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Ich bin allein…

Another poem illustrated by Hopper

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Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)

Das Leuchten der großen Stadt

Ich stehe am Balkon
Dort, wo ich wohn,
Ich bin allein
Und will’s nicht sein.

Das Licht der großen Stadt,
Es macht nicht satt,
Es leuchtet nur
In Unnatur.

Es leuchtet jede Nacht.
Ein U-Bahn-Schacht
Verbindet die
Peripherie.

Die Vorstadt über ihm
Bleibt anonym,
Hat kein Gesicht,
Nur dieses Licht.

Ich starre nachts darauf,
Es löst mich auf,
Ich seh‘s unbrav
Auch noch im Schlaf.

Zu ihm kehr ich zurück
Mit müdem Blick,
Der Raum ist leer,
Mich gibt’s nicht mehr.

©Wolfregen

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Adam Phillips: On Pleasure & Frustration

Along with Stephen Grosz, Adam Phillips is a clear exponent of Psychoanalysis

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The video below is the video that I’ve watched more than any other video on YouTube.  I admire Adam Phillips ability to express himself via both the spoken and written word.  It seems to me that he is usually saying very interesting things that make me consider things in a different light.

For those of you who might be interested, here’s a link to an interview with Adam Phillips via The Paris Review.  Here are some good bits from it…

The interviewer had described what he thinks Phillip’s style of writing is.  Phillips replied…

PHILLIPS

I’m sure what you’re saying is true—it sounds true. My experience of doing it is I just write it. One’s style is like one’s smell—because you can’t smell it, you need other people to tell you about it.

Later talking about the importance of having good conversations…

PHILLIPS

Because in your mind, you’re mad…

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10 Cafés berlinois

Wort reblogging for “vous apprécierez boire un petit café près d’une baignoire”! fleurie.

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Les températures berlinoises ont le mérite d’être fraiches en février-mars. Aussi, avons-nous arpenté les petits coffee shop de la capitale allemande. En voici une petite sélection, si vous aussi vous venez trainer vos savates ici en hiver.

East & Eden – Torstraße 141, Berlin

Petit paradis de l’est allemand, où vous dégusterez de délicieux brunch à base d’omelettes, de Granola ou autres petits légumes. Mais la spécialité ici se sont les Eden Sandwich. Mention spéciale pour le Serrano sandwich à base de jambon, mozza et tomate. Arrosez le tout avec l’un de leurs délicieux jus. On recommande fortement le Green Day à base d’avocat, d’épinard et de pomme ou encore le Lemon Moon qui mêle citron, pomme et avocat. Idéal pour travailler !

Ouvert du lundi au vendredi de 8.00 à 18.00 et à partir de 9.00 le week-end

Miss Ploff – Eulerstraße 9A, Berlin

Petite trouvaille cafféinée qui vaut…

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In Arcadia: A tour through the shopping arcades of nineteenth-century Europe

Shades of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin!

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At the end of the eighteenth century in Paris, a new architectural form was developed. Glass-roofed pedestrian passageways lined with shops, known variously as arcades, passages, galeries and gallerie, quickly became associated with European modernity, with their use of innovative engineering and materials, as well as the display of luxurious, exotic and modern wares. While often associated with Paris and London, where they had their beginnings, these architectural forms spread throughout Europe and the world during the course of the nineteenth century—including to Australia—where they were adopted as symbols of urban sophistication in the settler colonial cities and towns.

As the recipient of a Norman Macgeorge travelling scholarship in 2016, Nicole undertook site visits to these spaces throughout Europe, in order to develop a greater understanding of their role within the urban environment and contribute towards her PhD project on the Australian arcades. This illustrated talk takes a…

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Picasso, Matisse, Braque among those featuring at the new exhibition at the Musée Maillol

Currently reading about the rivalry between Matisse and Picasso. This captures the atmosphere after WW1.

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I have just come from visiting a fascinating exhibition at the Musée Maillol with its combination of art and history from the first half of the twentieth century revolving around the art dealer Paul Rosenberg, 1881-1953.

img_1878 Paul Rosenberg The exhibition entitled ’21 rue La Boétie’ is based on the book of the same name by Anne Sinclair, journalist and granddaughter of Rosenberg and it brings together over 60 masterpieces associated with Rosenberg many of which were shown in his gallery at 21 rue la Boétie. Rosenberg had a remarkable eye and passion for art and as a result he represented many of the avant garde artists of his day such as Picasso, Matisse, Léger, Braque with many of whom he developed close friendships . This was particularly true of Picasso who actually moved into 23 rue la Boétie in 1918 which allowed Rosenberg to be the first to see many…

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JOHN NASH

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John Northcote Nash (1893-1977).

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TAHIR SALAHOV

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Nichita Stanescu- Romanian Poet

A friend has just handed me a copy of this poet’s collection which is entitled “The Still Unborn About the Dead” published by Anvil Press Poetry. Here is a short example:-
Afternoon of a Song

I was propping the striped air
between your eyes and mine
I was propping the stripped air
of that yellow-green afternoon.

Between the sweet tympana
I was propping a long sound.
Diaphanous fingers
touching it and seem to snatch,
from the second’s
heard being of then,
our bodies so long.

How beautiful and how gentle,
lightening struck in the heights
with their long mantles of cloud,
and stars under their arms!

 

There is more information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichita_St%C4%83nescu and a poem in English at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unwords/

 

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KATE DIEHN-BITT

Fascinating work and a new discovery for me. As Wikipedia,de says “In den frühen fünfziger Jahren zieht sich jedoch Kate Diehn-Bitt vom öffentlichen Leben weitgehend zurück und legt alle Funktionen nieder. Sie beschäftigt sich mit dem Alten Testament und mit dem Thomas Mann-Werk „Joseph und seine Brüder“. Auffallend ist die Zuwendung zur Literatur, sie liest in dieser Zeit sehr viel. Besonders das Schicksal der Juden beschäftigt sie. Kate Diehn-Bitts Stiefvater war Jude, viele seiner Angehörigen kamen in den Konzentrationslagern um.”

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Kate Diehn-Bitt (1900-1978).

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