linişte zilnică

Atentiune, atentiune!

2010-01-23T23:34:00.003Z

Nou!*
Acum se da liniste zilnic la presa de cuvinte, adica aici!

* fără spam chinezesc

geregistreerde partnerschap

2009-10-14T21:43:00.002Z

La fel de adevarat ca acum cinci ani:

"Pe Marius mi-e greu să-l înţeleg. Suntem globula albă şi globula roşie din venele lui Dumnezeu. M-a căutat pe Google din cauza articolului scris în bucătărie şi publicat în săptămâna următoare. Mi-a găsit adresa, mi-a scris şi am continuat să corespondăm aproape zilnic. Era o ciudată încercare de a obliga două linii paralele să se intersecteze. După câteva luni a hotărât tacit să amânăm încercarea la infinit, crezusem eu. De fapt mesajele lui incepusera, din motive obscure, sa intre la Spam. Dar asta e cu totul alta poveste."

2009-09-26T17:54:00.001Z

Economical Suicide

Spread your fingers as far apart as possible
Place between them the grain of a pea
Endure
Knees kneeling down on a grater
Endure
Slip a sucking sweet in your mouth
Suck
Your back pressed against the smooth concrete of
a laundry
Endure
One's heels placed into the outflow by the bath
just as the plug has been pulled
Endure
Calves painted with egg yolk
let it dry
and endure
Run water in the basin
Shoes off
Dip your face
Endure

Jan Svankmajer, 1979.
dedicated to his wife Eva.

2009-09-26T09:00:00.002Z

Oare cum se traduce breadfruit tree? Pomul de paine?
Ce bine ca asemenea lucruri exista.

2009-09-25T09:40:00.001Z

"Nonsense is indeed one possible reflection of life in that it is at once both and neither meaningful and meaningless".

Wim Tigges

PhD? who, me?!

2009-09-22T19:49:00.002Z

review of Bichsel's Kindergeschichten:

"Semisweet shaggy dog stories about dear little men who are, in one peculiar way or another, obsessed. One man ... is infatuated with trains and knows so much about them -- engine numbers, timetables, routes -- that he feels no need whatever to ride one. (If a person uses his head, you see, he doesn't have to board a train to find out where it will go.)"

You see I'd rather board the trains. The question is, which trains.

2009-08-31T10:21:00.001Z

Whiskey is Gaelic for “water of life,” or uisge beatha.

2009-08-31T08:40:00.002Z

Din seria “this makes no sense, and so do I”, de cate ori aud “(ce tot) boscorodesti”, ma gandesc la o scorbura...

2009-08-24T18:40:00.003Z

" am fost azi la bucale(plecat la 5 dim intrors la 5 seara). e ciudat sa vad oradea de sus. cind eram la bucuresti si-mi era dor de casa inchideam ochii si pluteam imaginar pe bulevarde. porneam de la gara si faceam diverse trasee."

alde x

2009-08-14T17:10:00.001Z

2009-07-29T13:53:00.002Z

You're not gonna believe this, but there is a female analogue for Pope, and it's Mome. :)

"I used to live on a candybar a day that cost a nickle. It was called Payday."

2009-07-17T20:38:00.002Z

Luc zicea de Bukowski ca e un ticalos. Asa parea si in documentarul pe care l-am vazut, born into this, cand urla la sotia lui si o ameninta ca o da afara (in direct). Dar si ticalosii pot avea dreptate uneori.

The Genius Of The Crowd - Charles Bukowski

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art.

"let's use each other"

2009-07-06T17:01:00.004Z

alde y: de cand invat vad cum mananca pasarile la noi in gradina rame, melci...they`re quitre damn cruel for such innocent looking creatures.
alde x: no, they're just hungry
alde y: it takes them 5 minutes to rip a worm into small enough pieces to swallow! tortura!
si melcii ii lovesc de ciment.
ca sa se sparga coaja.
alde x: ce chestie.
alde y: i have this feeling there are no innocent creatures.
intr-unul din testele de azi era un articol despre caini.
despre faptul ca afectiunea pe care o arata e o strategie de supravietuire, they seem nice and loyal in order to get food.
its quite freaky to think love is just a strategy for survival.

faith in Coca Cola

2009-07-06T12:09:00.002Z

"Vatican Radio - the voice of the Roman Catholic Church - is starting to air advertisements for the first time in the station's nearly 80-year history."
BBC

what's in a name...

2009-07-05T21:41:00.002Z

Dacă maică-mea era taică-meu, pe mine mă chema Erdei. :)

2009-07-03T18:45:00.003Z

I am small and insignificant, dar am un hamac galben care atârnă în grădină şi asta îmi mai dă o mică speranţă că restul din tot ceea ce îmi doream acum 8 ani va veni si el. Şontâc şontâc.

define political prisoners

2009-07-03T18:42:00.001Z

´"We came back to the issue of political prisoners in Cuba and their health, and the answer we got was that in Cuba there are no political prisoners," the Czech minister added.´

EU-Cuba meeting - BBC Article May 11th, 2009

2009-06-17T08:57:00.002Z

I saw a little girl yesterday that just came from an Irani support
protest. She was pretty and she was cold, had her mother's coat on,
hanging low on her back, was reading the bus stop panel out loud
slowly and carefully, and held a green sign that said "who stole our
vote?". Her mother held a little flag and was immersed in a very
serious conversation with another woman.

2009-05-26T22:23:00.003Z

uneori ma aflu concomitent in stari contradictorii si asta imi da o stare de neliniste.
cand simt invidie, de exemplu, stiu ca invidia e un lucru dezgustator, si mi se pare dezgustator ca o simt, dar ea nu dispare. e acolo si eu ma simt prost pt ca simt invidie pe care nu o pot face sa dispara. pot sa traiesc ca si cum nu ar fi acolo, sa o controlez, dar nu sa o anulez.
ok nu apare tot timpul, deci nu e ditamai problema, dar de cate ori apare simt dezgust fata de faptul ca sunt un om care simte invidie. si, in acelasi timp, simt invidie.

