What Is This Beautiful Smoke?

[puff_not_snuff]

I filled a pipe with some aged, slightly damp, Full Virginia Flake. Lit with one flick of a Bic and smoke passed through my nose, seemingly just a few degrees above the ambient. For almost an hour I wondered: What is this beautiful smoke, and what is life without consumption and its contemplation?

PS: I also drank a bottle of cheap Chianti.

 

[Magpiety]

Huge fan of everything about this post.

aged, slightly damp, Full Virginia Flake.

Sublime

Lit with one flick of a Bic

Even sublimer

PS: I also drank a bottle of cheap Chianti.

Most sublimest


Serious reply--contemplation is the essence of leisure. The word "leisure" has colloquially taken on the incorrect meaning of "relaxation." It used to necessarily include the idea of contemplation, which isn't an activity done in order to rest up for another day of work. It was truly enjoying something for no purpose outside of itself, like children playing. Studying philosophy for a purpose (like i'm going to impress women at the bar) makes it non-contemplative, at least as the idea of leisure was defined in antiquity. Pipe smoking is primarily done for itself, for no exterior purpose--this is what makes it truly leisurely. I'm just parroting the thoughts of this philosopher:

Leisure

"One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This special new edition now also includes his little work The...

books.google.com

I'm a huge fan of his.

PS - I'm killing a box of Franzia

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Huge fan of everything about this post.



Sublime



Even sublimer



Most sublimest


Serious reply--contemplation is the essence of leisure. The word "leisure" has colloquially taken on the incorrect meaning of "relaxation." It used to necessarily include the idea of contemplation, which isn't an activity done in order to rest up for another day of work. It was truly enjoying something for no purpose outside of itself, like children playing. Studying philosophy for a purpose (like i'm going to impress women at the bar) makes it non-contemplative, at least as the idea of leisure was defined in antiquity. Pipe smoking is primarily done for itself, for no exterior purpose--this is what makes it truly leisurely. I'm just parroting the thoughts of this philosopher:

Leisure

"One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This special new edition now also includes his little work The...

books.google.com

I'm a huge fan of his.

PS - I'm killing a box of Franzia

Never heard of Pieper, he seemed like a piper at heart. Odd for a German, not typically associated with leisure. Americans, with our roots firmly in the soil of the Protestant work ethic, have labored over leisure and it seems like even the Spanish siesta has nearly vanished due to globalization etc. Anyways...

The only problem with a box of wine is that it’s hard to tell if you drank a bottle or three.

 

[mso489]

Chianti is often better than it's price. It can be raw and nasty, but usually isn't. I avoid the ones in the straw baskets, though. Like I'm a big consumer of wine ... but now and then with meals, yes.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Never heard of Pieper, he seemed like a piper at heart. Odd for a German, not typically associated with leisure. Americans, with our roots firmly in the soil of the Protestant work ethic, have labored over leisure and it seems like even the Spanish siesta has nearly vanished due to globalization etc. Anyways...

The only problem with a box of wine is that it’s hard to tell if you drank a bottle or three.

The so called Siesta 'still going strong at least in the southern parts of Spain (Provincia de Andalucia ) and Southern Italy (Provincia di Campania and Salerno regions)

 

[puff_not_snuff]

The so called Siesta 'still going strong at least in the southern parts of Spain (Provincia de Andalucia ) and Southern Italy (Provincia di Campania and Salerno regions)

That’s comforting...

 

[saltedplug]

I'm reading the OP and am impressed with the quality of his smoke. But then I read he was drinking. So the source of the zone is unknown: a trained mind that entered the zone or that mind persuaded by the wine to do the same.

I applaud that smoke, however you found it.