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On Dubbing Movies

an essay by Jorge Luis Borges

in English and Spanish

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The Forms of Love


Parked in the fields
All night
So many years ago,
We saw
A lake beside us
When the moon rose.
I remember

Leaving that ancient car
Together. I remember
Standing in the white grass
Beside it. We groped
Our way together
Downhill in the bright
Incredible light

Beginning to wonder
Whether it could be lake
Or fog
We saw, our heads
Ringing under the stars we walked
To where it would have wet our feet
Had it been water




George Oppen is an acquired taste. I am a great admirer of his poetry which
sometimes is inexplicably lovely in its simplicity as the above poem, while
other words he wrote are difficult and poignantly painful, especially at the end
of his writing such as this from The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise
the Paths of the Living:




backward
over the shoulder
now the wave
of the improbable
drains from the beaches the heart of the hollow
tree singing bird note bird rustle we live now
in dreams all




An essay on Oppen and his complicated life is at the page.

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Madness is confusion of levels of fact . . .
Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.


~ William S. Burroughs ~

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Meanwhile,

in another

part of the forest . . .





















John (aka foresthippy) keeps me at least partially sane and helps make transitioning to v4 bearable. He, along with his cohorts (def: any band of warriors or associates - which definition I like, they are The Warriors of Stumbleupon and I think they're fucking brilliant), has written scripts to enhance SU, giving back or improving on popular features. They are simple to use even for computer-illiterate stumblers like me.

John's scripts are at the link. Others can be seen at the SU Extensibility Group.

P.S. Look for the haikus . . .





















Photos by Sarah Moon
at Stanislav Belyaevsky's PBase gallery.

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Going a step beyond buying organic, author and journalist Kate Heyhoe offers suggestions for
sustainable eating that we can all follow. She calls it 'measuring your cookprint' and the ideas
are both plain and practical.

(Which I like as long as we're not talking about shoes in which case you can throw plain and
practical out the window.)

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During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.

In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth on the other hand was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.


~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
On The Suspension of Disbelief

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It was sleaze all right, but sleaze of a refined and exclusive kind. Throughout their long heyday, the brothels of Paris were as alluring and luxuriously chic as any gentlemen's club or aristocratic salon.

And now the lost world of these establishments is being brought back to life in a retrospective exhibition, curated by Nicole Canet who describes herself as an "archaeologist of eroticism". With hundreds of rare photographs shown alongside phallic door knockers, whips and other instruments of the trade, the show recreates a world where money and class put moral judgements in abeyance.


~ from the page
A gallery of photos accompanies the article.

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Wonderlawn's lost us for ever.
Alis, alas, she broke the glass!
Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.


~ James Joyce ~
Finnegans Wake






















Click the pix for photo sources.

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There seems to have been a recent resurgence of Hello Kitty! lately
and I found this quite irresistible. Vigorously appealing, in fact.

Maybe it's the placement of the pink bow . . .

Since I'm tagging this adult humor you will have to go see the picture for yourself.
Only in Hong Kong.




Ario, cover your daughter's eyes!

Serina, not "barf-a-licious" (unless of course one takes things too far . . . but I'll just stop right there.)

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