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...I was reading something about William Tell. Let's hope if he existed and the story is accurate that he was a better shot with a crossbow than I was with my cell!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcfykK8Iw7w
Come away, come away with William Tell
Come away to the land he loved so well
What a day, what a day when the apple fell
For Tell and Switzerland
today's Barb's birthday-party, swimming with a lot of girls , a lot of giggling and waterfight with poor old me ;D
The following is a chat log from our April 9th bookclub event. Photo credit: Klaus Bereznyak
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Zoe Foodiboo: Did I say welcome? Welcome!
Abinoam Nørgaard (Abinoam Resident): /me smiles
Zoe Foodiboo: Today, our discussion will be focused on poetry.
Zoe Foodiboo: written by yourself or someone else
Zoe Foodiboo: but focused on the 20s or Berlin or both
Zoe Foodiboo: /me grins
Abinoam Nørgaard (Abinoam Resident): /me gets comfy
Zoe Foodiboo: I thought we could share our poem (in local chat), then maybe share why you chose the poem, then everyone can comment on it and move to the next poem, etc.
Zoe Foodiboo: Sound good?
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me nods
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): nods
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me sips her wine. "Mhm!"
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): yes
Abinoam Nørgaard (Abinoam Resident): i've got two, but i can cut one out
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): you can use mine... I wasn't aware of this ... so I don't have one
Zoe Foodiboo: well...let's go around once and then if we have more time we can go around again?
Zoe Foodiboo: And yes, please don't worry if you don't have a poem. :)
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): (how do one take a snpashot o firestorm?
Zoe Foodiboo: So, who would like to go first?
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): not all at the same time !! ;)
Zoe Foodiboo: Well, I can go first to break the ice!
Zoe Foodiboo: /me giggles
Steadman Kondor: danke frl zoe :)
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): (Hallo, Steadman!)
Zoe Foodiboo: Hello Steadman
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Hello Steadman
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): Guten abend steadman
Zoe Foodiboo: I chose a poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Zoe Foodiboo: This particular version was translated by Albert Ernst Flemming
Zoe Foodiboo: It's called "At Sundown"
Zoe Foodiboo: /me clears her throat
Zoe Foodiboo: Slowly the evening starts to change her raiments
for veils held up by rows of distant trees.
Zoe Foodiboo: "You watch how gradually the landscape's contours change,
some rising heavenward as others downward fall;"
Zoe Foodiboo: "leaving you alone, to neither quite belonging,
nor quite as dark as houses silent keep,"
Zoe Foodiboo: "nor quite so sure beseeching the eternal
as that which nightly turns to star and rises ---"
Zoe Foodiboo: "and leaving you (impossible to disentangle)
your life, fearful, gigantic and still ripening, "
Zoe Foodiboo: which, now limited, now comprehending,
alternatingly becomes stone in you and star.
Zoe Foodiboo: /me looks up and smiles, "The End."
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me claps. "Wonderful, Zoe!"
AlasAndAlack: /me claps in response.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Lovely (claps quietly)
Zoe Foodiboo: I chose this poem because it reminded me of all the quiet evenings I spent sitting by the river in the Tiergarten - when I lived in the Tiergarten…
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me claps
Steadman Kondor: a thrilling poem, what an end!
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): clap clap clap
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): beautiful
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me feels her lower lip quiver at "when I lived in the Tiergarten..."
Zoe Foodiboo: I'd watch the sky change - either because the sim was changing or because I was playing with windlights
Zoe Foodiboo: …
Zoe Foodiboo: and that time of day, between light and darkness…
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me dabs her eyes with the corner of her sleeve.
Zoe Foodiboo: always makes me think of the inbetweenness in our lives and the balance that we often try to achieve…
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): /me ( me winders what he is ment to be doing but isnt because he is lazy)
Zoe Foodiboo: RL berlin vs SL berlin…
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): *sighs* it's beautiful
Zoe Foodiboo: Zoe in SL vs Zoe in RL…
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): (sl berlin)
Zoe Foodiboo: that sort of thing...does that make sense?
Zoe Foodiboo: What do you think about the poem?
Steadman Kondor: you add shades of your own meaning to it of course, and that's part of the reading process
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): It was gute
Zoe Foodiboo: /me nods at Steadman
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): exactly…
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): it really externalizes the internal
Steadman Kondor: it's someone at a difficult place in time
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): I was especially struck by, ""and leaving you (impossible to disentangle) / your life, fearful, gigantic and still ripening,"
Steadman Kondor: alone and yet full of potential
Zoe Foodiboo: /me hands out notecards with the poem typed on it
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): (nods)
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): oh thank you
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): thank you!
