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« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2009, 12:22:20 PM » |
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war and more war. those chinese like to duke it out and then some.
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« Reply #46 on: September 12, 2009, 01:22:58 AM » |
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it is a beauty, mike. it reminds me of a japanese film, ugetsu, by k. mizoguchi. so smooth, it as if we are privy to a conversation - but within the story is a wide expanse of human drama, emotion, and pathos.
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« Reply #47 on: September 18, 2009, 01:20:54 AM » |
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...the not so famous man/famous potter and the banshee....what a story...
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« Reply #48 on: September 18, 2009, 01:47:28 AM » |
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ugetsu is magnificent. i don't think there is a better film - only as good. fellini did la strada the same year i believe.
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« Reply #49 on: October 05, 2009, 02:59:05 AM » |
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if it comes up it comes up. poetry feeds off cinema as well. i don't see the problem, mike.
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« Reply #50 on: October 05, 2009, 11:27:55 AM » |
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thanks for the info. have you seen l'avventura? great film.
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« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2009, 01:58:51 PM » |
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poets that i would like to know more abt u could take up?
Heinrich von Kleist (he mostly wrote plays) (I don't think his poetry has even been translated) (possibly the ONLY great right wing writer) (psyko)
Manilius- Roman- long poem on astronomy
Clement Marot- early French-remarkable poet
the French poet imprisoned and guillotined during the revolution-wrote great poem from prison- why do I always blank on his name?
e e cummings
Pound the later cantos
the left Spanish poets of the 20th century- not just Lorca- Neruda- the others that are in Che's book of favorite poets
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« Reply #52 on: October 09, 2009, 02:05:18 PM » |
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it was Andre Chenier
Rimbaud would b good
and Holderlin- Pleez do Holderlin!!!
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« Reply #53 on: October 09, 2009, 08:55:48 PM » |
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we are with the ancients now - i'll have to consult with my colleague for changes in agenda.
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« Reply #54 on: October 09, 2009, 09:29:24 PM » |
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no changes to the syllabus! how can you have rimbaud without first having saffron? we are laying a foundation of culture here. i say good day.
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« Reply #55 on: October 11, 2009, 04:44:18 PM » |
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cardemom is my favorite - next to saffron!
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« Reply #56 on: October 13, 2009, 01:27:39 PM » |
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most overrated spice
occasionally i have been able to actually TASTE saffron- usually it is just a yellow coloring- i've come to think of it as a tremendous rip off- some one told me- o- you have to have the genuine article- i actually bought some pistils from the flower-ground em myself- still nothing
once and a great while- a kind of thick- heavy yellowish taste that has no distinction-more of a texture than a taste
but bardinski and dinowski- please explicate what it tastes like to you?
it sounds great, i admit
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i like the hot stuff myself- scotch bonnet peppers laddees
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« Reply #57 on: October 13, 2009, 03:22:38 PM » |
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we are discussing saffron of lesbos - not some salt substitute. sheesh!
here's a couple phoenician poems that pre-date the iliad.
From The Rapiuma, translated by Theodore J. Lewis
Behold your son, behold...
Your grandson, your shrine;
Behold ... your hand.
The small one will kiss your lips.
There, shoulder to shoulder.
Brothers, attendants of El...
There mortals .. the name of El,
... heroes bless the name of El.
There the shades of Baal ...
Warriors of Baal
Warriors of Anat.
There armed forces encircle
The eternal royal princes
As when Anat hastens to the hunt
Sets to flight the birds of the heavens.
They slaughtered oxen; sheep as well;
They felled bulls, fatlings too,
Also rams and year old calves,
They butchered lambs ad even kids.
Olive oil -- like silver to travelers,
... -- like gold to travelers.
... a table set with fruit,
Laid with fruit fit for kings,
Day long they pour the wine,
... must-wine, fit for rulers.
Wine, sweet and abundant,
Select wine...
The choice wine of Lebanon,
Must nurtured by El.
One day passes, then a second,
The shades eat, the drink;
A third day, then a fourth;
A fifth day, then a sixth;
The shades eat, they drink.
To the banquet house on the summit,
... in the heart of Lebanon.
From The Epic of Kirta, translated by Edward L. Greenstein
"What to me is silver, or even yellow gold,
Together with its land and slaves forever mine?
A Triad of chariot horses
From the stables of a slave woman's son?
What is not in my house you must give me:
You must give me Lady Huraya,
The Fair One, your firstborn child!
Who is as fair as the goddess Anath,
Who is as comely as Astarte;
Whose eyes are lapis lazuli
Eyeballs, gleaming alabaster;
Whom El has given in my dream,
The Father of Man in my vision;
Who will bear a child for Kirta
A lad for the Servant of El."
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« Reply #58 on: October 15, 2009, 01:46:23 PM » |
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don't mind if i do.
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« Reply #59 on: October 15, 2009, 01:54:16 PM » |
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i like bovines. i'm a genius when i feel like it.
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