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« Reply #1065 on: February 20, 2010, 01:10:40 PM » |
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I saw Persepolis and cried (along with laughing, of course). Amazing that a cartoon character can do that to you!
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"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them." Anais Nin
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« Reply #1066 on: March 01, 2010, 08:46:50 PM » |
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Read Turgenev's Faust, demonstrates his non-Russian influences yet again by being not long-winded at all. So-so read in all.
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'I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. ' Charles M. Schulz
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« Reply #1067 on: March 01, 2010, 11:01:43 PM » |
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I picked up an anthology of Urdu poetry from the library too...though it was kind of off-putting...the only people there are old dead guys. The poetry itself is translated. I couldnt find anything with both the urdu and the english which is unfortunate.
That is very unfair. I'd like to know who exactly were they, Imaginary? Those old dead guys? And by the way, do read Faiz and Raashid whenever you find an opportunity, latter being a genius, even better than Faiz, imho. Yes, I said that: BETTER than Faiz or anyone else ! Raashid's Hasan Koozagar (Hasan, The Potmaker) being a masterpiece among many others. |
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king; I've been up and down and over and out. And I know one thing: each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race.
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« Reply #1068 on: March 07, 2010, 03:07:32 AM » |
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Started with reading the scarlet letter but went to sleep within 2 minutes of picking up the book.  |
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'I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. ' Charles M. Schulz
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« Reply #1069 on: March 07, 2010, 03:19:38 PM » |
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Don't...don't say that. I veel keel you. Don't let my size fool you.  Meanwhile, I have decided to venture forth Eco's Rose once more...ebook style. |
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Where is the focus on the arts? On the bright and creative minds of tomorrow? If there’s no environment, it will never have a chance for true cultivation. We’re here for the artists, the photographers, the writers, cynics and poets of today and tomorrow. Have something to say? Say it, already! |
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« Reply #1070 on: March 07, 2010, 05:01:29 PM » |
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Pleez don't Keel me. *cowers* But scarlet letter does indeed seem THAT boring  And if you're ready to read (and return it within this lifetime) my copy of name of the rose is available.  |
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'I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. ' Charles M. Schulz
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« Reply #1071 on: March 07, 2010, 06:55:33 PM » |
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scarlet letter... liked it but it's fairly straightforward in terms of discussion imo.
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” - Anton Chekhov
“If there’s an afterlife, I can picture Plath and Cobain prowling through it together.” - Alicia Ostriker
“Often, I only hear the splashing of a goldfish lost in the drainage, circumnavigating the copper entrails of a city unwilling to listen.” - 'Bestiary', Christian Ward
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« Reply #1072 on: March 08, 2010, 03:27:13 AM » |
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We read it last year for English. It's an amazing book. I hate Dimmesdale. That pompous ass.
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I've always wondered why the world is such a pain in the ass sometimes. Then my family corrected my thinking and got me wondering why I was such a pain in the world's ass. Whatever.
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« Reply #1073 on: March 12, 2010, 02:34:30 AM » |
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@piyu: 'gone with the wind' is cheesecake.
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« Reply #1074 on: March 17, 2010, 10:45:37 AM » |
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Just finished reading Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook. One of the central themes in this is life as an act of creation which is just such an awesome way to look at it. It is, of course, accompanied by Winterson's usual themes - love, loss, identity, hope, big questions that everyone asks but no one has the answer to <-- seems like her speciality. Will be getting The Passion (same author) from a prof on Thursday so yay! I have borrowed In Other Rooms, Other Wonders from the library but for some reason cannot read it. I started and had to stop and cant figure out why. It just seems so...odd, inexplainably so, to be reading about teh Des I guess. Will try getting to it again later. On my list of theorists to read up on is Edward Said who has written a lot about identity, exile, "orientalism", migration etc. Interesting guy with very interesting stuff to say. Also going to be reading up on Kristeva who is a leading feminist theorist. Am particularly interested in her idea of "the abject" (learned about it in class  ) i.e. how we shit to live..or put more eloquently that our bodies must expel waste and distinguish themselves from it to recognise ourselves as alive and reaffirm the aliveness...sound perfectly fine in bodily terms but causes problems of course when applied to "national bodies" and societies etc...people who are essentially the waste of society must be expelled for other people to distinguish themselves as part of those that "live". That is it briefly. "That is very unfair. I'd like to know who exactly were they, Imaginary? Those old dead guys?" Was not motivated enough by anything about the book and the way the poems were translated to actually look up names, but will check out the people you've recommended. The problem I have with old dead guys is not that they are old dead guys but that I am sure there are old dead women as well who were poets and who have not been included in a history/anthology of urdu literature. *That* is unfair. And of course, the perpetuation and looking up to outdated ideologies is also an issue. |
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God bless me I'm a free man
With no place free to go
Paralyzed and collared tight
No pills for what I fear
This is crazy, I wish I was the moon tonight
~ Neko Case, I Wish I Was the Moon
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« Reply #1075 on: March 20, 2010, 04:53:34 PM » |
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Came across Luigi Pirandello a month ago when my aunt sent me two of his most famous novels:
The Late Mattia Pascal - Il Fu Mattia Pascal, and
One, No one and One Hundred Thousand - Uno, Nessuno e Centomila.
The latter is a must read - one of the best novels I 've ever read. Had it not been for these two books, my stay in the windswept and inhospitable Cholistan would have been a misery.
How we find our own personal ways of chronicling events in our lives ! Places go down in my memory in reference to the books I read there. About some nameless trough, north-east of Darawar, I'd first discovered Garcia Lorca. Dingarh: there... one evening I opened a book and met Vitangelo, and he seemed to me a bit like myself: immersed in a fathomless sea of self-discovery. That's how I've come to respect Pirandello.
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I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king; I've been up and down and over and out. And I know one thing: each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race.
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« Reply #1076 on: March 22, 2010, 10:58:35 AM » |
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Random question, but can we discuss graphic novels in the book club meets?
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” - Anton Chekhov
“If there’s an afterlife, I can picture Plath and Cobain prowling through it together.” - Alicia Ostriker
“Often, I only hear the splashing of a goldfish lost in the drainage, circumnavigating the copper entrails of a city unwilling to listen.” - 'Bestiary', Christian Ward
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« Reply #1077 on: March 23, 2010, 11:31:50 PM » |
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It's been done in the past, re: Neil Gaiman. There is a comic book discussion thread in this forum too, however. Hang on and I'll bump it back up. ETA: Here you go. Enjoy! : ) |
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Where is the focus on the arts? On the bright and creative minds of tomorrow? If there’s no environment, it will never have a chance for true cultivation. We’re here for the artists, the photographers, the writers, cynics and poets of today and tomorrow. Have something to say? Say it, already! |
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« Reply #1078 on: March 24, 2010, 12:11:25 AM » |
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w00t! Thanks MP |
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” - Anton Chekhov
“If there’s an afterlife, I can picture Plath and Cobain prowling through it together.” - Alicia Ostriker
“Often, I only hear the splashing of a goldfish lost in the drainage, circumnavigating the copper entrails of a city unwilling to listen.” - 'Bestiary', Christian Ward
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« Reply #1079 on: March 29, 2010, 07:02:18 PM » |
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A note to our Isloo book club group: I'm reading the current selection these days, so I don't want attendees stating that they haven't read the book. Let's go back to actually reading the selections and acting like a book club. Otherwise we're just meeting under the pretense of meeting as a book club, and treating it like a get together.
Yes, I am significantly displeased with this and last month's performance.
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