Zoe Foodiboo: Anyway...that's my poem.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): whispers: words are words words
Zoe Foodiboo: /me smiles shyly
Abinoam Nørgaard (Abinoam Resident): much obliged
Zoe Foodiboo: Eloise? Did you bring a poem?
Zoe Foodiboo: Want to go next?
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): I sure did!
Zoe Foodiboo: And then we can just go around in circle..
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me shuffles some papers and pouts. "You know, I WAS going to read my own poem, about flowers, but my mean, nasty governess, Gerda, tore it up and threw it in the fire, calling it "too bourgeois."
Zoe Foodiboo: /me blinks at Eloise
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): So instead, I'd like to share something by Mr. Schiltzen's favorite poet, W. B. Yeats, called "Broken Dreams," published as part of his collection, "The Wild Swans at Coole." A few historical notes about this particular piece.
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): That Gerda sure is something…
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): The poem was originally published in 1917 (so persumably available and read in the 20s), just one year after Yeats' final proposal to Maud Gonne, the love of his youth (and some might say, of his entire life). He was 52 years old at the time.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): /me cocks her her to one side
Zoe Foodiboo: whispers: oh nice
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): Yeats had proposed to Maud on several occasions, and on each one, she rebuffed him. Instead, she married a man named John MacBride, from whom she was later estranged. By the time Yeats wrote "Broken Dreams," he had already been executed for his part in the Easter 1916 rising.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): so sad
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): Without saying too much more, there are many timeless themes in this poem: beauty, age, love ... all squished into a truly powerful poem of just five stanzas. I think it would be fun to have an entire Book Club event discussing just this one piece! But that, perhaps for another day.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): So, here it is!
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): guten abend Klaus
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): There is grey in your hair.
Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
When you are passing;
But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing
Because it was your prayer
Recovered him upon the bed of death.
For your sole sake—that all heart’s ache have known,
And given to others all heart’s ache,
From meagre girlhood’s putting on
Burdensome beauty—for your sole sake
Heaven has put away the stroke of her doom,
So great her portion in that peace you make
By merely walking in a room.
Zoe Foodiboo: whispers: There's a chair for you there, Klaus
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): Your beauty can but leave among us
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
A young man when the old men are done talking
Will say to an old man, 'Tell me of that lady
The poet stubborn with his passion sang us
When age might well have chilled his blood.'
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): Vague memories, nothing but memories,
But in the grave all, all, shall be renewed.
The certainty that I shall see that lady
Leaning or standing or walking
In the first loveliness of womanhood,
And with the fervour of my youthful eyes,
Has set me muttering like a fool.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): You are more beautiful than any one,
And yet your body had a flaw:
Your small hands were not beautiful,
And I am afraid that you will run
And paddle to the wrist
In that mysterious, always brimming lake
Where those that have obeyed the holy law
Paddle and are perfect; leave unchanged
The hands that I have kissed
For old sake’s sake.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): The last stroke of midnight dies.
All day in the one chair
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged
In rambling talk with an image of air:
Vague memories, nothing but memories.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): ~ The End ~
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): *clap clap clap*
Zoe Foodiboo: /me applauds softly
Steadman Kondor: /me smiles and claps.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): (claps)
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me claps
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): /me claps
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you for sharing, Elo!
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me looks snooty, "My original about flowers was better!"
Zoe Foodiboo: /me grins
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): sighs
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me chuckles
Zoe Foodiboo: So what made you choose this poem?
AlasAndAlack: /me applauds. "Such a beautiful piece. Sigh!"
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): /me crinkles her paper nervously
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): I suppose what made me select this one was, Yeats was (to me) a bit of an idealist, a Platonist, but one who had to face the decidedly different reality of our temporal, changing, and mightily imperfect actual existence.
Zoe Foodiboo: ((If anyone takes photos, can you send them to me later? Everyone's hair isn't rezzing for me for some reason))
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): (nods)
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): So when he speaks of the ideals of Love, of Beauty ... and then his ability (or inability) to deal with these things, just ... WOW! ... well, it very much appeals to me. :)
Steadman Kondor: it's not wholly flattering to the muse... but that's part of the poems audacity
Abinoam Nørgaard (Abinoam Resident): /me takes out his comb and fixes his hair a bit
Zoe Foodiboo: /me smiles at Eloise
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): (my hair is painted on)
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): interesting that stanza with the lake-- am I reading right that he sounds a little critical of her? Is sounds like he's saying she dog paddles in a little lake where those who obey the holy law stay perfect. Sounds like sour grapes.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): ah
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): I found it so modern .... precisely for that reason herr Kondor…
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): /me cough for a about a minute
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): (He was very bitter about losing Maud, yes, and jealous of her ex-husband for having "won" her in ways he never could or did. But depending on how you read it, and perhaps your own feelings relating to the poem, one could say he always loved her ... in some ways, more than ever, despite her aging and the lost beauty of her youth--and the beauty of youth was always something that somewhat tortured Yeats. He greatly idealized it, even in this poem.)
