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samedi 30 avril 2005

Year of the Tiger

Installed MacOSX Tiger yesterday, occupied with testing ...

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vendredi 29 avril 2005

Man without qualities

As if Musil had inspired my dreams, I had some really strange one last night.

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jeudi 28 avril 2005

Musil and the Airbus

greatmanRobert Musil seized very well the difficulty of mesuring the character of a "great man". There is much more evidence and ease in the recognition of a great boxer or a race-horse.
Although there are still defendors of the "great man", their efforts seem to be ridicolous with regards to the unanimous enthusiasm (almost ecstasy) aroused by the Airbus A380.
But Kakania is definitely out: "Es ist passiert, 'it just sort of happened', people said there when other 'people in other places thought heaven knows what had occurred. It was a peculiar phrase, not known in this sense to the Germans and with no equivalent in other languages, the very breath of it transforming facts and the bludgeonings of fate into something light as eiderdown, as thought itself Yes, in spite of much that seems to point the other way, Kakania was perhaps a home for genius after all; and that, probably, was the ruin of it." (Musil, The man without qualities)

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mercredi 27 avril 2005

Ioulita's bread

What's that? Simply a child's invention. We aren't used to eat toast bread in our house, so we had to wait for Ioulita to introduce this successfully as you can see at our children's expression.
I remembered this when I heard on the radio that we're evolving to eat mush, so teeth are going to become superfluous.

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mardi 26 avril 2005

Tristan under water

tristan"Water too is at the heart of the final near-mystical scene when the now frustated love of Tristan and Isolde becomes, in Mr. Viola's words, "something more profound, something you can't even describe." Here, by reversing the high definition film he has shot, Mr. Viola uses water to lift the dead Tristan from a stone slab and raise him to eternity. "You're looking at death, and in the editing room, it becomes a kind of birth," he noted." related the New York Times on 14th of april.
How to tell death on video, to show the last sigh of Tristan? Video has to be obvious and respiration could only be seen under water, so Bill Viola's argument.
Nevertheless I won't become a Wagner fan, this total artwork thing seems to me terribly ridiculous, I prefer Woody Allen: "Listening to Wagner makes me want to invade Poland ..." and to continue listening Verdi.

And to consider furthermore the french foible for the "deepness of german soul", indestructible since Mme de Stael.

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lundi 25 avril 2005

Intruder(s)

intrus Claire Denis' filmwork appears to be on a loop, approaching more and more the idea of the foreigner, the stranger, the other, the intruder.
Political correctness would like to clear the foreignness of the other, to conceal his intrusion. But you can't really receive nor comprehend him by hiding this, as Jean-Luc Nancy says in The Intruder.
Foreignness and strangeness is everywhere in Claire Denis' L'Intrus (The intruder).
"The intruder is in me and I become a stranger to myself", says Nancy. So Louis Trebor (Michel Subor) is a hunted hunter, he seems to go on travelling to find some rest, some comfort in the idee fixe to meet "his" lost son, but the only rest is death (reminded by his french son, but also by all the others who love him without being considered - even in his "new life" with his "new heart" he isn't less "heartless"). Claire Denis wanted to show a main character who doesn't deserve compassion, I'm not sure if it works, the more it goes the character's enigmatic side becomes even stronger. So I'm wondering if his gaze is simply empty (expression of a yawning void) or deeply mysterious. Perhaps I have to stick to a phrase of Heimito von Doderer in his novel The Strudlhof Steps:
"No sign of mental activity, not now nor later [...]."

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dimanche 24 avril 2005

Aquarian Sound

It's a very loud aquarium David S Ware proposes on his three CD album Live in the World. But the weather is aquarian too, so I might find nothing better to spend this rainy sunday afternoon. Looking how the pond in the garden is slowly filling up.

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