That’s the mistake...

"That's the mistake I made..... to have wanted a story for myself, whereas, life alone is enough."

• Samuel Beckett
  

I Am Love : Film...

An Italian Opera without songs. Everybody is very beautiful and very serious, but the food is more beautiful and more serious. Encouraging to see they had some film left over at the end.

Freudian slips....

Since studying Freud intensely for two years I have always been keenly attuned to Freudian slips, and always brought the latest examples to the notice of my students. Today Ten News offered up a beauty when the newsreader read: "Today the Federal Treasure announced...." Perfect. Beautiful. And unconsciously biased in quite a way I approve of.

Happy Birthday Pablo Neruda : Ars Magnetica....

Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of the 20th century's greatest poets,
Pablo
Neruda. Here is a statement of purpose:

Ars Magnetica

From so much loving and journeying, books emerge.
And if they don't contain kisses and landscapes,
if they don't contain a man with his hands full,
if they don't contain a woman in every drop,
hunger, desire, anger, roads,
they are no use as a shield or a bell:
they have no eyes, and won't be able to open them,
they have the dead sound of precepts.

I loved the entangling of genitals,
and out of blood and love I carved my poems.
In hard earth I brought a rose to flower,
fought over by fire and dew.

That's how I could keep on singing.

Pablo Neruda
translated by Alastair Reid

From
Isla Negra: A Notebook