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me smiles and sips her wine so others can share now. :)
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): How SL of him.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): ((Yes, exactly, William! Another reason why I shared this one. :) ))
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you for sharing, Eloise.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Yes, thanks so much.
Zoe Foodiboo: Shall we move along the circle?
Zoe Foodiboo: Steadman? Did you bring anything?
Zoe Foodiboo: It's okay if you didn't...
Steadman Kondor: i brought some short ones
Steadman Kondor: it was tricky to get the right translations of german poets!
Zoe Foodiboo: Great! Would you like to share one?
Steadman Kondor: but a joy discovering new ones
Steadman Kondor: /me looks through his notes for the blue piano
Zoe Foodiboo: We're going to go around the circle and share one, then share more if there's time
Steadman Kondor: My Blue Piano - by Else Lasker-Schüler
Steadman Kondor: At home I have a blue piano
but cannot play a single note.
Zoe Foodiboo: /me nods and smiles at Steadman
Steadman Kondor: It stands in the dark of the cellar door
since the world went savage.
Steadman Kondor: "Four starry hands play,"
Moon Woman sang in her boat.
Steadman Kondor: Now rats dance in a clatter.
Steadman Kondor: The keyboard is shattered.
I weep over the dead blue thing.
Steadman Kondor: Dearest Angel, I have eaten
such bitter bread. Please open
Steadman Kondor: for me while still alive— even though
it is forbidden—Heaven’s door.
Zoe Foodiboo: whispers: wb Ruuchan
Steadman Kondor: ~ end
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): oh!
Zoe Foodiboo: /me applauds softly
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Interesting!
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): makes me cold inside …
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): /me claps
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): wow
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): *claps*
AlasAndAlack: /me applauds.
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): /me clap and smoke pipe
Steadman Kondor: It's hard to say why i chose it but i'll try.
Zoe Foodiboo: whispers: I think Frau Jo would've liked that one.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): sits up to better listen …
Steadman Kondor: the clear startling images. the image of broken creativity (the piano) is something that touches my heart
Steadman Kondor: and a hint of the war before and the war to come
Zoe Foodiboo: ahhh
Steadman Kondor: AND the rats dancing, lol
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): haha
Zoe Foodiboo: /me wrinkles her nose
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): of course :p
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): /me nods - very postwar
Zoe Foodiboo: Like at Der Keller
Steadman Kondor: yes i'm sure quite a few broken keys there
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): There are RATS at Der Keller?! (shivers)
Zoe Foodiboo: ...and rats!
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): haha
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): and sailors
Zoe Foodiboo: /me remembers herself and smiles politely
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Well I found it compelling and a little sad.
Steadman Kondor: when i try to play moonlight sonata, it comes out like jazz, because the broken keys makes me feel you are listening to syncopated music
Steadman Kondor: danke all
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): oh wow
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): I love the appeal to an angel to do something not allowed, the sheer yearning of it is really effective.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): To me, it seems, it touched on a mourning over untapped potential. Talent unpursued.
Steadman Kondor: nods. yes that could be too.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): A sort of "if only I had" thing.
Zoe Foodiboo: /me nods
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): Yes Herr William, to me too
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Perhaps rats are a metaphor for regrets.
Steadman Kondor: It can also be talent interrupted. The potential and talent is there , but circumstances can take the stage away from the actor, or the piano from the musician
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Good point.
Steadman Kondor: or the focus from the writer
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): I have a guitar, but no strings. I have a clarinet, but no reed. Etc.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): How melancholy that could make me.
Zoe Foodiboo: /me nods
Zoe Foodiboo: well, thank you Herr Kondor - excellent choice!
Zoe Foodiboo: Teruumi?
