Hello
this was last TAB sessions before Xmas.
It was similar to old time TAB, few people and in proportion more wine per head :)
And a special mention to Helena, who shared 4 books (record!) and made we listen Swedish reading :)
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
See you in 2008.
here is the quote from the book I've been talking about
Slowing down the run of their night, splitting it in distinct and well defined parts, Madame de T. managed to transform the short ark of time given to them into a wonderful architecture, into a shape. Shaping a duration is the need of beauty, but it’s the need of memory as well. What is shapeless is elusive, not memorizable. Conceiving the rendez-vous like a shape was for them even more important, because that night was destined to be without tomorrow and the only way to be repeated would have been inside the memory.
There’s a secret link between slowness and memory, between speed and oblivion. Let’s think about one of the most common situations: a man is walking on the road. Suddenly he tries to remember something, however that escapes. Then, instinctively, he slows down his pace. Instead, the one that wants to forget a sad recent event, unconsciously speeds up his pace, like he would like to go far from something he feels still to close to him in the time.
Inside existential mathematics this experience gets the shape of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of oblivion.
La Lenteur, by Milan Kundera
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Dec 7, 2007 @ 02:02
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Hello
this was last TAB sessions before Xmas.
It was similar to old time TAB, few people and in proportion more wine per head :)
And a special mention to Helena, who shared 4 books (record!) and made we listen Swedish reading :)
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
See you in 2008.
here is the quote from the book I've been talking about
Slowing down the run of their night, splitting it in distinct and well defined parts, Madame de T. managed to transform the short ark of time given to them into a wonderful architecture, into a shape. Shaping a duration is the need of beauty, but it’s the need of memory as well. What is shapeless is elusive, not memorizable. Conceiving the rendez-vous like a shape was for them even more important, because that night was destined to be without tomorrow and the only way to be repeated would have been inside the memory.
There’s a secret link between slowness and memory, between speed and oblivion. Let’s think about one of the most common situations: a man is walking on the road. Suddenly he tries to remember something, however that escapes. Then, instinctively, he slows down his pace. Instead, the one that wants to forget a sad recent event, unconsciously speeds up his pace, like he would like to go far from something he feels still to close to him in the time.
Inside existential mathematics this experience gets the shape of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of oblivion.
La Lenteur, by Milan Kundera
giglio6973Dec 7, 2007 @ 02:02
this was last TAB sessions before Xmas.
It was similar to old time TAB, few people and in proportion more wine per head :)
And a special mention to Helena, who shared 4 books (record!) and made we listen Swedish reading :)
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
See you in 2008.
here is the quote from the book I've been talking about
Slowing down the run of their night, splitting it in distinct and well defined parts, Madame de T. managed to transform the short ark of time given to them into a wonderful architecture, into a shape. Shaping a duration is the need of beauty, but it’s the need of memory as well. What is shapeless is elusive, not memorizable. Conceiving the rendez-vous like a shape was for them even more important, because that night was destined to be without tomorrow and the only way to be repeated would have been inside the memory.
There’s a secret link between slowness and memory, between speed and oblivion. Let’s think about one of the most common situations: a man is walking on the road. Suddenly he tries to remember something, however that escapes. Then, instinctively, he slows down his pace. Instead, the one that wants to forget a sad recent event, unconsciously speeds up his pace, like he would like to go far from something he feels still to close to him in the time.
Inside existential mathematics this experience gets the shape of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of oblivion.
La Lenteur, by Milan Kundera
giglio6973Dec 7, 2007 @ 02:02
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Re: Talking About Books
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Dec 7, 2007 @ 19:43
here are the titles and authours of the record 4 books i shared :
"The Piano Tuner" by David Mason (a poetic book about 1886's London, India and Burma as well as travelling far at this time, but mostly about pianos, and exceptional people)
"Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer (about loss and accepting loss, learning to accept loss, but in a very fun, original writing style from the eyes of a bit different nine year old)
"The time traveler's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
"We did nothing" by Linda Polman (about the UN and interventions in humanitarian situations, genocide etc)
"The Piano Tuner" by David Mason (a poetic book about 1886's London, India and Burma as well as travelling far at this time, but mostly about pianos, and exceptional people)
"Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer (about loss and accepting loss, learning to accept loss, but in a very fun, original writing style from the eyes of a bit different nine year old)
"The time traveler's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
"We did nothing" by Linda Polman (about the UN and interventions in humanitarian situations, genocide etc)
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here are the titles and authours of the record 4 books i shared :
"The Piano Tuner" by David Mason (a poetic book about 1886's London, India and Burma as well as travelling far at this time, but mostly about pianos, and exceptional people)
"Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer (about loss and accepting loss, learning to accept loss, but in a very fun, original writing style from the eyes of a bit different nine year old)
"The time traveler's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
"We did nothing" by Linda Polman (about the UN and interventions in humanitarian situations, genocide etc)
LNA__, Dec 7, 2007 @ 19:43
"The Piano Tuner" by David Mason (a poetic book about 1886's London, India and Burma as well as travelling far at this time, but mostly about pianos, and exceptional people)
"Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer (about loss and accepting loss, learning to accept loss, but in a very fun, original writing style from the eyes of a bit different nine year old)
"The time traveler's wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
"We did nothing" by Linda Polman (about the UN and interventions in humanitarian situations, genocide etc)
LNA__, Dec 7, 2007 @ 19:43
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