2009-05-26T22:20:00.001Z

femeile de fapt nu vor flori ci vor gandul din spatele florilor
florile de fapt se pot inlocui prin orice lucru frumos, fragil si/sau placut mirositor
dar majoritatea barbatilor nu se obosesc sa le inlocuiasca cu altceva
de aceea exista atat de multe florarii
din comoditate

2009-05-23T10:30:00.002Z

Am urcat de curând într-un autobuz în Berlinul de vest, şi pentru că nu aveam bilet, am fost foarte atentă la lumea înconjurătoare (obicei care se trage din credinţa adânc înrădăcinată că aş reuşi să recunosc un controlor încă dinainte să îşi "dea arama pe faţă", şi, eventual, să găsesc un bilet sau să sar afară pe uşă ca în filmele de aventuri!). Şi privind cu atenţie în jur dintr-o dată am realizat că sunt înconjurată numia de oameni de peste 60 de ani. Un autobuz întreg (double decker pe deasupra) de bătrâni. Şi eu care călătoaream cu ei pâna la Endştaţion...

2009-04-20T13:57:00.002Z

(Woodcut by Jaques Hnizdovsky)

Cam aşa s-ar putea rezuma tradiţia de Paşti de la ţară, din ţările ortodoxe. Nu mi-e totuşi tocmai clar ce fac cele două femei în ultima imagine, vor câte o jumătate de bărbat? :)

2009-04-20T13:54:00.000Z

E mai greu să iubeşti pe cineva de aproape, decât de la distanţă.

2009-04-20T13:53:00.000Z

NAMING OF PARTS
Henry Reed

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.

This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For to-day we have naming of parts.

2009-04-06T21:43:00.002Z

Tatăl meu în preajma Crăciunului repeta o colindă străineză fără a-i şti toate versurile. Efectul e .....

"You better watch out,
You better watch out,
You better watch out,
You better watch out..."

:)

2009-04-06T21:38:00.002Z

"Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. 'If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.' And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony."

Viktor Sklovsky, the Germans call him Schklowskij or Schklowski, his name was Виктор Борисович Шкловский.

2009-04-06T15:39:00.004Z

...
alde y: nu conteaza. tocmai m-ai facut sa-mi dau seama de faptul ca we only feel alive when we feel a lot of pain. otherwise, we're just lying around anesthetized and from other viewpoints call this happiness.
alde x: that is true
alde y: mai existe momentele alealalte de fericire, which you are actually aware of
while they're happening
like when i would befriend my invisible friends
alde x: but those are too short
asa scurte ca aproape nu se pun
alde y: aproape
...

2009-03-30T12:29:00.003Z

"You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need"

R. a pus melodia asta de ziua mea (Rolling Stones).
nu stiu daca am inteles ce era de inteles, sau sunt doar o batranica ingusta la vedere.
nu pot sa il intreb.
poate, voi intreba.

What's in a name?...

2009-03-19T17:17:00.003Z

1st version:
Chico: I would kill anybody for sixpence!
Groucho: Even me?
Chico: You? You are my friend, my brother! I would kill you for nothing!

2nd version:
Chico: I would shave anybody for sixpence!
Groucho: Even me?
Chico: You? You are my friend, my brother! I would shave you for nothing!

din Themerson - Logic, Labels and Flesh

2009-03-09T16:42:00.003Z

"To understand light as idea is to understand light properly. But the word 'idea'(eide), of course, itself means light, and to say that to understand light is to perceive the idea of light is to say that understanding is to see the light of light and is therefore itself light."
de Man abbreviating the conclusion of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Correcting Genesis

2009-03-04T12:24:00.006Z

From Stefan Themersons novel Special Branch:
"- Genesis. The thing astronaut Borman broadcast from his lunar space-ship. It surprises me when I see so much ignorance of what Genesis is. I consider it as the first honest attempt to create a scientific theory of the Universe. I know, it starts by proposing ignotum per ignotius [an explanation that is obscurer than the thing to be explained, literally: the unknown by means of the more unknown]. Well, so what. That can be easily corrected.
- How? I asked.
- Well, he said, when I'm reading it, I always replace the words 'God created' by the words 'man discerned.'
- Good Lord! I said."

So the way the detective reads would be (I used the New International Version of the Bible, and the copy-pasting process of replacing 'God created' with 'man discerned' surely had a blasphemous feeling to it):

"Genesis 1

The Beginning
1 In the beginning Man discerned the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Man was hovering over the waters.

3 And Man said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 Man saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 Man called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

6 And Man said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So Man made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 Man called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

9 And Man said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 Man called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And Man saw that it was good.

11 Then Man said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And Man saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

14 And Man said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 Man made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 Man set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And Man saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

20 And Man said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So Man discerned the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Man saw that it was good. 22 Man blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

24 And Man said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 Man made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And Man saw that it was good.

26 Then Man said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So Man discerned man in his own image,
in the image of Man he discerned him;
male and female he discerned them.

28 Man blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29 Then Man said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 Man saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."

If this sounds like it makes sense nowadays, it is because today is a product of our times.

2009-03-04T12:18:00.003Z

"Words about words
are about words
but words
are about the rest of the world.

And even words about words about words
will not reach you
without that part of the world
which isn't words."

Stefan Themerson - Semantic Sonata

2009-03-04T12:00:00.007Z

(ultima imagine e de aici)

"Time turns advertisements into poems, and Time turns poems into advertisements."
Stefan Themerson - Wooff Wooff, or Who Killed Richard Wagner?

2009-03-04T11:52:00.003Z

"It's the hat!"

