Voices – A new section in the Pineapple.
One question. Many lives.
Ask six people the same question and you’ll probably get six different answers. Some will make you smile. Others might surprise you. Occasionally, someone will say something that makes you reconsider what you thought you knew.
Now imagine asking that question in different parts of the world.
That’s the idea behind Voices, our new section in The Pineapple.
Every week at Brida, our conversations revolve around a particular theme. We thought it might be interesting to take one question from that theme and send it a little further afield.
Beyond our Tables. Beyond the people we already know.
The answers might come from someone in Belarus, a shopkeeper in Baku, a retired teacher in Germany or somebody going about an ordinary Wednesday somewhere we’ve never visited.
We don’t know what they’ll say. That’s rather the point.
Some answers will be thoughtful, others funny, unexpected or wonderfully ordinary. They won’t necessarily agree with one another, and we certainly don’t intend to tidy them up into a single conclusion.
We’ll simply bring some of those voices together and let you discover the people behind them.
Because sometimes a few words from somebody you’ve never met can stay with you long after you’ve finished reading.
And to begin, we travel to Belarus.
This week’s question.
What everyday thing in your life brings you way more joy than it should?
Pavel — Belarus.
“What everyday thing in your life brings you way more joy than it should?” is not easy, because what is everyday thing for me is not an everyday thing for many other people. My answer is “reading books”, it’s a kind of escapism, I read a lot, but mostly stupid (OK, not so stupid) SF&F written by Russians 😉 it becomes harder and harder to find new books, new authors which are not bullshit – but they still exist, people still write books.and some of them are still good.