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Indeed. Bravo.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): brilliant
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): /me nods
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me claps softly. :)
Zoe Foodiboo: Is she there? It think she's a little crashy today…
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me clears her throat, "I also brought a poem. Called Arrow In The Sky by Henrikas Radauskas"
Zoe Foodiboo: oh good
Zoe Foodiboo: /me smiles
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): I am an arrow that a child shot through
An apple tree in bloom beside the sea;
A cloud of apple blossoms, like a swan,
Has shimmered down and landed on a wave;
The child is wondering, he cannot tell
The blossoms from the foam.
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): I am an arrow that a hunter shot
To hit an eagle that was flying by;
For all his strength and youth, he missed the bird,
Wounding instead the old enormous sun
And flooding all the twilight with its blood;
And now the day has died.
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): I am an arrow that was shot at night
By a crazed soldier from a fort besieged
To plead for help from mighty heaven, but
Not having spotted God, the arrow still
Wanders among the frigid constellations,
Not daring to return.
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): - The End -
Steadman Kondor: /me applauds
Zoe Foodiboo: /me smiles and applauds
Klaus Bereznyak: Brilliant!
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): I love this one
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): /me smiles and claps!
Steadman Kondor: This arrow quite has a life of its own!
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): *clap clap clap *
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): haha
Zoe Foodiboo: Ah, Herr von Stroheim
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): *smiles*
Otto Vanderstein (OttoVanderstein Resident): good
Zoe Foodiboo: Please, take my seat.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): indeed
AlasAndAlack: /me claps. Quite a poem for the world suffering after the war.
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): yes!
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): Indeed !
Zoe Foodiboo: /me plops on the floor
Klaus Bereznyak: /me sees an opportunity to delay his turn and slips across to Zoe's vacant seat
Steadman Kondor: what a marvellous turnout today. I'm so glad poetry touches the hearts of so many of us
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): So the reason why I chose this particular poem is because I like how instead of depicting the arrows flight as something grand and amazing, Radauskas depicts it as more of an Icarus flight
Zoe Foodiboo: /me chuckles at Klaus
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): that's what poetry is supposed to do Herr Kondor ;)
Erich von Stroheim (erichvonstroheim Resident): /me gulps, only realising now what he's walked into
Zoe Foodiboo: We're happy to have you, Herr von Stroheim. Please join us and listen. :)
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): I like, also, how it has an almost sentient quality, especially at the end when it doesn't "dare" to return, fearful to disappoint, I assume, in not having found God.
Steadman Kondor: and now you're trapped!
Steadman Kondor: with no bier!
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): ...and having killed the sun
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): it's a very playfull poem…
Steadman Kondor: yes the arrow is like an extension of the poet's desires
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): yes, I agree!
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): It does indeed bear resemblance to some of the more playful Ancient Greek mythology.
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): The folly of the gods and mortals alike.
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): I don't know anything about this poet, but I was reading it like he was a soldier who was sent to war-- a beautiful romantic image of it-- but then it wasn't.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): doesn't it make you wonder where your arrows would fly to?? Lol
Steadman Kondor: it's like the three stages of Man - innocence, experience... Desperation
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): (nods)
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): yes
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): (Oh, marvelous point!)
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): yes!
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): That's so sad ... I don't think the the third has to be desperation at all…
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): whispers: three stages of woman
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): whispers: nah, there's gotta be at least nine
Zoe Foodiboo: /me raises her hand
Steadman Kondor: /me grins at Fraulein T
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): May I help you up?
Zoe Foodiboo: Oh no, I couldn't tell if anyone was typing.
Steadman Kondor: Let's all throw cushions at Frl Zoe
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): /me looks at Zoe, expectant
Zoe Foodiboo: I see that it's almost time for El D but I know several more people prepared poems for today. Would you like to meet again? Maybe next weekend?
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): Sure!
Steadman Kondor: oh that would be great! i'm up for it
Herr William Thomson (KelvinD Kramer): Yes, please.
Zoe Foodiboo: I really hadn't expected so many people to show up - it's nice!
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): Absolutely!
Zoe Foodiboo: Okay, let's say same time, same place.
Eloise Schiltzen (EloiseSchiltzen Resident): Certainly!
Steadman Kondor: it's quite fun reading on the spot, with no homework, lol
Scout MacLeod (Maplekey Resident): Sounds great!
Steadman Kondor: except bringing your own
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): don't think I can make it next weekend but, I'll definitely come again!
Zoe Foodiboo: Oh, well then I'll use your chair, Frl Mosienko. Lol
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I've come up with some automatic writing, a new style
Zoe Foodiboo: I send out notices and create an FB event.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): I won't be able next week but count on me in 2 weeks time
Zoe Foodiboo: It's really very fitting as it's poetry month this month
Zoe Foodiboo: Or at least in America it is…
Teruumi Simoneaux (Korina Asamoah): YAY \☺/
Zoe Foodiboo: Well, thank you to everyone who shared today!
