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Cedric

About Me

The Dromedary / Apollinaire

With his four dromedaries
Don Pedro de Alfarrobeira
Roamed the world and liked it.
He did what I’d do
If I had four dromedaries.

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DirtyBee

12May12

where are you? :(

Cedric

12May12

I'm alive and well, thankfully. But also busy with an animation (yay!) project for film school (among many other homeworks...). I'll try to be more active soon, be patient. :) And I'm really excited about "Demons," and can't wait for the fatidic event it's all about!
DirtyBee

12May12

haha, ok :) then, study, enjoy animation project and l hope you'll be here soon :) l missed you :(
DirtyBee

12May12

and l loved "a hometown in heart" a lot, btw, such a beautiful film :)

ruby stevens

12May12

hey cedric - 'a hometown in heart' is on that korean film archive on youtube here: http://youtu.be/Jw4WFDq-uUg

Yeah, I really like Huston. I haven't seen The Dead, but Under the Volcano is probably my favorite of his thus far.* I do need to see more Yamada! _ P.S. - Glad to see you like Omirbaev and Triad Election. As well as Bashing, Carnage (I think that's my favorite Polanski) and the Woo's.

DirtyBee

2May12

haha, nice one in your about me :D and l'm so glad you're into Dostoevsky :D and Demons, ah, beside Stavrogin, there are Kirilov and Shatov, both very tragic, well, you'll see anyway :) and Notes From Underground, both novels are ...how to put it? Mind-Fuck :D anyway, let me know of your thoughts, will be more than glad to hear your opinions :)

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Cedric

3May12

Thanks! I bought a short compilation of Chinese fables, which I finished today. They're fascinating; one of them was like this: Once upon a time there was a mythic bird with nine heads. Whenever one of them wanted to eat something, the other eight heads would attack the first one, and in the end none of them would get anything. What they didn't realize is, it doesn't matter which head eats the food, all of them would be fed anyway. Oh, I wish there were more than just 30-something stories in this book, I’m amused by how much they can tell about contemporary society and men in general (after all, our essence is the same whether in ancient China or modern-day Brazil or Serbia :P) • Speaking of which, that’s what really got me hooked to Demons – how it’s almost prophetic of the centuries following it. I’m into the second part, and can’t wait for more! Will let you know about my impressions once I’m done with it (I don’t like writing before, so I can analyze the work as a whole). Ah, I’m in my Russian literature period! Wonderful! :)
DirtyBee

3May12

yeey, l'm extremely happy bec of it ! :D and l was reading some chinese fables before, very clever. and l've read a bunch of serbian fables (well, l musted, l had class in uni regarding only to fables, legends, traditional epic and lyric poems and strict prof :p ), also - russian fables - and a lot of them are very morbid and kinda sick :p (chinese are different, completely different narrative in the first place). and Demons, yeah, many people use to say how it's prophetic and how he was a prophet (and the most christian of all writers - with that l can't agree, l don't think there is any strict "definition" for his work), he hated when people called him great psychologist and used to say "l'm not a psychologist, l'm a realist in higher sense" and no matter that his influence is huge and not only in literature (Freud used to say how he was one of the most important influence of his work and Nitzsche said how he's the only philosopher that taught him something) but it's hard to speak about his "tangible" influence, and l guess it was bec of his style in part (that have always been criticized; l won't say his style is perfect - it's not, but l don't see now different way to say things he said + did you know that he wrote Crime and Punishment for one month?! and other novels for very short time, too, bec of shits with publishers (he was very poor as you probably know), Nabokov has one essay (horrible one ! :p ) regarding that (l was kinda pissed off, wanted to sue him posthumously, yeah, yeah, crazy l am, we'll go on :p ), Gorki has many propaganda shits about him and Tolstoy (and not about ther work, about them as "petit bourgeois" as he said...pathetic), but, in the other hand - there is Henry Miller with his beautiful and enormous love for his work, there is Bernhard, one wonderful and genius hedgehog who adored him and Pascal (l so love his "my Pascal" :) ) and there is one russian writer that l adore - Gaito Gazdanov, who said "l used to love and admire Nabokov a lot, now l see that entire his work isn't worth same as one sentence of Dostoevsky". In your face, Nabokov, my guy said real thing !! :p ok, l wont talk anymore about russian literature with you, l can't stop obviously :D so, just let me know of your thoughts and l'll shut up, promise :D