12.1.19
– Why should I apologize for not being hospitable when no one is apologizing for not being contemplative??
– amicus
eponymous
Kosher; Halal
– Is “Gully Boy” just a rip-off from “8 Mile”?
13.1.19
– Movies:
“Ugly” (Hindi)
Adult preoccupation & negligence –> death of the child (“We could’ve saved her……!”)
Worldly concerns/desires –> loss of spiritual potential/vitality
Can we be both lustful and loving??
Awareness film – the pandemic of missing/abducted/trafficked children in India!
Why??
14.1.19
– Get sermon/liturgy/mass (video/audio) for every special day in the Christian calendar (for Year A, B & C)
– Ancient Christians as eye-witnesses of the Word, servants of the Kingdom and friends/lovers of GOD
Disruptions, detours and delays in the process of discernment
– marquee
– The Transfiguration account in Mark’s Gospel makes up for the absence of the virgin birth account as an evidence of Jesus’s divinity…
15.1.19
– Makara Sankranti – Hinduism & agriculture
– Haven’t you died before?
– Distinguish:
Having a child
&
Becoming a father
– The Sunday in between Christmas & New Year/Epiphany
17.1.19
– Income tax – financial year (FY) and assessment year (AY)
– TV series:
“Sharp Objects”
Very slow burn
Somewhere in between “Patrick Melrose” & “True Detective”, but not as good as either, because it tries to be a little of both.
The gorgeous women (& girls) make it watchable
Is it possible to non-judgmentally portray something pathological, and yet avoid condoning or glorifying it??
Feminine seriosity
Prestige programs
– What is that one thing you love to do, which motivates you to get out of bed every morning?
– superannuation
sadhvi
Amicus curiae
Angel tax exemption
Vinesh Phogat
19.1.19
– State of nature >> social contract >> artistic freedom!
Science as pseudo-religion and philosophy as pseudo-art
Liberation through torture
The transgressive imagination and criminal scheming
mastiff
atavism
Moral crimes and natural evils
The reader as victim
Perverse reason; anti-logic
Normalization ~ disambiguation
Official violence < personal cruelty
Subversive ~ ungrammatical
buggery
bestiality
– Books:
“Persepolis” – Marjane Satrapi
Classic graphic novel
1: The Story of a Childhood
2: The Story of a Return
WOW! Got into the mind-heart of a girl
East meets West coming-of-age
Europe is not paradise, neither is Iran hell
A depressed, stoned, mediocre nihilist……….
Suggested it to Chellam as reading assignment for her Developmental Psychology course
Unless you intentionally & deeply link your personal life to the larger context, you will be stunted!
– Horse-trading in the legislature – fucking buffoons!
– Seasonal festivals & national holidays
20.1.19
– Books:
“Open Marriage”
Read with Chellam
The infinitely expanding circle
Vs.
The fixed fence
I would recommend it to all couples (married/dating)
Still remains relevant, irrespective of your cultural background
Not a Bible/manual, but an essential stimulation/perspective
Movies:
“Room With a View”
Compare with “Room in Rome” 😉
Who is E. M. Forster?
Seeing love through the lens of sex, and vice versa
Ego – heroine; Superego – mother/aunt; Id – hero
Did Chellam’s parents ask, “What is this new voice/force we are seeing in you?!”?
“Martyrs”
OMG!!!
Compare with early Christian witnesses
Compare with the film “Jean d’Arc”
There are 2 kinds of horror films – the cheap jump scares and the deeply disturbing – this belongs to the latter!
Child abuse, homosexuality in friendship, and organized/religious/dogmatic groups
The philosophy of the Marquis de Sade – would the cult qualify as Sadean heroes? Why not?
Distinguish:
Victims
&
Martytrs
Can extreme pleasure also be revelatory??
Now I know why this is knows by some as one of the greatest horror films of the 21st century……
revanchism
“Glass”
Great idea and message, but the execution could have been much better
Not one of Night Shyamalan’s best
He’s better with thriller-drama than action
Supernatural is just a euphemism for very abnormal!
3 different classifications of humans:
Good & evil (Dunn); Broken & spoilt (Crumb); Gifted & ordinary (Glass)
The little people, who need to be at the top of a corporate ladder in order to feel big, hate the true giants among us.
I guess I am more like Glass – watched it with an injured foot 😉
I must become more & more discerning, assertive and expressive of who I uniquely am! More extreme, more unique, more powerful!
The disclaimer at the beginning/end of movies, about it being fictional, and any resemblance to real life persons/events being unintentional/coincidental, may not be appropriate for such works, which take comics this seriously (a la Jordan Peterson)……
– mantelpiece
asinine
zoetrope
amenity
“The Paris Review” interviews
21.1.19
– Introit, antiphon & gradual
Virgin ~ martyr
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