Advertising Agency: Serviceplan Hamburg/München Germany
It's a great idea, except it's not exactly theirs :) : clic.

2009-02-24T22:26:00.004Z

Drawings by Franciszka Themerson

Alphabet by Bertrand Russell

See the rest of it at Design Observer (click on Play Slideshow)!

Imi aminteste de Dan Perjovschi-

2009-02-18T22:28:00.002Z

"I love used book stores, but
there is always that forlorn melancholy
Of knowing that one day your copies
of Arabia Deserta, Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, and
The Voyage of the Beagle,
will one day be jumbled amongst
someone else's cook books, Judy Blume,
and, God forbid, self help literature.

So I write notes in the margins.
I hide pictures between pages.

If I'm feeling magnanimous, I'll tuck a dollar near the good part of the story.

Sometimes I circle words leaving secret messages.

I see these things as little whispers
to the people of the future.
I want to let them know that
that these books too once had other lives."

Raul Gutierrez

2009-02-15T23:55:00.001Z

2009-02-01T00:21:00.004Z

Lucruri pe care le scriam si acum le regasesc cu uimire:

Münster e un fel de Baile Felix, fara apa termala, si fara prea mult felix, dar cu proprietati regeneratoare de aloe vera si eucalipt imaginar.

bai, ce de metafore... s-a redeschis fabrica de metafore.

Doar atât pot să spun şi eu până acum despre femei fără să mint: că sunt inevitabil prinse în propria lor telenovelă.

i-am luat unui copil de pe strada de mancare (vroia neaparat crenvusti). la capat i-am spus zi macar multumesc. cand mi-a zis multumesc avea privirea lui lupu. era ciudat.

Oamenii sunt fie nebuni, fie plictisitori. Pe cei nebuni nu te poti baza, langa cei plictisitori nu te poti bucura cu tot sufletul.

2009-01-22T23:01:00.001Z

"Das Leben ist eine Verdaungsstörung."/
"Viata e o indigestie."

Gustave Flaubert

2009-01-20T20:57:00.000Z

2009-01-16T14:04:00.005Z

"Ich habe die Geschichte von einem Mann, der Geschichten erzählt. Ich habe ihm mehrmals gesagt, dass ich seine Geschichten nicht glaube.
-Sie lügen, habe ich gesagt, Sie schwindeln, Sie phantasieren, Sie betrügen.
Das beeindruckte ihn nicht. Er erzählte ruhig weiter, und als ich rief:
- Sie Lügner, Sie Schwindler, Sie Phantast, Sie Betrüger!, da schaute er mich lange an, schüttelte den Kopf, lächelte traurig und sagte dann so leise, dass ich mich fast schämte:
- Amerika gibt es nicht."

Peter Bichsel - Kindergeschichten

"Am aflat istoriara de la un bărbat care spune poveşti. I-am spus de mai multe ori că nu cred în poveştile lui.
-Minţiţi, i-am spus, înşelaţi, vorbiţi aiurea, escrocaţi.
Dar nu l-am impresionat. El a continuat să povestească şi când i-am strigat:
-Mincinosule, şarlatanule, fantasule, escrocule!
Apoi m-a privit îndelung, a clătinat din cap, a zâmbit trist şi a spus atât de încet, încat aproape că mi-a fost ruşine:
-America nu există."

Peter Bichsel - America nu există, din Povestiri pentru copii

"Nu pot pune realitatea pe hartie, ci doar ceea ce se poate spune despre ea."

Reclama nemascată:
Cartea lui Bichsel, Povestiri pentru copii, a fost tradusă în limba română de Daniela Ştefănescu şi publicată la editura Rao.

2009-01-09T09:27:00.007Z

Meet Jan Švankmajer. The man is a Czech Surrealist.
I'm writing my thesis on him and Lewis Carroll.
(The first one is best if you're also a fan of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (!!!))

Dimensions of dialogue

He also has a great trilogy called food: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch is my favourite.

2009-01-08T21:07:00.003Z

filozoful era timisorean.

2008-12-15T17:01:00.003Z

P.S. Cautand "?!" pe Google, nu veti gasi nimic. Eu, cel putin, nu am gasit...
I-am cautat si pe parintii mei pe google, si, spre uimirea mea, nu pot sa spun si despre ei acelasi lucru!

2008-12-15T12:48:00.003Z

Stevie Smith

All things pass

All things pass
Love and mankind is grass.

2008-12-15T12:40:00.002Z

Georges Méliès - Les cartes vivantes (1904/5)

Fellini must have liked Méliès (the cinemagician!).

a shabby return...

2008-12-15T00:32:00.004Z

2008-12-14T21:22:00.004Z

Stevie Smith

Alfred the Great

Honour and magnify this man of men
Who keeps a wife and seven children on ₤ 2 10
Paid weekly in an envelope
And yet he never has abandoned hope.

This Englishwoman

This Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.

More of her poems and doodles to come!

2008-12-09T18:26:00.000Z

2008-12-02T20:49:00.004Z

ABŢIBÍLD, abţibilduri, s.n. 1. Imagine în culori imprimată pe un strat subţire de colodiu, care se aplică pe o suprafaţă netedă, umezindu-se şi dezlipindu-se de pe hârtia pe care a fost lipit. 2. Fig. (La pl.) Nimicuri, fapte mărunte; mici şmecherii. – Din germ. Abziehbild.

În primul rând că nu orice se lipeşte se numeşte abţibild! ci doar tatuajele acelea din gume de mestecat, cum ar veni :), celelalte se numesc autocolante! (AUTOCOLÁNT s.n. etichetă care se poate lipi fără a fi umezită. (< fr. autocollant))

În al doilea rând, încă un cuvânt din germană: Abziehbild. Ce îmi place la cuvântul ăsta e faptul că e aşa clar: ziehen - a trage, abziehen - a înlătura, a da jos de pe, a trage de pe, Bild - poză. Adică "poză de dat jos de pe"! Când l-am auzit în germană I had an AHA moment şi pt română.

