Re: what are you reading?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:18 pm
lol well there's a part 3 which i'm assuming must then be topological, because it's called 'theory of budapest' but i haven't started that yet
to my surprise (i was not aware of it prior my visit), British Library offers an exposition of many charming old manuscripts (and the access to the exposition is free of monetary charge).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_St_John_Wilson
He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London
i must admit, that reading the medieval travelogues is mostly a pain in the ass.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_ ... ezov%C3%A1
a Czech writer of Hussite period, ... He wrote in Czech and Latin. He was a historian of the Hussite movement. His works are usually regarded as more or less reliable.
He was also a translator, his translations are usually deemed of high quality. He translated mostly during the time when he worked in the court, where he e.g. translated the so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
so (in sum) i expect this long gap in the wide usage of Czech language between medieval times and the revival era is the reason contemporary Czech is not that far away from medieval Czech.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrip ... C3%A1_Hora
There were early suspicions about their authenticity, but they were not decisively established to be forgeries until 1886 in a series of articles in Tomáš Masaryk's Athenaeum magazine.
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In the interim, the manuscripts were generally regarded romantically as evidence of early Czech literary achievement, demonstrating that such epic and lyric poetry predated even the Nibelungenlied.
despite (unless learning Czech) you can't read the text, you can still go through chapters and cherish the handwriting because i attached to each chapter (oke, i still need to add few pics) photos of related hand-writing...https://sites.google.com/site/drgalenova/home/contents
Contents:
She-Doctor Galen: Dark Peripetias of the White Sickness
— psychotomimetic utopia revealing repressed inspirational sources of the works by Karel Čapek
— microhistorical fresco mapping the distressful events of the first six decades of 20th century
— Czech-Polish-Soviet contribution to the history of the global microbiology, regenerative medicine and biogerontology
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
PROLOGUE
1/ SHE-DOCTOR GALEN, THE STAKHANOVITE SCIENTIST
autobiographical excerpts, October 1955
2/ KAREL AND KATERINA
legionary romance
3/ KAREL, KATERINA, VLASTA, MARKA, BOZKA
love polygon in the correspondence, 1921-1922
4/ FLEETING GLIMPSE INTO THE REMOTENESS
chimeric poem, 2 January 1924
5/ GRASS-WIDOW
three postcards, 1929-1931
6/ GRINDING POVERTY
three letters (and one additional comment), 1927-1930 (1959)
7/ GIRL WITH A BALD NOSE
minor observation, 1926
8/ BENEFICIAL MOUNTAIN CLIMATE
newspaper clipping, 17 January 1933
9/ FIRST VICTIM OF SUNBATHING
newspaper clipping, 30 March 1937
10/ LUMINESCENT CHILD
newspaper clipping
11/ ELECTRIC MEN
newspaper clipping and draft of a letter, May-June 1937
12/ AFOTIA OR THE PSYCHOSIS OF LUXONS
concept of an article, 18 May 1937
13/ CHAOS IN THE ECONOMY OF LIGHT
concept of an article, 15 July 1937
14/ CANCER IS A WONDERFUL DISEASE
uncompromising proclamation, 16 July 1937
15 / MARQUIS GUGLIELMO MARCONI
obituary, 25 July 1937
16/ TO INSIDERS OF THE SPIRIT
twelve poems, 1929-1937
17/ THE ILLITERATES OF LIFE
last (futile) attempt in verse, 1936-1937
18/ NUTHOUSE, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, DIVORCE
martyrdom during Protectorate period, 1941-1943
19/ MORE THAN JUST A REJUVENATION OF A DOG
rough outline of a peacemaking project
20/ NEW DESIGN OF TRACKSUITS
an innovative input
21/ PEACE, OR PLAGUE?
concept of a pacifist article, 1950
22/ SECOND MADAME CURIE
annotated excerpt, 1950
23/ I KNOW WHY AND HOW
annotated excerpts
24/ ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LIVING SKULLS
annotated excerpts
25/ DIVINE JET-PROPELLED THINKING
nocturnal notes, 20 March 1952
26/ ATOMISTIC-ELECTROMAGNETIC LUXONOLOGY
nocturnal notes, 27 March 1952
27/ TOTAL BETRAYAL OF SCHOLARS I.
