Wednesday, December 25, 2013
شعری از عليرضا روشن
مرا من فرسودم/
در جدال ِ دردناك ِ من با من/
مرا من شكست دادم و /
من/
از من شكست خوردم/
با خود به جدال ِ دائم/
خود را شكستدادن و/
از خود شكستخوردن/
و از درد ِ شكست ِ همواره/
دلافگار بودن/
من/
نام ِ ديگر ِ دردم
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Year Zero
- Dad, thanks for choosing me when I was zero.
- Oh honey, you are the best thing that we have ever chosen.
- I am so glad you chose me when I was just zero. We are the best family.
- :))))))
- Oh honey, you are the best thing that we have ever chosen.
- I am so glad you chose me when I was just zero. We are the best family.
- :))))))
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Swann's Way
Why Proust's work is considered a masterpiece:
"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude. It was true that, when Odette had just done something which she did not wish to disclose, she would take pains to conceal it in a secret place in her heart. But as soon as she found herself face to face with the man to whom she was obliged to lie, she became uneasy, all her ideas melted like wax before a flame, her inventive and her reasoning faculties were paralysed, she might ransack her brain but would find only a void; still, she must say something, and there lay within her reach precisely the fact which she had wished to conceal, which, being the truth, was the one thing that had remained. She broke off from it a tiny fragment, of no importance in itself, assuring herself that, after all, it was the best thing to do, since it was a detail of the truth, and less dangerous, therefore, than a falsehood. "At any rate, this is true," she said to herself; "that's always something to the good; he may make inquiries; he will see that this is true; it won't be this, anyhow, that will give me away." But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the truth had sharp edges which could not: be made to fit in, except to those contiguous fragments of the truth from which she had arbitrarily detached it, edges which, whatever the fictitious details in which she might embed it, would continue to shew, by their overlapping angles and by the gaps which she had forgotten to fill, that its proper place was elsewhere."
"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude. It was true that, when Odette had just done something which she did not wish to disclose, she would take pains to conceal it in a secret place in her heart. But as soon as she found herself face to face with the man to whom she was obliged to lie, she became uneasy, all her ideas melted like wax before a flame, her inventive and her reasoning faculties were paralysed, she might ransack her brain but would find only a void; still, she must say something, and there lay within her reach precisely the fact which she had wished to conceal, which, being the truth, was the one thing that had remained. She broke off from it a tiny fragment, of no importance in itself, assuring herself that, after all, it was the best thing to do, since it was a detail of the truth, and less dangerous, therefore, than a falsehood. "At any rate, this is true," she said to herself; "that's always something to the good; he may make inquiries; he will see that this is true; it won't be this, anyhow, that will give me away." But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the truth had sharp edges which could not: be made to fit in, except to those contiguous fragments of the truth from which she had arbitrarily detached it, edges which, whatever the fictitious details in which she might embed it, would continue to shew, by their overlapping angles and by the gaps which she had forgotten to fill, that its proper place was elsewhere."
Monday, October 14, 2013
Octopus
The other day, Sammy sat me down to have a conversation with me and tell me why I should hold the door specially for kids. I had mistakenly let the door shut while he was still passing through! I told him he was absolutely right. Then as we stood up and started walking he very seriously said:
- I cannot carry the scooter, my helmet, and the dog's leash. Who do you think I am? An octopus?
- I cannot carry the scooter, my helmet, and the dog's leash. Who do you think I am? An octopus?
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Bedtime Conversations
- Daddy, what do you want to do when you grow up?
- I'm already a grown up
- So what do you do?
- I am a computer scientist
- You fix computers?
- Yeah, kind of
- I did NOT know that (smiling widely)
- I'm already a grown up
- So what do you do?
- I am a computer scientist
- You fix computers?
- Yeah, kind of
- I did NOT know that (smiling widely)
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
I am not a person who shies away from sad books but Cormac McCarthy's The Road should come with a warning on the cover. It gives a new meaning to sad. Beautifully written but simply brutal. Sad, sad, sad. Brutally sad.
"He tried to stay awake all night but he could not. He woke endlessly and sat and slapped himself or rose to put wood on the fire. He held the boy and bent to hear the labored suck of air. His hand on the thin and laddered ribs. He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage"
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Don DeLillo's Underworld
1/4th through the novel and it is getting lovely!
"He was a loner, to use the romantic word, only worse than that, clinically self-involved, not out of vanity or stupidity but out of some fear, some inbred perspective, some closeness of perspective that amounted to fear. It made him unable to see other people except as encumbrances, little hazy shapes that interfered with his solitude, his hardness of being."
Sunday, June 30, 2013
The New York Trilogy
Rather disappointed with Paul Auster's book. On several fronts. Don't know why but I found the second of the three books rather irritating and annoying. Beyond that, thought the stories had some interesting moments but the whole plot amounted to more of a gimmicky story through which nothing substantial was revealed. I mean I can go with some of the unpaussible parts of the story as long as it could lead to something substantial. Alas I did not find these stories as such. ANother thing that I was looking for and was disappointed with was lack of a real connection to the city of New York.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
New York Times Editorial - 1953
“Underdeveloped countries with rich resources now have an object lesson in the heavy cost that must be paid by one of their number which goes berserk with fanatical nationalism. It is perhaps too much to hope that Iran’s experience will prevent the rise of Mossadeghs in other countries, but that experience may at least strengthen the hands of more reasonable and more far-seeing leaders, who will have a clear-eyed understanding of the principles of decent behavior.”
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Worth ©
Just because you are important doesn't mean you are not replaceable.
I think my statement goes deeper than (or one could say completes) the original quote shown below:
"Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important."
I think my statement goes deeper than (or one could say completes) the original quote shown below:
"Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important."
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
John Updike's Rabbits
Have been reading John Updike's Rabbit novels. Just finished the third one (Rabbit is Rich). Should say that I am pleasantly surprised about how much I liked the books. There are pieces on each book that approach poetry. Beautifully written. Starting the last one: Rabbit at Rest.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, November 19, 2007
خانه کوچک ما
خانه کوچک ما
توشه جانش را
از درختی میگیرد
که به اعماق زمین
ریشه هایش را کرده فرو
خانه کوچک ما
گرمی اش را
از تن گرم زنی می گیرد
که به احساس زمین و آفتاب
خو کرده است
خانه کوچک ما
به بزرگی دل مهمانی است
که به دیدار هیاهوی چهان
به یک گوشه آن
اطراق کرده است
خانه کوچک ما
گر چه آرام و خرام
به تماشای جهان بنشسته است
رمه گاه اسبان خیالی است
که هر شب از آن
به بلندای جهان
می کنند پرواز
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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