George Orwell and English
Politics and the English LanguageMost people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Book lists
Other lists, other opinions…in which we reveal the existence of other lists, and compare them.We know we are not the first to develop a list of “top” titles of one sort or another. Here for your enjoyment are a few others we have discovered.
* 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
* BBC’s Big Read
* CounterPunch’s Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century * Daniel Burt’s Literary 100
* Daniel Burt’s Novel 100
* Great Books canonical lists
* Guardian Review’s Top 100 Books of All Time
* The Image Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century
* The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List
* Martin Seymour-Smith’s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
* National Education Association’s Kids’ Top 100 books
* National Education Association’s Teachers’ Top 100 books
* National Review 100 Best Non-Fiction Books Of The Century
* Project Gutenberg’s Top 100
* Radcliffe Publishing Course 100 Best Novels
Other lists [OCLC - OCLC Top 1000]
Flow – continued
Ask a physicist ‘what creates the universe’ and they say energy. Ask them to describe energy and they tell you,’It can never be created or destroyed; it always is, always has been and always will be; it is always flowing into form, through form and out of form.’Now, ask a theologian ‘what creates the universe’ and they say God. Ask them to describe God and they might also tell you,’It can never be created or destroyed; it always is, always has been and always will be; it is always flowing into form, through form and out of form.’Hmmm, interesting! It seems that science, philosophy, spirituality and myth are all just different perspectives on reality, our different ways of enquiring into the nature of things.
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Coincidentally, when we do this we also recognize that, in spite of what we previously believed, we are not separate from one other. We are all part of one Universal Consciousness, and the intelligence, power and incredible love that are all aspects of this Life Force are available to every one of us.
The Flow ..
These experiences are not just confined to sports either – most of us have experienced something like this at least once in our life, usually by accident rather than design. They can be the most beautiful, sublime, carefree, creative and happy moments in our lives. We often recall them later in life – how we felt more alive and everything seemed more real than anything we had experienced previously or since – almost like tantalizing postcards from a magical kingdom that we never really got to go to.
Life 2.0: The little book of Flow – revised
Water – Deepa Mehta
Events during production of WaterMehta had originally intended to direct Water in February, 2000, with the actors Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das and Akshay Kumar. Her earlier film, Fire, however, had previously attracted hostility from some people in the Hindu community (who objected to her subject matter) and had organized attacks on cinemas that screened that film. Thus, the day before filming of Water was due to begin, the crew was informed that there were complications with gaining location permits. The following day, they learned that 2,000 protesters had stormed the ghats, destroying the main film set, burning and throwing it into the Ganges in protest of the film’s subject matter. [1].The resulting tensions meant that Mehta struggled for many years to make Water and was eventually forced to make it in Sri Lanka rather than India. [2]. She eventually made the film, with a new cast, and a new title (River Moon) in 2003. The struggle to make the film was detailed in a non-fiction book, Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of the Film, written by Mehta’s daughter, Devyani Satlzman (whose father is Canadian producer and director Paul Saltzman). [3]
Deepa Mehta – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orhan Pamuk – Snow – review
Yet there are literary judgments that some readers will question. The first is to omit Ka’s poems. The green book has been lost or stolen and what remain are Ka’s notes on how he came to write his 19 poems in Kars and how they might be arranged on the crystalline model of a snowflake. That is quite as dull as it sounds: really, in a book so expansive and light, the only dull passages. Incidentally, what verse there is in the book, copied from the wall of the tea-shop, is worth reading. One senses that Ka is a poet visiting Kars because the poet Pushkin visited Kars (on June 12 and 13 1829).
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