Pyaar, Ishk, Mohabbat

Keerthi Reddy in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat

(प्यार इश्क और मुहब्बत)

(http://tv.burrp.com/series/pyaar-ishq-aur-mohabbat/37972)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

It all began with an essay about Slavonic influences in Romanian language (Vechea slava, slavona si graiurile slavilor). More precisely, it began from a sentence there: the author (Dan

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Peace to Him Who Enters

Aleksandr Demyanenko in Peace to Him Who Enters

(http://megashara.com/movies/616818/mir_vhodyashchemu.html)

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May 1945. A German baby is born and he is peeing on a bunch of rifles. Is it Soviet weaponry, the new occupiers? Or is it rather German weaponry, war capture? We'll never know. We only know that the last day

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Pace Noului Venit

Aleksandr Demyanenko in Pace Noului Venit

(http://megashara.com/movies/616818/mir_vhodyashchemu.html)

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Mai 1945. Se naste un bebelus german si face imediat pipi pe un manunchi de arme. Sunt arme ale militarilor sovietici, care au ocupat orasul? Sau sunt arme capturate dela militarii germani? Nu vom sti niciodata. Vom

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The Ode To Man from Sophocles’ Antigone

first page of Anne Carson's Antigonick

(http://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/as-clear-as-complicated-air-anne-carsons-antigonick/)

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Antigone and Ismene in a dialog about Beckett paraphrasing Hegel: if you think you know some facts about the two heroines of Sophocles, maybe it's time to forget everything and listen to the lesson given by Anne

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Anne Carson

Anne Carson
(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-carson)

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Is she a poet? It's something more than poetry in her poems. Some say it's something less, it means the same: her poetry is slightly stranger than poetry. Is she from our world? No, she rather comes from outer spaces. Or, rather from outer times. She lives the times of ancient Greeks, meditating

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Alfred North Whitehead

The European philosophical tradition is a series of footnotes to Plato

Alfred North Whitehead

(1861 - 1947)

(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/)

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He has been called the greatest speculative mind of his century.


(A Life in Books)

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Daniel Alarcón: The Idiot President (urmat de Collectors)

illustration for The Idiot President

from The New Yorker

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Nu sariti imediat, nu este vorba de un presedinte de republica real, fie el din prezentul nostru turbulent, fie dintr-un trecut mai mult sau mai putin nebulos, fie dintr-un viitor care sa se contrazica pe el insusi. Desi se cam potriveste. Este titlul unei

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The Idiot President (followed by Collectors)

illustration for The Idiot President

from The New Yorker

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Don't jump on hasty conclusions, it's not about a real president, from our turbulent present, or from a nebulous past, or from some self-contradictory future. Though it fits somehow. It's the title of a story by Daniel Alarcón, published in The NewYorker in

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Winslow Homer, Blown Away (c.1888)

Winslow Homer, Blown Away

watercolor and graphite on paper, c.1888

Brooklyn Museum

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=530803720307480)

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I would like to thank here Marcia Bujold from which I share this image. I love the art of Winslow Homer. It has in the same time energy, delicacy, a dreaming mood, subtlety, it's incredible. And I love Maine.

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Tot despre Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/alarcon.html)

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Nascut in Peru, s-a mutat in State cand avea trei ani. La zece ani il citise pe Kundera. (va fi aflat intre timp de Café Kundera din Istanbul? mai bine zis din romanul lui Elif Shafak, Bastarda Istanbulului ?) - la unsprezece il

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Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/alarcon.html)

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Born in Peru, he left for US as a toddler. By age ten he had read Kundera. At eleven he was memorizing Shakespeare. At twelve he had moved on to Vargas Llosa. At sixteen he was reading forty books in forty days. Wow! After

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Cateva vorbe de dragoste

Keerthi Reddy in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat

(प्यार इश्क और मुहब्बत)

(http://tv.burrp.com/series/pyaar-ishq-aur-mohabbat/37972)

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Spune Dan Caragea, intr-un superb eseu tratand influentele slavone din limba romana (Vechea slava, slavona si graiurile slavilor), nu cunosc nici o altă limbă în care să ni se ofere

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Uium

(http://www.info-delta.ro/traditii-in-dobrogea-28/moraritul-la-valea-teilor-434.html)

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Incerc sa ma lamuresc asupra etimologiei cuvantului uium. In dictionare este dat ca fiind un cuvant de origine slavona:

cf DEX'98: UIÚM, uiumuri, s. n. Cantitate procentuală de făină sau de grăunțe reținută la batoză, la moară etc. drept plată în natură pentru măcinat,

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Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959)

Ein Mann geht durch die Wand - Trailer

(video by Fernsehjuwelen)



Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (A Man Goes through the Wall), a movie from 1959, starring Heinz Rühmann and Nicole Courcel. I saw it sometime in 1962 or 1963, I was less than twenty and I liked it a lot. I watched it again a couple of days ago. How it looks like now? Well, I also have gotten old, meanwhile. It's a nice comedy,

