MANNA DEY,EMINENT INDIAN SINGER,IS DEAD AT 94 !

MANNA DEY, THE LEGENDARY INDIAN SINGER,HAS DIED THIS MORNING AT 3:50AM IN A HOSPITAL IN BANGALORE!HE WAS 94 AND SANG AROUND 4000 SONGS IN VARIOUS INDIAN LANGAUGES!HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A PROTRACTED ILLNESS AS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ASTHMA AND KIDNEY PROBLEMS MUCH EARLIER!

FOR THE HINDI LANGAUGE MOVIES,HE WAS JUST A STALWART AND ALSO FOR THE BENGALI FILMS !

HE GOT MANY PRIZES, DADASHAHEB PHALKE AWARD WAS THE HIGHEST MEANT FOR PEOPLE OF INDIAN CINEMA!

MANNA DEY INSPIRED MANY YOUNG SINGERS !
HIS LEGACY WILL BE GREAT!

MAY GOD BLESS PLUS WISH DEY'S SOUL GO TO HEAVEN !

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARTHUR MILLER,EMINENT AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT !

''BETRAYAL IS THE ONLY TRUTH THAT STICKS !''

ARTHUR MILLER.

American Playwright Arthur Miller
Was Born This Day 17 October In
1915 In New York.

A Product of The Great Depression
Era, Arthur Miller , Through His
Plays, Kept Questioning The
Prevalent Mode of Captalist Society
And The Demeaning Features of
Modernity !

An Open Critic of The Anti-
Communist Wave of The United
States Government During The
Early Period of Cold War Era, Miller
Came Up With His Second Most
Popular Play, THE CRUCIBLE Wherein
He Drew An Analogy of Sorts
Between The Then Ongoing Anti-
Communist Policy Of The
Government That Saw A Repressive
Attitude Towards One n All Who
Were Sympathizing With
Communism n Its Votaries With
That Of A Witch Hunt In Salem In
Earlier Era!
The Play Saw Miller Gaining An
Instant Celebrity Status And Its
Consequential Persecution by The
Government. . .(Luckily Miller
Escaped The Punishment).

Master of Impressionism Plus
Realism, Miller Wrote His Most
Read , Critically Acclaimed And A
Must In College Syllabi Worldwide,
DEATH OF A SALESMAN.
The Play Is Technically Held As A
Model For Modern Realistic
Playwriting And A Fine Flagbearer
of The Tradition of Ibsen-often
held as the father of modern
drama!

A Poten Critic of The Myth of
American Dream, Miller Never Felt
Shy of Pointing Out The Hollowness
of This Dream And The Resultant
Collective Frustration Amongst The
Generations of 50s n 60s !

Married To The Hollywood Sex
Symbol, Marilyn Monroe, For 6yrs ,
Miller Had Had A Fondness For
Scriptwriting Too.After The End of
This Turbulent Relationship, Miller
Penned A Beautiful Play Titled
AFTER THE FALL !

Family Relationship Was a
Recurring Theme In His Plays.

ALL MY SONS and A VIEW FROM THE
BRIDGE are His Other Enduring
Plays.

Miller Remains A Powerful
Influence Even Today As His
Concerns Are As Relevant Today As
During His Time.

He Would Have Been 98 Today !

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
ARTHUR MILLER !

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TEN QUOTES OF MAHATMA GANDHI ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

TEN QUOTES OF MAHATMA GANDHI ON HIS 144th BIRTHDAY TODAY, OCTOBER 02, 2013 :-


(1.) ''An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.''

(2.) ''God has no religion.''

(3.) ''Be the change that you wish to see in the world.''

(4.) ''Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.''

(5.) ''A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.''

(6.) ''To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.''

(7.) ''Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.''

(8.) ''Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.For God alone reads our hearts.''

(9.) ''Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.''

(10.) ''The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.''

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SYRIAN TURMOIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE!

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Trapped In Power, Politics ,
Polemics and Possibilities, US
President Obama Still Exudes
Hopes For A Positive Nod From At
Least One Entity -CONGRESS, After
Having Witnessed The Negative
Nod From The International
Comity of Nations Against His
Proposal To Militarily Intervening
Syria In Order To Dismantle(if not
destroy) The Power of Bashar-al-
Assad And To Teach Him A
Lesson or Two Post His Use of
Chemical Weapons !!
The US CONGRESS Returns Today
After Recess And There Shall Be A
Stormy Session Over The Issue of
The Presidential Reference
Seeking Its Formal Authorization
To Intervene In Syrian Crisis In A
Selective Limited Military Attack!
John Kerry, The Seasoned Sec. Of
State, Is Returning
WashingtonDC. After Having
Spent Nearly A Week In Europe
Trying To Persuade Various
European Leaders To Support
Obama Administration's
Proposal ! John Kerry Did Extract
Virtually Nothing And Is
Returning Emptyhanded ! He Will
Be Briefing The Congress Putting
His Observations Regarding The
Proposal !
President Obama Is Expected To
Go Live Addressing The Nation
On Tuesday Evening !
Nancy Pelosi, The House
Democratic Leader , Who Has
Been Entrusted To Canvass
Supports From The Members of
The House of Representatives
Where The Republican Party Has
An Edge Numerically, Is
Reportedly Doing Her Best . . .YET,
QUITE SKEPTIC REGARDING A GO-
AHEAD FROM THE HOUSE !
Britain Made It Clear It Can't Do
Anything Except Extending Moral
Support To Mr. Obama's Plan For
The British Parliament Sort of
Vetoed Cameron Govt. Plan of
Joining Hands With The US Govt
In Attacking Syria !
Germany, Too, Showed Its 'Nay'
and It Had To. .as The General
Election Is Near And Merkel Fears
People's Wrath !
Only France And Netherland Are
Saying 'YES' !
By and Large , Obama Is Left
Alone To Act or Not To Act And
Legally No Rule National or
International Puts Any Fetters
Before Obama And Therefore Mr.
PRESIDENT IS ALMOST FREE TO
LISTEN TO HIS DISCRETION,IE NOT
CONSCIENCE, AND ACT
ACCORDINGLY !
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TONY ABBOTT IS TO BECOME THE AUSTRALIAN PREMIER !

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The Boxer Has Finally Delivered
His Deadly Punch And The Ring
Belongs To Him ! Tony Abbott,
55, Won The Australian Election
And Became The Premier Elect !
The Coalition Of The
Conservatives and The Liberals
Led By Mr. Abbott Rose To The
Occasion By Effecting A
Thrashing Defeat To The Long
Beleagured Erstwhile Ruling Party
- The Labor Party Led By Kevin
Rudd !
The Coalition Got Nearly 90 Seats
Against 54 of The Labors And
Thereby Secured A Clear Lead Fit
For Making A New Government
After 6yrs of Near Misgovernance
By Kevin n Julia -the odd couple
who have always been busy in
shoring up their own egos at the
cost of their party !
John Howard Is Cheering This
Victory Of The Coalition After 6yrs
It Has Been Out of Power. Rupert
Murdoch Threw Millions In Cash
And Directed His News Media To
Endorse Tony Who Is Seen As
Someone Who Would Give A Free
Rein To The Market Economy By
Curtailing A Slew of Taxes And
Inviting Corporate Houses From
Around The World Requesting
Them To Do Business In
Australia.
There Is Likely To No Tax On
Carbon Emissior or Carbon Tax !
It Was One Of The Vital Points On
The Poll Planks !
There Shall Be Certain Changes In
The Minning Sector Facilitating To
Re-establish The Minning Boom
That Got A Drubbing Under The
Six Year Rule of The Labor Party !
And, The Third Main Poll Plank
Was To Put A Tab On The
Growing Inflow of Illigal
Migrantes !
On All These Three Agendas That
Were A Common Reference In
Each Party’s Election Manifesto,
Tony Abbott Said After Having
Emerged As The Victor , That He
Would Kickstart His Plans From
Day One !
Tony Abbott, 55, Is A Former
Boxer And Rhodes Scholar .
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The Labor Party Got Defeat As Per
The Anticipation ! The Main
Reason For This Is Inherent
Inside The Party Than The
Outside of It ! The Intra-Party-
Conflict Has Been So Pronounced
That It Has Had Its Toll On The
Voters Plus The Activists of The
Party!The Drama At The Top Has
Had The Blame!Kevin Rudd
Versus Julia Gillard Drama Yielded
This Outcome!Both of Them
Proved Myopic And Egotists And
Have Never Waited Even A Single
Moment In Letting People Know
Their Personal Clashes In
Clinching The Party Leadership
Post ! The Taxation Policy Did The
Rest !
Surprisingly, This Party Has Still To
Grapple With The Reality That It
Has Been Thrown Into ! Kevin
Rudd Has Had His Speech Post
The Electoral Results
And ,Though, It Was A Defeat
Conceding Occasion , Rudd Didn’t
Say He Led The Party To Such
Nosedive , Instead He Spoke
Happily That His Party Did
Unexpectedly Better And Showed
That It Could Still Be A Contestant
In Future ! The Speech Went For
22min. More Than That Of Mr.
Abbott’s Acceptance Speech !!
The Single Meaningful Point That
Mr. Kevin Rudd Said Was That The
Party Needed A New Leadership !
Yes, IT DOES !
Goodluck To Mr. PRIME-MINISTER-
ELECT, TONY ABBOTT !
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THE SYRIAN PUZZLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE ! (part-I)

