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Archives for October 2015

Oct 29 2015

John Cage: Silence

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Rob Bogaerts, John Cage.
Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief,
[CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Performing Arts · Tagged: 4'33", american, john cage, music, new world symphony, silence, sonatas and interludes

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

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Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alexandra david-néel, autobiography, buddhism, dalai lama, french, my journey to lhasa, nonfiction, prose, tibet, travel, women

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

To write is to live, and to live is to write

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: austrian, letters, letters to a young poet, nonfiction, prose, rainer maria rilke

Oct 20 2015

Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty

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Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.
Photograph: Janus Films

Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye need to know?

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film · Tagged: céline, italian, movie, paolo sorrentino, rome, the great beauty, video

Oct 15 2015

Alan Jacobs: Heart of Heart’s Chalice of Love’s Fire

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Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How the Victorian poet Swinburne inspired a Postmodern Formalist’s work

Written by Alan Jacobs · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alan jacobs, english, guest post, heart of hearts the chalice of love's fire, poetry, ramana maharshi, swinburne

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