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Towards the end of the CAT-Jaipur trip (confused souls please refer to the previous photo’s description in my stream), all of us went to the McDonalds outlet to pick up some ‘urban’ food for our friends back in the university. Sitting there, waiting for my order to be fried, I noticed this fellow (yeah, the one in the photo), deeply immersed in thought. Dunno what he was writing, or what he was thinking, I just plucked out my cam and clicked. And that’s the end of the story.
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Writer and photographer Beth Lesser
travelled in Jamaica throughout the
Eighties with her husband, interviewing
musicians for her magazine. Along the
way she captured the scene at the time,
exploring the period between the death
of Marley and ragga's conquest of America
Musician Gregory Isaacs in front of his
African Museum store on Chancery Lane,
Kingston. Isaacs was one of the most
prolific and popular recording artists
in Jamaica
Photograph: Beth Lesser
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Writers Series, July 2007
hands of Natalie Goldberg signing copy of Top Of My Lungs,
Poems & Paintings, and the essay, How Poetry Saved My Life
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Mabel Dodge Luhan House
Taos, New Mexico
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Natalie Goldberg - 2000 Years Of Watching The Mind
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Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (December 30, 1878, Budapest - April 12, 1962, Munich) was an Austrian novelist, poet and playwright. Later based in Germany, he belonged to a group of writers that included the likes of Hans Grimm, Rudolf G. Binding, Emil Strauß, Agnes Miegel and Hanns Johst, all of whom found favour under the Nazis.
A Volksdeutscher from the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he attended school in Budapest before furthering his education in Karlsbad and Vienna. He became a freelance writer and came to specialise in historical novels that were characterised by their fixation with all things German. Between 1917 and 1925 he produced his most celebrated works, a trilogy of novels about Paracelsus, and in these books Kolbenheyer explored the many of the Völkisch movement concepts prevalent at the time by presenting his hero as the Nordic race archetype struggling against racial degeneracy and immorality. Having settled amongst the Sudeten Germans, Kolbenheyer's right-wing attitudes solidified and he came to pre-empt many ideas of Nazism, notably in his theoretical work Die Bauhütte (1925), which predicted a turn away from 'Judeo-Christianity' as the source of German salvation. This work has been identified as being one of the main influences on Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century. A strong opponent of left-wing politics, he joined Wilhelm Schäfer in resigning from the Akademie der Künste in 1931 over what he saw as their support for the activities of Heinrich Mann and Alfred Döblin.
He continued to write widely under the Nazis, taking up his pen to praise Adolf Hitler in a poem and to defend the Nazi book burnings, as well as to write pro-Nazi war novels such as Karlsbader Novellen 1786 (1935) and Das Gottgelobte Herz (1938). Indeed his star rose under the Nazis because his literature fitted their world view. He was one of a number of writers added to the Prussian Academy of Arts after the Nazis came to power in 1933 at the expense of the likes of Franz Werfel, Ludwig Fulda and Jakob Wassermann, none of whom shared the Nazi weltanschauung.
His 1934 play Gregor und Heinrich, concerning Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Gregory VII, demonstrated an instance of his pro-Nazi stance as he dedicated it to "the German spirit in the process of being resurrected". As a reward for his high standing under the Nazis he was one of six writers included on 'List A' or the 'List of the Immortals', properly known as the Gottbegnadeten list, who were exempted from military service on account of their prestige. He was also awarded the Goethe Prize in 1937.
Unsurprisingly Kolbenheyer's star fell somewhat after the Second World War although from his base in West Germany he continued to publish novels that were largely in the same nationalist spirit as his previous output. He also became a regular contributor to the far right, pan-European nationalist journal Nation Europa.
I cooked this up for my Bouchercon 2009 panel on feminism, politics, and how mysteries tell women's stories.
This writer was born and raised in a provincial town. The traditional observance of All Soul Days begins on the night of All Saints day, November 01.
The town story teller would gather us late in the evening about 10 PM and narrate ghost stories and adventure into the spirit world. After the clock stricke at 1 AM, we go about in small group and play practical jokes on selected family household to disturb their night sleep.
Some group would dare others to join them and visit the cemetery to observe some elders memorising required latin prayers in connection with their belief and oath of allegiance or practice on the use of Talisman and amulets to prevent being killed and harmed by bullet and bladed weapons.
