- Emily DickinsonIf I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- Emily DickinsonIf I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
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Televised sports, to an even greater extent. :)
Sorry, i hadn't seen the video (haven't yet, actually. "Economy" won't allow me.) But then, i came upon this.
Funny, whilst most Indians commenting in the linked article seem to have been offended by the video, I saw it as Coldplay trying to draw new inspiration from the "muse" offered by India and its' culture... much as the Beatles, et al, have done.
btw - I watched 2006 version of "The Namesake" for the first time yesterday and was curious if your posting of piece from Gogol's "The Overcoat" had drawn any inspiration from it? It was also the first time I linked your name "Nikhil" to Nikolai (even if there isn't a link).
Have you seen it? Care to share any thoughts?
ps - I then, of coarse, had to read "The Overcoat" to try and understand the Dostoevsky quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
I'm not sure I did...
but am now slogging through a 4 hour You-Tube of Wagner's "Parsifal" so as to better grasp the "Eternal Feminine" in Kundry and the Lacanian Discourses as represented by Parsifal's characters.
Akakiy Akakievitch seemed very "Kundry" like...
Why is it that people are so easily offended these days? Maybe it comes from having to constantly invent oneself (in lieu of finding and liberating oneself in one's own truth ... see Baudelaire's definition of Modernity), identifying oneself with the latest "fad" — we have a saying here, that naya naya mulla pachon waqt namaj parta hai (a rough translation would be, A recent convert to Islam prays full five times) — something along the same lines.
Think have seen it only in bits and pieces ... is it any good? have you read the book? (i haven't.)
I don't know if they are connected, fj, but my sister-in-law sometimes calls me Nikolai Chutiyanov (chutiya being an abuse in Hindi.) ;)
...is it any good? I enjoyed it. And no, I haven't read the book.
Siblings... *shakes head*
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