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May 9, 2015 3:12:23 GMT -5
Post by glimmer on May 9, 2015 3:12:23 GMT -5
to sit
inside
the lotus
just like
Buddha
(in imaginings)
what do
you
want
to wake
up!
AHAH
the petals
still closed
could
unfold
so what
do you want?
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May 12, 2015 2:29:32 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 12, 2015 2:29:32 GMT -5
G: I read in a book that in the other world grass is so solid that it cuts our feet -- we are flimsy there (I looked at the book just for these descriptions, a CS Lewis book). And:  : ) |
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Post by glimmer on May 13, 2015 5:14:13 GMT -5
Z: I loved C.S. Lewis as a child. Can you tell me which book contains the description of the grass? I should quite possibly like to have a read of that  |
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May 13, 2015 14:12:26 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 13, 2015 14:12:26 GMT -5
Z: I loved C.S. Lewis as a child. Can you tell me which book contains the description of the grass? I should quite possibly like to have a read of that It's The Great Divorce. I will put a few examples below, they don't talk about cutting feet (maybe I don't remember well) but descriptions are all through the book... From chapter "The High Country": "It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison. Moved by a sudden thought, I bent down and tried to pluck a daisy which was growing at my feet. The stalk wouldn't break. I tried to twist it, but it wouldn't twist. I tugged till the sweat stood out on my forehead and I had lost most of the skin off my hands. The little flower was hard, not like wood or even like iron, but like diamond. (...) As I stood, recovering my breath with great gasps and looking down at the daisy, I noticed that I could see the grass not only between my feet but through them. I also was a phantom." "Walking proved difficult. The grass, hard as diamonds to my unsubstantial feet, made me feel as if I were walking on wrinkled rock, and I suffered pains like those of the mermaid in Hans Andersen. A bird ran across in front of me and I envied it. It belonged to that country and was as real as the grass. It could bend the stalks and spatter itself with the dew." ps. Waterfall chapter is good, too. |
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May 14, 2015 4:20:53 GMT -5
Post by glimmer on May 14, 2015 4:20:53 GMT -5
Thanks Z. I just read the synopsis. Mr Lewis is certainly the one to pull off such a story, where few ever could. I'd suggest also the description of the beginning of the Narnia world in 'The Magician's Nephew', and the end of that world in 'The Last Battle'. Not to mention the ponds of the world's in MN as well. Oh and not to mention the underworld in 'The Silver Chair'. |
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May 14, 2015 13:54:00 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 14, 2015 13:54:00 GMT -5
Thanks Z. I just read the synopsis. Mr Lewis is certainly the one to pull off such a story, where few ever could. I'd suggest also the description of the beginning of the Narnia world in 'The Magician's Nephew', and the end of that world in 'The Last Battle'. Not to mention the ponds of the world's in MN as well. Oh and not to mention the underworld in 'The Silver Chair'. OK, I will look for online versions... Are these only children stories? -- the Great Divorce sounded serious to me (I mean he really thinks the other world is like that... but maybe I am wrong). |
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Post by zin on May 16, 2015 9:25:06 GMT -5
Our little film, 'When Death comes Knocking', written, filmed, directed and produced by Zoltan Gernan will be shown at three pm at The Reel Bronx International Film Festival at the Locust Point Civic Center, 3300 Tierney Avenue Bronx, NY 10465. The film stars Tim Cinnante and myself and will be shown on Saturday, May 16th 2014, at 3:00 pm. Please come out to support our local Bronx artists. I wish I could come  .. Good luck .. |
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May 17, 2015 1:54:01 GMT -5
Post by glimmer on May 17, 2015 1:54:01 GMT -5
OK, I will look for online versions... Are these only children stories? -- the Great Divorce sounded serious to me (I mean he really thinks the other world is like that... but maybe I am wrong). They are written for children, but without mistake, were created by a master. You can say the same of many religious parables and stories, including those of sufi and zen origin. Christianity run through them, although, I'd say, rather than more labels, they simply fuel the reader's inner desire for this 'other world', and one never wants to stop searching for it. |
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May 17, 2015 17:13:40 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 17, 2015 17:13:40 GMT -5
OK, I will look for online versions... Are these only children stories? -- the Great Divorce sounded serious to me (I mean he really thinks the other world is like that... but maybe I am wrong). They are written for children, but without mistake, were created by a master. You can say the same of many religious parables and stories, including those of sufi and zen origin. Christianity run through them, although, I'd say, rather than more labels, they simply fuel the reader's inner desire for this 'other world', and one never wants to stop searching for it. You've said "I'd suggest also the description of the beginning of the Narnia world in 'The Magician's Nephew'." so I began to read MN, I just read "The wood between the worlds", it is nice and I will continue. Yes I understand it is not about more labels... I am curious about what changes in the person from one world to the other  . Addition: After I read about the play of Screwtape Letters below, I remembered "Rilke as muse" poems on the other thread. I don't have any suggestion.. except maybe putting all four side by side, as columns.. just to make them stay together (as if otherwise they will scatter! sorry if I'm making too many comments.) |
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May 19, 2015 23:18:34 GMT -5
Post by charliegee on May 19, 2015 23:18:34 GMT -5
There was a play, 'The Screwtape Letters', based CS Lewis' book of the same name that I would have loved to see but I missed it. If it ever comes around again, I'm there.
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May 21, 2015 14:20:00 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 21, 2015 14:20:00 GMT -5
There was a play, 'The Screwtape Letters', based CS Lewis' book of the same name that I would have loved to see but I missed it. If it ever comes around again, I'm there. I looked for the book, got glued to it... 31 letters from an experienced demon to a new one, on how to tempt a human! and guide him towards "Our Father Below"! Oh, marvellous! I read the first one, here is just one sentence: "... before he reached the bottom of the steps I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone with his books, a healthy dose of "real life" (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all "that sort of thing" just couldn't be true." Youtube examples (of the play) seem serious, though : ) |
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May 22, 2015 1:51:52 GMT -5
Post by silver on May 22, 2015 1:51:52 GMT -5
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May 22, 2015 15:02:31 GMT -5
Post by zin on May 22, 2015 15:02:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, from there I went to the wiki page of 'Out of the Silent Planet', and read this: "According to biographer A. N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one." They were living wonderful lives, I think! And I read the summary, found descriptions of Malacandra [Mars] and things with Oyarsa (ruler - angel(?) of Malacandra) interesting. At some time I will read about Oyarsa's abilities. |
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Post by zin on Jun 3, 2015 18:28:02 GMT -5
This is part of a Rumi poem, I wanted to put a poem after CS Lewis (prose) talk..
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but Love is different;
It arrives complete
just there
like the moon in the window.
like the sun
of neither east nor west
nor of anyplace.
when that Sun arrives
east and west arrive.
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Post by glimmer on Jun 14, 2015 5:06:22 GMT -5
Beauty?
It will rip you apart.
Come home.
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.. Good luck 
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