The present day observance of All Souls' Day among the young ones represents a mixture of culture values; a little of the old, the Spanish via the Catholic church and the American with the teaching of the 3R's coming down from the Thomasites who trained the Filipino teachers who graduated from the Philippine Normal College in Manila. Some writers call it "The Chopsuey generation of the present time." - wilfredosrb
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This portrait of Beckett was done in 1976 by the admirable English photographer Jane Bown, who worked for the Observer.
Chelsea 2, Club America 1
By Greg Beacham, AP Sports Writer
STANFORD, Calif. — Jose Mourinho got exactly what he wanted out of Chelsea's preseason opener. Thanks to a bold debut by Florent Malouda, the manager even got a victory as well.
John Terry and Malouda scored late second-half goals, leading Chelsea to a 2-1 win over Mexico's Club America in the Disney Friendship Cup on Saturday night.
Malouda, who joined the Blues in a $27 million transfer from French champion Lyon on Tuesday, was the unlikely catalyst. He got an equalizing goal in the 76th minute, and Terry then headed home Malouda's free kick for the winner 7 minutes from time.
But Mourinho has no interest in results during this West Coast tour, which includes a meeting with the Los Angeles Galaxy and David Beckham next weekend. Chelsea is instead using its fourth annual U.S. training camp to build teamwork and fitness for next month's Premiership schedule.
"I'm pleased totally," said Mourinho, who made nine substitutions at halftime. "I think it was a very good training session. Club America, they gave us exactly what we need: competition, but competition with quality. We played a good game with good passing, good movement."
Juan Carlos Mosqueda scored in the third minute for America, which put on a strong first-half showing before Chelsea's newest player and its stalwart captain earned a win in the Blues' first match of the summer.
"The side we played was very different than what we're used to," said midfielder Joe Cole, also citing the springy pitch as an added degree of difficulty. "I think it took us a while to get going. ... It was just good to get out of the game with no injuries."
The match at Stanford's renovated stadium against the storied Mexico City side is expected to be the most competitive of Chelsea's three matches during the California swing for England's richest club, which arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Blues then had much of their thunder stolen when Beckham arrived in Los Angeles.
Chelsea will face Korea's Samsung Bluewings on Tuesday back in Southern California in the second Friendship Cup match before next Saturday's much-anticipated meeting with the Galaxy, when Beckham is expected to debut.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him," Cole said of his England teammate. "I know there's going to be a lot of hype around the game. I hope he does well over here and helps soccer grow in America."
The 22-year-old Mosqueda, who scored three goals last year in his debut season with America, found the net early when his right-footed shot from the top of the penalty box deflected off Terry, catching goalie Petr Cech going the wrong way.
Chelsea tied it when America goalie Armando Navarrete bobbled a long ball straight onto Malouda's foot. The winger adroitly tipped it between two stumbling defenders.
Terry then put Chelsea ahead with an exceptional header off Malouda's free kick, diving away from the net before whipping a shot past Navarrete.
Chelsea booster clubs from throughout the U.S. filled the south stands at Stanford Stadium, waving banners and singing. Two sections of the north stands were packed with America's famously enthusiastic fans, who lit firecrackers and released confetti throughout the match.
New transfers Steve Sidwell and Tal Ben-Haim made their first appearances for Chelsea in the first half, along with 18-year-old defender Jack Cork. Mourinho then left only Terry and defender Glen Johnson - back in blue after a year on loan to Portsmouth - in the lineup while bringing on 17-year-old defender Sam Hutchinson and Malouda among the changes.
"You can say we played two good teams," Mourinho said. "Everybody has to fight for a place, and I think they have a difficult task, because everybody is really good."
Santiago Fernandez's goal in the 15th minute was ruled offside as America carried most of the action in a slow first half. The Chelsea substitutes applied much more pressure on America's defense, with Didier Drogba putting a shot just over the crossbar in the 65th minute.
"I think you saw the way we can play," said Drogba, who scaled a small hillside near Chelsea's locker room after the match to greet a cheering group of fans from his native Ivory Coast. "There's a lot of quality on this team."
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Sweet Briar College welcomed the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop back for its second year in residence this summer. Two sessions brought about 90 participants from 20 states and four countries for intensive studio workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, songwriting, and scriptwriting for screen and stage.
José Lezama Lima museum, Havana, Cuba. José Lezama was a writer in the 1930s and a leader in the avant-garde movement in Cuban art and literature similar to the Harlem Renaissance around that time.
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Writers Square Belfast This open space is a key element in the Cathedral quarter’s reinvention as a centre for the arts and, when skateboarders aren’t rattling over the quotations about Belfast by famous writers inscribed underfoot, it’s a venue for street performers and arts festival events
Tittel / Title: Portrett av Alexander Kielland som ung
Motiv / Motif: Visittkort.
