- Have you heard of the 39 steps?
- No. What’s that, a pub?
A strange companion to all enthusiasts of film, metaphysics, postmodern philosophy, quantum mechanics, surrealism, minimalist movement, literature,classical music, art and photography. A soul in search of complacency.
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Marilyn Monroe, Groucho Marx; during production of David Miller’s Love Happy (1949)
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A magnificent performance from American baritone Sherrill Milnes singing the aria ‘Pieta, rispetto, amore’ from Verdi’s opera Macbeth.
In this scene, the usurper, murderer and now King of Scotland Macbeth is awaiting the advance of a Scottish rebellion in his castle, confined and alone. Here we see all the fluctuations of Macbeth’s emotional state, from his initial unflinching resolve and assumed supernatural assurance of survival (‘For none of woman born shall harm you’), to the increasingly lingering doubts about his own mortality, and the fact that his death will be devoid of honour, respect and love (‘Pieta, rispetto, amore’). These are the recurring pangs of conscience for Macbeth, who is slowly beginning to realise that his high and bloody ambition has been at the sacrifice of his very soul.
Milnes sings this aria with such a spectrum of vocal colour, highlighting every moment of delusion, frailty, guilt and despondency of Macbeth. The legato line is yearning, almost haunted by grief, and the ringing High Gb4 signifies his ravaged, inescapable state of humanity.
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On my fifteenth birthday I’ll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library.Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore (via librarianista)via librarianista➜
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My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.Henry David Thoreau (via drcerberus)via drcerberus➜ -
I live on the edge of a sleepy soul, a moist rose, and an infinite lilac sky beneath my chin.M. Melia, The Unravelling Travelogue (via larmoyante)via larmoyante➜
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➜Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)
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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
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Literary Birthday - 21 May
Happy Birthday, Alexander Pope, born 21 May 1688, died 30 May 1744
12 Famous Quotes
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
- Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
- Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
Pope was an 18th Century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
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by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
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