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Total kilometers : About 8000ish (My odometer has never worked)
Workshops wrenched in: 5
Motorcycle clubs welcomed into: 2
It was close to midnight and it was the first time in a long time that I had ridden my bike without it being heavily loaded with all of my gear. The bike handles roughly at the best of times but when you add 60 kilos of camping gear, parts and electronics haphazardly packed over the rear wheel… well it takes some getting used to. When you remove that gear, the handling improves, the throttle responds and braking all works to make the bike feel like a different machine. I was riding with a motorcycle club to a rockabilly gig that a sax player I had met the day before in a motorcycle shop suggested I check out. There was me, my old bike, Aileen (the face behind the themotoquest) on her custom Honda and the Old Motorcycle Club blasting through the light (by Denpasar standards) traffic.
I opened the throttle and overtook a bemo (small van/public transport bus). I then had to pull hard to the left to miss an oncoming tourist on a scooter flying equally fast but stupidly swerving in the other direction. He was wearing a Bingtang singlet … of course he was wearing a Bintang singlet.
A crash would have been his fault but when you're smeared across the road does it matter who is to blame?
To my left was an impeccably restored Triumph 1972 Bonneville. He had seen how very close I had come to becoming unstuck and nodded. I nodded back. We both understood that perhaps we shouldn't have overtaken like that but we did anyway. He smiled at me as he ripped open the throttle again and left me behind to hear the engine roar through his straight pipes as he shot between two trucks.
Behind us followed three other bikes of similar vintage. One of the things that I love about Indonesia is that there are these people riding bikes the same vintage as mine; riding them as hard as I ride my old bike. Sure in Australia you get the guys who take out their old bike out occasionally to bike night or the local cafe/pie shop in the mountains on the weekends. I have never however seen anybody in Australia ride as hard and as often as the guys in Indonesia: 1950's triumphs, WLAs, Matchless, BSAs ridden every day to the absolute limit.
Drunken Australians rocking Bingtang singlets, aggressive street sellers and the occasional Australian getting caught with drugs in a country where you should not get caught with drugs - I initially had no plans to spend any real time in Bali. I could get sunburnt, drunk and buy drugs in Australia. Why repeat that overseas? My thought process was to just motor through as fast as possible and try not to spend too much money. I had been to Bali before. I got sunburnt and then was violently ill on cheap, poorly made cocktails. I am not proud of any of it but that is the truth. This time I wanted to avoid my past indiscretions. I cannot afford to buy booze only to have it go to waste on the floor of a cheap hotel.
Here I was though, blasting south to Seminyak from Ubud with the Old Motorcycle Club that I had met up with through Aileen. It is strange meeting someone for the first time who you already feel like you know very well. Aileen blitzes social media so I knew a fair bit about the issues she had faced (at this stage both Aileen and I were about 4 months behind schedule) and we both have similar styles of travel - we are both dangerously under-funded, we both ride small bikes and we both have ray bans attached to our face 90% of the time. We got along well.
She pulled to my right, her custom bike made by verve and the always rad Gringo helmet. She thumbed up as we resumed formation moving towards the coast.
We rolled into a bar called the Salty Seagull, parked the bikes, and took off our helmets. It was a hipster bar just like the ones I was used to back home. It was packed with tourists and they all looked up as the half dozen of us walked in. The sax player was mid solo when he saw us and grabbed the mic and introduced his friends and me. He raised his drink and everyone in the bar paused to stare. I have to admit, a bunch of leather clad local bikers, a bule (Caucasian tourist) and Aileen with her enormous smile and long red hair made for an interesting sight.
The master of ceremonies for the night, an Australian who clearly spent a lot of time at the gym picked up on new arrivals and in one motion had summoned a bottle of tequila and indicated me for a layback.
The beers came, we drank, the music played.
We had our own table and watched the crowd, the tourists occasionally throwing us strange glances wondering why we might have been getting the treatment that we were.
The MC came up and started to introduce himself to the people he didn't know.
One of the members of the local club pulled me aside. "He (pointing to the MC), has lost a friend today, very sad, bad death, he was crying before but now he drinks"
I looked the MC who was still jumping around on tables trying to get people more involved in the band.
"Killed himself, 33, he was so happy in Bali."
I took another sip of my beer, but was conscious of slowing down as I knew I still had at least an hour's ride ahead of me that night.
The MC jumped on the table, asking people to dance in exchange for free drinks.
The unresponsive crowd was… unresponsive.
He tried again.
This time he was asking for people to dance in memory of his friend. He looked around a little desperate with a small, sad smile.
I asked Aileen if she remembered how to dance. "Only if someone can lead well." On the dance floor I tried to remember the right steps (back, left, quick, quick and step?) I had learned from a few swing and rockabilly gigs in Sydney. After a failed attempt at leading I gave in, laughed and apologised to Aileen and resigned myself to hanging out with the riders near the stage.
I went back to thinking of the MC, the guy who had just lost a good mate and was now at least half a bottle of tequila deep trying to get people involved into the band. I tried to catch his eye to find out more about his friend… I couldn't think of anything worse than trying to MC a bunch of tourists at a rockabilly gig when I had just lost someone to depression.
He smiled at me then went back to trying to get people to dance.
My arrival into Bali was mixed. I had met a Frenchmen while on a ferry who was touring the Indonesian islands on a scooter. As two guys who are on the road, we decided that we would travel together for a while (His 50cc honda was still faster than the enfield). His English was great and he also spoke comfortable Bahasa (Indonesian). However on the last island before Bali (Lombok) he had to return his bike to the rental shop. He was planning on taking his backpack on public transport all the way into Denpasar, Bali (about 4 hours and a ferry ride away from where we were). Instead we would take a page from the locals and load the old Enfield with me, my bags, the Frenchman and his backpack.
Like this we rode through the heavy traffic.
I had made plans to meet Aileen that afternoon and Frenchy was interested in pursuing some business opportunities that might fund some further adventures. We parted ways and agreed to catchup in a week or so after everything was done.
I jumped on the phone to Aileen and arranged to meet her in Ubud where we would ride down to a local custom bike shop where she was working on her bike.
Off a main street and behind a statue workshop we rode through to the back of the property where I came across one of the most impressive collections of custom motorcycles I have ever seen.
I was silent as I took off my helmet and gawked at the bobbers, choppers, cafes, Harleys, Triumphs and a neat little rat hotrod in the corner.
I must have looked rigid and uptight. The owner of Moonstone Garage - Kadek, walked over handed me a beer and told me sabar (Bahasa for "be patient, keep calm and relax") . Beautiful motorbikes, a comfortable garage, a fellow traveller and a beer. I smiled - life is good.
I spent the next week riding around with the "Old Motorcycle Club", Moonstone garage boys and Aileen. We talked of the difficulties of what we were trying to do.
I think a lot of people think that we have life pretty well made. Riding motorcycles in a foreign country every day is a dream for most - they are envious. What many people don't realise is that for most people, it takes something incredibly dramatic in their lives to go "I am going to leave everything I have behind to do this." People often tell me they would love to do this kind of trip… if it wasn't for the kids, wife, girlfriend, job or house. These are all valid reasons for not doing a trip. What they often don't pick up is that it was failed relationships, personal hardships or a shitty job that led us to do something this incredible. It's far easier to contemplate doing something incredibly reckless when you have absolutely nothing to lose if it fails. For myself it was a combination of personal issues, losses and a broken relationship that pushed me to where I am today. While I love the trip that I am on, if I could go back and change what cannot be changed, I would.