Syria Is The Flashpoint Of International Diplomacy These Days Especially After Some Partial Reports Of The Use Of Chemical Weapons By The Bashar al Assad's Regime Against Its Own People And Inside Their Own Country -- the death toll due to this is reportedly 1500(approx.) !

The International Community Has Expressed Profound Shock Over Such Heinous Acts Perpetrated By The Assad Regime And Is Full of Suspicions That The Use of Chemical Weapons Might Be Increased In Future If It Is Not Taken Seriously And The Punishments Not Given !
But, There Has Not Been Any Concerted Efforts Being Made To Address Such Issue of Urgency , Except A Few Brainstormings Culminated In Debates Inside The Legislatures Of Some Countries (as best displayed in the british parliament) !

We Know The Reality of The United Nations(UN) And Expect No Actions Taken By It !

The UK Govt. Failed To Muster Up The Requisite Mandate For Its Proposal Of A Possible Military Intervention In SYRIAN CRISIS And Thereby Shouldering Along The US Govt. !

The French President, Francoise Hollande Is The Only Person Who Is More Inclined To Contribute To Any Military Enterprise The NATO or Other International Entity Would Ponder Over As The Only Way Ahead In Punishing Assad!

Russia Is Arguably The Most Important Factor In This Strange Plus Long Drawn War And It Has Very Overtly Been Throwing Its Weight In Support of Assad And Been Harping The Same Raga That Assad Puts Forth In Defense of His Fascist Regime And That Is That There Exists A Foreign Conspiracy To Destabilise Syria And The Terrorist Organizations Like Al-Quaeda Has Got A Sizeable Foray Into This Plot !

Nearly 59% Americans Don't Wish For Any Direct Military Interventions Anywhere Let Alone Syria In Face of A Rather Prolonged Economic Malaise America Is Undergoing !

But, There Seems An Emerging View Amongst The Political Establishment That President Obama Must Go Ahead And Attack Thereby Effect The Punitive Measures Required At This Juncture And Send A Clear Signal That Such Acts of Using Chemical Weapons Shall Have Disastrous Consequences !
Both Mainstream Parties In The States Have Some Common Grounds To Think And Act In Unison! Syrian Turmoil Has Already Disturbed The Region And Poses Grave Threats To The Friendly States of America In That Region !

Obama Could Have Gone Ahead Without Any Congressional Authorization As He Did In The Case of Libya And More Importantly He Is Entitled For Such Extraordinary Situation ! Also, American History In The Postwar era suggests in favour of such presidential discretions!

Obama Is Certainly Playing Naivete And The Delays Caused Is Only Adding Insults To The Wounds !

In A Couple of Days The Final And Comprehensive Report by The UNO will come out and that will certainly bring some consensual views on these things !

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THE SYRIAN PUZZLE AND THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE ! (part-I)

Syria Is The Flashpoint Of International Diplomacy These Days Especially After Some Partial Reports Of The Use Of Chemical Weapons By The Bashar al Assad's Regime Against Its Own People And Inside Their Own Country -- the death toll due to this is reportedly 1500(approx.) !

The International Community Has Expressed Profound Shock Over Such Heinous Acts Perpetrated By The Assad Regime And Is Full of Suspicions That The Use of Chemical Weapons Might Be Increased In Future If It Is Not Taken Seriously And The Punishments Not Given !
But, There Has Not Been Any Concerted Efforts Being Made To Address Such Issue of Urgency , Except A Few Brainstormings Culminated In Debates Inside The Legislatures Of Some Countries (as best displayed in the british parliament) !

We Know The Reality of The United Nations(UN) And Expect No Actions Taken By It !

The UK Govt. Failed To Muster Up The Requisite Mandate For Its Proposal Of A Possible Military Intervention In SYRIAN CRISIS And Thereby Shouldering Along The US Govt. !

The French President, Francoise Hollande Is The Only Person Who Is More Inclined To Contribute To Any Military Enterprise The NATO or Other International Entity Would Ponder Over As The Only Way Ahead In Punishing Assad!

Russia Is Arguably The Most Important Factor In This Strange Plus Long Drawn War And It Has Very Overtly Been Throwing Its Weight In Support of Assad And Been Harping The Same Raga That Assad Puts Forth In Defense of His Fascist Regime And That Is That There Exists A Foreign Conspiracy To Destabilise Syria And The Terrorist Organizations Like Al-Quaeda Has Got A Sizeable Foray Into This Plot !

Nearly 59% Americans Don't Wish For Any Direct Military Interventions Anywhere Let Alone Syria In Face of A Rather Prolonged Economic Malaise America Is Undergoing !

But, There Seems An Emerging View Amongst The Political Establishment That President Obama Must Go Ahead And Attack Thereby Effect The Punitive Measures Required At This Juncture And Send A Clear Signal That Such Acts of Using Chemical Weapons Shall Have Disastrous Consequences !
Both Mainstream Parties In The States Have Some Common Grounds To Think And Act In Unison! Syrian Turmoil Has Already Disturbed The Region And Poses Grave Threats To The Friendly States of America In That Region !

Obama Could Have Gone Ahead Without Any Congressional Authorization As He Did In The Case of Libya And More Importantly He Is Entitled For Such Extraordinary Situation ! Also, American History In The Postwar era suggests in favour of such presidential discretions!

Obama Is Certainly Playing Naivete And The Delays Caused Is Only Adding Insults To The Wounds !

In A Couple of Days The Final And Comprehensive Report by The UNO will come out and that will certainly bring some consensual views on these things !

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The Poet Crowned by Seamus Heaney | The New York Review of Books

The Poet Crowned by Seamus Heaney | The New York Review of Books

THE DEATH OF A POET(SEAMUS HEANEY) !

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''THE END OF ART IS PEACE !''
SEAMUS HEANEY BADE GOODBYE
ON 30 AUG,2013 !
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IRISH POET AND NOBEL LAUREATE,
SEAMUS HEANEY DIED ON FRIDAY !
Heaney died on friday at a
hospital in Dublin where he was
being treated for some
complications that were the
results of a stroke he had had in
2006.
American Poet n Critic, Robert
Lowell, once described Heaney as
'THE GREATEST IRISH POET SINCE
W.B.YEATS' !
The Uniqueness of Seamus
Heaney Was That He Was Both
Erudite n Easy : Kind of People's
Poet !
Robert Frost and Ted Hughes
Were Two of Great Inspirations
for Seamus Heaney And Like
Them Heaney Too Had Been
Experimental In As Far As The
Idea of Poetry out of The Rural,
The Local Landscape viz. Farms,
Ferns, Valley n Valour etc. Is
Concerned!
Seamus Heaney Happened To Be
The Largest Selling Living Poet
During The Last 20yrs. !
He Won The Nobel For Literature
In 1995 and Joined The Ranks of
Other Superb Irish Authors -
Yeats, Beckett, JBShaw, . . .!
His Poetry Is Marked With A
High Sense of Lyricism And
The Themes Invariably
Touched Nature , Rural
Ambience, Human Life n Its
Supposed Continuance of
Struggle i.e. The Tiff Between
The Nature n The Mankind !
Seamus Heaney Had The Kind
of Popularity Rarely Dreamed
By A Poet !
He Remained As A Teacher At
Harvard, Queens' University
and Professor of Poetry At
Oxford !
Seamus Heaney Published 13
Books of Poetry ,The Last One
Published in 2010, Is HUMAN
CHAIN and The First One ,
'DEATH OF A NATURALIST' in
1966!
His 'DISTRICT AND CIRCLE' Won
Him T.S. ELIOT PRIZE.
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THE DEATH OF A POET(SEAMUS HEANEY) !

