Emily Dickinson: The Bible Is an Antique Volume

Bible of Emily Dickinson

(http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24025603?n=5&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25&printThumbnails=no)

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When she was thirteen, Emily Dickinson was given her own Bible, by her father. They all were good observants: the church was in front of their home, and they were finding time for daily prayers and meditations always. Did she remain

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Tracing the Strugatsky Brothers

(http://www.etsy.com/listing/46672719/roadside-picnic-in-the-50s-handmade-wood)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

As you probably know, Stalker, the revered movie of Tarkovsky, is a very free adaptation after Roadside Picnic, a short SF novel written by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky.

Actually the Strugatsky brothers also authored the screenplay for

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Pe urmele fratilor Strugatsky

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Cred ca foarte multi dintre voi ati vazut filmul Calauza (Stalker) al lui Tarkovsky. Este o adaptare foarte libera a unei povestiri stiintifico-fantastice scrise de fratii Arkadi si Boris Strugatsky. Povestirea se numeste Picnic pe Marginea

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Emily Dickinson: Arcturus Is His Other Name

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Arcturus is his other name—

I'd rather call him Star.

It's very mean of Science

To go and interfere!



I slew a worm the other day—

A Savant passing by

Murmured Resurgam—Centipede!

Oh Lord—how frail are we!



I pull a flower from the woods—

A monster with a glass

Computes the stamens in a breath—

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Emily Dickinson: Why Do I Love You, Sir?

(http://www.tcnj.edu/~carney/dickinson/poems.html)

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Why do I love You, Sir?

Because—

The Wind does not require the Grass

To answer—Wherefore when He pass

She cannot keep Her place.



Because He knows—and

Do not You—

And We know not—

Enough for Us

The Wisdom it be so—



The Lightning—never asked an Eye

Wherefore it shut—when He was by—

Because

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There Is No Third

Says T.S.Eliot, Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third.

(http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/05/27/130527crbo_books_acocella)





lithography by Gustave Doré

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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la

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Goya: Monk Talking to an Old Woman

Monk Talking to an Old Woman
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

watercolor on ivory, 1824/1825

Princeton University Art Museum

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The Goya miniatures were painted on small squares of ivory around four inches square

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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra (1943)

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It is perhaps the best-known of a number of pieces that have the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This is in contrast to the conventional concerto form, which features a solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment. Bartók said that

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Bartók

Béla Bartók

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Romanian Dances by Bartók played at Glass Harp
Concerto for Orchestra (1943)



(Musica Nova)

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Glass Harp-Toccata and Fugue in D minor-Bach-BWV 565

Robert Tiso playing at his glass harp

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(video by Robert Tiso)



(The B A C H motif)

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Gibran: The Night Became Calm

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A poem by Gibran - I found it mentioned in Honour, the latest novel by Elif Shafak, that I'm reading. The title of the poem is Sakana Al-Layl (The Night Became Calm).



سكن الليل و في ثوب السكون تختبي الأحلام

وسع البدر و للبدر عيون ترصد الأيام

فتعالي يا إبنة الحقل نزور كرمة العشاق

علنا نطفي بذياك العصير حرقة

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Old Words Surviving as Fossils

Photo by Donald Marshall

Beloit College Geology Dept., Beloit, WI

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We all know that the past tense for go is went, which makes it an irregular verb. Actually went is the past tense of another verb, whose present tense vanished long time ago: wend. And in those old times the past tense for go was gaed. It so

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NYC in the 80's - Two Videos by RailroadPacific

image and videos: Pacific-Railroad.de

(http://www.towleroad.com/2013/06/the-new-york-city-of-30-years-ago-video.html)

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The person whose nick is Pacific-Railroad.de (or RailroadPacific) visited NYC several times in the eighties and filmed there in places like Broadway, Times Square, Central Park, Staten Island Ferry, also from the roof of World Trade

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Franco Clun, Pencil on Watercolor Paper

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Franco Clun loves drawing and loves the graphite. He is a self-taught artist who got knowledge through experience.