A clean and simple card for this week's sketch on Card Patterns. We're being sponsored by the oh-so-generous Hero Arts. LOVE these stamps!
All the details are on my blog:
1920s Berlin Project Library & Archives Presents a lecture by Fraulein Tiffany Mosienko.
World Affairs
"Support Ukraine and Ukrainians against the Soviet Threat"
Sunday, April 10, 12:05pm SLT
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Zoe Foodiboo rustles some papers on the podium, then checks the time.
Zoe Foodiboo clears her throat and smiles, "Welcome everyone."
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you for joining us today.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Lecture will be in chat
Zoe Foodiboo: I'm happy to present Fraulein Tiffany Mosienko, visiting professors of the arts and humanities.
Gentle Heron: Thank heavens for that! Voice is not working for me today.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I’m sorry Zoe, the start time is 12:05
Zoe Foodiboo: Her lecture is entitled, "Ukraine and Ukrainians against the Soviet Threat"
Zoe Foodiboo smiles
Titania Netizen: nowadays (2016) or in the past history?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): 1920s
Titania Netizen: ojk
Zoe Foodiboo: Please give our presenter a warm round of applause.
Titania Netizen: ty
Zoe Foodiboo: Tiffany?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): OK
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): As a trotzkist I confirm, Soviet Union is a threat
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident) chuckles
Elisabeth Milneaux claps
ℒena (Helena Kundiman) claps claps claps
Frau Jo Yardley whispers: sorry im late
Zoe Foodiboo motions, "Come in, you're just in time"
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Welcome and thank you all for coming.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I'm Tiffany, a Ukrainian-American visiting Professor of Arts and Humanities, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, studied also at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and most recently at Medici University (SL). She is also leader of the Art Study Group, elsewhere on the grid.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Слава Україні!
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I’d also like to thank Zoe Foodiboo, and the 1920s Berlin Library & Archives, for their support of my talk today.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Although I'm not from here, I have family ties to Germany. Berlin has been so welcoming, so thank you Frau Jo Yardley, and all the folks who make Berlin such as wonderful place to live, work and play.
Frau Jo Yardley (Jo Yardley): /me applauds
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): So I'd just like to say "Ich bin ein Berliner" before someone steals that famous quote from me.
Titania Netizen: :)
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I know there has been some political goings on elsewhere in the city of 1920s Berlin, and I’ll address that only indirectly here. I wanted to share with you some of the recent scholarship on communism and the Soviet system in Ukraine. Most importantly, though, I want to share with you Ukraine’s recent national revolution of 1918, which you may not have heard about due to the calamity of the Great War, here, and elsewhere.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): welcome Elyen
Elyen Zlatkes: Hello Tio
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): But first a little historical background.
Titania Netizen: ok
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Ukraine’s history can be spoken of in three separate parts: the ancient or medieval period of Kyivan Rus, the 17th century Cossack Hetmanate history, and the most recent “modern” historical period up to contemporary times.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Ukraine and Ukrainians as a people and as a culture have been around for over a millennium. Ukraine draws its heritage from Kyivan Rus, a kingdom which, in the 11th century, was the largest state in Europe, and centered around the great city Kyiv (or Kiev). Its leader was the Varangian, Oleh, who was the first of the Rurikid princes to rule Kyivan Rus.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Kyivan Rus was Christianized in 988 by Grand-Duke Volodymyr the Great and Princess Olha. Kyiv was later besieged by the Mongol hordes (or Golden Hordes) from the east in the 14th century. What was left of Kyivan-Rus subsequently became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which itself was a great empire in this period.