I sometimes wish I could be that guy - the person who tinkers on bikes while working a 9-5 with a bed free from bedbugs, a group of riding buddies and someone that I could sit and watch bad movies with on a Monday night. Instead I went through a series of circumstances where for me the best option, the only option was to ride a busted motorcycle across the world, away from where I was. I am happy to be where I am today but a year ago, when I was in Sydney and made the call to do this, to change from a person who wanted to do this trip to someone who was doing this trip - I was not in a good place. I guess I am almost jealous of the people who have things that prevent them doing this kind of adventure. I am sure some people call them burdens. For me I guess they look more like anchors keeping them safe.
And there was Aileen, who would never have been about to ride motorcycles across world if it wasn't for her own personal change. It gave me a chance to realise that I wasn't the only one on a journey to find out some answers and we often only seek them when we are left completely bewildered, lost and desperate.
Anyway, because I am so far behind schedule I need to get back to riding motorcycles in foreign countries.
Next blog post - 1% motorcycle clubs on the Island of Java or "How I learned to stop worrying and politely decline prostitutes."


text: A growing number of studies prove that a person's surrounding community the plays a great role in shaping that person and their health. Experts and thought leaders came together recently to discuss how to increase connections between large institutions to support and grow healthy communities. The Brookings Economic Studies program hosted an event earlier this month called "New Directions for Communities: How They Can Boost Neighborhood Health." The gathering focused on the important role of the public, private, and government sectors when it comes to improving the health of local communities. Outgoing District of Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Adrianne Todman took part in the Health Communities discussion. She was joined by Sibley Memorial Hospital Geriatric Nurse Navigator Matt Brown and Capital Area Food Bank Chief of Staff Paula Reichel. The discussion's moderator was Brookings Nonresident Fellow Kavita Patel. "Neighborhoods matter," said Todman as she described two major ways the housing authority tries to improve the built environment for its customers. The first way is to redevelop old, unhealthy structures into thriving neighborhoods where a variety of household incomes can live with many amenities available. She used Sheridan Station, a formerly rundown empty complex that was redeveloped, as an example of this process. "Today it is a thriving 300-unit community. We brought back many of the families who used to live there," she said, noting that one of its amenities is an onsite clinic. The second way to increase DCHA customers' options to live in healthy communities is the voucher program. The DCHA Board of Commissioners has increased the value of the vouchers by 75% in order to allow families to have more options throughout D.C., Todman said. "We're able to support families achieve the trajectory they want by helping them secure neighborhoods that have stronger schools, better amenities, and social networks" she said. Brown, who has been a nurse for 10 years, said that he works with patients to educate them about the importance of their care once they leave the hospital. He said many people do not fully understand how to keep a good medication schedule or follow-up going to their treatments. Brown wants to develop a multimedia education program, such as videos, that starts when a patient is admitted to the hospital and continues for the patients even when they get home. "We need to meet people where they are ready to learn," Brown said. He reported that villages are being established within neighborhoods where networks of volunteers can help support each other. There is a membership fee and the volunteers help individuals with their health care and other needs such as changing a light bulb or getting to appointments. "It is neighbors helping neighbors and I wish [the networks] were bigger," said Brown. Patel, the moderator, said that many non-profit hospitals are now helping subsidize village memberships to use their philanthropic dollars on community-based resources that bring connectivity. The Capital Area Food Bank uses its network of more than 400 primarily small, neighborhood non-profits that distribute their food for connectivity, said Reichel. Her organization serves 540,000 people roughly 46 million pounds of food, covering about 12 percent of the D.C. metropolitan area's population annually. When they lack one of those neighborhood partners, the bank looks to distribute food directly to the community. "We've really stepped up and evolved our approach to 21st century food banking," she said. "We address hunger needs while also improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve." CAFB has been educating partners, improving the nutritional quality of the inventory, and rethinking their nutrition education, for example, sending food out with recipes for healthy meals and shelf life. They also are trying to partner with anchor institutions like schools and grocery stores to help create health behaviors. Todman said that there are cost savings that is not considered when everyone works together instead of in their individual silos. DCHA already works with the food bank to serve its customers. "It will cost any large urban city $50,000 to $80,000 to shelter a homeless family. It costs me roughly $15,000 a year to house a family," she said. "There is a value to housing that isn't just about creating affordable housing. There are other impacts where networks touch a family where we can save money." She said more research or political will is needed to make the system more efficient and recognizes the "priceless" long-term benefits for the entire community. Brown recommended more online connectivity linking individuals within the community to available services -- from ridesharing to grocery shopping--will be necessary, especially as the Baby Boomer generation ages. Reichel said anchor institutions having consistent messaging and creating access points for everyone in the community would be a great way to address everyone's needs.

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I've had the opportunity to work with some wonderful people through selling real estate. Below, you'll find some comments and reviews that past clients have been kind enough to share for your benefit.
"There are lots and lots of realtors out there. In my honest opinion, most of them just don't stand out in a good way. They may be overly sales-y, insincere, or just uninformed. Ryan Halset is downright great at what he does! We were new to the Seattle area when we found Ryan. We thought he sounded like a friendly guy from reading a few reviews. Oh boy did we get lucky! Ryan is exremely knowledgeable of the entire area, not just select neighborhoods. It was refreshing to work with someone who we could place great value and trust in his opinions and answers. He is also very knowledgeable about the practical/structural issues in a home, something that not many realtors really understand. The home we ended up purchasing was bank-owned and abandoned with its own set of challenges (septic, roof, plumbing to name a few) which Ryan helped us work through. Ryan's work ethic and level of effort is something we appreciated so much. He works very hard. Aside from being so skilled at what he does, he is a great person. Ryan is down-to-earth, hilarious, and patient. I am not lying when I say that I would thoroughly enjoy working as Ryan's assistant in the real estate business. Ryan is a friend of ours for life and we won't hesitate an instant to call him up if we ever need to buy or sell a property again."
~ Robyn (Engineer) & Justin W. (Senior Firmware Developer)
"Ryan is an awesome agent. He was knowledgeable about the market, up front and realistic about what my home could and would sell for. He kept in constant contact and and I felt like I could ask him anything. I totally trusted him and his judgment and opinions and advice. It was obvious that Ryan truly cared about me, my home, my next home and he became a trusted friend and expert that I felt completely confident and comfortable with.
I would use him again in a heartbeat! I would also recommend him to anyone buying or selling their home or even thinking of buying or selling. He will give you honest advice in a non-pushy fashion and he truly cares about his client and wants the best for them. I cannot speak more highly of Ryan as an agent, a professional and as a person."
~ Kelli O. (J. Jill)
"Ryan and his team sold our home in less than 7 days and although it took several months to find our new home Ryan and his team were a pleasure to work with. Always willing to show properties on short notice, whether that was midday, night or weekends.
We felt confident that Ryan was always looking out for our best interest regarding our property search from the right locations, the conditions of the homes to the negotiation to the best sales price. Ryan was present and represented us in each and every part of both sales and we would highly recommend him to family, friends and colleagues looking for a real estate professional."
~ Emily B. (AT&T)
"We would highly recommend Ryan as an agent. As first time buyers we found him entirely personable, knowledgeable, and pressure-free as we looked at properties, and his experience clearly showed as he guided us through every step of buying a complex short sale. Despite being busy (a good sign in an agent) he never rushed, and was always accessible for questions and advice. He seems to genuinely enjoy what he does, and we felt he really went the extra mile. We would absolutely work with him again. Thanks Ryan!"
~ Jesse and Serina B. (Microsoft)
"Ryan is very easy to work with. No question was too small. No concern ignored. He managed all parts of our transaction with professionalism and grace. Work with him; he is the best!"
