Our heart has its home in journeying,
but one does not know where its wish will lead it in the end.
---Mir Dard.
a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! ...Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
---Shakespeare (forgive me, dougal!)
The drawn out look, the withered flesh, the face, finally, fully formed, as if God were judging it for signs, or some revelation of inner trust. The defeated look, where once there was a sparkle and glimmer. How we live is what we are. There's no escaping it. This is life, and this is love.
Not the restless energy (Durer, say) or the quiet, sober, personal piety and devotion of an earlier age. What we see here is similar to his 'Dead Christ', a world without salvation, time unredeemed. From now on western man-which is to say modern men and women-must live on without consolation, must overcome his core tiredness, come to terms with finitude, his own brokenness.
Resignation, fatigue, weariness etched on his face. The world is too much with us. Asceticism is not a solution. But at the end, as at the beginning, there is an opening.
I am not the sound of the blossom's melody,
I am the sound of my own breaking.
---Ghalib.
the falling of the old wall means the wall will be renewed.
2 comments:
the Ghalib quote is simply breathtaking, i must borrow it for the Bridge :-)
how do you know about Asceticism not being a solution? perhaps it is one, for others, no? (for those with lesser cute secretaries, perhaps :-P). oh i see, how could anything be a solution which doesn't include c.r.?!
okok, just jestering around :-)
Glad you liked! Yes, do borrow. It can go with my words on scrambled eggs for your next film. no? :-)
Yes, you're quite right Roxana. Maybe it is a solution for others, but not for 'modern' men and women (again, generalizing, since there will always be individual cases)...but I do think that, for better *and* for worse: the world is too much with us.
again, you're spot on: c.r.'s are the solution...unfortunately, they're also the problem!
(he says, rubbing his stomach)
:-)
What will hell be like? Just like earth, except no cinnamon rolls! But at least there will be lots of clowns, I think. Clowns are the greatest infidels and must be punished.
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