AHA moments - good for you.

2008-12-02T20:46:00.001Z

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
Eugène Ionesco

2008-12-01T01:47:00.002Z

"Even our understanding of logic is based on metaphors. Consider “All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.” As Richard Posner pointed out, the first premise presents a box labeled “all men,” in which each of the contents is labeled “mortal” and one of those is labeled “Socrates.” Posner concluded: “[W]e find the syllogism compelling by virtue of a metaphor, the metaphor of the box. (odd that one should “prove” the truth of logic by a metaphor!)” "
Posner, “The Jurisprudence of Skepticism,” 86 Mich L. Rev 827, 830 (1988).
de pe dangerous intersection

2008-11-24T13:48:00.005Z

Încă o dovadă că oamenilor le place să înţeleagă lumea trasând linii:

Frenologia!

E interesant că au adăugat şi cuvinte şi imagini în căsuţe, un fel de anticipare a credo-ului că semnul e compus simultan din expresie (cuvânt+imagine+sunet) şi conţinut/înţeles.

Dothead mi se pare în comparaţie mult mai realist :).

2008-11-24T00:42:00.007Z

Warning! The following text is not funny.

Mi-e frică de familia mea.
Mi-e frică de ea.
Da.
Frică.
Mi-e frică de ea pentru că mi-e frică tocmai de faptul că fricile lor în ceea ce mă priveşte se vor adeveri. Asta îmi aminteşte desigur de faptul că mi-e frică şi de obiectul fricilor lor. Un cerc de frici din care nu se poate ieşi, se poate doar sări. Cu curaj!

Ok dar dacă eu încerc să nu îmi mai fie frică, şi ceilalţi nu încearcă, atunci tot nu am scăpare. Sau trebuie, cum ar veni, să nu îmi fie frică şi pentru ei! Şi pentru asta îmi trebuie încă o grămadă de curaje de om. Am nevoie de curaje de om. Le caut în prieteni. Le iert totul, pentru că îmi dau curaj. M. e salteaua care mă salvează de câte-o fractură, după fiecare căzătură...

...so "which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?", mai exact: "does failure come from “fear or laziness”?"

Fear.

2008-11-21T18:16:00.007Z

Apropo de Edward Lear, am auzit că a fost tradus de Şerban Foarţă şi limericks-urile (limerick-urile? :)) au fost publicate la Editura de Vest din Timişoara. Editura asta de ce nu are un site decent, sau eu cum fac rost de traducerea asta?! :)

Am găsit online un limerick tradus de Foarţă, ca să înţelegeţi la ce mă refer:

"Un domn în vârstă din Boemia,
Avea o fată Euphemia,
Or, ea, de soţ,
Îşi luă un hoţ,
Spre jalea tatei din Boemia!"

Cum ar zice prietenii mei germani: Grannndiozzzz!

A, da, şi asta:

"Prejudecata că travaliul artistului e o distracţie ce ţine de passe-temps sau hobby;că operele lui sînt otia, i.e. produsul unui otium, al unui, deci, desoeuvrement (care şi face din acestea, din opere, nişte hors-d'oeuvre exotice şi superflue, ce va să zică accesorii) datează din antichitate, fiind, şi astăzi, în vigoare."
Şerban Foarţă

2008-11-21T18:02:00.003Z

Am ajuns la concluzia că nu am voie să mă mir de oameni care nu ştiu că "Alice în ţara minunilor" nu e doar un film Disney ci a fost înainte de toate o carte de Lewis Carroll, pentru că nici eu nu ştiam că Edward Scissorhands e bazat pe un personaj dintr-o carte germană pentru copii din secolul XIX, "Der Struwwelpeter", de Heinrich Hoffmann, devenită un clasic pentru ei şi tradusă în foarte multe limbi, inclusiv în română (Petrică Ciufulitul, la editura Corint Junior :))!

Heinrich Hoffmann era un doctor care a început să deseneze ca să mai calmeze copii speriaţi de mame cu poveşti de genul "dacă nu eşti cuminte vine nenea doctor şi îţi dă injecţii!", şi să îi poată consulta. Pe Struwwelpeter l-a făcut cadou fiului său de Crăciun.

Ta daaa!

2008-11-21T17:29:00.006Z

Noi făpturi propuse naturii
Christian Morgenstern
(traducere: Cristian Oravitan)

Cangurangutanul
Gâscangurul
Muscămila
Căpriioasa
Prepelicapra
Găinorogul
Cocornutul
Vităunul
Viespelicanul
Pisicâinele
Rinocerbul
Bivolişiţa
Hipopândăul
Şacaleul
Brotăcvila
Guvidra.

şi originalul:

Neue Bildungen, der Natur vorgeschlagen

Der Ochsenspatz
Die Kamelente
Der Regenlöwe
Die Turteltunke
Die Schoßeule
Der Walfischvogel
Die Quallenwanze
Der Gürtelstier
Der Pfauenochs
Der Werfuch
Die Tagtigall
Der Sägeschwan
Der Süßwassermops
Der Weinpintscher
Das Sturmspiel
Der Eulenwurm
Der Giraffenigel
Das Rhinozeponny
Die Gänseschmalzblume
Der Menschenbrotbaum.

2008-11-12T23:05:00.001Z

alde x: i'm feeling pretty out of it
alde x: it being my life
alde y: out of it indeedy. eu am impresia in ultimele zile ca ma trezesc fara a ma trezi

2008-11-11T23:15:00.004Z

I've got an obsession for this image I randomly found on Google.