Dato / Date: ukjent / unknown
Fotograf / Photographer: Hans P. Thykier (1810-?)
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: blds_00179
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Prague
Stalin's index finger and the laughter of Václav Havel
The "Museum of Communism" in Prague was founded by an American and shows the sabre-rattling Matryoshka dolls or the blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators. Does it trivialize history for this reason?
After the American director Philip Kaufman had filmed Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in 1984, the writer immediately dissociated himself from the adaptation - it was cliché-laden. However, as hundreds of thousands of filmgoers with the large, frightened eyes of Juliette Binoche saw the penetration of the Soviet tanks into the city and thus probably for the first time got an idea of the tragedy of August 21, 1968, is waiting for museum visitors of today a discovery: in the "Museum of Communism". It was founded near the Wenceslas Square by an American. The English name of the memorial is just as much attributable to him as the posters, which show a sabre-rattling Matryoshka doll or blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators provided with the image line "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialization of history? Not necessarily. It is rather the case that in the appearing gloom exhibition rooms the scandal of the communist human experiment is presented in an effective way. The historical dimension is by no means omitted: the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 is documented as well as the Western treason of Munich in 1938 and Hitler's subsequent invasion. Also the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945 is not withheld. But then, starting with the Communist Seizure of Power 1948, the visitors in the rooms "Reality" and "Nightmare" is awaiting an oppressive exhibit show: original faithfully reproduced prison cells from the time of the Stalinist Show Trials, causing goosebumps radio recordings of malignant fizzling prosecutors, in addition the dubious oil paintings of Socialist Realism on which country women as blond as bread roll throw red carnations to resolutely looking soldiers, or Josef Stalin exhorting the pointing finger.
Kafka, Marx and the soldier Svejk
The fact that totalitarianism differentiated itself exactly here from traditional dictatorships that it did not suppress the people clumsily but turned those people into brainwashed complices of its domination exercise - it is a lesson, which is here sensually comprehensible and is conveyed completely en passant in the literal sense. Many of the young tourists who go through the exhibition in neat, foolish "Czech it" or beer-stein-Kafka-und-Schwejk T-shirts get the first impression of the Communist system and which for a while even cast a spell over a few naive Westerners. Even if, for example, the path of Marx's theories to the crimes of the regime were somewhat shortened, the fascinating intellectual environment of the Prague Spring might have been represented a bit more in detail: whoever sees the historical TV recordings of the protesters who are at Wenceslas Square fearlessly facing the Soviet tanks with the red star is by no means emotionally manipulated but catches an impression of the essence.
Thus, the museum can be visited in two ways: with the curious eyes of an upcoming generation born around the year 1989, as well as with the eye of the contemporary, who is regarding very critical if the complex history has been given the due attentiveness. Is it not a standard formula of the repressers from Prague to East Berlin, in the last years of its existence, the Party regime had become more moderate and was then peacefully imploded? But now the museum shows pictures of pre-military youth education from the eighties, shows - in pictures of the Austrian television - pictures of one of the numerous arrests of Václav Havel and in addition police, who yet in November 1989 were bashing up demonstrators and dragging students on the hair over the pavement - again on the Wenceslas square near the museum.
In a free word
Even who knows all this is shattered, and must not be ashamed at the end of the exhibition of his emotion when he finally sees the freedom triumphant on the screens and monitors. On November 24, 1989, Alexander Dubcek and Václav Havel stand laughing and arm in arm on the balcony of the publishing house Svobodné Slovo (The Free Word) and talk to the demonstrators who finally now can be what they have dreamed for so long: free citizens of a city that begins to breathe again.
"Museum of Communism", Prague, Na Príkope 10, open daily from 9 am to 9 pm.
Prag
Stalins Zeigefinger und das Lachen von Václav Havel
Das „Museum of Communism“ in Prag wurde von einem Amerikaner gegründet und zeigt zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten. Trivialisiert es deswegen die Geschichte?