bitter letter, August 1953
28/ TOTAL BETRAYAL OF SCHOLARS II.
bitter review, 10 August 1953
29/ TOTAL BETRAYAL OF SCHOLARS III.
bitter inserted note, August 1953
30/ THE ADVOCATE OF MORALITY IN THE AIRCRAFT
two poems with a bitter postscript, September 1956
31/ ABILITY TO SEE THE MICRO-WORK OF MICRO-AUTOMATON
annotated excerpts, 1964
32/ POISONING DRAMA
neighborhood thriller, 9 March 1966
33/ WINTER AT THE DOORSTEP
favorable official decree, 15 September 1966
34/ GRAB THE HEAT AND LIVE WITHOUT PILLS
message to the granddaughter in verse
35/ NON-AFFILIATED COMMUNIST WITH FAITH WITHOUT DENOMINATION
global appeal, 18 September 1966
36/ AMAZING NATURAL REASON
draft of a letter, 1966
37/ LET'S START A REVIVAL
half-in-verse half-in-prose message to the atheistic couple, 1966
38/ WHITE SICKNESS
draft of a letter to the editors of “Notebook” magazine, December 1966
39/ MUST EVERYONE AGE?
comment to the article from “Work” newspaper, 1 April 1967
40/ MINOR ADVICES
practical triad (simultaneously “how-to-read” instructions)
NAME INDEX
A found-footage history lesson in colonialism, neo-colonialism, and anti-colonialism told in strange and disturbing imagery.
A history lesson on acid.
Great channel!!ickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:10 am if anyone wants to watch a film about the "white plague"...
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-white-disease/
https://mubi.com/films/skeleton-on-horseback
that is based on Karel Čapek's "plagiarism" of "my" true story, then you can do so here (National Film Archive YT channel, Eng subs → CC)...
https://youtu.be/HJMUIBEzYnI
practically along with the initial publishing of the book, it was also staged in the local National Theater, and only two months later film was made.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Disease
it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people older than 45. It was adapted as the film Skeleton on Horseback by Hugo Haas.
it ofc made to include a quote from ""Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn"" by Karel Čapek about plagiarism in the Prologue to the "She-Doctor Galen" novel.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDivo ... lt%C3%BDna
an unfinished novel, written by Karel Čapek. It was first published posthumously in 1939. It is a fictional biography of a composer Bedřich Foltýn (pseudonym Beda Folten), who perceives himself as a genius and is hopelessly obsessed with an idea to become a great artist and to write a big opera about Biblical Judith. Unable to finish this goal because of a lack of talent, he plagiarizes works of talented young music students and poor poets and joins these musical and poetic scraps into an opera.
what is the film where the phrase "medieval grimoire" is uttered?
i am a fan of Novalis, but to read all those theosophical ramblings based on Steiner's "last address" was a big pain in the ass.https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19240928p01.html
The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis: The Last Address given by Rudolf Steiner
Such was the life of this being. And it was so, that this Raphael life could only be, as it were, absolved in another life of thirty years — in Novalis. And so we see Raphael die young, Novalis die young — one being, who came forth from Elijah-John, appearing before mankind in two different forms, preparing through art and through poetry the true Michael mood of soul, sent down by the Michael stream as messenger to men on Earth.
Springing from Powers of the Sun,
Radiant Spirit-powers, blessing all Worlds!
For Michael's garment of rays
Ye are predestined by Thought Divine.
He, the Christ-messenger, revealeth in you —
Bearing mankind aloft — the sacred Will of Worlds.
Ye, the radiant Beings of Aether-Worlds,
Bear the Christ-Word to Man.
Thus shall the Heralds of Christ appear
To the thirstily waiting souls,
To whom your Word of Light shines forth
In cosmic age of Spirit-Man.
Ye, the disciples of Spirit-Knowledge,
Take Michael's Wisdom beckoning,
Take the Word of Love of the Will of Worlds
Into your soul's aspiring, a c t i v e l y !
— Rudolf Steiner