The 7th Seal ~ Bergman
A classic no doubt but what to make of it? The characterisation is superb but so fraught with angst, it is almost distracting. Not embarrasingly so, though. Stoic Death, an everyman's last nightmare; no solace in love and definitely no solace in God. The church is played for the fool, The Fools "The horse is sitting in the tree" ??? Esoteric? Existential? Bit of a laugh really, which is why I chose this clip. Insults!
It all ends with Death leading the entourage into a merry distant dance while the visionary, his young, pretty, pragmatic wife smiling wryly clutching her baby, move off with the sunshine.
So there is hope, The Human Condition is not totally bleak……
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“Haughty ideals and preciousness of blogging aside, if one does not love words they ought to shut shop. In truth, there is no definite way to blog. It’s a verb, a doing thing. One commits words to page. And we’re back to precious words again. Loving them. Loving the art of cleaving clear words clear from the mind or the act of reading them. Enjoying how neatly we tin ideas in them, ready for an expectant eye. Love words, love your blog voice and more importantly, have fun.”
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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Sir Isaac Newton
I've been on beaches like this!
Dude Starship
All I know is this: the ravens kiss my mouth,
the veins are tangled here,
the sea is made of blood.All I know is this: the hands reaching out,
my eyes are closed,
my ears are closed,
the sky rejects my scream.All I know is this: my nostrils drip with dreams
the hounds lap us up,
the fools laugh out,
the clock ticks out the dead.All I know is this: my feet are sorrow here,
my words are less than lilies,
my words are clotted now:
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