~ Charles & Martha D. (Northwest College)
"Ryan Halset is an approachable, resourceful professional. He listened to our needs as sellers, quickly assessed the sale potential, and helped facilitate readying our house for market. Ryan's advice was clear and supported by facts and he gave us the time we needed to make decisions. He kept us informed every week of the sale progress and made sure we had contact information for the escrow and title agents. Ryan was always available for questions and clarifications. I respect his work ethic and highly recommend him for any sale."
~ Doug and Ona N (Whole Foods)
Ryan was outstanding in helping us in our real estate purchase. It took over 2 years for us to find the perfect place. Throughout, Ryan was patient, understanding, accommodating and professional. We went through a couple of tough/unusual offers – Ryan was professional and kept us up to date throughout the entire process. We felt that Ryan and his assistant had our backs and our best interest throughout the 2 years they helped us hunt down the perfect place. We'd highly recommend Ryan to anyone that needs a great real estate agent.
~ Jeremy & Shirline L. (Google & Microsoft)
"10 out of 10. Ryan helped us immensely on a long and complicated sale of our original home through mid-2014 to early 2015. In the meantime, he got us into a new, upgraded home which met all of our needs and more. As both a buying and selling agent he is a skilled negotiator and is very patient. Would recommend!"
~ Mark W. (AT&T)
"Ryan provided super fast service, great pictures and a lovely open house. Very good at keeping me updated and a pleasure to work with. Sale went through without a hitch, Thank You Ryan!"
~ Terry C. (Retired)
"Ryan is the most helpful realtor I've ever worked with. He was always available to help us with any questions we had, and selling our house seemed so easy with his great knowledge of real estate. Even though we encountered a couple of obstacles in the process of selling, Ryan was able to quickly sort them out so that we had no delays with the sale. Ryan also helped us buy our home in 2012, which was a great experience as well. I would highly recommend Ryan as a realtor for both buyers and sellers. He is dedicated, loyal, and always wants the best for his clients."
~ Nick and Becky H. (The Salvation Army)
"Ryan is smart and hard working. He did a great job selling our house to a foreign buyer. He was diligent throughout the process making sure they fulfilled their commitments and ensuring that our interests were well covered."
Jim H. (Hunts Point, WA)
"Ryan has helped me purchase two properties in a short period. I have found him very easy to work with, He provides me timely information, helps me understand technical vocabulary and is very efficient with all the necessary legalities and formalities associated with real-estate transactions. Thank You Ryan!"
– Naveen G. (Real Estate Investor | Seattle, WA)
"Ryan and his team were a pleasure to work with. He and his team were professional, personable, reliable, prompt and were an excellent resource for any and all questions we had regarding the sale of our existing home and the purchase of our new home. Ryan did an excellent job negotiating to get the best price in the sale and purchase of our homes and I would highly recommend him should you need real estate services."
– Adam B. (VP of Operations | Woodinville, WA)
"Ryan was recommended to us by two friends, and we very happy we listened to them. With the sale of our old house, and the purchase of a new house, Ryan's expertise and guidance were absolutely invaluable. We ended up receiving a lot more for the house than we hoped for. And despite the state of the current real estate market, we managed to have the winning offer for a great house in a cute neighborhood for an affordable price. Thank you Ryan!"
~ Vincent and Mona V. (General Electric, Lead Engineer)
"We've had the pleasure of working with Ryan for several years and are truly proud to be part of his team. Ryan's knowledge, enthusiasm, ethics and customer-first philosophy, blended with his marketing prowess, have created a solid foundation for his business and strong leadership for his team.
Furthermore, Ryan is a respected associate in the Real Estate industry, whose past clients constantly refer friends and family to him because of his outstanding service and work ethic."
~ Donna Blaylock (Chicago Title and Escrow)
"Ryan made himself very accessible for questions and showings. He easily convinced the seller to include a few add-ons we had requested. Ryan also went out of his way for us, over 120 miles on the night we closed our deal. The seller had told him they would leave our new keys on the property as we were to move in the next day. Instead of just letting us know where to find the keys, he drove down to the new house around 8pm which was at least 50 or more miles from his home. He picked up our keys and drove them out to us that night. We lived 62 miles from the new place and he didn't arrive until after 9pm.
When he arrived I told him that he didn't need to do that. He replied that he understood how important and special buying a first home is and wanted us to have our new keys A.S.A.P. I would recommend him to anybody looking for some genuine old fashioned service. We met an agent and ended up with a friend. Thanks Ryan!!!"
~ Chris and Willow M. (Allied Waste Services)
"Ryan was an amazing agent to work with! He was very prompt, responsive and caring! Even if it was late at night, he would respond to a question or inquiry via text or email. If you have a question and he's unsure of the answer, he is quick to find the answer and respond in kind. He's not a 'pushy salesman' so you feel comfortable working with him. From the very beginning, he did everything he could to get my children and I into a new home that would suit us well through the years! Overall, I will always recommend Ryan to my friends who are interested in making a real estate transaction :o)"
~ Rose J. (B/E Aerospace)
"Ryan was extremely professional and personable throughout our home buying process. We purchased a short sale and while it moved quickly compared to most (4 months) it was a long and frustrating process. Ryan was always working for our best interest and gave us practical and wise counsel. For the most part, he referred us to other competent professionals in the course of our home buying ( inspector, etc). I would heartily recommend Ryan's services to anyone!"
– Adam & Caley M. (Microsoft | Kirkland, WA)
"Ryan is absolutely at the top of his game. As a first-time buyer, I had a lot of worries going in. But Ryan answered questions and offered advice with an expertise that I'm convinced is not at all common. I first met Ryan over a decade ago in high school, and when I saw him online, I opted to work with him immediately. I knew from even back then that he was someone I could trust, and that is ultimately the most important quality of a Realtor."
– Justin C. (Software Developer | Seattle, WA)
"Ryan was a terrific agent for a first time home buyer like myself. He was very knowledgeable and experienced, which made him excellent to work with! I would definitely recommend him to anyone looking for housing in the area!"
~ Justin L. (Google Software Developer | Kirkland, WA)
"Ryan helped us buy our second house. I would recommend Ryan to anyone looking to buy their first home all the way to their 3rd or 4th. Ryan is very professional as well as a hard worker. Never felt pressured and always felt that Ryan had our best interest in mind. We had a very difficult experience with the other seller so Ryan went above and beyond to make sure the transaction went through. We even recommended Ryan to my sister and brother-in-law."
~ Tyler H. (ESPN | Shoreline, WA)
"Ryan is a truly wonderful guy and the best agent anyone can ask for. His knowledge of the business is of the highest and he truly takes care in making sure you and your needs are met."
~ Stephen B. (Starbucks)
"We had a wonderful experience with Ryan. He is an excellent broker – thorough, professional, experienced, knowledgeable, diligent, and timely. We will definitely work with him again!"
~ 125 Rental, LLC. (Property Investor | Seattle, WA)
"Ryan has worked diligently and patiently with me in purchasing a condo as an investment/rental property. I would highly recommend him to anyone considering purchase or sale of a home."
~ Tashi T. (Property Investor | Shoreline, WA)
"Ryan was extremely helpful, accessible, and knowledgeable when it came time to sell our house. Even in the tough market we found ourselves in, Ryan was able to steer us in the right direction to sell our house relatively quickly and easily. We highly recommend Ryan."
