While searching for nonexistent pictures of the Breakfast Shed on de net, I found an interesting article. Here is an excerpt on Trinidad Carnival.
"It’s easy to get weepy or exalted when talking about Carnival. But it is a kind of master-work, an assemblage of many parts that like a gothic cathedral with its thousands of separate artisans rises up as a single expression. There are people who will never miss a Carnival here. Every year they drop everything to come. Why? It’s not the loucheness, the bacchanalia, but the beauty that gets them - Carnival is not just an orgy, but an aesthetic orgy, an orgy of loveliness, human, musical, sartorial, whatever. Like some great novel, it is full of details any one of which possesses its own story, its own world, yet each of which is also instinct with the meaning of the whole."
If foreigners feel this way about Trinidad, why don't we? Read the article here, it is really good.
"It’s easy to get weepy or exalted when talking about Carnival. But it is a kind of master-work, an assemblage of many parts that like a gothic cathedral with its thousands of separate artisans rises up as a single expression. There are people who will never miss a Carnival here. Every year they drop everything to come. Why? It’s not the loucheness, the bacchanalia, but the beauty that gets them - Carnival is not just an orgy, but an aesthetic orgy, an orgy of loveliness, human, musical, sartorial, whatever. Like some great novel, it is full of details any one of which possesses its own story, its own world, yet each of which is also instinct with the meaning of the whole."
If foreigners feel this way about Trinidad, why don't we? Read the article here, it is really good.
2 comments:
I glad you link to that article, real good. Thanks for the link. No photos of Breakfast Shed? Hmm... I go hadda do something bout that next week.
Wow...that made me want experience Carnival, too...and I livin' Sando. But then that's the great thing about the festival, the reason why you can come every year and never get tired; Carnival is ALWAYS new.
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