Hippopotomonstrosesquippediliously moving around, Feeling aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic in my head. Read about Camille Claudel, Pitied the fool.
Dante Alighieri: A music clip
“Vide Cor Meum” in Latin means see my heart. The words are taken from Dante’s La Vita Nuova (The New Life) where Dante describes a vision he had and asks for help in interpreting it. As Dante tells it, when he was 9, he fell in love with a little girl he called Beatrice. He only saw her in passing …
Dark waltz with destiny: Tom Tykwer ~ Heaven ~
An absolute MUST SEE! (The film Heaven was shot in Montepulciano. The medieval/Renaissance town in southern Tuscany, Italy is famous for the rolling hills and the most gorgeous wines on Earth.)
I went to 2046 today
It began with a number, then it became a religion. He started imagining himself a Japanese man falling for an android with delayed reaction. Watch 2046, a Wong Kar-Wai film.
Playing “cloud and rain”, erotic poetry & art in ancient China
You held my lotus blossom/In your lips and played with the/Pistil. We took one piece of/Magic rhinoceros horn/And could not sleep all night long./All night the cock’s gorgeous crest/Stood erect. All night the bee /Clung trembling to the flower/Stamens. Oh my sweet perfumed/Jewel! I will allow only/My lord to possess my sacred/Lotus pond, and every …
My hero(ine)
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypathia is considered to have been the first woman to write on the subject of mathematics and an important pagan philosopher. When she was born in 370 A.D. in the cosmopolitan/Hellenistic Alexandria, her father Theon, …