~ Scott E. (Microsoft | Shoreline, WA)
"Ryan is a very nice guy. He is gentle and sincere. He was willing to go the extra mile in dealing with difficult situations and helped us achieve what we needed. Since we bought a foreclosed property, there were irregular procedures and paperwork. He helped us to deal with them patiently and skillfully. I highly recommend him and will not hesitate to contact him when we have future property needs."
~ Suzanna and Colin C. (University of Washington | Seattle, WA)
"Ryan did a fantastic job walking us through the purchase of our home. He was with us every step of the way, at the inspections, at the signing, etc. He was very willing to share with us honestly and we appreciated his ethical and matter-of-fact demeanor. He is a great guy and I would trust him through this process again!"
~ Matt and Christina K. (Bothell, WA)
"Ryan was very thorough during the entire process, from looking at homes, neighborhoods, and all my options to the closing process. Did an excellent job closing my home and continued to help coordinate with the seller following the purchase to resolve any issues that came up. Very quick to respond to any questions or concerns, and put in the time and effort necessary to close my short sale. Made me feel as though I was a top priority despite having other clients. I will definitely use him again."
– B.C. (Bothell, WA)
"Ryan was helpful and energetic from day 1. We looked at several places and had many questions that Ryan answered quickly and thoroughly. He was always on top of the paperwork and other administrative work, he was a key component in helping our house close quickly and he always went the extra mile for all of the little things (he was present at the inspection when we couldn't be, he personally delivered our escrow check to save 2 days of processing, he diplomatically hurried along the listing agent when they were slowing down, he even got my wife a present for our expectant first-child). Overall Ryan was a pleasure to work with.
Thank you Ryan!"
– Brian & Liz L. (Teachers)
"We have worked with Ryan on both ends of a real estate deal and have been extremely satisfied with his performance. Ryan did a tremendous job marketing our home and taking care of all the little issues that pop-up in accepting an offer. While looking for a new home, Ryan shows extensive knowledge in all of the different types of owners and their procedures. He has helped us work with short sales, bank owned and privately owned homes. Overall we have been very pleased with his performance and enthusiasm to help us get exactly what we wanted!"
– Dusty & Jodie M. (MSI | Bothell, WA)
"Ryan was the best! He put so much work into getting our house sold. He referred us to an interior decorator to help us stage the house; he had professional photos taken of the house; he printed up and mailed out beautiful fliers advertising our house; and he made time for several open houses, even bringing drinks and snacks with him for guests to the open houses. Our home sold quickly and he helped us negotiate a good deal for the sale. But he also went above and beyond the call of duty – we had a baby while trying to sell our home, and while we stayed in the hospital, Ryan checked on our house, watered our plants and even took in our mail and accepted a package!! We really had an outstanding experience and cannot recommend Ryan enough!
– Scott E & Amy G. (Microsoft | Shoreline, WA)
"Ryan was the perfect real estate agent for us. Ryan was friendly, calm, professional, he listened and never pushed or rushed us in our decisions. I am looking forward to working with Ryan the next time we are looking for a house!"
~ Travis & Marcy D. (Microsoft | Issaquah)
"We bought a house in Bellevue with Ryan and it has been a great experience. Ryan is a service oriented Realtor that is quick to respond and provide advice. He was really indispensable in our real-estate transaction. Highly recommended."
– Denis & Elma B. (Business Owner | Bellevue)
"Best real estate agent I have ever worked with and I would highly recommend him and I plan on working with Ryan again within the next two years."
– Kelli O. (Bothell, WA)
"Ryan worked tirelessly to sell our house. His marketing abilities resulted in a very well attended open house and an offer within 11 days. We whole heartedly endorse Ryan."
– Cameron W. (Structural Engineer)
"Prior to finding the house I purchased…Ryan was always willing to look at homes with me, even if it was a late in the day request. I found a bank owned home to purchase so I expected things to be time consuming….and these sellers were slow in responding and constantly holding the processing from moving forward but Ryan was always in contact with them..trying to do all he could to keep them on task..and keep me in the loop on where things stood. He was at the house for the inspection and there off/on when work was being done – again, checking progress for me – and then when it was finally over..he was there when I got the keys. He was there from step one..all the way to completion with an encouraging attitude when things started to get frustrating."
– Sarah M. (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
"As first-time homebuyers, we were lucky to have Ryan as our agent. From the very beginning, Ryan made sure we were aware of all the things that are needed to navigate through the home-buying process. He was very responsive even when we were out-of-state. Our home home purchase went through without a hitch."
– Jon & Angela C. (McGraw Hill & Microsoft | Bellevue, WA)
"Ryan is one of the greatest guys I have had the pleasure knowing and working with. Never does his schedule or life come first, he is always thinking of others and doing everything he can to help & make you come first. Ryan is nothing like any other Realtor out there, when you work with Ryan you quickly get the feeling of working with a genuine best-friend. Can't express how thankful I am to have a guy like Ryan in my life & I know for a fact everyone else that has used Ryan will say the exact same thing. Thank You Ryan!"
~ Cameron L. (Mortgage Consultant | Mill Creek, WA)
"I had a serious need to short-sell my home in this down market. Ryan has earned his position as my Realtor for life. He stayed on top of everything and kept in constant communication with me throughout the entire short-sale process. Even after a burst pipe flooded the house, and threatened to derail all his hard work, he hung in there and kept the process on track; communicating effectively with the bank, the buyers, the insurance company, the contractors and me the entire time until the work was done and the sale was final."
~Jesse F. (Firefighter | Mill Creek, WA)
"When my wife and I decided that it was the right time to buy our first home, we were hoping to find a Realtor who could guide our first excursion in to the complex world of real estate, Ryan was our man! Any question was answered with clear concise answers and if he wasn't sure, he did the research and got back to us quickly. We hope not to move for a long while, but when we do, we will be asking Ryan to help us with our search again!"
~ Matt W. (Music & Gospel Arts Director | Mukilteo, WA)
"Ryan provided a great combination of highly personal attention and professionalism towards not only me, but all the various parties involved in the entire home purchase process. His negotiation and personal/communication skills proved priceless – especially when we encountered a few bumps in the road towards the beginning of the negotiation. He made himself unconditionally available even during non-standard hours for any questions, showcasing potential properties, as well as being present during important document signings. Besides helping me get a great condo for a great price, he's also just a great guy to talk to and has great values!"
~ Brett L. (Microsoft Software Dev. Engineer | Kirkland, WA)
"Ryan was great to work with. This was my first home purchase and he answered all of my questions patiently and completely. He keep me informed through all aspects of the purchase from start to finish and followed up after the sale as well. I would absolutely recommend his services to others."
– Joe A. (McClure & Sons | Snohomish, WA)
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In the weaker parts of the earth's crust sometimes the molten, rock finds its way to the surface and is poured out to form a volcano. A volcano is a vent or an opening in the earth's crust through which rock fragments, lava, ash and clouds of gases come out. In course of time, the lava, ashes and other material accumulate around the vent and form a cone-shaped hill or mountain. The cup shaped hollow in the centre of a volcano is called a crater. Volcanoes which are no longer active are called extinct volcanoes. A volcano which is only sleeping and may become active is called a dormant volcano. The volcanoes which erupt frequently are active volcanoes. Distribution of Volcanoes: There are several thousand volcanoes in the world. They are distributed in several belts across the continents. The most important belt runs right and round the Pacific Ocean. Another, rather less important, are from Iceland, just touching the British Isles, through the Azores across the Atlantic to the west Indies, with a branch running through the Mediterranean Sea.


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Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a sinner."
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
The Parable of the Ten Minas
11 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 12 He said: "A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13 So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.[a] 'Put this money to work,' he said, 'until I come back.'