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
''THE END OF ART IS PEACE !''
SEAMUS HEANEY BADE GOODBYE
ON 30 AUG,2013 !
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
IRISH POET AND NOBEL LAUREATE,
SEAMUS HEANEY DIED ON FRIDAY !
Heaney died on friday at a
hospital in Dublin where he was
being treated for some
complications that were the
results of a stroke he had had in
2006.
American Poet n Critic, Robert
Lowell, once described Heaney as
'THE GREATEST IRISH POET SINCE
W.B.YEATS' !
The Uniqueness of Seamus
Heaney Was That He Was Both
Erudite n Easy : Kind of People's
Poet !
Robert Frost and Ted Hughes
Were Two of Great Inspirations
for Seamus Heaney And Like
Them Heaney Too Had Been
Experimental In As Far As The
Idea of Poetry out of The Rural,
The Local Landscape viz. Farms,
Ferns, Valley n Valour etc. Is
Concerned!
Seamus Heaney Happened To Be
The Largest Selling Living Poet
During The Last 20yrs. !
He Won The Nobel For Literature
In 1995 and Joined The Ranks of
Other Superb Irish Authors -
Yeats, Beckett, JBShaw, . . .!
His Poetry Is Marked With A
High Sense of Lyricism And
The Themes Invariably
Touched Nature , Rural
Ambience, Human Life n Its
Supposed Continuance of
Struggle i.e. The Tiff Between
The Nature n The Mankind !
Seamus Heaney Had The Kind
of Popularity Rarely Dreamed
By A Poet !
He Remained As A Teacher At
Harvard, Queens' University
and Professor of Poetry At
Oxford !
Seamus Heaney Published 13
Books of Poetry ,The Last One
Published in 2010, Is HUMAN
CHAIN and The First One ,
'DEATH OF A NATURALIST' in
1966!
His 'DISTRICT AND CIRCLE' Won
Him T.S. ELIOT PRIZE.
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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. AND 'I HAVE A DREAM' SPEECH : BRIEF MUSINGS!

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TODAY MARKS THE 50th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE ICONIC
SPEECH, 'I HAVE A DREAM' ,
DELIVERED BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER
KING Jr. ON 28 AUGUST, 1963 IN
WASHINGTON DC !

DR. KING WAS A PHENOMENON
WHO FOUGHT FOR AN EQUAL
SPACE FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE
OF THE UNITED STATES LONG BEEN
REELING UNDER THE BURDEN OF
SLAVERY, PERSECUTION, ILL-
TREATMENT AND ALL WERE DUE TO
THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
PRACTISED AND WHETTED BY THE
LEGAL SYSTEM !

DR. KING WAS A GREAT ORATOR
AND DUE TO THIS SKILL HE ALWAYS
USED TO MOBILISE THE BLACKS
AND MADE THEM AWARE OF THEIR
PATHETIC PLIGHT AND APPEALED
FOR A UNITED VOICE OF PROTEST
WITHOUT RESORTING TO
VIOLENCE !

AN ARDENT VOTARY OF TRUTH
AND NON-VIOLENCE, DR. KING WAS
A ORATOR AND 'I HAVE A DREAM'
IS PRECISELY A TESTAMENT TO HIS
ERUDITION, FAITH AND HOPE !

5O YEARS GONE BY AND RACE IS
STILL ROOTED IN AMERICAN
PSYCHE,HOWSOEVER ITS EXTANT AS
WELL AS CONSEQUENCE ARE QUITE
SMALLER THAN WHAT IT WAS HALF
A CENTURY AGO !

TODAY DR. KING WOULD HAVE
SOME CHEERS TO SEE A FELLOW
BLACK OCCUPYING THE HIGHEST
CHAIR OF THE LAND !

STILL THERE REMAINS SOME
CURVED PATHS TO BE
STRAIGHTENED, PROUD
MOUNTAINS TO BE BOWED DOWN,
ROUGH LANDS TO BE MADE
PLAINS . . . .et.al !

THERE ARE IN FACT MANY DREAMS
WITHIN A DREAM AND THEIR
REALIZATION IN LETTER AND
SPIRIT SHALL BE THE PRIME
DRIVING FORCE FOR A NATION
PASSING THROUGH SOME OF ITS
TOUGHEST TIMES IN RECENT MEMORY AND SURPRISINGLY
READYING ITSELF UP FOR A STRIKE
AGAINST THE SYRIA OF BASHAR-
AL-ASAD !!

IS REALITY NOT A KIND OF DREAM
TOO ?

A LOUD READING OF THE TEXT OF
'I HAVE A DREAM' SEEMS
REDEMPTIVE OF SORTS !

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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM !

DR. KING & PRES. OBAMA : DREAM
& REALITY !
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''THERE COMES A TIME WHEN
SILENCE IS BETRAYAL !''
Dr. King
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. AND
PRESIDENT OBAMA :-
THE HERO AND HIS SELF CLAIMED
FOLLOWER !!

Shortly mr.obama wl step on the
same ground at national mall
where dr.king had had his 'i hv a
dream' speech exactly 50yrs ago
and enthralled a gathering of
nearly 250000 americans most
of
whom were job seekers, labor
unionists n people who were
desperately seeking a hike in
their
wages. . .!

50yrs have passed and
coincidently today there is a
huge
dearth of jobs n burgeoning
unemployment n cracks in
economy !!

IT IS STILL A MATTER OF GREAT
INTEREST,RATHER DEBATE
WHETHER THAT SPECIFIC HISTORIC
DREAM OF DR.KING IS MORE
ACUTELY
FELT NOW, FOR THE AMERICAN
DREAM IS
PASSING THROUGH ITS LEAN PHASE
AND THE RESULTANT GROWING
DISCONTENT IS TAKING A
WIDESPREAD MANIFESTATIONS IN
FORMS OF PROTESTS MARCHS OR
OCCUPY MOVEMENTS !!

THE DREAM IS YET TO BE FULFILLED
IN ITS ENTIRETY EVEN IN MATTERS
NON-ECONOMIC IN NATURE!!

A NATION,RIGHTLY or WRONGLY,
OFTEN, LIVES IN
SYMBOLISM AND THE MOST SELF
GRATIFYING SYMBOL TODAY IS THE
CURRENT US PRESIDENT WHO
HIMSELF HAILS FROM DR. KING'S
COMMUNITY AND UNDOUBTEDLY
STANDS TALL PLUS MIGHTY ON
DR.KING'S DREAM OF A TIME AND A
MINDSET WHEN A HUMAN BEING
WILL BE JUDGED NOT ON THE
BASIS
OF HIS/HER COLOR ,BUT ON
CONTENTS OF HIS/HER
CHARACTER !!

SYMBOLICALLY THAT DREAM HAS
GOT SOME OUNCES OF CHEERS ,
BUT PRACTICALLY IT FACES MANY A
VALLEY OF DESPAIR !!

HOPE IS A GREAT CONSOLATION
AND A TIME TESTED SHORT TERM
PLACEBO. . .!

So, Let There Be Hope. . .

Free At Last,
Thank Almighty !!

LET THE RING OF FREEDOM ECHO
EVERYWHERE !!

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FAMOUS LINES FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S ICONIC SPEECH, 'I HAVE A DREAM' !

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: 'WE ARE THE TIME :: WE ARE THE FAMOUS' -a poem by ...

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: 'WE ARE THE TIME :: WE ARE THE FAMOUS' -a poem by ...: We are the time. We are the famous metaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure. We are the water, not the hard diamond, the one that is lost, n...

'WE ARE THE TIME :: WE ARE THE FAMOUS' -a poem by JORGE LUIS BORGES !

We are the time. We are the famous
metaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure.

We are the water, not the hard diamond,
the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.

We are the river and we are that greek
that looks himself into the river. His reflection
changes into the waters of the changing mirror,
into the crystal that changes like the fire.