Adică am înrămat-o şi/sau lipit-o pe pereţi, la mine sau la alţii, am înmânat-o prietenilor care erau în trecere pe la mine, ca să se continue înpereţirea, şi am imrpresia că o mai aşteaptă lucruri măreţe.

Ain' it a darling?

found on history of ze shirt (in ze German language)

to make gosky patties / Edward Lear

2008-11-04T19:08:00.001Z

Take a pig, three or four years of age, and tie him by the off-hind leg to a post. Place 5 pounds of currants, 5 of sugar, 2 pecks of peas, 18 roast chestnuts, a candle, and six bushels of turnips, within his reach; if he eats these, constantly provide him with more.

Then, procure some cream, some slices of Cheshire cheese, four quinces of foolscap paper, and a packet of black pins. Work the whole into a paste, and spread it out to dry on a sheet of clean brown waterproof linen.

When the paste is perfectly dry, but not before, proceed to beat the Pig violently, with the handle of a large broom. If he squeals, beat him again.

Visit the paste and beat the pig alternately for some days, and ascertain that if at the end of that period the whole is about to turn into Gosky Patties.

If it does not then, it never will; and in that case the Pig may be let loose, and the whole process may be considered as finished.

2008-11-04T19:02:00.001Z

Alexandros Vasmoulakis

2008-11-03T14:47:00.000Z

de pe Ctrl V

2008-10-12T12:46:00.002Z

art deco & kestii kasnice got more pictures. scrollll down!

prea multe semne de exclamare, trebuie sa încetez cu exclamările.

2008-10-10T22:19:00.004Z

I have an avarage of 2 visitors per day, and 5 only on very very very lucky days.

So I'm pretty sure it's luc and manon.
can u guys drop a comment to confirm this?
and because i miss comments. :)

i guess i should link the blogs i read, that could get me some (maybe 2?) more people.
so experts, why is it that they're so few again? what am i supposed to do to become less underground?

zicea Ira azi cum subculture asta e un fel de not quite culture yet, not quite counterculture, just a culture wannabe.
cred ca o sa ma apuc sa imi pun texte aici pe site. da. a new age is coming!

recent m-am imprietenit cu un grec,vine de pe o insula. si in aceeasi saptamana am cunoscut si o grecoiaca, si ea venea tot de pe o insula, dar alta insula.
e ceva foarte suprarealist in aer cand un om iti spune ca vine de pe insula (mai ales daca ai crescut pe partea continentala a lucrurilor).

dimineţi fericite

2008-10-10T21:14:00.006Z

Aşa s-ar numi, cred ca asta le descrie cel mai bine (Cu riscul de a suna sentimental).

Atunci când te trezeşti şi eşti gol sau aproape gol sau de fapt nici nu contează dacă porţi ceva pijamalos sau nu, dar dacă nu, e mai bine, pentru că simţi prin toţi porii, eşti sub plapumă şi e cald şi pernele sunt moi şi încă înainte de a putea deschide ochii, te întinzi după persoana de lângă tine şi o îmbrăţişezi. Şi stai aşa mult timp, între căldură, piele, perne şi păr. La un moment dat, unul dintre voi începe să spună ceva destul de monosilabic, şi câte un ochi începe să se deschidă. Uiţi rapid şi ultimul vis, uneori rămai poate cu o ultimă imagine clară, sau cu o idee. Pe urmă te chinui un pic sa deschizi amandoi ochii. Îmbrăţisarea se mai mută de pe o parte pe alta, o mână scoate părul lung din ochi, şi apare gândul de cafea. Cafea. Singurul lucru care poate determina ridicarea din spaţiul acela ireal de plăcut. Tragi perdelele şi lumina invadeaza camera. Dacă plouă mohorât şi totul e gri (ceea ce se intampla destul de des în nordul europei) te bagi înapoi în pat şi mai stai o vreme. Cele mai fericite sunt dimineţile ploioase de sfârşit de săptmână.

2008-10-01T19:44:00.003Z

Still those language and identity issues. No wonder older people are so bad at learning new languages, it's because they're actually (consciously or not) reluctant to having to recreate their identity all over again in a new language. Children, not having anything set yet, are still open and can use any language as foundation for themselves.

Mi-e dor de capacitatea mea de a fi subtila, singurul mod pe care il aveam de a raspunde la rautati si meschinarii, dar pe care, in limba germana, inca nu il pot stapani. As incepe sa zic ceva, si, aproape imediat, persoana respectiva ar raspunde corectand vreun cuvant pe care l-am pronuntat gresit si toata incercarea mea s-ar duce pe apa Sambetei. Cat de usor le e oamenilor sa se simta superiori sau inferiori doar in functie de gradul de stapanire al unei limbi.

Un alt lucru e incercarea de a fi calma, de a nu ma mai enerva si a nu ma mai certa cu nimeni, de a ma controla, chiar si cu riscul de a pierde aparentul sentiment de castig din urma aparentei reusite de a avea ultimul cuvant. You should try this sometime, Luc. With our genetics it may just be the biggest challenge. It also seems to have something in common with growing up.

2008-09-28T20:53:00.003Z

"Monophobia is the fear of being alone or solitude (also linked to Eremophobia, Isolophobia and Autophobia).It is classified as a part of the depression spectrum and can manifest after trauma or loss of a loved one. Sufferers will go to great lengths to avoid these feelings."

I couldn't figure out which trauma, but I know to which lengths...

2008-09-25T22:12:00.000Z

Edward Gorey

2008-09-25T22:03:00.002Z

There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, "If you choose to suppose
That my nose is too long, you are certainly wrong!"
That remarkable Man with a nose.