Nachdem 1984 der amerikanische Regisseur Philip Kaufman Milan Kunderas Prag-Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" verfilmt hatte, distanzierte sich der Schriftsteller sogleich von der Adaption - sie sei klischeebeladen. Doch so, wie inzwischen Hunderttausende Kinozuschauer mit den großen, erschreckten Augen Juliette Binoches das Eindringen der sowjetischen Panzer in die Stadt gesehen haben und damit wohl zum ersten Mal eine Ahnung bekamen von der Tragödie des 21. August 1968, so wartet auch auf Museumsbesucher von heute eine Entdeckung: im "Museum of Communism". Gegründet wurde es, nahe dem Wenzelsplatz, von einem Amerikaner. Ihm ist der englische Name der Gedenkstätte ebenso zu verdanken wie die Plakate, die etwa eine zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppe zeigen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten - versehen mit der Bildzeile "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialisierung der Geschichte? Nicht unbedingt. Eher ist es so, dass in den düster anmutenden Ausstellungsräumen das Skandalon des kommunistischen Menschenversuchs entsprechend effektvoll präsentiert wird. Auf die historische Dimension wird dabei keineswegs verzichtet: Die Gründung der Tschechoslowakei im Jahre 1918 wird ebenso dokumentiert wie der westliche Verrat von München 1938 und Hitlers nachfolgender Einmarsch. Auch die Befreiung Prags durch die Rote Armee im Mai 1945 wird nicht unterschlagen. Dann aber, beginnend mit der kommunistischen Machtergreifung 1948, wartet auf den Besucher in den Räumen "Reality" und "Nightmare" eine bedrückende Exponatenschau: Originalgetreu nachgebaute Gefängniszellen aus der Zeit der stalinistischen Schauprozesse, Gänsehaut verursachende Radio-Aufnahmen bösartig fistelnder Staatsanwälte, dazu an den Wänden die Ölschinken des Sozialistischen Realismus, auf denen semmelblonde Bäuerinnen entschlossen dreinblickenden Soldaten rote Nelken zuwerfen oder Josef Stalin mahnend den Zeigefinger hebt.
Kafka, Marx und der Soldat Schwejk
Dass sich der Totalitarismus genau darin von traditionellen Diktaturen unterschied, dass er das Volk nicht plump unterdrückte, sondern zum gehirngewaschenen Komplizen seiner Herrschaftsausübung machte - es ist eine Lektion, die hier sinnlich nachvollziehbar und im Wortsinn ganz en passant vermittelt wird. Viele der jungen Touristen, die in nett-törichten "Czech it" oder Bierhumpen-Kafka-und-Schwejk-T-Shirts durch die Ausstellung gehen, bekommen hier wohl das erste Mal eine Ahnung davon, weshalb sich das kommunistische System so lange halten und für eine Weile sogar manch naive Westler in seinen Bann zu ziehen vermochte. Mag auch in den Erklärungstafeln etwa der Weg von Marx' Theorien zu den Verbrechen des Regimes etwas verkürzt dargestellt sein, hätte man das faszinierende intellektuelle Umfeld des Prager Frühlings auch etwas ausführlicher darstellen können: Wer die historischen Fernsehaufnahmen von den Demonstranten sieht, die sich am Wenzelsplatz todesmutig den Sowjet-Panzern mit dem roten Stern entgegenstellten, wird keineswegs emotional manipuliert, sondern erhascht einen Eindruck vom Wesentlichen.
So lässt sich das Museum auf zwei Arten besichtigen: mit den neugierigen Augen einer nachwachsenden Generation, die um das Jahr 1989 erst geboren wurde, wie auch mit dem Blick des Zeitzeugen, der durchaus kritisch betrachtet, ob man hier der komplexen Geschichte gerecht wurde. Lautet nicht eine Standardformel der Verdränger von Prag bis Ostberlin, in den letzten Jahren seiner Existenz habe sich das Partei-Regime doch gemäßigt und sei anschließend friedlich implodiert? Nun zeigt das Museum aber Bilder vormilitärischer Jugendausbildung aus den Achtzigern, zeigt - in Aufnahmen des Österreichischen Fernsehens - Bilder von einer der zahlreichen Verhaftungen Václav Havels und dazu Polizei, die noch im November 1989 auf die Demonstranten eindrosch und Studenten an den Haaren über das Pflaster schleifte - wiederum auf dem nahe beim Museum liegenden Wenzelsplatz.
Auf ein freies Wort
Selbst wer dies alles kennt, ist erschüttert und muss sich am Ende der Ausstellung seiner Ergriffenheit gewiss nicht schämen, wenn er auf den Schautafeln und Monitoren die Freiheit letztlich doch triumphieren sieht: Am 24. November 1989 stehen lachend und Arm in Arm Alexander Dubcek und Václav Havel auf dem Balkon des Verlagshauses Svobodné Slovo (Das freie Wort) und sprechen zu den Demonstranten, die nun endlich das sein können, was sie so lange erträumt haben: freie Bürger einer Stadt, die wieder zu atmen beginnt.