We are the vain predetermined river,
in his travel to his sea.
The shadows have surrounded him.

Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.

Memory does not stamp his own coin.

However, there is something that stays
however, there is something that bemoans.

ROMAN POLANSKI, THE PIANIST FAMED ACADEMY WINNING FILMMAKER,TURNS 80 !

Roman Polanski, The Pianist Famed Filmmaker Whose Personal Life Often Gets The Better of Him -thanks to an alleged charge of child rape that led him to flee from the united states in late 70s, Turns 80 Today !

Polanski Has Made 'VENUS IN FUR' This Year That Got Premiered In This Year's Cannes Film Festival , Is Credited With More Than Just A Few Movies That Are Going To Stay In The World of Cinema For Long !

'ROSEMARY'S BABY' -his debut venture in Hollywood, Is A Classic.

'TESS' and 'REPULSION' Are Another Two of His Critically Acclaimed Films!

Born In Paris And Raised Largely In And Around of The Polish Town of Krakow, Polanski Had To Witness The Disturbing World Under The Rise of Nazism and The World War-II That Took Away His Mother's Life In The Camp At Auschwitz And The Incarceration of His Father With Whom He Fortunately Reunited While Still An Adolescent And Most Importantly The Macabre World of Terror , Evil n Violence That Became A Recurring Theme In His Movies Culminated Plus Perfected In His Masterpiece, THE PIANIST (2002) -an academy winning film which is unanimously considered as his best rendition as well as which is hailed as One of The Most Original Plus Brutally Honest Cinematic Versions Of The Holocaust And The Psychological Damage Ensued Thereafter !

SAMANTHA GEIMER, The Rape Victim, Publically Extended A Forgive To Polanski And Has Written Extensively In Her Recent Book, LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF POLANSKI, On The Unfortunate Episode That Happened Sometime In 1977 At The Home of The Hollywood Actor, Jack Nicholson, While Undergoing An Audition Held By Polanski !

Polanski Had To Undergo A Few Weeks of Psychiatric Supervision And While There Has Not Been Any Final Verdict Given So Far, The Filmmaker Had Managed An Escape And Never Landed On American Soil Since Then Including During The Oscars Wherein He Was Adjudged As The Best Director and His Film The Best Movie. . .!

If We Judge An Artist Solely On The Merits or Otherwise of His/Her Works And Willingly Suspend For The Time Being Our Scrutiny of His/Her Personal Life , Then Roman Polanski Could Well Be Adjudged As One of The Greatest Filmmakers of All Time And Certainly The Greatest In Recent Times As Far As The Truthful Plus Realistic Rendition of The Underworld of The Forces of Evil In Humanity At Large Is Concerned !

POLANSKI, 80 Today, Is Living In Paris With His Very Beautiful Young Wife -a french singer, EMMANUELLE SEIGNER, And Is Still Displaying Creative Juice Unto His Limbs n Latitudes !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POLANSKI !
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TEN QUOTES OF MAE WEST ON HER 120th BIRTHDAY !

MARY JANE WEST, better known as MAE WEST, american actress, playwright, scriptwriter, comedienne and sex symbol , was born this day on 17th august 1893 in Bushwick,Brooklyn,NY.

Famous For Wit Plus Repartee, Mae West Donned Over The American Artistic Landscape For Over Seven Decades And Had Left Behind Herself A Plethora of Quotations That Remind The Elements of Mark Twain's Witty Sayings or Twainesque !

Today Is Mae West's 120th Birth Anniversary And Therefore It Will Be Fitting To Relish Ten Quotes of Her !


MAE WEST QUOTES :-

(1.) ''Sex is emotion in motion !''

(2.) ''Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere !''

(3.) ''Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile !''

(4.) ''To err is human, but it feels divine.''

(5.) ''I'm single because I was born that way !''

(6.) ''I speak two languages : Body and English.''

(7.) ''Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you !''

(8.) ''You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.''

(9.) ''When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better !''

(10.) ''All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else !''

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INDIA CELEBRATED ITS 67th BIRTHDAY !

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It was raining in most parts of
India at the dawn of its 67th
Independence Day on 15 August
2013 and the clouds becoming
darker, people felt dampen and a
mood of despair was to set
soon. . . .but, the sky understood
the importance of the occasion
and there was sunshine quickly !
People celebrated the 67th
birthday of modern india with
gaiety and fervor and took the
customary pledge to protect their
motherland and would
contribute to the cause of this
nation !
The indian premier, Mr.
Manmohan Singh, spoke about
the progress this nation has
witnessed during the ten years
of his leadership.He sounded
hollow plus nonsense! He never
talked of the largest,rather the
greatest malady this nation has
suffered under his inert plus
puppet-like leadership! He spoke
only the promises his
government has been harping
on n on !
On the whole the premier’s
speech was a grand shit apt to
be thrown into some dustbin !
India’s Progress In The Last
66yrs. Of Its Independence
Stands Pale Before The Glaring
Failures !
And, Hope Is The Most Abused
Word In The Lexicon of This
Nation !
‘HOPING AGAINST HOPE’ MIGHT BE
AN APT EXPRESSION FOR
DETAILING THIS NATION’S
BIOGRAPHY !
Many Rewarding Returns of The
Day !
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'LYING IN ME' -- A POEM BY ANNA AKHMATOVA !

'LYING IN ME'

by Anna Akhmatova


Lying in me, as though it were a
white
Stone in the depths of a well, is
one
Memory that I cannot, will not,
fight:
It is happiness, and it is pain.
Anyone looking straight into my
eyes
Could not help seeing it, and
could not fail
To become thoughtful, more sad
and quiet
Than if he were listening to some
tragic tale.
I know the gods changed people
into things,
Leaving their consciousness alive
and free.
To keep alive the wonder of
suffering,
You have been metamorphosed
into me.

ANNA AKHMATOVA.
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Anna Akhmatova Is A Poet Who Can't Be Typified Into Some Watertight Compartment For She Writes In Many Forms And On Several Topics Ranging From Extremely Personal To Purely Public And She Displays An Uncanny Genius In Being Original In Treatment of The Subjects.

'LYING IN ME' Is A Wonderful Poem Based Upon Her Private Life or What We Might Say Her Personal Memory Of Times That Were Once Very Happier In Her Life !

In This Poem She Recalls The Man She Has Loved And Lived And Who Is No Longer In Blood & Flesh. . . .But, In Spirit Only. . . .And His Essence Is Simply Overwhelming!

The Poet Decides To Unravel Some Clothes of Mystery And Attempts To Let People Feel Through Her His Connect With The Poet Long After He Is Gone !

The Poet Outlines Her Days Spent With Her Lover As A World Inhabited With Joy & Sorrow. . . .Kind of A Tragic Episode As Her Joys Proved Shortlived And That Man Even Shorter !

She Has Not Been Able To Cast Off The Memory of Her Lover And Truly Speaking She Doesn't Intend To Do So ! She Simply Allows Herself Carry That Memory And Feels Strongly That That Essence Enters Existence For Her As The Indication Suggested By The Last Lines !

The Impact of That Loss Is So Much Overpowering That Anyone Who Comes Into Her Contact Could Easily Discern That Just By Looking Unto Her Eyes And The Resultant Effect Seems Contagious As It Gives Rise To Sadness Plus Grave Thoughtfulness To The Onlooker !

The Memory Of Love Lasts Much More Than Love Itself . . . .And, What Could Be More Tragic Than This . . . !

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'THE SENTENCE' -- A POEM BY ANNA AKHMATOVA !

'THE SENTENCE'

by Anna Akhmatova
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And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.
Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for
all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again--
Unless . . . Summer's ardent
rustling
Is like a festival outside my
window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house.
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ANNA AKHMATOVA.

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This Is A Powerful Poem By One Of The Finest Female Voices In Verse In The Modern World Literature, ANNA AKHMATOVA !

'THE SENTENCE' Is A Beautiful Poem On Memory And Amnesia!

The Speaker Says She Wishes To Stop The Flow of The Past Making The Present Very Difficult To Bear ,Yet, She Fails Many Times And Therefore Tries To Undo The Very Existence of The Past In Form of Memories As The Last Resort She Could Think Of As Useful !

But, How That Be Ever Possible : The Killing of Memories And The Turning of Soul Into Stone ?

