Day ended on a nice note with my three friends calling up to ask(as they do every year, it seems), whether I had remembered to read up Tintern Abbey (that mighty poem of the worthy Wordswoth) on the eve of this July the 13th. Apart from that, visited dadu and stuffed myself on fried rice and chicken prepared by one who loves me a lot.
Haven't yet called potential employer. Will have to set up date for interview with another potential employer by tommorow.
My friend is on a ball, what with teaching French and dear A.da 'loose in the department', as she calls it.
And Syd Barrett died a few days ago. It shocks me to think that David Gilmore too won't be around at some point of time. there are some people whom you can't bear to imagine life without. My friend would say A.da. I agree.
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Yes, R.I.P. Syd Barrett. But Gilmour is very much alive, kicking and touring.
and am i glad for that. was going thru this site today that said that according to gilmore, barrett wld have killed himself anyway and that acid was only a catalyst. "he cldn't handle the pressures of fame." i dunno. but dave didn't strike me as the guy who'd say such a thing. but then he might have meant it in 10 different ways that i don't know about. and he is a beautiful man, and appearance is the least of it.
si, si.
Hmm...Gilmour said that? Personally, I've never been able to connect the the three PF phases (Barrett, Waters, Gilmour) without running into dichotomies.
And naah, haven't seen any of the movies you mentioned in your comment. Have you seen Il Postino, or better, heard the OST? The word lithe somehow strongly smelt of Neruda:)
haven't read Neruda. Neither have seen Il Postino. In my impoverished cultural condition, can claim to have 'heard' about it. again, have read 'about' Neruda in Garcia Marquez' Clandestine in Chile. my friend here reads Neruda in Spanish. 'lithe' is a beautiful word tho', dont you think?, like 'louche'. they kept saying it of Chatwin: 'louche sexuality': if u read him, it's somewhat like the Tuareg people of Africa that he describes(Songlines, his Notebooks): louche is very like the clothes they wear, their love of the colour blue, their nomadic life et al. of course, seen thru the eyes of bruce, and he does have the Orientalist thing going. but then, he is also so much beyond that. like Thesiger, another guy who had restlessness in his bones. but in a more serene, resolved way, if i may say so.
of Gilmour: i read it in the hindustan times yesterday, so u can take it with 'magno grano salis' as oli wld say.
never mind about the movies. 'everybody says' is missable if you aren't a quietly-going-crazy fan of Rahul Bose. fan again wth magno grano salis. but split wide oen is worth taking a look at, tho' i dunno abt more eclectic sensibilities (not being snide), i'm not educated. not yet anyways.
alors, je les ai ici maintenant...
romila22 said...
posted here again, by mistake
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olidhar said...
alors, ce n'est pas grave. and have u memorised the poem yet or not/ and as for the crazy machinations of said three friends throughout day, best one did not ask...
why potential employer thingummy not yet called/alerted/notified/threatened?
right about my boy.
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romila22 said...
she calls him the 'boy'. i'd love the fils to come & take a look at this one. and get over thepoem, alright. there r limits to such childish obsessions. Really.
btw, this yeux bougeant tres vite thingy c'est l'ami de l'autre fils. and i'm sure this stupid code can be easily decoded. we shld really learn russian or sthng. no one i know knows russian. or better still, try nicholas, the friend i mean. but it'll be quite sthng to do that in writing. ah, the vagaries of the 'textual condition'!
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olidhar said...
j'irais emener tous ca chez toi, alors, et puis...
parthada knows russian, btw.
and u know parthada.
so u know someone who knows russian.
i do love getting things straightened out.
you are out of your head
patati patata.
tais toi! thou shalt not litter my blog with the fruits of thy folly
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