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The Birds-Alfred Hitchcock 1963 The Birds-Alfred Hitchcock 1963

Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie The Birds from 1963 is very loosely based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novella of the same name. Hitchcock’s first American film and international success had been an adaption of her Gothic melodrama Rebecca, and later Nicholas Roeg would adapt du Maurier’s eerie story Don’t Look Now, which became a staple on the late-night movie circuit in the 70’s.

du Maurier’s original story is more concerned with the revenge of nature, exemplified by the suddenly hostile birds working in concert to punish humanity for its hubris and arrogance. As such it can be seen as a fore-bearer of a particularly English sub-genre of ecological apocalyptic fiction, John Wyndham, J.G Ballard and Anna Kavan all produced work in this vein.

Hitchcock told the screenwriter Evan Hunter to keep the central premise of unexplained bird assaults but to develop new characters and expand upon the…

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when I read this, it has remembered me of a great Persian poet Furugh Farrokhzad. with thank to Haus of Heart ❤ ❤

The Sin

I sinned, a sin all filled with pleasure
wrapped in an embraced, warm and fiery
I sinned in a pair of arms
that were vibrant, virile, violent.

In that dim and quiet place of seclusion
I looked into his eyes brimming with mystery
my heart throbbed in my chest all too excited
by the desire glowing in his eyes.

In that dim and quiet place of seclusion
as I sat next to him all scattered inside
his lips poured lust on my lips
and I left behind the sorrows of my heart.

I whispered in his ear these words of love:
“I want you, mate of my soul
I want you, life-giving embrace
I want you, lover gone mad”

Desire surged in his eyes
red wine swirled in the cup
my body surfed all over his
in the softness of the downy bed.

I sinned, a sin all filled with pleasure
next to a body now limp and languid
I know not what I did, God
in that dim and quiet place of seclusion.


Translated by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Remembering The Flight,

https://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/selectedworks/selectedworks8.php

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Guest Post: Achilles’ Shield and Schiller’s Philosophy of Aesthetics, by Corry Shores

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A poet treats his stuff in common when he performs unimportant acts and passes over important ones. He treats it big when he connects it to the big one. Homer knew how to treat the shield of Achilles in a very witty manner, although the making of a shield is something very mean in substance.

(Early Christian Writings)

The Occultation of Surrealism

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In the Second Manifesto of Surrealism from 1930, among all the excommunications and score settling, Andre Breton calls for the ‘…THE PROFOUND, THE VERITABLE OCCULTATION OF SURREALISM,’ which is suitably followed up by quotes from Cornelius Agrippa’s Third & Fourth (spuriously attributed) Books of Magic. This interest in the occult, hermeticism and alchemy can also be evidenced by the set of playing cards the surrealists designed during WWII, which features another Renaissance occultist, Paracelsus, as the Magus of Locks.

However  it wasn’t until after WWII and Breton’s return to France from exile in New York that this hermetical tendency become dominant. The realities of the Cold War political landscape meant that the Breton placed ever less hope in the achievement of a Marxist Utopia, shifting  his focus towards the idiosyncratic mystical Socialist thinker Charles Fourier.

As can be seen from the above portrait (crayon, charcoal, oil and glitter on…

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Le Jeu Du Marseille-A Surrealist Pack of Cards

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During  the 1930’s Surrealism expanded outside Paris. Despite defections, internal discord and excommunications, Breton’s  genius at spotting and recruiting talent, plus major exhibitions held in London and New York meant Surrealism had become a truly global movement.

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We Honor America on 9/11

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very sad and unforgettable 😪😪

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America, we love you.


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If you aren’t familiar with this terrorist attack, here’s a 2-minute overview:


Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy, the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers, and Born in a Treacherous Timefirst in the Man vs. Nature collection. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice,  a columnist for TeachHUB and NEA Today, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Survival of the Fittest, Spring 2019. You can find her tech ed books at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning.

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After All, Tomorrow Is Another Day

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https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/“Never put off
till tomorrow
what you can
do day after
tomorrow
just as well.”
-Mark Twainhttps://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/I’m a pro at procrastination, no amateur stuff for me. I wish I could stop procrastinating, but I keep postponing it.https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/I do it when blogging, postponing writing posts – I tell myself it’s a lack of energy, lack of time, lack of ideas – I wish those were truths, but like most cases of procrastination, my real issue, fear. If I delay doing something, it can’t fail.https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/

My procrastination is getting worse, becoming a chronic condition.https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/Is it the amount of choices? Time inconsistency? Self-censorship? Constant interruptions? Laziness? Lack of focus?https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/We all put off doing things, but when does it move to acting against your best interests, your better judgement, when does procrastination take over your common sense?https://yadadarcyyada.com/2018/02/07/after-all-tomorrow-is-another-day/

What if I’m not even a pro procrastinator, but just an amateur stresstinator?

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Jung on Alchemy (9): the Coniunctio – part 2 – the Red Stone

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Virginia Satir – The Self-Esteem of the Child

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September 9, 2018
a very important issue which in many parts of the world, would not care about!

The child comes to the world with its empty, clean plaque and the sense of value and appreciation is a byproduct of its treatment by the adults.

Adults may not realize that the way they catch a child can contribute to self-esteem.

Children learn to appreciate themselves from the voices they hear, from the expressions of the eyes of the big ones that hold them in their arms, from the muscular tone of the embrace that holds them, from the way the adults respond to their crying.

If the baby could speak, he would say, “They love me,” “no one cares about me, I feel rejection, I feel lonely,” “I am very important,” “I do not care. I am a burden for others. ” All this is a precursor to the subsequent messages, about its self-esteem.

Parents who are now starting with a baby, let us take a look at the following paragraphs, which will help them create more opportunities to develop their self-esteem.

1. Realize how you catch the baby. If you were like that, how would you feel? When you catch your child, think about what your child is learning. Is the grip hard, soft, cold, impossible, full of love, fear, anxiety? Tell your child what you feel.

2. Learn to realize the expressions of your eyes. And I admit: “I’m angry”, “I’m afraid”, “I’m happy” and so on. The important thing is to give your child immediate emotional information from you about you.

3. Very young children tend to believe that everything around them happens because of them, both good and bad incidents. An important part of learning self-esteem is the clear separation of child-related incidents from those relating to someone else. When you talk to your child, specify exactly who the names are used to.

For example, a mother who is angry with the behaviour of one of her children may say, “You children never hear me when I speak to you!” This phrase is heard and believed by all the children who happen to be in front, although its message is specifically addressed to one.

4. Support the ability and freedom of children to comment and ask for each person to be able to ascertain what is happening. In the example I mentioned above, the child who is free to ask, will ask to learn: “Do you say to me?”

I use a transfer that families find very useful. Think of a round source that has hundreds of small fountains. Imagine each of these small holes, as a symbol of our personal development. As we grow older, more and more fountains are opening. Others end and close. The water pattern is constantly changing. It can always be beautiful.

We are dynamic beings, in constant motion. Each of our sources works even in our infancy.

The psychological reserve from which the infant draws self-esteem is the essence of all the actions, reactions and interactions between the persons who care about this child.

 

Excerpt from Virginia Sathir ‘s book, “Freedom of Humans,” Kedros Publications.

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