The Speaker Is Perpetually Being Haunted By The Time Gone By And Any Attempt Whatsoever To Sanitize The Hauntings Seems Unattainable, rather Impossible !

At Last The Speaker Gets Sorts of Defeat And Is Seemingly Left With The Lamentation Meaningfully Expressed In The Last Lines !

The Last Lines Are Very Poignant :-

'I Have For Long Foreseen This : /
Brilliant Day , Deserted House .


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TEN QUOTES ON THE 119th BIRTHDAY OF ALDOUS HUXLEY,AUTHOR OF 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' !

TEN ALDOUS HUXLEY QUOTES : -


(1.) ''Every man's memory is his private literature.''

(2.) ''Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities !''

(3.) ''Beauty is worse than wine,it intoxicates both the holder and beholder !''

(4.) ''Several excuses are always less convincing than one !''

(5.) ''Experience teaches only the teachable.''

(6.) ''Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead !''

(7.) ''Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too !''

(8.) ''An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex !''

(9.) ''There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception !''

(10.) ''Maybe this world is another planet's hell !''

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TEN GEORGE BERNARD SHAW QUOTES ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, One of the pre-eminent english authors of 20th-cent., Was born on July 26, 1856, in Dublin,Ireland.

Today GBShaw would have been 157 !

Here are ten quotes of G. B. SHAW :-

(1.) “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

(2.) “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

(3.) “Liberty means responsibility.That is why most men dread it.”

(4.) “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

(5.) “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

(6.) ''Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.''

(7.) “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

(8.) “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

(9.) “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

(10.) “Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY,ERNEST HEMINGWAY !

TEN QUOTES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON HIS BIRTHDAY : -


(1.) ''But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated !''

(2.) ''Never confuse movement with action.''

(3.) ''Wine is the most civilized thing in the world !''

(4.) ''Courage is grace under pressure !''

(5.) ''What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.''

(6.) ''As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.''

(7.) ''. . . .If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it !''

(8.) ''Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.''

(9.) ''There is nothing to writing.All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed !''

(10.) ''Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime !''

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'ABSENCE' - A POEM BY ELIZABETH JENNINGS !

'ABSENCE'

by Elizabeth Jennings

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I visited the place where we last met.
Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,
The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;
There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget.
The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees,
Singing an ecstasy I could not share,
Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these
Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear
Or any discord shake the level breeze.
It was because the place was just the same
That made your absence seem a savage force,
For under all the gentleness there came
An earthquake tremor: Fountain, birds and grass
Were shaken by my thinking of your name.

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MY MUSINGS :-

'ABSENCE' IS A LOVELY POEM BY ELIZABETH JENNINGS AND IT IS A RECOLLECTION OF PAST TIME OR FOND-MEMORIES-GONE-BY !

The Poet Revisits The Garden Where She Had Met Her Lover The Last Time And Due To A Powerful Gusts of Flashbacks She Recreates The Scenes n Sights of The Last Meet And That Is So Overpowering That She Doesn't Find Any Difference In The Physical Ambience of The Place And Declares That As The Same That She Had Felt When They Met The Last !

But, The Stupor of Love , Breaks As We Proceed Through The Poem ! The Poet Takes A Leap of Sorts When She Concludes That Everything Has Changed In Its Essence, Howsoever A Physical Scrutiny of The Meeting Ground Gives Evidences To The Contrary !

It Is The All-Pervasive Absence of The Lover That Makes All The Difference When The Poet Smells A Biting Sense of Loss And Declares The Garden Now As Merely The Ruins of The Past !
The Overwhelming Sense of This Absence of The Lover Is Compared To An Earthquake Whose Tremors Have Shattered Every Possibility of Normalcy In Sight !
The Ruins Of Past Rupture The Re-union, If Any Could Even Be Fancied For The Time Being !

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NELSON MANDELA !

NELSON MANDELA, THE GREATEST LIVING MAN ON EARTH, TURNS 95 TODAY AND THIS, IN ITSELF, IS A GREAT OCCASION TO REJOICE PLUS RELISH THE LEGEND NAMED MANDELA OR MADIBA(as he is often addressed lovingly).

Since July 18, 1918, His Life On This Planet , Has Been A Great Boon !

The Anti-Apartheid Leader and Former President of South Africa and Peace Laureate, Mandela, Of Late, Has Been Struggling With His Life As He Has Recurring Severe Lung Infections That Required Of Him To Have Shut Out A Rather Phenomenal Plus Distinguished Public Life And Has More Often Forsed His Way To Hospitals !
Currently He Is Reportedly Reccuperating Fast In A Hospital And Expectedly Will Be Taken Home !

A QUICK RECOVERY PLUS JOYOUS 95'TH BIRTHDAY TO NELSON MANDELA !
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TEN NELSON MANDELA QUOTES :-

(1.) ''After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb !''

(2.) ''Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.''

(3.) ''It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.''

(4.) “Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?”

(5.) ''Quitting is leading too !''

(6.) ''There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living !''

(7.) ''Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.''

(8.) ''A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination !''

(9.) ''....For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others !''

(10.) ''Nothing is black or white !''

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PAULA DEEN AND HER FALL FROM GRACE !

PAULA DEEN,The American Celebrity Chef ,Who Has Been Ruling Over The Hearts of Millions of Americans Over A Decade Via FOOD NETWORK CHANNEL n Her Brand Outlet In Savannah, GA,USA She ought to hv come up with a strong apology via some sit-in with a Oprah or a Robin. . . . .!! That might hv been some sorts of healing her afro-american fans n allay a general disappointment amongst all who hv almost idolized her for a decade or so ! The outrageous admittance of using racial epithets and the inhuman tolerance of racial slurs plus jokes around her place for such a longtime, is bound to hv its toll,howsoever the majority at social media has been going soft on her n even appealing for the renewal of Mrs. Deen's contract with the Food Network !! The damage has already been done n the only retrieve for her is to go and try to placate the sheer sense of shock her fans are feeling post her confession ! Redemption Is All Within One's Reach If There Appears Some Inkling of Divine Intervention Even Remote In Sight !!

THREE LOVE POEMS OF PABLO NERUDA ON HIS 109th BIRTHDAY !

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(1.) Sonnet XXV.
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Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, whichwaited.
I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.
Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all
Belonged to someone else - to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

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(2.) LOVE.
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Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer
Remember your hands; how did your lips
Feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues
Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that
Have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;
I have forgotten your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to
My vague memory of you. I live with pain
That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
Make to me an irreperable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing
Vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to
Glimpse you in every window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of
Summer pain me; because of you, I again
Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:
Shooting stars, falling objects.”

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(3.) I DO NOT LOVE YOU
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how,or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

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THREE LOVE POEMS OF PABLO NERUDA ON HIS 109th BIRTHDAY !

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(1.) Sonnet XXV.
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Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, whichwaited.
I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.
Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all
Belonged to someone else - to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

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(2.) LOVE.
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Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer
Remember your hands; how did your lips
Feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues
Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that
Have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;
I have forgotten your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to
My vague memory of you. I live with pain
That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
Make to me an irreperable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing
Vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to
Glimpse you in every window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of
Summer pain me; because of you, I again
Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:
Shooting stars, falling objects.”

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(3.) I DO NOT LOVE YOU
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how,or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

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LIMITLESS MINDGAMES: 3 Love Poems by Pablo Neruda

LIMITLESS MINDGAMES: 3 Love Poems by Pablo Neruda

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCEL PROUST,AUTHOR OF 'IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME' !

TEN MARCEL PROUST QUOTES ON HIS 142nd BIRTHDAY,JULY 10,2013 : -

(1.) “Love..,ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.”

(2) “It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”

(3.) ''Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.''

(4.) ''The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes !''

(5.) ''The only paradise is paradise lost !''

(6.) ''Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.''

(7.) “Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”

(8.) “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”

(9.) “Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”

(10.) “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

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HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA TURNS 78 !

Today Marks The 78th Birthday of One of The Most Sought After Spiritual Guru Worldover, HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !
Today He Has Addressed A Gathering Of Some 40000 People Most of Them The Tibetans Living In Exile In India For Over Four Decades, And Other Spiritual Seekers And Fans of His Holiness, At A Place 150 miles south of BANGALORE!
The Buddhist Leader Has Laid Great Emphasis On The Importance Of The Young Generation As He Appealed To The Youths To Come Forward And Play A Constructive Role In Shaping This Century And He Also Sounded Optimistic Of The Immense Positive Potentials Lying Untapped, If Not Unrecognized, Of The Young People Of The World.He Asked Them To Bring A Lasting Change In The World And Make It A Better,More Peaceful And Harmonious Place !