„Museum of Communism“, Prag, Na Príkope 10, täglich geöffnet von 9 bis 21 Uhr.
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Far, far away from Bangkok is Thailand's southern most bookstore. It's in Satun, right on the border with Malaysia. The "Low Pressure Area" cafe is a small, one room affair. There's of course coffee and a comfy couch to sit and read. The coffee shop and independent publishing house are run by a prolific Thai author, Siriworn Kaewkan, and his wife, Beer.
Siriworn is Thailand's only 'southern' voice. While most of Thailand's authors and poets describe life in Bangkok or the Buddhist-influenced countryside, Siriworn sets his work in the "Deep South". Here Thai Muslims live alongside of Thais from a Buddhist or even Chinese cultural heritage. The low level war which has been fought in southern Thailand since 2004 is documented, but few pens try to understand the conflict by writing fiction.
"The Murder Case of Tok Imam Storpa Karde" is the first book by Siriworn which I read (translated by Marcel Barang). It's set in a small rural town in a Muslim majority area of Thailand's southern most provence. A murder has taken place of a prominent Thai-Muslim in town. Nobody knows who did it, but there are enough motivations and suspicions to fill this small novella. The book isn't so much a story than an exercise in learning about the multiple interested everyone involved with the town have in war and peace - from the police to detectives to villagers themselves. In the end, Siriworn doesn't give an answer, "who done it".
When I interviewed him, he mentioned that he writes about society and politics - especially the "Deep South" conflict to try and understand what is happening there. He doesn't seek to assign blame, but rather illuminate the problems and motivations for the conflict. Knowing who gains and who looses from the armed conflict make it easier to know how to find a solution to stop it.
Many of Siriworn's other books are short stories and poems. Even when he isn't writing about Thailand's Deep South, he seems to still be interested in conflict between people. For example his short story set on the island of Koh Lanta, at the time of the tsunami in 2004.
Siriworn says that every place in this world needs writers, especially southeast Asia and countries like Thailand. Of course, he points out that the government doesn't like too many writers and thinkers speaking directly to the people. Sirikorn says, he doesn't judge what is right or wrong but rather tries to point to norms of ethical behavior as a "measuring stick" in checking the mainstream's viewpoint.
LOW-PRESSURE AREA
949 Moo. 4 Yontrakarnkhamthorn Road, Khongkhud, Satun
(Across the highway from Big C)
The Orgasmatron at Favela Chic with Guy Chambers & Ross Clark presenting; Lenny Beige aka Steve Furst British comedian actor and writer
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an eminent Dublin surgeon and his mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, agitated for Irish Independence and wrote revolutionary poems under the pseudonym "Speranza".
In 1864 Wilde went to the Portora Royal School where he excelled in the classics, taking top prizes. He was awarded the Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin where he earned a Foundation Scholarship. In 1874, he won the college's Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship scholarship to Magdalen College in Oxford. There Wilde was awarded the Newdigate prize for his poem, Ravenna, and a First Class in both his "Mods" and "Greats. After graduation, he moved to London. In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry, Poems, which received mixed reviews by critics.
In 1881 and 1882 Wilde travelled across the United States giving over 140 lectures in 260 days. He spent the next couple of years in Britain and France, championing 'Art Nouveau'-essentially the Aesthetic, art for art's sake movement. In 1884, he married Constance Lloyd. They had two sons, Cyril in 1885 and Vyvyan in 1886. He worked on The Woman's World magazine in 1887-1889. In the following six years he published two collections of childrens stories, The Happy Prince And Other Tales (1888), and The House Of Pomegranates (1892). His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was considered very immoral by the Victorians. The first of his witty and scandalous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, opened in February 1892 to critical acclaim. His subsequent plays included A Woman Of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband.(1895), and The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895).
His friendship with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry, was to prove his undoing. In 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father for libel as the Marquis had accused him of homosexuality. Although he withdrew the case he was himself arrested, convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour. His long, poignant and revealing letter, now known as De Profundus, written from prison to Alfred Douglas, was not published in full until 1962.
On his release, he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a response to the agony he experienced in prison. He spent the last three years of his life wandering Europe. He died of meningitis on November 30, 1900 and was buried in Bagneux. His remains were later transferred to the National Cemetery of Pere Lachaise in Paris, where, on the back of the ornate Epstein Tomb, is carved part of a verse from his last work.
"And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn
For his mourners will be outcast men
And outcasts always mourn."