The element of chance is a definite artistic category in your work.
"Again, you can go back to Dostoevsky in that respect. It is all about the moment when two people meet, that one second when they really click and understand. So seconds can be very important...
Film is not eternal. Everything is fleeting. How much is left of 12th century art?..
Well, [a] misfit ... I’m an outsider. I’m a monk. I’m somewhere else, I have my own life, my own small set of friends...I live in
---Jonas Mekas, interviewed by Grisseman, 2008.
London, as everyone knows, consists of five or six villages. I forget. The Commons, the village greens, etc., etc. In each place, at each moment, there are a thousand histories, a thousand mirrors, carrying on without you. And in just one, there was a hidden moment with you. But I forget where it was. As chance would have it. Isn't the city, with its myriad images, a reflection of that lost time?
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perhaps one only lives for only twenty seconds, and the rest is just unimportant filling.
i so loved this interview.
hi b, i am sleepy and unwilling to go out into the cold, yes i must.
the moment when two people meet - that second. yes, i know, i know. will we meet someday too?
somebody asked recently how many "bloggers" i had met in real life.
yes, i suppose we might..who knows? who is this btw?
Roxana?
was the person who asked you a blogger or a real person? (assuming that bloggers are not quite real! :-) )
Thanks for dropping by. It's okay, you don't have to reveal your real name.
Keep well,
b.
Just 'dropping by' to say: poor old Montaigne - he does get hackneyed, don't he? No can't remember much of it myself! But just starting Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity. Read it?
Not much to say or think - very much focussed on staying alive, and warm. Snowed in , more or less.
Any chance of a re-union at Euston in the near future? - weather permitting.Yesterday, V and A tried to get on a train there to come North but it was packed solid end to end, with police controlling the seething crowds. Like the sensible girls they are, they abandoned the visit and repaired to John Lewis to eat C.rolls, drink coffee and buy things. I'm going down there on Dec. 20th. See you there?
Dear C, hello! Yes, have read it. Liked it a lot then. Especially the bits on de Maistre. Not so sure if I would now. always felt like I was getting carried away reading his writing. 'Against the current' is also a good collection.
Montaigne, yes, i think so. but is still quite endearing nevertheless.
oh, John lewis. Very nice. Debenhams is also good for food (that really does make me sound cheap! ) Think it's more the sense of deep familiarity with these places than anything else (er..yeah, so much for my anti-capitalist rants! :-) )
C. rolls. V &A *are* very sensible!
:-)
Yes, should be there or thereabouts on the 22 nd? is that too late? (why does that make me sound like Fanny to Sergeant Troy? :-)) )
Must finish that Hardy biography Was just getting into it as well. Strange, now that I think of it.Hmm. Was thinking about this just last night when I met an old school friend-my best friend actually. Very clever chap. went to Cambridge for languages. Reads Goethe and Schiller when he's not playing the harp or the piano or farming (yes, the last one is the odd one out!). And we were talking about our old English teacher who said something very interesting abut Hardy. Was just about to mention it when the friend said: You know, K, he asked me for 3 air-conditioners as a personal favour.
Well, after hearing that I just kept on eating my mushroom soup and let the story go.
Must stop this rambling. Class in 40 min. and -as usual-woefully underprepared (I do feel sorry for the poor sods sometimes!)
Take care,
b.
Aha! I'll be returning North on 23rd December, so if you've got the time........'Wouldn't it be luvverly?'
C
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Keep meaning to read the Hardy biog. but never get round to getting the book. Pity you're so distant or I could have borrowed it. BUT - just finished the excellent Biography of Edith Wharton by RWB Lewis. (Excellent, but maybe a bit too much detailing of social contacts, dinners with Bernard Berenson, trips with Henry James; gets a bit tedious towards the end.) EW is one of my all-time literary heroines and a star in the firmament of great writers. Have you read The House of Mirth? If you can ever find the time to digress from your more weighty literary diet, read that. 'It makes you think.' (:
BTW:Oh, forgot to add to previous Comment that, obviously, my trip South depends entirely on the situation here. If the Aged One deteriorates further, or if we continue to be snowed in, I'll have to cancel.
Ciao for now.
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