book. "The ideal bench" will help you spend some pleasant hours and make you think about things that matter.
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Surely you want to leave your troubles behind you for a few minutes. Why don't you select your ideal bench and take a breath of fresh air?
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A book for flâneurs and philosophers of all ages. For travellers, for wanderers, for dreamers. A book for ideologists. A book for sensitive, gentle souls who know, however, how to taste the best part of life.
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Thoughts for all seasons, thoughts about human beings and animals, about love and careless youth, thoughts about married life, about all sorts of encounters, about the change of destination and also about Theseus's robbers...
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The question persists, does the ideal bench really exist? Is it just a literary metaphor for happiness or a real spot where one can pause for a while and enjoy nature? The ideal bench is a place of contemplation, of meditation, of the sweet "far niente".
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The ideal bench, the book, has 43 brief chapters. Being its author, it is difficult to choose the one I like the best. Still I have my own favorites, of course, but I was curious to know what the readers thought. One answered aptly that the best chapter was for her The bench of personal preferences, whereas another reader said that The book bench was for him the most interesting. Should I reveal mine? The bench of the Nativity scene...
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The hot Australian sun shines glorious like a sovereign over this bench in the Botanical Gardens of Ballarat.
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The book "The ideal bench" taking a rest on a bench. This is the ideal place for reading a book.
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"The ideal bench" or thoughts for all seasons is a series of brief texts which have been written in the course of one year. Seated on a different bench everytime, the writer philosophises about life, human nature, time, the environment and other important or less important matters. A simple bench in some park in Germany becomes the omphalus of the earth. The paperback edition contains also photos. The title has been inspired by a poem by Lito Seizani.
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The ideal bench
Doesn’t exist
Where you can lie down and take a nap
Inside a park of beautiful trees
Which will offer shade to your face
Where a soft breeze
Will make the leaves rustle
Only for you
On it you will doze
And as you sleep, you will dream
That you found the ideal bench
With no gaps between the boards
It is completely smooth, without slits
It is clean, without any droppings
From the birds flying over your head
On the ideal bench
There is place for you, too, my love
We can sit here together and gaze
We can philosophise together
What a wonderful bench
Close to the sea, next to the dune grasses
With their particular smell
The wind caresses our hair
The sea breeze makes your nostrils open
And the water brings the seaweed to your feet
None of this is true
It’s either your memory or your imagination
Remembrance of things past, of things desired
The ideal bench is just a metaphor
A literary metaphor for happiness
(Lito Seizani, 27.8.13)