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Meandre (Meanders), a Movie by Mircea Săucan

Rivers in the Midwest, Pecatonica meanders

(http://geoscience.wisc.edu/~maher/air/air12.htm)

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I was in my early twenties when I saw Meandre first time. I was passionate for Polish and Czech movies, considering Wajda, Kawalerowicz, and Forman as my absolute references. It was the epoch of Ashes and Diamonds, Mother

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Meandre, un film de Mircea Săucan

Rivers in the Midwest, Pecatonica meanders

(http://geoscience.wisc.edu/~maher/air/air12.htm)

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Cand am vazut prima oara Meandre aveam putin peste douazeci de ani. Eram student, eram pasionat de cinematografia poloneza si de cea ceheasca, Wajda, Kawalerowicz, si Forman erau referintele mele absolute. In perioada aceea

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Mircea Săucan

Mircea Săucan (1928 - 2003)

(http://www.istoriafilmului.ro/articol/130/rebel-fara-voie-mircea-saucan-i)

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Born in Paris, studied the movie art in Moscow (student of Dovjenko and Yutkevich, colleague with Parajanov), made some superb movies in Romania. His radical esthetic and his uncompromising character made him a pariah. Eventually Săucan emigrated to

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Gala Galaction: Moara lui Călifar

(http://www.ccm-bistrita.ro/articol.php?id=1273480717505)

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În preajma unei păduri străvechi, se privea-n iaz moara lui Călifar .... Near an ancient forest, Călifar's Mill was looking at itself in the pond ... a story about free will and fate ... reality and avatar ...





a video by Daniel Bahnea

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2B4REkx3A)




(Gala

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Gala Galaction

Gala Galaction

(http://www.crestinortodox.ro/remember/remember-personalitati/gala-galaction-72047.html)

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Unul dintre scriitori români pe care ii preţuiesc cel mai mult.


David Croitor: Ease / Gala Galaction: Bisericuţa din Răzoare
Moara lui Călifar




(A Life in Books)

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David Croitor: Ease / Gala Galaction : Bisericuţa din Răzoare

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4457772182456&set=a.1369437776026.45659.1834170365&type=1&theater)

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A new work by David Croitor: Odihnă (Ease or maybe better Restfulness). It calls in my mind a beloved book that I have read long time ago: Bisericuţa din Răzoare, by Gala Galaction ... Era o zi călduroasa de iunie. Ploi binecuvântate .... It was a

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Esther Broner - A Weave Of Women

Esther Broner

(http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/july/broner.html)

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When Esther Broner (co-author of Women's Haggadah and creator of Feminist Seder) passed away, her friend (and Seder Sister) Lilly Rivlin decided to make a movie about the evolution of Feminist Seder across thirty-seven years: to speak about this movement and about Esther, who had been

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From Sycamore Island to Sycamore Store

Glen Echo Trolley, once upon a time

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The old trackage of the Glen Echo Trolley; it was linking the Potomac countryside in Maryland to downtown Washington. The streetcars in DC stopped functioning in the sixties. Traces remain here and there, like this one, on the passage between Potomac and the MacArthur Boulevard, a footpath connecting Sycamore Island

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Balta Alba, Work in Progress

A few words about a work in progress documentary, Balta Alba, covering three generations of musicians living in that part of Bucharest, jazz, pop, punk, avangarde, heavy metal, hip hop, new wave post punk, the whole spectrum:



http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/balta-alba-white-pond



(http://vimeo.com/68820130)



(Bucuresti)


(Filmofilia)

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The Story of Sycamore Store

before supermarkets, stores like this served
the community for groceries - the delivery truck is at left

early photo, courtesy of the Rogers family

(source: Sherry Pettie in Sycamore Islander, October 1999)

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7025 Mac Arthur Boulevard in Montgomery County, Maryland, not far from Glen Echo Park. A house of balanced

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Kafka and Stuff

(http://jimarino.com/2008/03/29/franz-kafka-la-negativa/)

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The first work of Kafka that I read was In der Strafkolonie (In the Penal Colony), in a Romanian translation. I was a student at the Polytechnics and one day, as I was visiting a schoolmate, I saw on his desk a literary magazine. I started to browse the magazine, and Kafka's story was in it,

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Emily Dickinson: Faith Is a Fine Invention

(http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2012/03/faith-is-fine-invention.html)

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Faith is a fine invention

When Gentlemen can see—

But Microscopes are prudent

In an Emergency.

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/)



I'm thinking at a Romanian rendering, but the only thing that comes to my mind is that old saying, Dumnezeu dă dar nu

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Povestea lui Sycamore Store

before supermarkets, stores like this served
the community for groceries - the delivery truck is at left

early photo, courtesy of the Rogers family

(source: Sherry Pettie in Sycamore Islander, October 1999)

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(click here for the English version)

Un magazin satesc care este inchis de multi ani. Se gaseste pe Bulevardul MacArthur (care incepe in Washington

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