14 "But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'
15 "He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.
16 "The first one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned ten more.'
17 "'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. 'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'
18 "The second came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned five more.'
19 "His master answered, 'You take charge of five cities.'
20 "Then another servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. 21 I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.'
22 "His master replied, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then didn't you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?'
24 "Then he said to those standing by, 'Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.'
25 "'Sir,' they said, 'he already has ten!'
26 "He replied, 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.'"
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 "Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say, 'The Lord needs it.'"
32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
34 They replied, "The Lord needs it."
35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
38 "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"[b]
"Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
40 "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."
Jesus at the Temple
45 When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46 "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be a house of prayer'[c]; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'[d]"
47 Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. 48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
The Authority of Jesus Questioned
20 One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. 2 "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?"
3 He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me: 4 John's baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin?"
5 They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why didn't you believe him?' 6 But if we say, 'Of human origin,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
7 So they answered, "We don't know where it was from."
8 Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."
The Parable of the Tenants
9 He went on to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
13 "Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.'
14 "But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
"What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others."
When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!"
17 Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written:
"'The stone the builders rejected
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed."
19 The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
Paying Taxes to Caesar
20 Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. 21 So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. 22 Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
23 He saw through their duplicity and said to them, 24 "Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?"
"Caesar's," they replied.
25 He said to them, "Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
26 They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.
The Resurrection and Marriage
27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. 28 "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. 30 The second 31 and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. 32 Finally, the woman died too. 33 Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"
34 Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection. 37 But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'[f] 38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."
39 Some of the teachers of the law responded, "Well said, teacher!" 40 And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Whose Son Is the Messiah?
41 Then Jesus said to them, "Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David? 42 David himself declares in the Book of Psalms:
"'The Lord said to my Lord:
44 David calls him 'Lord.' How then can he be his son?"
Warning Against the Teachers of the Law
45 While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, 46 "Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. 47 They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely."
The Widow's Offering
21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 "Truly I tell you," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 "As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down."
7 "Teacher," they asked, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?"
8 He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them. 9 When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."
10 Then he said to them: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
12 "But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. 13 And so you will bear testimony to me. 14 But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17 Everyone will hate you because of me. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 Stand firm, and you will win life.
20 "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25 "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
29 He told them this parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. 31 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
32 "Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."
37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38 and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
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"He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature . . . Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another—Imagination—that begets a new star and a new heaven."
— Paracelsus
In the last two decades, a considerable shift toward expanding the impact of Hungarian culture has occurred; as its literature gains more and more worldwide prominence, contemporary writers such as Péter Nádas, Péter Esterházy, and László Krasznahorkai are becoming nearly as familiar to readers of world literature as Saramago, Banville, and Bolaño. In addition, writers such as Sándor Petőfi, Imre Madách, and Miklós Radnóti have finally begun to be read in numbers deserving of their talent. Yet, Hungarian writer Miklós Szentkuthy, who has at different times been compared to the holy trinity of Proust, Joyce, and Musil, still remains something of an obscurity, even though his work predates that of Kertész and the former trio, who represent the new, late Cold War generation, all of whom didn't begin publishing until the end of the '70s and early '80s, long after Szentkuthy had produced all of his major works and established himself as Hungary's foremost modernist. In fact, many of Hungary's leading writers have sent signed copies of their works to Szentkuthy out of deference to him but, in the West, they have largely eclipsed their prodigious herald—Krasznahorkai advancing more swiftly to the world stage in part due to his association with Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Imré Kertész through writing novels on the Holocaust, which accord instant caché and significance.
If Szentkuthy is Hungary's foremost modernist, in some ways, he is not really a "Hungarian" writer, not in any folkloric or nationalistic sense, for his work doesn't deal with Hungarian reality or culture, except perhaps in extremely covert or complex allegorical ways.[1] "Homelessness," said László Németh, "is one of his main distinguishing marks, as compared with kindred Western writers." Elaborating further, Németh suggested that "homelessness to be a higher form of protection of the mind."[2]
The fortification of that homelessness was clearly vital. Since the first volume of Szenkuthy's St. Orpheus Breviary was censored, he was forced to vet each of his publications with the Hungarian state. Although he was not persona non grata under Rákosi's Communist regime, and his Jewish origins were unknown at the time, he was certainly forced to become a kind of internal émigré. This all might have changed: after receiving the Baumgarten Prize, Szentkuthy was sent to London from February to autumn of 1948—he might have defected and, like Conrad or Nabokov, gone on to write in English without fear of censorship. But, although he was far from nationalistic, to Szentkuthy, emigrating remained a form of betrayal, if only to his linguistic identity. As Maria Tompa points out, "being a Hungarian writer, he wanted to live out his personal identity, along with all of its difficulties, in his native country."[3] A keen decision, one which perhaps preserved Szentkuthy since even an expert like Nabokov lamented losing something fundamental in adopting English as the language of his art, as he himself avowed in a rare admission: "Of the two instruments in my possession, one—my native tongue—I can no longer use, and this not only because I lack a Russian audience, but also because the excitement of verbal adventure in the Russian medium has faded away gradually after I turned to English in 1940."
Szentkuthy was sensitive to this potential risk and, in choosing to return to Hungary, skirted it, knowing full well the conditions under which he would have to live. But it was only in Hungary that he knew he could sustain and cultivate his vision, and his attitude toward tragedy was spartan and stoic:
It is not meant as idle chatter when I emphasize that I live with . . . distant stellar constellations . . . From that huge perspective, from among such backdrops, please don't take it as boastfulness on my part that on such a small territory I can't take a historical period like that too tragically . . . I was one of the regime's victims . . . but that way of looking at things has consequences for one's general state of health and character: those few years of dictatorship . . . were an insignificant miniature, a weekend compared with the milliards of years of the universe. It would be ridiculous for me to speak about sub specie aeterni and meanwhile whine on about tragedy . . . [4]
Tompa explains how he "thought it was grotesque and, above all, senseless to light his imagination in voluntary exile, a thousand miles from his native land, and set down on paper the offspring of an imagination which luxuriated in the Hungarian language and artificially create a substratum for that mother language." If in his subject matter Szentkuthy is not Hungarian, it is then in language that he is, through and through, and it is then in language that he is not homeless but profoundly bennszülött. A cosmopolitan, indubitably, but autochthonous.
When Prae, Szentkuthy's first novel, appeared in 1934, the book was so startling that András Hevesi deemed him a "monster" and, despite his own misgivings about the term, Szentkuthy essentially inaugurated the Hungarian avant-garde. He would see such 'experiments' within a vaster historical continuum, "amply demonstrating" that what were "imagined" as "revolutionary innovations" by surrealists and others "had also played a part, to a greater or lesser extent (better too), in the history of the arts."[5]
To Szentkuthy, the style of the ultra-modernists was outdated. In Towards the One and Only Metaphor, he outlines what he sees as the two principal forms of experimentation: "one is strictly rational, self-analytical, and overscrupulous, simply a pathology of consciousness," and the other is "the perennial experimentation of nature," such as biological forms of development, where there are no distinctions between 'final results' and 'undecided, exploratory trials.'" "If Prae and other works I have planned are 'experimental,' " he counters, "then they are so in a specific biological sense: not an apprehensive, exaggerated self-conscience, but experiments of primal vitality, which are in a special biological relationship with form (cf. the 'forms' of protozoa: experiment and totality of life are absolutely identical, they coincide)."[6]
Denounced as non-Hungarian, the mercurial Prae was considered "an eerie attack on the Hungarian realist novel," a curse then against nationalism and folk-culture. But if Szentkuthy is to be critiqued for being cosmopolitan, then we may ask what happened to the sea change from national to world literature that Goethe envisioned? The Hungary of 1848 is no more, nor the American of 1950. To Nietzsche, "what is normal is crossed races," and they "always mean at the same time crossed cultures, crossed moralities . . . Purity," he continues, upending any nationalistic conception of the term, "is the final result of countless adaptations."[7] Over 50 years after Szentkuthy was denounced for being non-Hungarian, Kertész would suffer similar attacks after winning the Nobel for a body of writings that do not glorify Hungary, prompting many people to question whether or not he was "a real Hungarian writer."[8] An intractable question, and as Szentkuthy himself knew all too well, cultural diversity has its perils; but then, if, as Nietzsche argues, hybridization and adaptation is what ultimately creates 'purity,' the whole swindle of essentializing races and cultures is rendered impotent.
