Posted 4 years ago around lunchtime by oso
After getting back from Los Coyotes Indian Reservation it was a long week of working 10 hours a day, going to the gym, going to the library, and morning runs on the beach. Then I had two days off in a row. Monday morning Laura cooked up some tasty Chilaquiles (pictured) - just a couple days after Elena had written about them on her blog - and then I went climbing at Mission Gorge again. This time with Wendy and German MTV diva Johanna. For those of you who remember Indiana from Kuala Lumpur, he was salivating with jealousy when I told him I knew Johanna.
It was my turn to be jealous when I saw her climb. It was her first time outside of a gym and she was already half way up a 5.11. She was also moaning like Monica Seles and I am sure I could dub her voice on some blurry German porn and make my fortune.
Tuesday morning Laura and I took our new library books to Goldfish Point Cafe and shared lunch while overlooking the vast expanse of the Pacific. Both the blue sky in front of us, and the water down the cliffs below were clearer and crisper than usual. Glacier blue … though glacier blue is an empty cliche only filled if you’ve truly walked on a glacier. And even then; only sometimes, only certain glaciers.
It’s funny … when you get so comfortable with someone it becomes easy to lose meaning in your conversations. It’s not that you’ve thorougly explored every idea, opinion, judgement that the other person has, but you convince yourself that you have. So you go through the same routine: “How was your day: good; How’s your book: good, Any movies you feel like seeing: I don’t even know what’s out.” It’s a dreaded place to be and I think it happens to all couples.
So I don’t know exactly how we got into this conversation - it started somehow talking about Isabelle Allende’s Afrodita - and then turned into wheter or not there is an etica universal or universal ethics. Whether morality is absolute or relative. Whether ethics were dictated from the mouth of God for us all to follow or whether they’re a utilitarian result of evolution.
Puta madre - ya tengo que irme al trabajo - nada mas quiero una pinche hora para escribir. Pues, ojala que voy a terminarlo manana. Paz.
To be continued …
What’d you come up with in terms of morality being absolute or relative. I was talking about that with Hari not too long ago and I think the only conclusion we came to (at least the only conclusion I came to) was that moral relativism is as much a leap of faith as its analogue. I swim on the absolute side of the pool.
I taste a chilaquile meme, as soon as I cook mine I’ll post the pic
I’ve read Afrodita (pero en ingles), and I’m having fun imagining how that discussion progressed into a discussion about ethics. I can see why the book would result in that conversation–but the path to get there is far less certain (and therefore all the more entertaining).
And ten-hour days? Osito, me siento cansada para ti. Get some rest.
Paul - coming soon - I’m curious to hear more about your conversation with Hari - an upcoming post?
Seyd - I had to look up meme on dictionary.com - you learned me and I thank you.
Elenita - Somehow the conversation started with how sensual food and wine and romance is. Then it went to what a waste of time to spend so much time on romance when people are seriously hungry. Then it somehow turned to cultural relativism and sovereignty and then to “well, I guess it all depends on if there is a universal morality of not.” I’m not exactly sure how it happened though. More to come.
Where might one polaroid-toting, gastrointestinally challenged, bilingual, bilabial, “La Fe tortilla”-loving, newly transplanted from the mountains of North Carolina find a serving of chilaquiles around Encinitas
Don’t know about Encinitas my friend. But I have heard excellent things from Chris about the Chilaquiles at Porkyland. Welcome home man.