'So what I'm wondering is this. Is it possible to have some kind of genetic memory of a place where you've never lived, but your ancestors have? Or am I just a sentimental fool, my judgement fuddled by nostalgia, Guiness and the romance of the diaspora' Pete McCarthy, in McCarthy's Bar.
...As an introduction for uploading some photos my godfather took yesterday in the Alps. I was just reading this book and this exact quote, when the photos arrived by email, and it seemed like a good match.
McCarthy's Bar is also a good read, if you just like travel, Ireland, pubs, colourful people and funny stories, or all of the above. (it's a pure coincidence, it is published by Hodder, where I worked in a very remote, distant, London life...)
But rather than dwelling on some existential thoughts and the answer probably being at the bottom of a third pint of Guiness, which are in short supply here in Ouaga... Let's just enjoy the view, and take a break from all this red dust... Amen.
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