Edward Lear

2008-09-25T21:58:00.002Z

There once was a monk of Siberia,
Whose fasting grew wearier and wearier,
Till at length, with a yell,
He burst from his cell,
And devoured the Father Superior!

a limerick,
much like a sonnet (strict form, rhyme, meter), and like the opposite of a sonnet (not exactly into the whole love thing), therefore, better! :)

2008-09-17T10:32:00.001Z

People who do things are happier than people who don't do things. I rarely do things.
the man who fell asleep.
(turning gold into base metal since 1975)

2008-09-17T10:31:00.001Z

At any party with 3-year-olds the kids are more interesting than the adults.

2008-09-09T19:00:00.000Z

fragmente din George Orwell - Reflections on Ghandi
(i know it's long but it's worth the effort)

"It is worth considering the disciplines which Gandhi imposed on himself and which - though he might not insist on every one of his followers observing every detail - he considered indispensable if one wanted to serve either God or humanity. First of all, no meat-eating, and if possible no animal food in any form. (Gandhi himself, for the sake of his health, had to compromise on milk, but seems to have felt this to be a backsliding.) No alcohol or tobacco, and no spices or condiments even of a vegetable kind, since food should be taken not for its own sake but solely in order to preserve one's strength. Secondly, if possible, no sexual intercourse. If sexual intercourse must happen, then it should be for the sole purpose of begetting children and presumably at long intervals. Gandhi himself, in his middle thirties, took the vow of brahmacharya, which means not only complete chastity but the elimination of sexual desire. This condition, it seems, is difficult to attain without a special diet and frequent fasting. One of the dangers of milk-drinking is that it is apt to arouse sexual desire. And finally - this is the cardinal point - for the seeker after goodness there must be no close friendships and no exclusive loves whatever.

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because "friends react on one another" and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.[...]

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. There is an obvious retort to this, but one should be wary about making it. In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that "non-attachment" is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. But it is not necessary here to argue whether the other-worldly or the humanistic ideal is "higher". The point is that they are incompatible. One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives," from the mildest Liberal to the most extreme Anarchist, have in effect chosen Man."

2008-09-06T00:03:00.002Z

potlatch - transitive verb
1 : to give (as a gift) especially with the expectation of a gift in return

În engleză există un cuvânt pentru asta!

Şi povestea:
potlatch - noun
Etymology: Chinook Jargon patlač, from Nootka p̓aƛp̓ač
Date: circa 1861
a ceremonial feast of the American Indians of the northwest coast marked by the host's lavish distribution of gifts or sometimes destruction of property to demonstrate wealth and generosity with the expectation of eventual reciprocation
Northwest : a social event or celebration

2008-09-05T23:27:00.002Z

din Nicolae Steinhardt - Jurnalul fericirii:

Ai încălţat opincile realităţii, au să-ţi bătătorească tălpile.

Dumnezeu nu e un imens papagal roşu. (Kierkegaard)

le Pape, cest des bureaux. (Pierre Benoit)

Lucrurile de care suntem înlănţuiţi sunt ireale, dar lanţurile care ne leagă de ele sunt foarte reale. (Simone)

fráier (-ri), s.m. – 1. (Arg.) Om prost, care este furat sau de la care se obţine vreun avantaj. – 2. (Arg.) Ins, tip. Germ. Freier „pretendent, logodnic“ (Graur, GS, VI, 335), cf. pol. frajerz „logodnic“ (Graur, BL, IV, 82), ceh. frajer (Berneker 283), cr. frajar. Semantismul pare să se explice prin ideea că logodnicul este întotdeauna tras pe sfoară. După Vasiliu, GS, VII, 114, din germ. Freiherr „domn“.

Steinhardt se concentrează asupra ultimei variante etimologice. Freiherr - om liber, nobil, domn, nu poate fi tras pe sfoară decât în aparenţă, pentru că e la un nivel la care aşa ceva nu îl atinge.

2008-08-23T16:58:00.003Z

Am terminat de citit Calatoriile lui Gulliver (imi place ca il mai cheama si Lemuel!) si vroiam sa impartasesc urmatoarele (in caz ca nu stiati):

yahoo
Pronunciation: \ˈyā-(ˌ)hü, ˈyä-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural yahoos
Date: 1726
1 capitalized : a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans
2[influenced by yahoo]: a boorish, crass, or stupid person
— ya·hoo·ism
(http://www.merriam-webster.com)

This definition is very soft. Acesti Yahoo sunt niste humanoizi degenerati, respingatori, meschini si scatofili.
Ultima calatorie (A Journey to the Country of the Houyhnhnms) e din cauza asta si cea mai controversata. Gulliver nu vrea sa mai paraseasca tara in care a ajuns, ii admira pe Houyhnhnmi (un fel de cai foarte inteligenti, manierati) pana la adoratie si e stapanit de un dezgust profund pt rasa umana.

2008-08-22T17:47:00.000Z

no comment.

2008-07-17T13:08:00.003Z

Mama mea foloseşte cuvântul "credenţ", aşa că eu mă mir de unde vine (ca şi cu "şpais" :) sau "a se dunstoli", al lui buni). Pe dexonline scrie doar:

CREDÉNŢ, credenţuri, s.n. (Reg.) Bufet. – Din germ. Kredenz.

Kredenz, die; -, -en [ital. credenza, eigtl. = Glaube, Vertrauen, Glaubwürdigkeit, aus der Wendung: far la credenza =(als Mundschenk an einem Seitentischchen) Speisen und Getränke vorkosten, damit auf derer Unschädlichkeit vertraut werden kann < mlat. credentia, zu lat. credere, Kredo].....

credence
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin credentia, from Latin credent-, credens, present participle of credere to believe, trust — more at creed
Date: 14th century
1 a: mental acceptance as true or real b: credibility 1
2: credentials —used in the phrase letters of credence
3[Middle French, from Old Italian credenza] : a Renaissance sideboard used chiefly for valuable plate
4: a small table where the bread and wine rest before consecration

În germană e mai palpitant, în dicţionar scrie că a face credenţa era, ceva de genul, o mică gustare pentru a testa că totul e ok, că nu incearcă nimeni să otrăvească pe nimeni.

