BWT What is the culture that made you say culture was for you?
Hey BWT! I’m inspired by this question that is posed to all guests on the Las Culturistas podcast:
What is the piece of culture that made you say culture is for you?
Something that at some point in your life made you want to pull at a certain thread of curiosity? Where did it lead?
For me, it’s literature. As a child, I was an avid reader, and it wasn’t until I became more discerning about what I read that I truly understood how reading from the great writers over the course of the past decades and centuries can teach us so much that is applicable to having good taste - historical events, diving deep into characters and their development, gaining an understanding of what society and social expectations were at different periods and around different parts of the world - and using that to inspire my own life and tastes.
Most recently, I spent my summer deep inside the world of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and it was absolutely gorgeous. Before that, I had read Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo - where I had become fascinated about the Napoleonic period and began to seek out other works around this period. To continue on, I have recently picked up Hugo’s Les Misérables as my upcoming read and I’m very much looking forward to curling up with it and countless cups of coffee on upcoming crisp autumn mornings!