Then Penrose mentions that people don 't interact much in Eden-Olympia. Paul tells him that him and Jane go to Cannes and talk to the tourist. Penrose responds that he thinks tourist are strange and people who live outside of Eden-Olympia are missing something. Then Penrose talks about how Eden-Olympia doesn 't have charities, churches, police or legal system and tells Paul that they run everything. He says for the skilled and aspiring people it means work and no play. According to Penrose “work is where they find their real fulfillment – running an investment bank, designing an airport, bringing on stream a new family of antibiotics” (Pg. 94). Stating that residents in Eden-Olympia enjoy working and that 's their play. In an article written
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He goes alone while Jane is working late. When he 's there he notices two prostitutes who were muscular walking in the bar and sat at the table next to his. As he is here he says “I needed to escape from Eden-Olympia, with its ceaseless work and it 's ethic of corporate responsibility.” He wanted to get away from the supposedly perfect life of Eden-Olympia. He starts thinking about Jane and how they rarely have sex and somehow became disconnected. Then he starts reminiscing about how his parents were unfaithful. His father was having affairs and it complicated his supposed busy life. After a while Paul starts feeling buzzed and decides to leave. As he is leaving he began to follow the two prostitutes but couldn 't keep up because of his injured knee. He started walking to the garage near the railway station where he had parked his Jaguar. As he inserted his ticket into the pay machine he notices two men and a young girl walking. The young girl is wearing a schoolgirl’s outfit and has heavy makeup. She hears the rattle of coins from the machine and turns to smile at Paul. He realizes that the two men were her …show more content…
Penrose lets him in quietly and offers to make coffee. When he leaves Paul starts looking around his home and notices it was sort of empty and mostly white. He comes across a portrait of a man in his fifties wearing khaki pants and is smiling at the camera. Penrose mentions that it’s his father and takes the frame away to put it back. He tells Paul that he worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Beirut and was killed in 1980. Paul notices another photo of a man in a boxing ring and though it was Penrose when he was younger but it happened to be his father also. He tells Paul “boxing released something in him- he was a gentle man out of the ring, a very good husband and father, but vicious inside the ropes”. Then Paul asks him if he took up boxing and he tells him he did for a while but that it triggered the wrong emotions. Penrose says “still, it gave me an important idea – my father’s boxing career, in particular” (Pg. 243). In a way he tells Paul that boxing or other violent acts can relieve some kind of stress and doing that will keep you sane. In an article written by Tim Adams he says, “stress is minimized through an unfailing network of support systems” which is what is happening in
He goes alone while Jane is working late. When he 's there he notices two prostitutes who were muscular walking in the bar and sat at the table next to his. As he is here he says “I needed to escape from Eden-Olympia, with its ceaseless work and it 's ethic of corporate responsibility.” He wanted to get away from the supposedly perfect life of Eden-Olympia. He starts thinking about Jane and how they rarely have sex and somehow became disconnected. Then he starts reminiscing about how his parents were unfaithful. His father was having affairs and it complicated his supposed busy life. After a while Paul starts feeling buzzed and decides to leave. As he is leaving he began to follow the two prostitutes but couldn 't keep up because of his injured knee. He started walking to the garage near the railway station where he had parked his Jaguar. As he inserted his ticket into the pay machine he notices two men and a young girl walking. The young girl is wearing a schoolgirl’s outfit and has heavy makeup. She hears the rattle of coins from the machine and turns to smile at Paul. He realizes that the two men were her …show more content…
Penrose lets him in quietly and offers to make coffee. When he leaves Paul starts looking around his home and notices it was sort of empty and mostly white. He comes across a portrait of a man in his fifties wearing khaki pants and is smiling at the camera. Penrose mentions that it’s his father and takes the frame away to put it back. He tells Paul that he worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Beirut and was killed in 1980. Paul notices another photo of a man in a boxing ring and though it was Penrose when he was younger but it happened to be his father also. He tells Paul “boxing released something in him- he was a gentle man out of the ring, a very good husband and father, but vicious inside the ropes”. Then Paul asks him if he took up boxing and he tells him he did for a while but that it triggered the wrong emotions. Penrose says “still, it gave me an important idea – my father’s boxing career, in particular” (Pg. 243). In a way he tells Paul that boxing or other violent acts can relieve some kind of stress and doing that will keep you sane. In an article written by Tim Adams he says, “stress is minimized through an unfailing network of support systems” which is what is happening in