09 Sep The Most Shocking Ending in All Literature
Posted at 22:54h in art, beauty, japan, life, literature, poetry, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 12 Comments
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid...
21 Jul Poetic Realism: the film genre a director died to make
Posted at 13:23h in art, beauty, funny, life, meditation, movies, poetry by Le Chef Gateaux 0 Comments
More a tendency than a genre in its own right, Poetic Realism was a highly influential yet short-lived movement in French cinema of the 1930s, a brief outbreak of lyricism sandwiched between the bludgeoning horrors of two world wars. Unlike Soviet montage or French impressionism,...
22 Jun What Matter Age?
Posted at 01:01h in childhood, funny, inspiring, internet, life, literature, meditation, music, poetry, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
There’s a funny saying about things that go around coming around. Usually it’s karma, an eye for an eye and a sow for a reap—the great spiritual law of the universe that dictates bad things for things done badly, good for that done gladly. But inspiration...
22 Mar The poetry of death
Mostly unheard of in Western culture, where the document most commonly associated with death is a will—a binding legal document descriptive of property but little poetry, jisei, or death poetry, is a poem completed near the time of death; a profound, personal epitaph for a...
08 Mar Beautiful Moments in Film #2: Charlie Wilson’s War
Posted at 19:27h in inspiring, japan, life, meditation, movies, poetry, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) by Mike Nichols CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman): Listen, not for nothing, but do you know the story about the Zen master and the little boy? Representative Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks): Oh is this something from Nitsa the Greek witch of...
21 Feb Search Engine Haiku
Found poetry is the rearrangement of words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages that are taken from other sources and reframed as poetry by changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be...