2008-07-16T23:11:00.002Z

Azi toata ziua m-a durut capul intre cele doua emisfere. In momentele in care eram mai apocaliptica ma gandeam ca durerea va avea ca urmare lesinul meu in diferite situatii foarte nepotrivite.

Altfel chelnerez. Alde x zice desigur ca de ce dracu nu gasesc ceva mia pe masura mea, etc. Totul pare foarte simplu vazut de departe.

Mi-e dor de M. Singura mea sursa de comfort. Aproape. El si intalnirile cu Romina. Ultima oara cand am vazut-o pe Romina, am vorbit incontinuu, pentru ca nu mai vorbisem cu adevarat cu cineva de zile intregi. Ea tot zambea si se uita la mine.

Art Deco si Kestii Kasnice

2008-06-20T15:11:00.014Z

(about the small things that make me big happy!)
((warning: some men may find the following boring, stupid and superficial, since it is about mere small objects in my daily surroundings))

În ultimii ani am scris tot mai rar. A fost greu cu germana asta, şi nici nu am citit la fel de mult ca în alte dăţi. Am de recuperat. În schimb am început să construiesc tot felul de chestii, mi-am luat maşinuţă de cusut.... am adunat tot felul de mărgele şi de la Coco am învăţat să strâng seminţe şi coji.
am făcut lampa din ciorap cu mărgele albastre de lemn
şi cerceii din nasturi roşii.
perdelele care erau mai demult pe holul din casa bunicilor mei şi draperiile aurii le-am pus la geam după ce le-am cusut la maşinuţă - îi spun aşa pt ca e foarte mică, nu i se poate spune maşină, serios:

am vopsit raftul, noptiera şi scaunul maro închis şi dulapul albastru (mai trebuie spray galben pentru mânerele de fier)

scaunului i-am făcut şi pernă din catifea roşu închis - acum e scaun regal!

am reparat cerceii supereleganţi cu pietre albastre

colajul pt Marius din texte din reviste olandeze gratuite
am făcut brăţări din mărgele, pe care i le-am dat cadou lui Dani
şi mărţişoare din nasturi
am plantat chestii în grădina din Amsterdam (ridichi, flori, pătrunjel, dovleac, floarea soarelui)
am făcut torturi cu fructe pt zile de naştere şi cozonaci de Crăciunuri

am vopsit bicicleta cu culoare albastră de văruit, şi am aflat pe urmă că se dizolvă la apă :)
mi-am agaţăt un hamac galben în cameră

am înrămat un semn de întrebare
şi am făcut felicitări de Crăciun din tăieturi din ziare!
am mutat o ferigă din grădină de jos în camera mea de la mansardă
am agăţat o chestie din rafturi de pânză pe perete drept dulap
mi-am luat o pălărioară de clovn

am dat o bucăţică netedă de lemn de pe plaja din Alexandria cu lac şi am dat podeaua de lemn cu ceară

mi-am peticit blugii cu petice colorate
şi pantalonii albaştri cu un petec albastru
am lipit o oglinjoară pe o tăviţă de lemn şi am pus-o pe perete drept oglindă
mi-am luat o geacă foarte foarte verde şi mi-am lăsat părul să crească!

de fapt întâi nu m-am mai dus la frizer si am început să mă tund singură
şi pe urmă nici nu m-am mai tuns singură.
am făcut şi o pictură urâtă în ulei (prea mult verde-camuflaj...)

(în caietul-meu-clonă-analoagă-de-blog(care e fain pentru că pot să şi lipesc hârtii prin el) am continuat şi cu tot felul de chestii pe care le-am făcut în Cluj, Arad şi Bremen... dar cred că pentru azi tot ce-am făcut prin Meuwnster/Amsterdam e suficient)
aş mai pune poze! mai pun.

p.s. la vara văruim!

p.p.s. am uitat ultima dată să scriu de mingiuţele de jonglerie făcute din baloane umplute cu orez:

2008-06-16T21:34:00.003Z

The simplest, most obvious proof of life being unfair is when you go, filled with hope, to a payphone or a snack automat and the machine just eats up your coin and leaves you there, powerless.

2008-06-07T17:08:00.002Z

Erdmöbel (mobilă de/din pământ) - cuvântul pentru sicriu în dialect est-german.
Am aflat asta pentru ca exista si o trupă cu numele ăsta. Drăguţ. Ceeepy. Mă rog... :)

Black scarab in a little girl's eyes

2008-05-17T00:19:00.001Z

"To see a scarab in your dream, symbolizes your ability to survive, adapt, and change. It also represents immortality. You may be experiencing anxieties about death and aging."

no shit...

2008-05-14T21:52:00.001Z

(sa faci ceva doar de dragul meu... sa te bucuri ca ma bucur eu...)

2008-05-13T12:08:00.004Z

M-am tot gandit la gumele de mestecat-tigari in ultima vreme... si ajungeam mereu la concluzia ca sigur nu le mai gasesc nicaieri, ca trebuie sa fi fost interzise, ca doar instiga minorii la fumat... and to my surprise... intram intr-un kiosk, Romina isi cumpara tigari si mie imi cad ochii pe niste cutiute...

(daca sufli in tigara iese "fum" alb)
((Made in Macedonia!))

2008-05-06T20:41:00.003Z

Roman Tolici. genial. ce bine că i-am luat cartea back in the day...

2008-05-05T21:28:00.001Z

Statistica dovedeşte că realitatea nu-i vis.
Valéry

(şi cum repetam mereu că nu cred în statistici...)

2008-05-04T21:53:00.001Z

Lipsa de entuziasm e semnul sigur al pierzaniei.
Dostoievski

2008-04-30T10:11:00.001Z

Nivea vine din latinul niveus: white, snowy.

