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It's been a while...
This morning I found myself without knowing how on the New Yorker's website with the clear purpose, or so it appeared to me afterwards, of discovering what Daniel Mendelsohn had been up to lately...
And I read this.
It won't surprise you, surely, that I suddenly feel very much like reading Theodor Fontane.... The power of this man...
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Good Morning - Midnight
Good Morning-Midnight-
I'm coming Home-
Day-got tired of Me-
How could I-of Him?
Sunshine was a sweet place-
I liked to stay-
But Morn-didn't want me-now-
So-Goodnight-Day!
I can look-can't I-
When the East is Red?
The Hills-have a way-then-
That puts the Heart-abroad-
You-are not so fair-Midnight-
I chose-Day-
But-please take a little Girl-
He turned away!
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Poetry...
It's all secretsolitaire 's fault! She is the one who put me in the mood for poetry... So I grabbed the first poetry volume I found at hand... Jorge Luis Borges happened to be on my nightstand...
A Rose and Milton.
From the generations of roses
That are lost in the depths of time
I want one saved from oblivion,
One spotless rose, of all things
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Films...
I watched and loved in January:
Anne of the Thousand Days. www.imdb.com/title/tt0064030/
Sunrise. www.imdb.com/title/tt0018455/
Perhaps Love.www.imdb.com/title/tt0454914/
The Passion of Joan of Arc. www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/ (I may talk again about this one...)
Siegfried.www.imdb.com/title/tt0015175/
The Crowd. www.imdb.com/title/tt0018806/
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Prague - 1
I'm not sure you will be interested in these... but I wanted to share this. I had a great time there, Prague is a beautiful city.
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Va, vis et deviens.
Yesterday I watched this extremely beautiful and moving film, and I felt like sharing...
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Keeping notes...
"I would like to believe that beauty is of deep import to our modern age. Without question, the intention of morality, philosophy, and religious belief is to bring hope, joy, peace, and freedom to mankind. But in our time religion has lost its grip. Intellectualism has undermined spiritual aspiration in most people. At this juncture I would put the ( Read more... )
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