Although the monstrum had its champions, aside from an excerpt translated into French in 1974, Prae has never been published outside of Hungary, severely circumscribing its legitimate place in the history of world literature.[9] Despite the fact that it foregrounds and presages many of the innovations of later literary movements, Prae currently remains lost to the world, despite the initial intrepid efforts of the French. If, as József J. Fekete observed, "linearity of time, coherent characterization, and plotline disappeared from his work and were replaced by something alien, a mysterious secret: authorial method,"[10] Szentkuthy is then a true innovator whose work will force us to reconsider not only the genealogy of the nouveau roman, but perhaps other genealogies, too. Countering the parallels often made between Szentkuthy and Proust or Joyce, parallels that even Szentkuthy rejected as misconceptions "on the part of people who have never read either Joyce or myself,"[11] Németh perceives a more accurate corollary in Kant:
What is important here is not the sensual material but the introspection of the artistic spirit that goes with it. If we wish to compare him with one of the big monsters, then Kant is much nearer the mark than either Proust or Joyce. The Critique of Pure Reason in point of fact is an introspection of the emptied mind. The mind jettisons the world from itself and strives to grasp what is left. As an experiment, it then again repeatedly gobbles one thing or other from the world and watches how space, time, and the categories chew it. It is not the item of food that is important, but the chewing itself; the food is only placed in the mouth so that there should be some chewing to investigate. It is like that with Szentkuthy as well, with the difference being that it is not the scholar's brain that is observing its own mechanism of chewing, but the on-looking and shaping artist.[12]
In effect, a Kantian, but an artistic-poetic one scaling politics, literature, science, painting, history, and the self. Although this risks hyperbole, to convey the genuine significance of Prae, that it is a Rosetta Stone of Hungary's instrumental role in the development of world literature—imagine Joyce's Ulysses, or Einstein's theory of relativity still being unknown, and the shock—and knowledge—our encounter with them would now bring. But that is the mantle of the posthumous; the works of those who are Unzeitgemässe are always in advance of their time. Thus began Szentkuthy's strange fate, with him struggling in the shadows during Rákosi's rule, yet all while writing original tome after tome, producing a prodigious and innovative body of essays, novels, and biographical 'fantasies,' to translations of Gulliver's Travels, Joyce's Ulysses, as well as a host of other works, including a diary of over 100,000 pages spanning nearly 60 years, which the author declared three years before his death contains his 'real' writing.[13] (The first part, which dates from the 1930–1947, an undeniably fertile and significant historical period, was recently opened on the anniversary of his death in July of 2013.)
While Szentkuthy would experience a renaissance of his work within Hungary during his own lifetime, following his death in 1988 his reputation broadened even more: his works were translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Slovakian. His lack of such a reception in the Anglophone world is in part ironic considering he began as an Anglicist, penned a dissertation on Ben Jonson, and would later translate into Hungarian not only Poe, Twain, and Dickens but Donne, Milton, and even Sir Thomas Browne (who figures—along with Mauriac—at the end of Towards the One and Only Metaphor as a key typus for Szentkuthy's conception of writing).[14] And that Szentkuthy still remains almost entirely obscure to most readers of world literature, despite circulating in translation since 1990 (in book form), [15] lends heft to Erich Auerbach's foreboding dialectic that, "in a uniformly organized world, only one single literary culture—indeed, in a relatively short time, only a few literary languages, soon perhaps only one—will remain alive. And with this, the idea of world literature would be at once realized and destroyed." Clearly, he means English, confirming thereby the distressing reality that it is only with Szentkuthy's translation into English that he will enter the world stage.
With the publication of Marginalia on Casanova, volume I of Szentkuthy's St. Orpheus Breviary and the first book of his to be translated into English, Contra Mundum Press is seeking to make his work more well known. In selecting him as our featured author, we will publish further translations—all to be rendered by Tim Wilkinson—of his work over the coming decade, including Prae, at last exporting that infamous text in its entirety. Now, with Towards the One and Only Metaphor, we offer the second English translation of Szentkuthy's work to date.
Originally published in 1935 and republished in 1985, Towards the One and Only Metaphor, Szentkuthy's second book, is comprised of 112 numbered sections ranging in length from one sentence to several pages. The seeding ground out of which much of Szentkuthy's future work would come, it is a text that defies classification, yet is perhaps most accurately thought of as literature in Blanchot's expansive sense of the term, that which 'ruins' distinctions and limits in its creation of a unique and amorphous hybrid beyond the distinctions of a particular genre. As Dezső Baróti described when reviewing the book in 1935, it is comprised of "unconventional journal-like passages expanded into short essays, plans for novels, poetic meditations that have the effect of free verse, and paradoxical aphorisms," all of which reveal a moral philosophy, a politics, an erotics. "Its predominant motifs (insofar as one can succinctly describe it in a few words) are most especially nature, love, eroticism, sex. All that, however, is constantly painted over by the vibration of the unconcealed presence of a writer constantly in search of himself, and rife with beguiling, stimulating, and ever-renewed surprises."[16] This accords with Szentkuthy's grandiose if not quixotic goal of creating what he repeatedly called "a Catalogus Rerum, a listing of entities and phenomena, a Catalogue of everything in the Entire World."
Recognizing the absurdity of totalizing projects like the Catalogus Rerum, Szentkuthy himself found it laughable; yet, at the same time, it was to him "a truly noble, Faustian goal" in which he sought to summarize "the untold thousands of phenomena in the world."[17] This included cataloguing "all of nature's accessible phenomena, all the heavens and hells of love, the whole world of history, and finally a universal review of mythologies (the universal show), all the way to Christian mythology."[18] What differentiates Szentkuthy from the Encyclopaedists et alia, though, is that this is only a cataloguing, not a Promethean attempt to harness and dominate nature; what further differentiates him from them is also his very jocularity, as well as his recognizing that the Faustian target will never be reached. The fool is the saving figure, the moral fulcrum, he who sabotages the Socratic project for he knows its perils (the Revolution, the Terror, the Napoleonic Wars). Echoing the ne quid nimis of Pittacus of Mytilene, both Horace and Ovid respectively warn: aurea mediocritas and medio tutissimus ibis.