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THUS SPAKE DALAI LAMA, A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER AND A FINE HUMAN BEING :-


(1.) “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

(2.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

(3.) “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

(4.) “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

(5.) “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

(6.) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

(7.) “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

(8.) “Love is the absence of judgment.”

(9.) “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

(10.) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

THUS SPAKE DALAI LAMA, A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER AND A FINE HUMAN BEING :-


(1.) “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

(2.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

(3.) “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

(4.) “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

(5.) “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

(6.) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

(7.) “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

(8.) “Love is the absence of judgment.”

(9.) “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

(10.) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HERMANN HESSE,GERMAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL-LAUREATE !

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“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”


Hermann Hesse.

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HERMANN HESSE, German Author & Nobel-Laureate, Was Born This Day, July 02, 1877.

His Most Famous Novel Is 'SIDDHARTHA' ,Modeled On The Life Of Young Lord Buddha or Siddhartha,as the lord was named initially.

'THE GOLDEN BEAD GLASS' and 'STEPPENWOLF' Are His Other Two Seminal Works.

His Novels Centre Around A Character Whose Life Becomes A Voyage Of Self-Searching And Such Explorations Ultimately Bring The Authenticity, Self-Discovery And Therefore The Ultimate Realization Of The True Purpose Plus The Real Meaning Of Human Life !

Hermann Hesse Got The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1946.

He Died In 1962 At The Age of 85.

His Works Are Often Viewed As A Lucid Illustration of Spiritualism.

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'LOVE' : a poem by CZESLAW MILOSZ, Eminent Polish Poet n Nobel-Laureate !

LOVE.
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(a poem by Czeslaw Milosz).
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Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
for you are only one thing among many,
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills --
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Then he wants to use himself andthings
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn't always understand.


Czeslaw Milosz.

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'LOVE' -one of the most famous of CZESLAW MILOSZ'S poems !

LOVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (a poem by Czeslaw Milosz). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many, And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills -- A bird and a tree say to him: Friend. Then he wants to use himself andthings So that they stand in the glow of ripeness. It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves: Who serves best doesn't always understand. Czeslaw Milosz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MRITYUNJAY JHA 4F, ADARSH NAGAR SAMASTIPUR BIHAR INDIA. Pin-Code: 848101. +91 9334411390. http://facebook.com/MJ1982M http://twitter.com/MJ1982M

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL ON HIS 110th BIRTHDAY !

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL :-

(1.) ''Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.''

(2.) ''Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.''

(3.) ''Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.''

(4.) ''On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time !''

(5.) ''Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception !''

(6.) ''Four legs good, two legs bad !''

(7.) ''Happiness can exist only in acceptance !''

(8.) ''No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a milli-meter nearer !''

(9.) ''At fifty everyone has the face he deserves !''

(10.) ''All Animals Are Equal, But, Some Are More Equal Than Others !''

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TEN QUOTES ON 110th BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE ORWELL !

TEN QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL :-

(1.) ''Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.''

(2.) ''Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.''

(3.) ''Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.''

(4.) ''On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time !''

(5.) ''Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception !''

(6.) ''Four legs good, two legs bad !''

(7.) ''Happiness can exist only in acceptance !''

(8.) WNT advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a milli-meter nearer !''

(9.) ''At fifty everyone has the face he deserves !''

(10.) ''All Animals Are Equal, But, Some Are More Equal Than Others !

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PAULA DEEN,THE CELEBRITY CHEF, WINDS UP HER CAREER DISGRACEFULLY !

PAULA DEEN : FALL FROM GRACE !!
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PAULA DEEN,The American Celebrity Chef ,Who Has Been Ruling Over The Hearts of Millions of Americans Over A Decade Via FOOD NETWORK CHANNEL n Her Brand Outlet In Savannah, GA,USA, Has Sullied Her Image -probably for once n for all !
Thanks to her acceptance during a recent chat that she has had some involvements with racial discrimination for she used to coin racial epithets n had let such racial slurs be allowed at her workplace !

Paula Deen Has Long Been Hailed As A Very Potent Plus Popular Icon In The Art of Cuisine and Has A Great Reach Into The Homes of Millians With Her Recommendations for Recipe, Her Endorsements of Brands , Her Talks on the Food Channel and her own Savannah,ga !

All seem to be in jeopardy !
Her deal with the said tv channel was to be renewed at this month's end ,which appears very unlikely and that would be a major blow to her persona n patronage!

She has not tendered a strong apology so far,albeit she offered it more privately !

Her business will be going great still, yet, that wl not be able to bring her charisma back !

Whenever her name will crop up in future,this episode wl have a substantial impact over that and she wl,despite her great fame so far,be remembered as someone tainted or someone who fell from the grace and did nothing of repairs !


She ought to hv come up with a strong apology via some sit-in with a Oprah or a Robin. . . . .!!

That might hv been some sorts of healing her afro-american fans n allay a general disappointment amongst all who hv almost idolized her for a decade or so !

The outrageous admittance of using racial epithets and the inhuman tolerance of racial slurs plus jokes around her place for such a longtime, is bound to hv its toll,howsoever the majority at social media has been going soft on her n even appealing for the renewal of Mrs. Deen's contract with the Food Network !!


The damage has already been done n the only retrieve for her is to go and try to placate the sheer sense of shock her fans are feeling post her confession !

Redemption Is All Within One's Reach If There Appears Some Inkling of Divine Intervention Even Remote In Sight !!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEAN PAUL SARTRE !

JEAN PAUL SARTRE, An Eminent Author, Proponent of the Existentialist Philosophy and Activist, Was Born This Day, June 20, in 1905.

Regarded widely as one of the most original thinkers of 20th-cent. , Sartre wrote many books covering literature, philosophy, politics, culture. . .et.al And Many of his creations still attract an amazing numbers of readers, mostly,young people, even after more than 3 decades of his demise!

'NAUSEA' , 'BEING AND NOTHINGNESS' , 'NO EXIT n OTHER PLAYS' are his most popular works that are unanimously considered as the treasure-trove of modern world literature!

The Most Defining Characteristic Feature Of Jean Paul Sartre's Writings Is Their TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS ! You can't remain the same once you have read a work of Sartre !
His Was An Author of Sheer Passion and Intensity !

A Born Rebel Was He !
A man who had had the guts of refusing the highest international prize (NOBEL PRIZE) dismissing it as a 'Sack of Rotten Potatoes' !

Sartre's main contribution to our understanding of this existence lies in his iconoclastic probings n re-examinings of Humans and Their Relationship with The Cosmos !

Today Sartre Would Have Been 108 !

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JEAN PAUL SARTRE !

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(1.) ''Man is what he wills himself to be.''

(2.) ''Life begins on the other side of despair !''

(3.) ''You are -- your life, and nothing else !''

(4.) ''Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.''

(5.) ''When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die !''

(6.) ''Commitment is an act, not a word !''

(7.) ''Hell is -- Other people !''

(8.) ''We are our choices !''

(9.) ''Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth !''

(10.) ''Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees !''

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'TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD' -A POEM BY ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI !

'TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD'
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Try to praise the mutilated
world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of
wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically
overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of
exiles.
You must praise the mutilated
world.
You watched the stylish yachts
and ships;
one of them had a long trip
ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited
others.
You’ve seen the refugees
heading nowhere,
You’ve heard the executioners
sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated
world.
Remember the moments when
we were together
in a white room and the curtain
fluttered.
Return in thought to the
concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park
in autumn
and leaves eddied over the
earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feathers a thrush
lost,
and the gentle light that strays
and vanishes
and returns.



Adam Zagajewski.

A POEM OF THE POLISH POET,ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI !

'IN STRANGE TOWNS'
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for Zbigniew Herbert
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In strange towns there is an
unknown joy,
the cold bliss of a new glance.
Yellow-plastered tenements
where the sun
climbs like a nimble spider
exist, yet not for me. Not for me
are the town-hall,
port, jail, and courthouse built.
The sea flows through the town
in a salty
tide, sinking cellars and verandas.
At a street market, pyramids of
apples
stand for the eternity of one
afternoon.
And even suffering isn’t really
mine; a local idiot mumbles
in a foreign tongue, and the
despair of a lonely
girl in a café resembles a patch
of canvas in a poorly lit museum.
Huge flags of trees flutter as in
familiar places,
and pieces of the same lead-
weights
are sewn to the hems of sheets,
and to dreams,
and to imagination, which is
homeless and wild.
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By- Adam Zagajewski. (1989).

Translated by Renata Gorczynski
and Benjamin Ivry

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ONE LOVELY QUOTE OF W.B.YEATS !

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, W.B. YEATS, THE GREAT IRISH POET & PLAYWRIGHT !

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (W.B.Yeats) , One of the greatest poets of the last century in any language, Was Born This Day, June 13, in 1865 in Dublin,Ireland,to a landowners' family which was also very much fond of arts,especially, Painting (Yeat's Father and Yeat's Elder Brother , were noted painters ) !

Rarely One Could Find Such Variations In Themes, Techniques, Styles of Poetry Compositions In Any Language, As We Find In Yeats' ! His Was A Towering Persona In The World Literature of 20th-Cent. !

Yeats Started Composing Poems During The Last Years of 19th-Cent. And The Perceptible Influences On His Writings Could Well Be Noticed For His Poems Were More Lyrical And Very Romantic In Thematic Aspects! He, During Those Early Days of His Literary Forays, Was Much Influenced By Poets Like Spencer, Shelley and Pre-Raphaelites Poets !

YEATS IS HAILED AS 'THE LAST ROMANTICS' on the basis of his early proclivity towards the Tradition of English Romanticism.

Yeats' Poems Took A Sharp Turn In The Early Decades of 20th-Cent. As He Had Shown Good Deal of Interests In Realism And His Poems Bore Such Transformations.

Yeats Is Also Hailed As THE FIRST MODERNIST !His meeting with EZRA POUND, the american literary godfather who had come from the states and settled down in Paris n London And Had Successfully Changed The Course of Literary Engagements For Once n All, Had Brought Radical Shifts In His Poetry Writings,That Came To Highlight The Modernist Sensibilities -something that reached perfection under ELIOT & JOYCE !

W.B.YEATS GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1923--the first Irishman to hv been awarded the Nobel !

Yeats greatly contributed in reshaping the Irish Cultural Consciousness, which was a movement of sorts, aptly termed as THE CELTIC REVIVAL OR RENAISSANCE !

He died at 73 in 1939 and his importance is simply ever lasting!

W.B.YEATS WOULD HAVE BEEN 148 TODAY !
Happy Birthday,YEATS!

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TEN W.B.YEATS QUOTES : -

(1.) ''The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.''

(2.) ''Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing !''

(3.) ''Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet !''

(4.) ''How can we know the dancer from the dance? ''

(5.) ''Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.''

(6.) ''An intellectual hatred is the worst !''

(7.) ''We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.''

(8.) ''The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity !''

(9.) ''In dreams begins responsibility !''

(10.) ''Life is a long preparation for something that never happens !''

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ENGLISH DRAMATIST & POET BEN JONSON WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1572 !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEN JONSON, English Dramatist & Poet !

Ben Jonson Was Born This Day , June 11, in 1572 !

His Most Notable Works Are : 'THE ALCHEMIST' and 'VOLPONE or THE FOX'.



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TEN BEN JONSON QUOTES ON HIS 441st BIRTHDAY :-


(1.) ''Follow a shadow, it still flies you !''

(2.) ''As he brews, so shall he drink !''

(3.) ''The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.''

(4.) ''They that know no evil, will suspect none.''

(5.) ''Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not !''

(6.) ''True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.''

(7.) ''Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.''

(8.) ''Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.''

(9.) ''To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.''

(10.) ''Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need !''

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ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAU...

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAU...: SAUL BELLOW(1915 -2005). AMERICAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL AWARDEE,SAUL BELLOW,WAS BORN THIS DAY, on June 10, 1915 In Canada !He became as American...

TEN QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 98th BIRTHDAY OF 'SAUL BELLOW' ,AMERICAN AUTHOR & NOBEL-LAUREATE !

SAUL BELLOW(1915 -2005).
AMERICAN AUTHOR AND NOBEL AWARDEE,SAUL BELLOW,WAS BORN THIS DAY, on June 10, 1915 In Canada !He became as American Citizen after his family had shifted from Quebec To Chicago When Saul Bellow was still in his teens.SAUL BELLOW & CHICAGO BECAME INTERTWINED! The writer lived mostly in the windy city wherein he studied Anthropology n Sociology At Northwestern University And Wherein He Took To Teaching -a job so dear to him that he remained a lifelong teacher n had taught at various universities.

Saul Bellow Had Served In The US MERCHANT NAVY During The World War II And It Was During That Job He Wrote His First Novel, THE DANGLING MAN -a novel based upon the drafting of young people in the US FORCES during war and the psychological plights that the young people had to endure through war days!

A Jew and That Too An American Jew, Saul Bellow's most notable characters come from the Jewish background,however,the story or the character developments are general in nature!

He, through his novels n stories, presents a bitter critique of the rising tendencies of materialist culture in postwar America and The Urban Landscape Thus Became The Most Suitable Backdrop For The Exploration of CHICAGO LIKE MATERIALISTIC PURSUITS ! Chicago became an inevitable locale for most of his novels,not all !
THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH -a twainesque novel is the best picaresque novel written in the second half of 20th-cent. American Literature!

HERZOG -Bellow's Masterpiece Is Dealing With A Jewish Character, Moses E. Herzog and his sense of disenchantment from everything a man holds to in the course of life And His Such State of Mind Grips Him After His Self-realization That He Is A Grand Failure In Every Role Plus All Aspects of Life!
Bellow's Characters Are Full of Doubts n Disillusionments ,But, They All Are Very Introspecting Varieties That Ultimately Save Them From The Eternal Damnation And Most Importantly, Help Them In Their Redemptions !

Saul Bellow Got The Nobel For Literature In 1976 -the year in which his most notable non-fiction came out, TO JERUSALEM AND BACK ,which records author's firsthand observation of the state of Israel n The Jewish Culture In General !

He also won the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD three times n The Pulitzer Prize amongst others!

Saul Bellow Was To Certain Extent The American Dostoevsky In Terms of The Character-Sketch For His Was The Same As That of Dostoevsky's :CHARACTERS SEEM ENJOYING THEIR SORROWFUL LIFE. . .or,at least, prefer to be engrossed in their often mournful life !
SUFFERING APPEARS AS THE MAINSTAY FOR THEM !!

Saul Bellow Died At The Age of 89 In April 2005 At His Home In Brooklin,Mass.USA !

Today He Would Have Been 98 !
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Let's enjoy ten of Saul Bellow's Quotes On His 98th Birthday !

TEN SAUL BELLOW QUOTES :-

(1.) ''Live or die but don't poison everything !''

(2.) ''Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.''

(3.) "You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. ''

(4.) ''In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too !''

(5.) ''Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity !''

(6.) ''Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is !''

(7.) ''People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned !''

(8.) ''A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out !''

(9.) ''When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice !''

(10.) Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

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ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !

ALMOST NONSENSICAL MUSINGS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !: THOMAS MANN, Great German Novelist, Shortstory Writer, Essayist, Critic, Journalist. . . .et.al, Was Born This Day On June 06, 1875 In Lubec...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THOMAS MANN !

THOMAS MANN, Great German Novelist, Shortstory Writer, Essayist, Critic, Journalist. . . .et.al, Was Born This Day On June 06, 1875 In Lubeck, Germany.

Thomas Mann's Most Notable Works Are His Two Novels : 'THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN' & 'DEATH IN VENICE' !
But, Germans Love Mann's Earlier Novel, 'BUDDENBROOKS ' Most Favourably !

Symbolism Was His Mainstay And He Through It Gave Successfully The Psychological As Well As Sociological Edge !

Thomas Mann Won The NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE In 1929.

He Also Won Another Very Prestigious European Literary Prize, 'GOETHE AWARD' In 1949.

Mann Died At The Age of 80, In Zurich, Switzerland, On August 12, 1955 !