Elyen Zlatkes: hee, sorry Elis
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): In the 17th century Ukrainians’ nationalism flared up again during what is known as the Cossack era. The Cossack state, or the Cossack Hetmanate, had one of the first written constitutions in Europe. This written Ukrainian constitution survives as a historical document. Founded as the Zaporizhan Sich, this government represented peasants as well as city dwellers.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): The Cossack Hetmanate unfortunately found itself in a three way war with the Ottoman Turks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a new rising Russian Empire. The Hetmanate collapsed and after the partitions of Poland in the 18th century, stood divided between Austria and Russia.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): This age of empires, though recently ended, still divides Ukraine as it has in the recent century. Let’s talk a bit about Ukraine under Austro-Hungarian Empire and more importantly the Russian Empire.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): •
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Let me underscore this point. Catherine the Great made the Ukrainian language illegal in the Russian Empire. It was illegal to speak the language, illegal to write in the language, illegal to print books in the Ukrainian language, illegal to teach it in school and at University. For what purpose you ask? This is the beginning of a genocidal tendency of Russian chauvinism - the idea that Russia and Russians are the dominant force in the region, and other ethnic groups should be subservient to Russia.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Nevertheless, Ukrainian language and culture prospered, despite these setbacks and there is a great natural and rich tradition of Ukrainian literature and art. The national fervor that swept Ukraine during and after after this period despite being split between two great empires is known historically as the period of Ukrainian National Revival.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Although strict bans on freedom of speech and Ukrainian language were imposed by the Russian Empire, this period produced the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko. Because of the bans imposed by the center, great Ukrainians wrote in Russian and even accepted the Pan-slavism and Russification forced upon them by the Russian yoke. As such, the popular writer Nikolai Gogol and the composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky can be thought of as ethnically Ukrainian. Tchaikovsky’s great grandfather was a Ukrainian Cossack who fought in the Battle of Poltava.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): The Ukrainian language, which I’ll speak more about a little later, is survived by the peasant classes, and is typically characterized as such. But it has had a literary flowering and its own great literature, despite Russian chauvinism, and is distinct and special. It is the true language of the people of Ukraine.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko) sips her tea
Titania Netizen: is it written in cyrillic alphabet?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): So that is a bit of the history. The rest of what I’ll talk about is contemporary events 1917-1920, some cultural and political observations of the current situation, and some notes on the Ukrainian language. Yes, Ukrainian Cyrillic
Titania Netizen: ty
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): As the Russian Empire’s fortunes in the Great War declined recently (1917-1918) Ukraine saw its moment. As the Bolsheviks and others rose up against the Czar, and with the Ukrainian National Revival in full stride, Ukraine’s War of Independance was briefly successful in 1918. As you’ve probably read in the Berlin newspapers in the world affairs sections, Ukraine in that period formed three different governments, some with the help of the German armed forces that were still there in 1918. The Bolsheviks, however, are now taking over Ukraine and instituting pro-Russian policies. Ukraine is quickly becoming a Soviet state. I assert that Ukrainians are without much of a political voice amidst this chaos. And I assert that most Ukrainians are against this state of affairs and wish to be truly independent of foreign powers.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko) sips her tea
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): The Bolsheviks are well aware of these events and are actively attempting to recreate their empire under the guise of communism and the new Soviet political system. The Bolsheviks are importing settlers from further regions of Russia to complete the Russification of Ukraine. This is not a natural migration of peoples, but a political policy of indigenization, or “Korenizatsiya”, literally putting down of roots, or “transplanting”. I assert that the new laws passed recently will end Ukraine’s true independence and force it to be dependant on foreign powers. The new Bolshevik government is taking its orders from Moscow.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): What on the surface is being propagandized as a class war, with political parties and democratic overtones is in reality a thinly veiled autocratic centralized “union,” a federalization, that simply furthers the ambitions of the Russian Empire in a new form. This centralized system will strangle freedoms and culture, and establish tyranny in the guise of economic and social development. Case in point, it is the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, or RSFSR, that is making policies. Ukraine and Ukrainians are a freedom loving people. They oppose outside control of their nascent nation by a Soviet statehood imposed by the Bolsheviks. They need a chance for their own government to work, free from central Russian authority.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I ask you to support the mere idea of Ukraine as a free independent nation, free from Soviet control. Ukraine is not Russia. As I’ve so briefly outlined here, Ukraine has its own history, language and culture. I assert that the Soviet experiment is doomed to fail, and I urge you not to support it or treat it as normal. Ukraine is an occupied country - occupied by Russian chauvinism, Bolshevik ideas, and its ruinous authoritarianism, same as the old Czar.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko) flicks her hair
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Ukraine and Ukrainians want to be recognized for what they are - a free and separate people and nation, capable of their own economic development, capable of their own democracy, if not for foreign meddling and greed from Moscow. Ukraine, sadly, is too important as the breadbasket of Europe, as its agricultural base is known, and precious as a base for economic development in its industrial potential for Moscow to ignore.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I ask the international community to entrust Ukraine to Ukrainians. Self-determination of peoples and nations, as i have asserted previously, is a human political right. Here in this wonderful storied city of Berlin, I urge Germans and Germany to join the League of Nations in asserting and adjudicating these rights, for Ukraine and other nations who choose self-rule, not rule by foreign powers. Many Ukrainians have left Ukraine, because they have seen what future the Bolsheviks plan for Ukraine.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko) sips her tea
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I am part of this Ukrainian diaspora. As a Ukrainian-American, circumstances bring me back to Europe to fight for these political rights through education, and to counter the propaganda so that the plight of the Ukrainians under Soviet Communism might be known and reversed. The political class in Ukraine faces deception by agents trained by Moscow, the masses face propaganda and collectivization, and murder of those who oppose Soviet rule. Russian is becoming the dominant language for political discourse (where there is any) and it marginalizes Ukrainians in the process.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko) checks her watch, then realizes she isn't wearing one
Zoe Foodiboo: /me smiles, "You've got plenty of time."
