His "idea of misery," true to form, was "to be separated from Maman".
But when we spoke, he said that his idea of misery — he wasn't kidding — was going to Ikea.
In an article accompanying the document, titled "About a Lucky Find," Berge offered a subtle psychoanalytic explication de texte — noting, for instance, that for the "idea of misery" question Proust had first written "to be away from Mother," and then crossed it out and replaced "to be away" with "to be separated".
What is your idea of misery?
I just didn't know if people would accept them". It's easy to see why he was so attracted to the idea of making "Misery". Taken from a Stephen King novel with a script by famed screenwriter William Goldman, the film is--on one level--a thriller about a famous writer being held captive by a deranged fan.
He wrote that "the life of a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland comes up to my idea of a perfect misery; but if I can achieve the great object of consolidating the British Empire, I shall be sufficiently repaid".
Amnesty International, which has harshly criticized the idea of adding to the misery of refugees to make a policy point, says they face caning, arbitrary detention, labor exploitation and sexual abuse.
Live it free of misery, negative ideas and people, and choose to take control of what you experience now.
Bennett also wants us to know it is unlikely that Housman's life was all ascetic misery, introducing the idea of a gourmand on the quiet: "...he would go on gastronomic tours of France, nosing out in unsuspected corners the remnants of great cellars".And he may have had the occasional fling there, life not quite the sexual Sahara his poems suggest.
The idea that misery, including disease, was divinely ordained might have appeared to undermine the idea of an intrinsically benevolent deity.
"I realized that I had to keep doing it, because there's a constant barrage of imagery of misery, despair and hopelessness, and more than any of those things — helplessness, the idea that Africans need to be saved," he said.