What, one might wonder, informs this strange boke? Szentkuthy is guided or prompted into his Faustian venture by sources as varied and diverse as Paracelsus, Spengler, and Viennese psychology, among other things. In addition, Towards the One and Only Metaphor is a response to criticisms directed against Prae. To combat the image of himself as "some sort of book-bug homunculus,"[19] he wrote Metaphor to establish his humanity, and the very title is a signification of the arc, movement, and revolutions through which it moves, from the maniacal cataloguing of everything in the world to the one and only crystallizing metaphor that will contain it all. First, Paracelsus:
Just as Paracelsus brought the human body, the stars, and minerals to a common denominator, or the way modern physics has a tendency to crop up every now and again, bringing to a common denominator all the material phenomena of the world (material is actually a property of energy, energy is actually a property of space . . . ), so I wished to offer some kind of summing-up of art, theology, love, life, death, the everyday, mythology, games, tragedy, the cradle, the grave, jokes, a declaration. A listing is not moonshine: with me those are true 'contrasts.'[20]
And so it is, with Szentkuthy taking up through his means the Paracelsian ethos and tracing out through his 'lists' not only contrasts, but affinities and analogies, the vibrating correspondences that reveal the very fabric or threads underlining the universe. What is it, the indefatigable searcher asks, that underlies all things? What is the common denominator that can link one's organs, a chemical substance, and the most distant nebulae? [21] How can these disparate things be united? Szentkuthy's lists then are not mere lists, not "moonshine" as he objects, but are gathered from that sub specie aeterni perspective; if he catalogues, he does not descend into a mere grocery list of items. Instead, his cataloguing is more mercurial, more chemical, a transplanting of mathematical formulae into literary style. In this, in the Paracelsian ethos, we have the methodology of the book, though that word sounds too theoretical for a clowning, prankish, iconoclastic author like Szentkuthy who, just like Paracelsus, believed that "knowledge is experience" and since the "high colleges manage to produce so many high asses . . . a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them."[22]
While a Catalogus Rerum, Towards the One and Only Metaphor is also a confessio, and this takes us—cursorily—into Spengler and Viennese psychology, into the practice of analysis, for Szentkuthy came of age during the birth, struggle, and apotheosis of modern psychology. By the time he wrote his book, Freud, Jung, and Adler had published almost all of their major works and the International Psychoanalytical Association had not only been in existence for a quarter-of-a-century but had suffered its major fractures and strongest opposing theories, most prominently with Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), Rank's The Trauma of Birth (1924), and Reich's Function of the Orgasm (1927). In 1933—one year before the publication of Szentkuthy's Prae—Hitler rose to power, Freud's and Reich's books were destroyed on the infamous night of book burning, and Jung published his seminal text, Modern Man in Search of a Soul. In fact, the quite exacting and singular definition that Jung outlines of the modern man could very well apply to Szentkuthy:
. . . the man we call modern, the man who is aware of the immediate present, is by no means the average man. He is rather the man who stands upon a peak, or at the very edge of the world, the abyss of the future before him, above him the heavens, and below him the whole of mankind with a history that disappears in primeval mists. Since to be wholly of the present means to be fully conscious of one's existence as a man, it requires the most intensive and extensive consciousness, with a minimum of unconsciousness. It must be clearly understood that the mere fact of living in the present does not make a man modern, for in that case everyone at present alive would be so. He alone is modern who is fully conscious of the present.
The man whom we can with justice call "modern" is solitary. He is so of necessity and at all times, for every step towards a fuller consciousness of the present moves him further from his original "participation mystique" with the mass of man—from submersion in a common unconsciousness. Every step forward means an act of tearing himself loose from that all-embracing, pristine unconsciousness which claims the bulk of mankind almost entirely.[23]
It is in the ferment of this political upheaval and intense psychic exploration that Szentkuthy begins his life as a writer. While as a Catholic, albeit a highly unorthodox one, the rite of confession was central to his life, the act of analysis and ruthless self-examination was intensely heightened by his impassioned study of the works of Freud, Jung, and Adler. If there is no explicit trace of their terminology in his work, the 'influence' is there, most prominently in his obsessive pursuit of the question. For one of the most conspicuous features of Towards the One and Only Metaphor is analysis. "My endeavor," he revealed, points
to a world concept [világkép] in which I am able to offer a summation of the ultimate questions of life. (Like the figures seen in old coats of arms—the stylized images of a lion, the moon, stars, a chess table, an arm with a mace, hillocks and stretches of water, et cetera—a lot of fine things fit into a small space . . . ) Ultimate question is a very good term because in this world of ours everything remains a question, at least for the examining brain. As a result . . . , it is of much more value to catalogue issues that reach to the very foundations of the world than to give premature answers and solutions.[24]
No answers, no solutions, but a catalogue of questions, though that is not meant literally: one will not find in this book a single list in the common sense. Whatever came to hand, ear, eye or skin was analyzed by Szentkuthy with rigor, to the extent that it lay in his powers, he "endeavored to get to the bottom of things with the same passion as that exerted by the Viennese physician."[25] To listen to him think is mesmerizing. This persistent mania for analysis and summation was vindicated he said by Spengler's The Decline of the West (1918). In particular, as Szentkuthy describes it, Spengler's biological view of the life cycle of cultures solidified his search for the unifying Paracelsian metaphor:
According to Spengler, the history of the Chinese, Jews, Greeks, Egyptians, Arabs, etc. all displayed one and the same biological progression and formula, the primitive epoch of birth may be seen everywhere, the most splendid era of flowering, and then the over-ripeness in every area at harvesting time, which in turn leads on to total withering and an almost sickly unproductive decadence. Thus, for Spengler at least, world history shows a single picture or recipe—a one and only metaphor!—as, indeed, in several other respects, the histories of plants and animals also do from the earliest times until the present age.[26]
Early critics such as Gábor Halász saw in the book only a chaos of oral speech devoid of an organizing principle, let alone a calculating geometry. Instead, it was pure excitability, tension, flair, nerve, and intellectual paroxysm; not a unified work, only the precursor to a work; all that "is left is this prae," he concluded his review, pointing back toward Szentkuthy's audacious first novel, remarking then, dismissively, that he had still not yet learned how to write but was simply casting at his readers "raw material."[27] Clearly, Halász could not recognize the Paracelsian aim of the book, nor that its organizing principle was entirely unique; like with any fragmentary work, its lack of some systematic structure does not betray a lack of design, nor lack of a guiding vision. True, it is an essayistic and confessional work à la Montaigne, yet, if fragmentary, Towards the One and Only Metaphor is at the same time ordered, like a group of disparate stars which, when viewed from afar, reveal or can be perceived to form a constellation—they are sculpted by a geometry of thought, for, as András Keszthelyi observed, the text is essentially something of a manifesto, "an explicit formulation of the author's intentions, his scale of values, or, if you wish: his ars poetica."[28] And when reviewing the book upon its original publication, Németh elucidated its geometrical and biological dimensions, noting how, through dehumanization, Szentkuthy returns us to the embryo and the ornament. Such is done to take us into the very particles of existence, as Németh also outlines:
There is no form and content in humanity; our protoplasm is more geometrical and our form more formless than the geometry and biology bubbling up in Szentkuthy's U-tube. His method is dehumanizing; he dehumanizes man by mutilating him in the direction of the embryo and the ornament. The dehumanization, at root, is irony, and the type of writer who simply wishes to keep on smiling during the puppet show and gut-wrenching may well feel just fine. But Szentkuthy is not that type; indeed, he is greatly preoccupied with humanity, and in his ecstasy as lyrical agitator-cum-preacher would far sooner push our eyes, ears, and heads under his gestures and words.[29]
And in Marginalia on Casanova, through the figure of its narrator, St. Orpheus, Szentkuthy offers a key to his very art: he describes 'the most savage battle of his life,' which he goes on to define as "the battle of the 'descriptive' versus the 'anecdoticizing,' the Romantically luxuriant in statics versus the French moralizing. . ." While both figure prominently throughout his oeuvre, description is undoubtedly victorious, and in it he finds "many more novelties, variations, elements, and shades than in any kind of so-called rational thinking. The most complex thoughts, poetic sensibilities, or philosophical sophistications are all stupefying platitudes, oafish homogenizing beside the infinity of nuancing an object."[30] And so he brings us into the very particles of existence through his principle of analysis. It is not only objects that Szentkuthy works with but also concepts, historical phenomena, consciousness, and many others, including language itself, which he turns into living creatures.