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Thank you
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Scholars of Ukraine know that the Ukrainian language is very different from Russian. Propagandists will tell you that Ukrainian language is merely a bastard dialect of Russian. Again, this is Russian chauvinism. Linguists will tell you that Ukrainian is syntactically different, not a mere dialect. Both use Cyrillic alphabet. For many in Europe and elsewhere, Cyrillic written texts are difficult to distinguish. But to Ukrainian-speakers, Russian is a foreign language.
Elyen Zlatkes: What can Berliners do to help Ukraine?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Ukrainians in the diaspora know this, because where there is freedom of speech, where there is freedom from censorship, networks are formed and society organizes to help one another. In Western Europe, South America, in Canada, Australia, the USA and elsewhere freedom-loving people nurture ethnic Ukrainians where they can, to live freely, speak their own language, practice their traditions and culture, free from the tyranny of Russian (Soviet) communism.
Titania Netizen: is Ukrainian a slavish language as well?
Frau Jo Yardley (Jo Yardley): whispers: i dont think ive ever met anyone from there
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): Slavic and very beautiful
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): :)
Titania Netizen: slavic, sorry
Titania Netizen blushes
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Finally, I have no hat to pass around, I am not raising funds for the Ukrainian army, but even this idea is not so far-fetched. I simply ask you to question the loud Russian propaganda against Ukraine, a cultural war it has been waging on Ukraine for centuries, and give Ukraine the chance it deserves amongst the nations of the free world. Please support Ukraine and Ukrainians and their fight for a brave and _democratic_ future.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): ~Thank you~ and I'll be happy to take questions now
Zoe Foodiboo smiles and applauds
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident) applauds
Frau Jo Yardley (Jo Yardley applauds
Wulfriðe Blitzen (Ancasta Resident) applauds
Trilby Minotaur IIID applauds
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Gentle Heron: Thank you Ti. Very interesting. Where are displaced Ukranians mostly emigrating to?
Zoe Foodiboo: That was wonderful, Frl Mosienko, thank you!
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Gentle, Ukrainians are emigrating to the Americas, both North and South America
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): thank you Tiffany. It reminds a little of what's beginning to happen in Spain with the regions with a language of their own ((it was to become a real mess after our war in 36))
Gentle Heron: What about the North and South American cultures appeals to Ukrainians? Are they going to the plains to raise grain and farm?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Unfortunately it is the educated classes that are leaving - a real brain drain. Ukrainians in the Americas are looking for economic opportunity and, in many cases, political freedom. I'm afraid communism doesn't sit well with Ukrainians
Georg Roß (GeorgRoss Resident): /me raises his hand "Do you think Wilhelm von Habsburg has a role to play in the future of the Ukrainian nation?"
Vulcan Viper: /me has finally caught up.
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): ((haha))
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): I would love to ask you the question concerning "the first written constitution".
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): The House of Habsburg has promoted the Ukrainian nationhood and culture. Ukrainian Galicia, also once a medieval principality was part of Austria for many years, and language and culture were promoted.
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): It's now under Polish control since the War
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Please, Murguel
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): Kossack Sicz was very specific political and social structure, I wonder which document you mean
Vulcan Viper: Since both Russian and Ukrainian use the Cyrillic alphabet, is there anything one can see in one language that does not occur in the other?
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Of course, Murguel, this cinstitution is just part of history, but specifically, a copy in Latin was penned by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk. The original is kept in the National Archives of Sweden.
Gentle Heron: Sweden?!?
Vulcan Viper: /me hopes something by which the two languages can be distinguished.
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): ((thanks, I need to research it :-) ))
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Yes, Vulcan, there are a few letters of the alphabet that are different, but as I say, Ukrainian and Russian languages are syntactically, different. That means they use different syntax.
