Month: November 2007

Who cares


Олден Уитмен. Какое место вы отводите себе среди писателей (ныне здравствующих) и писателей недавнего прошлого?

Владимир Набоков. Я часто думаю, что должен существовать специальный типографский знак, обозначающий улыбку, — нечто вроде выгнутой линии, лежащей навзничь скобки,, именно этот значок я поставил бы вместо ответа на ваш вопрос.

Интервью в апреле 1969 года (перевод А. Г. Николаевской). Опубликовано в сборнике Nabokov V. Strong Opinions.

Could I love him more?

Tender,sometimes a song really pierces your heart


Life is riddled with tough choices

PJ Harvey-Memphis(Tribute to Jeff Buckley)
You breathing into my mouth
I’ll take it
I’ll take it for you

You wanna sing
Then sing it for me
You got something
Left to say

Untie me
We’re taking away
Unlikely
Out of time

When you still got
So much to say
I’ll write it
A song for you

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You’re smiling

Oh what a way to go
I’m with you
I’m singing

You said
There’s a special place
And it’s scaring
The shit out of me

In Memphis
On Valentine’s day
You wrote it
In a letter to me

Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you
My beautiful friend

But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it
To bring it back again

You’ll always
Have open eyes
You’ll always
Have a special place

In Memphis
On Valentine’s day
Die suddenly
At a wonderful age
We’re ready
We’re ready to go
When you still got so much to say

Somehow I know
You drank and stole
Receiving just everything

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You’re smiling

foreign employees


foreign employees are todays migrant workers, only recently laws were made to protect their intrests and they started to get decent treatment.

Most of them live in Southern Tel Aviv.
They spend years here doing agricultural work,construction,menial labour and wet nursing the elderly among other things. Most are from the Philippines,Thailand,China,Romania and Nigeria. They seem lonely,but in southern Tel Aviv they have their own diners,stores,clubs and bordellos – they seem much more relaxed there.Some have children born here.

Watched:”Eastern Promises”(weak with good points) and “History of Violence”(good). Cronenberg is improving with age.

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“Although he continued to paint, Modigliani’s health was deteriorating rapidly, and his alcohol-induced blackouts became more frequent.

In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbor checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani was dying of the then-incurable disease tubercular meningitis.

Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

Hébuterne was taken to her parents’ home, where, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window two days after Modigliani’s death, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani.

Modigliani died penniless and destitute—managing only one solo exhibition in his life and giving his work away in exchange for meals in restaurants. Since his death his reputation has soared. Nine novels, a play, a documentary and three feature films have been devoted to his life.”

Wikipedia

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