Post by stardustpilgrim on Dec 6, 2019 19:50:41 GMT -5
Browsing the internet I found this 1979 NY Times article on Gurdjieff. It is a very good summary and introduction, some things difficult to find in one place. The writer did extensive research plus some world traveling, met and interviewed several students of Gurdjieff. The writer begins with a short discussion of the film by Peter Brooks, Meetings With Remarkable Men, based on Gurdjieff's second book in his Series. It never came to Charlotte, but I happened to be in Colorado in 1979 and saw it in the tinniest theater I had ever been in. I still have the small poster give-a-way, Larimer Street Theater, Denver, it has a picture of Gurdjieff walking over a narrow bridge, from the film (shown below).
I have been considering a quote from Gurdjieff, his speaking with some Ladies of the Rope. So this is a kind oftwo three birds one stone thread. The book, Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope, Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York 1935-1939 and 1948-1949, 2019, gives a very good taste of the unvarnished Gurdjieff, more open and honest than most books give.
Saturday, May 30
[Gurdjieff and Krocodile are discussing "genealogy"...]
GURDJIEFF: Under surface with her you will find a shepherd always, no matter where be, how live, how dress, how high in world. (She is a countess). While for me, I always a "fantasist-scientist".
KROCODILE: A fisherman.
GURDJIEFF: Yes, a fisherman.
KROCODILE: Then you make good business with her, make a trade, fifty-fifty, fisherman and shepherd.
GURDJIEFF: [Laughing] Now this begin flowing in me association. Look at This-One (Alice), she not understand how we talk, we talk in images. Have you word in English for talk-in-images? If can find word I can tell a saying. There is old Persian saying, "Such kind of talking, talking in images, makes the nightingale full." Can you understand?
KROCODILE: Not quite, but we can get the taste. It has charm.
GURDJIEFF: Yes, is very beautiful.
www.nytimes.com/1979/07/29/archives/getting-in-touch-with-gurd-jieff.html
I have been considering a quote from Gurdjieff, his speaking with some Ladies of the Rope. So this is a kind of
Saturday, May 30
[Gurdjieff and Krocodile are discussing "genealogy"...]
GURDJIEFF: Under surface with her you will find a shepherd always, no matter where be, how live, how dress, how high in world. (She is a countess). While for me, I always a "fantasist-scientist".
KROCODILE: A fisherman.
GURDJIEFF: Yes, a fisherman.
KROCODILE: Then you make good business with her, make a trade, fifty-fifty, fisherman and shepherd.
GURDJIEFF: [Laughing] Now this begin flowing in me association. Look at This-One (Alice), she not understand how we talk, we talk in images. Have you word in English for talk-in-images? If can find word I can tell a saying. There is old Persian saying, "Such kind of talking, talking in images, makes the nightingale full." Can you understand?
KROCODILE: Not quite, but we can get the taste. It has charm.
GURDJIEFF: Yes, is very beautiful.
www.nytimes.com/1979/07/29/archives/getting-in-touch-with-gurd-jieff.html