(Contemporary Art)

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Bianca in a School Concert

Diamond Junior High School, Lexington, MA

photo by John M. Sullivan

(http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11178557)

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I have already told you that my granddaughter Bianca is a student in the Diamond Junior High School and she plays the viola in the school orchestra. Here is a recent concert.





(video by Andrei Radulescu-Banu)






(video by Andrei

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Paul Cadden, Small Drawing Pencil on Paper

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Paul Cadden cites as inspiration the phrase to intensify the normal. His works start from photos or video stills, trying to go beyond. Cadden mostly uses pencil, sometimes chalk. His output is of seven - eight works per year. If we would like to describe his artistic

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El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Goya, Capricho_43
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

etching and aquatint, 1797-1799

Museo Nacional de Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capricho_43,_El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_raz%C3%B3n_produce_monstruos.jpg)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I was pretty far from home and wanted to go back. I started trying different shortcuts to shorten my

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Somnul Ratiunii Naste Monstri

Goya, Capricho_43
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

etching and aquatint, 1797-1799

Museo Nacional de Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capricho_43,_El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_raz%C3%B3n_produce_monstruos.jpg)

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Eram destul de departe de casa si voiam sa ma intorc. Incercam sa folosesc diverse scurtaturi, dar de

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Roșia Montană: Town on the Brink

Roșia Montană

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Roșia Montană - Ein Dorf am Abgrund, 2012

a documentary by Fabian Daub

(video by MrFelchen)



(Filmofilia)

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Daria's Amazing Grace

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My granddaughter Daria is playing Amazing Grace:




(video by Andrei Radulescu-Banu)





(Lexington)

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Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts, 2006

Miloš Forman, director

starring Stellan Skarsgård, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I wouldn't consider Goya's Ghosts as targeting exclusively the Spanish master and his universe of thoughts and dreads.There is also an underground level,

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Fantomele lui Goya

Goya's Ghosts, 2006

Miloš Forman, director

starring Stellan Skarsgård, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem

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Goya's Ghosts este un film nu numai despre marele pictor, despre gandurile si nelinistile lui, dar si, intr-un plan ce iese la iveala pe masura ce actiunea isi

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Goya

Portrait of Francisco de Goya

by Vicente López y Portaña

oil on canvas, 1826

Museo Nacional del Prado

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The last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns.


Phillips Collection - The Old Clock
Goya's Ghosts
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

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Balthus, The Living Room

Balthus, The Living Room

oil on canvas, 1941?1943

Minneapolis Institute of Art

(http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/the-picture-balthus-boldini)

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He has been, in the words of Albert Camus, a patient and clairvoyant swimmer, . . .[toiling] up strange rivers toward forgotten sources.


(Sam Sachs II in 1966 about The Living Room)



In some

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Balthus, Solitaire

Balthus, Solitaire

oil on canvas, 1943

The Art Institute of Chicago

(http://www.nickhaus.com/2010/02/balthus-in-lovely-lurid-color.html)

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Solitaire was painted in Switzerland, where the artist returned during World War II. It reveals the influence of such Old Masters as Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello in its monumentality as well as its

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The Face of Balthus

the face of Balthus

photo taken in 1996 at his home in Switzerland

during the shooting of Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir

author: Damian Pettigrew

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One could say only this: that Balthus was his own guy.






(video by Blulight Gallery)




Balthus at Met
Solitaire
The Living Room 




(

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Afiş+ works by Ioan Cuciurca

(http://vreauarta.ro/?p=3313)

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The works of Ioan Cuciurca (Afiş+ at Simeza Gallery in Bucharest) call in mind the Constructivists, or maybe rather the ABECEDA of Devětsil: like the Prague artists of the 1920's, Cuciurca thinks that when the world is upside down and nobody can differentiate truth from lie anymore, it is time to redesign the basics,

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Ioan Cuciurca: Expozitia Afiş+ la Simeza

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La Galeria Simeza din Bucureşti s-a deschis expoziţia Afiş+ a lui Ioan Cuciurcă. Artistul introduce un limbaj sofisticat, în care detaliile reies din conţinutul, aşezarea şi volumul informaţiei.




(video by BucurestiTvcity)




(Ioan Cuciurca)

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