word of the day for mecarcinisation
"Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply."
" ... the tree of life goes on putting out branches. A multitude of new inscriptions is added to the writing in stones. Images of fishes swim among dendrites of manganese as though among clumps of moss. A sea lily sways on its stem in the heart of a piece of slate. A phantom shrimp can no longer feel the air with its broken antennae. The scrolls and laces of ferns are imprinted in coal. Ammonites of all sizes, from a lentil to a millwheel, flaunt their cosmic spirals everywhere. A fossil trunk, turned jasper and opal like a frozen fire, clothes itself in scarlet, purple, and violet. Dinosaurs' bones change their petit-point tapestries into ivory, gleaming pink or blue like sugared almonds.
Every space is filled, every interstice occupied. Even metal has insinuated itself into the cells and channels from which life has long since disappeared. Compact and insensible matter has replaced the other kind in its last refuge, taking over its exact shapes, running in its finest channels, so that the first image is set down forever in the great album of the ages. The writer has disappeared, but each flourish - evidence of a different miracle - remains, an immortal signature."
Have you seen any of the new Wes Anderson shorts, based on Dahl stories? I loved The Ratcatcher (played by Ralph Fiennes).Been reading John Gray and it goes over my head. When I was at school I loved Roald Dahl, my teacher would scold me for it but could do nothing about my book of choice.
From Matilda
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No I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll watch them.Have you seen any of the new Wes Anderson shorts, based on Dahl stories? I loved The Ratcatcher (played by Ralph Fiennes).
Have you seen any of the new Wes Anderson shorts, based on Dahl stories? I loved The Ratcatcher (played by Ralph Fiennes).
There are three others, but Henry Sugar is the longest at ~ 45 min.We watched Henry sugar recently. How many more are there?
Wes Anderson has saved a lot of bother by casting himself as every character in every one of his films. He should take a vow of silence for an afternoon, sit in a cafe and gradually realise the great diversity that is out there of people's personalities, intelligences, ways of speaking, ways of acting etc. etc.