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): Oh, Zaporizhian Sicz, ok:)
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Yes, because of the ties between Ukraine and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, ukraine was once one of the largest countries on the Risk board, so to speak, but this was in Medieval times. The Scandanavian counstries have been great friends of Ukraine, but are also falling under the Russian Sovier sphere
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I know you are all great fans of history here. We can help Ukraine - before it is too late. Please raise awareness - Ukraine is not Russia is a convenient slogan. there is much propaganda coming out of that country.. I'm afraid Ukraine is being swallowed up by the Soviet system
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): So if there are no more questions. I thank you all very much, once again
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you, Frl Mosienko!
Georg Roß (GeorgRoss Resident) claps
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): thank you Tiffany. very interesting
Trilby Minotaur IIID applauds
Georg Roß (GeorgRoss Resident): Mind, did you manage to take any notes?
Titania Netizen: thanks a lot
Bintang Stromfield: +*✰*+*'*•.¸(*•.¸♥¸.•*´)¸.•*'+*✰*+
Bintang Stromfield: A P P L A U S E
Bintang Stromfield: *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*
Wulfriðe Blitzen (Ancasta Resident) claps
Gentle Heron: You said Ukrainian intellectuals were emigrating to the US. What is the US's stance on the Russification of Ukraine?
Elyen Zlatkes: Thank you Ti!
Miss Mind Myhead (CeliaP Resident): throws a murderous look at Georg
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): I'll make the transript available through the library
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): Gentle, the USA has been supportive of Ukraine as has Western Europe
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you, Herr Ross.
Titania Netizen: Thank you , Zoe foe the usual great and professional organization of this lecture
Gentle Heron: That's reassuring.
Murguel Cioran (murguelcioran Resident): ((If I can make OOC remark here, It's worth of mentioning how Soviet Union politic toward Ukraine ended in 1938, or maybe you want to do it Ti))
Zoe Foodiboo: Thank you for coming, Titsy. We all appreciate your support!
Vulcan Viper: Dankon, kaj gxis revidon. :)
Tiffany Mosienko (Ti Mosienko): The Western Powers supported General Denikin against the Bolsheviks, but because of the cost of war in Europe, Denikin was defeated
Frau Jo Yardley (Jo Yardley): thank you for the lecture, time for me to get back to work
Frau Jo Yardley (Jo Yardley): Auf wiedersehen!
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Olbia,Sardinia.ITALY
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this is the last set of bird pictures. last week at work i cut out about 20 birds. i'm all out of them now, ha.
i don't usually like to upload more than one picture from a shoot, but today i couldn't choose. uhh....where did myhead go? haha
today was an excellent day : )
a few more in the comments, mostly all straight outta the camera.
...tengo la cabeza llena de cosas inútiles sin espacio para las que verdaderamente merecen la pena. Buff ! !
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At this moment
...I have a head full of useless things out of space for truly worthwhile. Buff! !
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Gracias por vuestras visitas. La habeis hecho Explore
I asked for dark auburn red. I received dark brown with some red tint. Whatevs.
Also. Do you see that little curved line to the right? What is up with that? I guess I need to take my camera in and get it cleaned.
(Comillas) La esperanza de que ocurra algo. Un algo negro, que avanza y te muestra los dientes rotos, y gotea sobre ti. La esperanza en sí misma, oscura y podrida, sobre ti. Suspendida como un pájaro que planea y late rítmicamente allá arriba.
La deriva, que todo se lo lleva, lo arranca, deja mis secretos en carne viva, delirando en el suelo brillante.
Nadie alrededor.
Y un humo que crece. Lame las paredes y los ventrículos. El filo desgastado de mis pulmones. Se pincha. Se deshace en mis manos. La esperanza.
Abajo.
Y luego, vuelve imbatible a lo alto, a planear. Negro.
Yo...
Aprieto mi copa hasta que siento los latidos de la sangre por debajo de las uñas.
Aprieto hasta ver destellos rojos.
Mastico y paladeo las cenizas hasta que no son más que cenizas masticadas. Me digo, algún día saldré y tendré un paisaje que observar.
La copa se llena y rebosa.
Un solo punto en cada herida bastará para volver a ellas.
Solitario. Como el humo en mí.
(¿Comillas?)
I just love what Patti Smith is doing. On her 'twelve' album she is singing covers of songs by others. This image arrived in my head while I was listening to Gimme Shelter cover and happened to look at the DVD box of Alejandro Jodorowski's 'Sacred Mountain', Korean edition. It was all adding beautifully... Now you all know my secret mathematics :)