Today Thomas Mann Would Have Been 138 !

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Here Are Ten Quotes of THOMAS MANN In Celebration of His Birthday :-


(1.) ''Everything is politics.''

(2.) ''Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil !''

(3.) ''Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?''

(4.) ''Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated !''

(5.) ''What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises !''

(6.) ''The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life !''

(7.) ''Speech is civilization itself.''

(8.) ''It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death !''

(9.) ''Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.''

(10.) ''A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.''


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THE GREAT SPANISH POET & PLAYWRIGHT, FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ,WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1898 !

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, One of the greatest spanish poets and playwrights of the last century (some critics say Lorca as The Greatest Spanish Poet of 20th-Cent.) ,Was born this day,June 05, 1898 In Fuente, Vaquaros,Spain , In a wealthy family of a liberal landowner and a pianist (Lorca's mother was an accomplished pianist and The Poet had a great attachment with her and that helped him gain a rather early exposure to music which was to come in handy when he had started composing poetry in his early 20s and made his poem very lyrical . .) .

With Four Published Dramas Namely, MARINA PINEDA, BLOOD WEDDING, YERMA, HOUSE OF BERNADA ALBA and Various Published Volumes of Poems, Most Notably, THE GYPSY SONG(BALLAD) Lorca Became Internationally Renowned And ,Of Course, Sadly, A Target Of The Repressive Regime of General Francisco Franco That Ultimately Had Cut The Poet's Life Short By Gunshots in 1936 when The Poet Was Just 38 !

Lorca was quite ahead of his time and his writings bear this.
His Was Of A Renaissance Spirit As He Sort of Revived The Traditional Spanish Folktales, Folksongs,Myths n Legends By Incorporating Them In His Poems Plus Plays!

He Was One of The Earliest Exponents of SURREALISM, To Which Lorca Was Introduced By The Famous Painte ,SALVADOR DALI and The Famous Filmmaker, LOUIS BUNUEL, When The Poet Had Shifted His Residence From Granada To Madrid In Late 1920s !

Lorca After His Fame Due To The Gypsy Ballads, Went To New York For Further Study At Columbia University, But Returned Just After A Year or So!He Observed The Citadel of Capitalism,NY And Had Penned Some Poems as well as Prose Pieces On His Stay There!

He Had Enthusiastically Supported The Republicans During The Spanish Civil War And Remained Very Critical of The Nationalist Forces .This Had Cost His Life!

Lorca's Death Remains A Mystery As The Poet Who Never Shied Away From Expressing His Radical Political Views That Had Enraged The Nationalists Endlessly Resulting In The Imprisonment and Murder of The Poet!

His Grave Is Not Located As No Records Certain Regarding The Disposal of The Dead Body Of Lorca After Been Pumped Bullets In Some Deserted Area !

By The Early 1970s , Lorca's Works Were Translated In Many Languages And His Place In The Pantheon of Literary Masters Of The World Got Fixed And Today Lorca Is Hailed As One of The Finest Lyrical Poets In The World Literature!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,LORCA !

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TEN QUOTES OF LORCA ON HIS 115th BIRTHDAY :-

(1.) ''In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world !''

(2.) ''Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery.''

(3.) ''I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I am still alive, that I have a golden manger inside my lips, that I am the little friend of the west wind, that I am the elephantine shadow of my own tears.''

(4.) ''To see you naked is to recall the Earth.''

(5.) ''There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them !''

(6.) ''I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.''

(7.) ''We're all curious about what might hurt us !''

(8.) ''At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.''

(9.) ''As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die !''

(10.) ''Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.
I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.
If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,
never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.''


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TEN QUOTES OF ALLEN GINSBERG,AMERICAN POET & ACTIVIST,ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

ALLEN GINSBERG,Eminent American Poet and a leading member of the 'BEAT GENERATION' , Was born this day on June 03, 1926 in Newark,NJ,USA .

Today Marks His 87th Birthday And To Celebrate This Occasion , Here Are Ten Popular Quotes of Ginsberg :-
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(1.) ''It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.''

(2.) ''Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?''

(3.) ''Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!''

(4.) ''The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.''

(5.) ''I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers !''

(6.) ''Scientist alone is true poet.''

(7.) ''Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God !''

(8.) ''I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; /''

(9.) ''Sanity - a trick of agreement !''

(10.) ''This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven.''


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TOP FIVE QUOTES IN CELEBRATION OF 173rd BIRTHDAY OF THOMAS HARDY !

EMINENT ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET,THOMAS HARDY WAS BORN THIS DAY,JUNE 02 IN 1840 IN DORCHESTER,ENGLAND !

FIVE QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 173rd BIRTHDAY :-

(1.) ''Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.''

(2.) ''Fear is the mother of foresight !''

(3.) ''A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.''

(4.) ''The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.''

(5.) ''The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.''


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THOMAS HARDY,ENGLISH NOVELIST & POET,WAS BORN THIS DAY IN 1840 !

THOMAS HARDY, One of The Most Loved Novelists in English Literature Whose Enduring Popularity, Even Almost A Century After His Death, Is Simply Amazing, Was Born This Day On June 02, 1840 In Dorchester,Dorset ,England !

During A Rather Long Writing Life, Hardy Wrote A Dozen Good Novels That Tell Stories of Commonfolks Living In Countryside Leading A Life That Could Throw Shocks & Surprises At The Drop of A Hat, Mishmashing The Whole Edifice of Life That Almost Would Touch The Ruins From Where There Seems No Escape Routes And The Man or Woman of These Stories Becomes Tragic Personage Evoking Pity & Piety In The Hearts of Readers !

An Ardent Lover of Nature Plus Simplicity Informing The Worldview of The Author, Thomas Hardy Later In Life, More Precisely After Having Completed His Last Novel,JUDE, THE OBSCURE, Took To Poetry Writing Which Was His First Love, And Had Composed A Great Numbers Of Them Totalling Nearly 1000 poems !

Hardy As A Major Poet, Got A Big Boost In 1950s & 60s During The Heydays of The Movement Poets Who Had Looked Up At Hardy As Their Role Model !

His Characters Are Interesting To Read As They Often Present Their Life And Its Attendant Problems Plus Platitudes Which Make Us The Readers To Strike A Bond Quickly And THIS IMMEDIACY OF IDENTIFICATION Is A Great Cause Behind His Continuous Appeal Not Only Via The Medium of Novels, But Also Via The Various Cinematic Adaptations and Tv.-soaps !

DESTINY DEVOURS CHARACTER ! The Overpowering Grip of Our Stars Is What Matters For A Character's Life In The Ultimate Analysis!

Happiness Is Merely Episodic In Nature And Life Is Rather Harsh Under The Apparent Venear of Simplicity n Easygoing Feel !
Life Is Governed By Some Mysterious Forces That Could Unsettle You Even When You Have Rather Good Intentions Coupled With Simple Deeds !

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES is probably his most loved book.
MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, THE RETURN OF NATIVES are his other most popular novels .

A HAPPY 173rd BIRTHDAY TO THOMAS HARDY !


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARILYN MONROE !

MARILYN MONROE , One of the most talked about female personalities of all time and top rated celebrity who had left a permanent dent in the collective american psyche, Was born this day June 01, 1926 in California,USA!

She lived for just 36yrs ,Yet she was, is and will be the queen of glamour & gliteratti & something of a FEMININE MYSTIQUE in socio-cultural landscape of the states , also of the world outside!

It has been over 50yrs since her mysterious end in 1962 and yet she remains like an industry of sorts due to her popularity that still conjures up volumes of writings, public discourses about the pop culture ,celebrityhood , Hollywood, nexus between Power of Politics and Power of Glamour n things like that !
Rarely a dead person would have been discussed plus idolized so much as Marilyn !

Today The So Called Dumb Blonde of America(. .of course Marilyn was much much more than that. .) Would Have Been 87 !

Let's enjoy ten of Marilyn's quotes to say ,HAPPY BIRTHDAY,MARILYN !


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TEN MARILYN MONROE QUOTES :-


(1.) ''Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.''

(2.) ''A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.''

(3.) ''Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.''

(4.) ''No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.''

(5.) ''Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.''

(6.) ''I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot !''

(7.) ''Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.''

(8.) ''Dogs never bite me , Just humans !''

(9.) ''A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.''

(10.) ''The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.''

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