2008-04-30T10:01:00.002Z

"Der Dicke: Ich, dem sonst alles gelungen ist, habe zum Beispiel nie eine Frau gefunden, die mich versteht.
Maler: Oh nein, das ist nicht leicht. Man kann nicht sagen, dass es leicht ist, weil es nicht leicht ist."

Ionesco - Das Gemälde

"Er ist glücklich. Er hat sich an seinen gelähmten Zustand gewöhnt."

Ionesco - Der Zorn

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"Grasul: Eu, care în rest am obţinut totul, n-am reuşit nicicum să găsesc o femeie care să mă înţeleagă.
Pictorul: O nu, asta nu-i uşor. Nu se poate spune că-i uşor, pentru că nu-i uşor, nu-i uşor."

Ionescu - Tabloul

"E fericit. S-a obişnuit cu starea sa de amorţeală."

Ionescu - Furia

2008-04-30T10:00:00.000Z

Behind a woman with linux, there is always a man...

2008-03-21T23:44:00.001Z

"The young, at an age when they have not yet any experience other than sexual, when they do not yet have years of personal suffering and personal understanding behind them, are jubilantly repeating our depraved Russian blunders of the Nineteenth Century, under the impression that they are discovering something new. They acclaim the latest wretched degradation on the part of the Chinese Red Guards as a joyous example. In shallow lack of understanding of the age-old essence of mankind, in the naive confidence of inexperienced hearts they cry: let us drive away THOSE cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones (we!), having laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it! . . . But of those who have lived more and understand, those who could oppose these young - many do not dare oppose, they even suck up, anything not to appear "conservative". Another Russian phenomenon of the Nineteenth Century which Dostoevsky called SLAVERY TO PROGRESSIVE QUIRKS."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - The Nobel Prize in Literature Lecture 1970

read the rest here.

(h)

2008-03-21T23:43:00.000Z

"marile noastre repere dhagostea şi moahtea"
Gellu Naum

2008-03-19T09:30:00.002Z

Din ciclul "vin imediat acuma!" de mâine chiar mă mut pe linistezilnica.blogspot.com.

2008-03-19T09:18:00.005Z

Horoscop din 19 ianuarie 2005 pe care l-am copiat în ceva carneţel din ceva ziar de pe bancheta din faţa mea când eram într-un tren rapid Amsterdam-Bremen (prietenii ştiu de ce), şi a cărui traducere am aflat-o abia acum:

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Laat uw zorgen niet langer uw gedachten bepalen. Het is tijd uw hart te luchten.

Let your worries no longer weigh down your thoughts. It is time to air your heart.

Black butterfly

2008-03-17T21:29:00.001Z

Fate in its irony has made the black butterfly of identical moustache settle on the upper lip of two completely different men. One of them is an invention, a mask. The other is real flesh and blood. The former is one of the most popular men on the globe. The latter is positively the most hated.
„He stole my moustache!“ Charlie clamoured merrily in newspapers, accusing Hitler of plagiarism. „It was I who invented it!“
(asta imi aminteste de „L'ho inventato io!“- de unde-i asta, Luc?)
Hitler seemed nothing more than a comedian, a buffoon, and Chaplin's accusations that he had stolen his make-up made Hitler look like a clown.
But as the years went on it became clear that Hitler was something more than a comedian, buffoon, or clown; he proved to be a homicidal maniac.
And Chaplin made his Dictator.

Eisenstein on Chaplin's film, The Dictator, in Notes of a film director

2008-03-17T21:26:00.000Z

„A group of charming Chinese children are laughing gaily.
The group is presented in „different shots“. Close-up. Medium shot. Again close-up.
What are they laughing at?
Perhaps at what is taking place deep in the room.
What is it they see?
A man (probably drunk) lies sprawling on the bed. A small Chinese woman furiously slaps his face. The children roar with laughter.
Although the man is their own father. And the little woman their mother. And the big man is not drunk. And the little woman is not slapping her husband because he is drunk.
The man is dead.
She is beating the dead man for dying and deserting her and the little children who are now laughing merrily but who will have nothing to eat.
This is not from a Chaplin film.
This is a passage form La condition humaine by Andre Malraux.
Whenever I think of Chaplin I always see him as a little Chinese boy laughing merrily at the sight of the grotesquely wobbling head of the big man as the little woman slaps him.“

Eisenstein - Notes of a film director

2008-03-17T21:17:00.003Z

"Gândiţi-vă la ridicolul lui Iisus, care afirma sus şi tare că El e fiul lui Dumnezeu; la ridicolul unui Don Quijote, care agoniza pentru că oamenii de lângă el (oameni cu bun simţ, oameni raţionali, oameni cu frica ridicolului, oameni morţi) refuzau să vadă într-o faţă slută pe Dulcineea lui; sau la ridicolul lui Ghandi, care opune diplomaţiei şi artileriei britanice - non-violenţa, viaţa interioară şi forţa conteplaţiei. [...] Orice act care nu e ridicol - într-o măsură mai mică sau mai mare - e un act mort..."
Mircea Eliade - Oceanografie

Ceea ce îmi aminteşte de realizarea că dacă vrei să vorbeşti despre lucrurile care contează cu adevărat în mod direct, asta va suna, inevitabil, cât se poate de ridicol...

2008-03-16T18:58:00.002Z

I was truly inspired while making Potemkin. And everbody knows that a man who has once experienced the extasy of creating will probably never be able to free himself from the domination of art.

Eisenstein - Notes of a film director

Ştiinţa ne oferă neîncetat ipoteze: arta, certitudini.

N. Steinhardt

2008-03-16T18:56:00.002Z

Everyone who spends more time than you in the bathroom is vain, anyone who spends less is unhygienic.