It is hoped that the 21st century will see Szentkuthy's transcontinental reception and renascence, and that—as Nicholas Birns predicted in a review of Marginalia on Casanova—"Szentkuthy will unquestionably enter and alter the canon of twentieth-century literature as we know it."[31] For the canon will not be closed as long as Weltliteratur is moving—like Szentkuthy, and now with Szentkuthy—towards the one and only metaphor.
Rainer J. Hanshe is the founder of Contra Mundum Press. His novels include The Acolytes and The Abdication (currently being translated into Italian, Turkish, and Slovakian). He is at work on his third, Humanimality.
[1] For one analysis of this in English, see Nicholas Birns, "Startling Dryness: Szentkuthy's Black Renaissance," Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics (summer 2013), 227-242.
[2] László Németh, "Miklós Szentkuthy, Az egyetlen metafora felé," Tanú, No. 1-2 (1936), tr. by Tim Wilkinson.
[3] Maria Tompa, "A végső kérdések kulisszái," Orpheus, N. 1, Vol. V (1994) 45-52. An expanded, English version of this essay, "Backdrops to the Ultimate Questions: Szentkuthy's Diary Life," appeared in Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics (summer 2013), 282-313.
[4] Miklós Szentkuthy, Frivolitások és hitvallások (Budapest: Magvető, 1988) XII, 340.
[5] Miklós Szentkuthy, Prae: Recollections of My Career, tr. by Tim Wilkinson, Hungarian Literature Online (April 23, 2012) §21.
[6] Miklós Szentkuthy, Towards the One and Only Metaphor, tr. by Tim Wilkinson (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2013) §43. This section begins with the phrase: "A Haydn sonata and a cactus." Haydn is representative of the first form of experimentation and cacti of the second.
[7] Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) §272.
[8] Florence Noiville, "Imre Kertész's Hungary: A Country on the Wrong Side of History," The Guardian (February 12, 2012).
[9] Miklós Szentkuthy, Prae, tr. by Philippe Dôme, Pál Nagy, and Tibor Papp, D'Atelier, No. 6–7 (1974) 7–58.
[10] József J. Fekete, "Outprousting Proust: Szentkuthy, the Proteus of Hungarian Literature," Hungarian Literature Online (July 3, 2008).
[11] Szentkuthy, Prae: Recollections of My Career, ibid.
[12] Németh, ibid.
[13] Miklós Szentkuthy, Az élet faggatottja: Beszélgetések, riportok, interjúk Sz.M.-sal (Budapest: Hamvas Intézet, 2006) 107.
[14] Szentkuthy also met both Eliot and Dylan Thomas at a reading in England, corresponded in brief with Thomas after asking the poet to revise his wife's translation of an essay he'd written on Joyce, and met with Robert Graves in Hungary in May of 1968. Despite these encounters with three of the foremost writers of the 20th century, it did not lead to any greater notice of Szentkuthy's work, nor efforts to translate it into English. For Szentkuthy's own account of his encounters with Eliot and Thomas, see Prae: Recollections of My Career, ibid., §36. For his translation of Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent," see "Hagyomány és egyéniség," Uõ: Káosz a rendben (Budapest: Gondolat, 1981) 61-72.
[15] Translation of Szentkuthy's work actually began in the mid 30s, when excerpts of Prae and other texts (mostly essays), were translated into German; however, they were never published. The very first published translation of Szentkuthy's work was of an essay he wrote on Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers. See "Joseph-Geschichten," tr. by Pia Razgha, Sinn und Form (1965) 205-217. Mann read the essay and expressed his admiration for it, writing to Razgha that he found it an "exceedingly artistic, spirited, and chromatic review" and that Szentkuthy is "an amusable, very astute, sensitive, and susceptible spirit, blessed with a supreme degree of humor. . ." Mann concluded his letter by noting that Szentkuthy's critical tone reminded him "very much of something Russian; in the manner Mereschkowsky writes about Gogol, for instance. Anyway: I read his whole study feeling true pleasure from the first to the last word. . ." The original German letter precedes Razgha's translation of Szentkuthy's essay: "Thomas Mann an Pia Razgha," Sinn und Form (1965) 204. Szentkuthy was then translated into Serbo-Croatian in 1970 (an excerpt from Prae), into French in 1974 (an excerpt from Prae), into Serbo-Croatian again in 1985 (the essay "Makrokosmos"), and into Polish in 1986 (an excerpt from the St. Orpheus Breviary). The first complete work of Szentkuthy's to be translated into another language was Divertimento, his novel on Mozart, which was published by Tatran in Slovakia in 1990.
[16] Dezső Baróti, "On Az egyetlen metafora felé," Új tükör 21, No. 1 (1985). Tr. by Tim Wilkinson.
[17] Frivolitások és hitvallások, ibid., ch. XIII.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Ibid.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Miklós Szentkuthy, Frivolitások és hitvallások, ibid., 325.
[22] George Constable, Secrets of the Alchemists: Mysteries of the Unknown (Alexandria, VA: Time Life Education, 1991) 63.
[23] Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1933) 196-197.
[24] Frivolitások és hitvallások, ibid., ch. XIII.
[25] Ibid.
[26] Ibid.
[27] "On Az egyetlen metafora felé," Napkelet, No. 12 (1935).
[28] András Keszthelyi, "Mit üzen a 'monstrum'?" Élet és Irodalom (November 7, 1985). Tr. by Tim Wilkinson.
[29] Németh, ibid.
[30] Marginalia on Casanova, ibid., §73, p. 130. Emphasis added.
[31] Nicholas Birns, Tropes of Tenth Street (October 6, 2012).
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
La Biferia
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Tomato Salad...
Mixto de Chorizo y Morcilla y Arepa - very darn good.
Ian, Danilo & Jose pondering.
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Day One and look at that audience. Amazing!
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Senorita Varon doing her thing.
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Local cuisine in our hotel in Normandy
During your stay in our hotel in Pont-L' Evêque, taste the delicious Normandy's specialities.
Noramndy is a land known for its cheeses, cold meats and apples from which cider and Calvados are made. Our hotel near Deauville has prepared special dishes in the restaurant "Le Carrousel" to discover a variety of local products.
Our hotel near Deauville offers you some surprises
Our hotel invites you to have lunch in the restaurant "Les Tonneaux du Père Magloire" overlooking the Chais des Calvados in the in Pont-L' Evèque. In this warm decor, come and taste seasonal dishes and best recipes (melted with cheeses, gourmet cassolettes, Léontine pies…) accompanied by a pitcher of cider with an authentic atmosphere.
As for the cider lovers, we recommend a visit to Père Magloire cellars, owned by Debrise Dulac; or the "Domaine de Christian Drouin" in Coudray-Rabut, a distillery near the Jardins de Deauville.
The horses whisper
Your stay in Normandy continues with the visit of the Stud farm "d' Ecajeul" in the afternoon, located about 30 km from your hotel in Pont-L' Evèque. The owners, Isabelle and Jean-Luc, explain the basics of their profession, make you discover the place and even give you some information about the "secret of the Whisperers".
The stud farm, created in 1947, welcomes horses for breeding and prepares thoroughbreds for training and competitions.