Between Flagstaff and Sedona you’ll find Oak Creek Canyon, which draws more tourists to Arizona than any site other than the Grand Canyon. The steadily flowing creek is a rarity in the high desert region of northern Arizona, where few streams flow year round. As the water carved the canyon over millions of years, it exposed some of the brightly colored stone that now forms the canyon walls.
Satukunda Rock Paintings – Bhopal, India
Art of any age would speak of the times and life of that time. The Satukunda Rock Paintings inscribed on the walls speak of the times as old as 5000 years! Just 24 km from Bhopal, Satkunda rock art is contemporary in quality and age.
Inter- & intra-textuality
INTRATEXTUALITY
Exploring the Unconscious of the Text
– Kent D. Palmer, Ph.D.
Intratextuality is opposed to Intertextuality. Intertextuality is the playing off of each other of various texts to produce a rich interpretive environment for our hermeneutic escapades. Intra-textuality on the other hand is the treating the given text or set of texts as a fractal landscape which we explore in detail with a full realization of their overlapping and interpenetrating internal contexts and signs that express concepts and archetypal motifs. What haunts these contextual niches and the signs that inhabit them is the unconscious of the text itself, not our unconscious, but the unconscious of the otherness of the text that comes from the dimensions of the artifact that are not fully controlled consciously by the author nor fully interpreted by the critic. This unconscious of the text may be referred to as its intratextuality in which the text itself becomes a general economy of contexts, situations, milieus, and in general metasystems of signification and meaning beyond the intent of the author and beyond the interpretative capabilities of the critic who deal with the text in conventional ways, by writing and reading.
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– Luke Stamps
One of the most useful skills or habits that we can develop as interpreters of Holy Scripture is the ability to discern what biblical scholars call “intertextual” and “intratextual” connections. Behind both of these concepts is the observation that biblical passages not only directly quote but also allude toand echo other biblical passages.
Intertextuality is the biblical authors’ practice of quoting, alluding to, or echoing previous biblical revelation. For example, Matthew creates an intertexual connection when he interprets the Holy Family’s departure from Egypt in the light of Hosea 11:1 (“Out of Egypt I called my son,” Matthew 2:15). He does the same thing when he echoes the eschatological promise of Ezekiel 36:23 (“I will vindicate the holiness of my great name”) in the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer (“May your name be hallowed/sanctified/vindicated as holy,” Matthew 6:9). By making use of these verbal parallels, Matthew intends for his readers to understand the story of Jesus in the light of its Old Testament background.
Intratextuality is a biblical author’s practice of alluding to, echoing or foreshadowing passages within his own book. For example, Matthew’s version of the Last Supper seems to deliberately echo his account of the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus performs the same actions—even in the same order—in both accounts: he takes the bread, says a blessing, breaks it, and gives it to the disciples (Matthew 14:19-20; 26:26; cf. Luke 24:30-31). Matthew seems to want his readers to think of these two stories together: the same Jesus who miraculously met the physical needs of the five thousand (which itself involves an intertextual connection back to the provision of manna in the wilderness) is now giving his own body for the spiritual nourishment of his people.
So what is the point of these connections? Are they merely fun little discoveries for literarily-minded readers? To be sure, there is a real danger for those who have been exposed to the rich resources of biblical theology: we can tempted to read the Bible less as a direct word from the Risen Christ to his church and more as an intellectual puzzle to be solved by the astute interpreter. But if we are reading Scripture with the appropriate spiritual “posture,” we can see these inter/intra-textual relations for what they are: divinely inspired spotlights onto the theological meaning of God’s redemptive acts.
“Sex and the Origins of Death” – William Clark
Amazing book! Opened up to me (again), the profound and exciting connections between the seemingly unrelated fields of Philosophy and Biology……
Using it to prepare for my seminar on Death.
“Polyamory: Married & Dating” Season 1 (TV series) review (3.5/5 – Hit)
Study Hall
“Vandi Chodai”(Tamil) play review – (3.5/5 – Hit)
Guru-sishya, Chiranjeevi, Adayaalam, vaitthiyam/thozhil, mooligai, etc.
So full of hidden and explicit meanings!
The failure of education to enlighten – wisdom vs. knowledge –> ignorance
So happy to be able to get engaged with the arts, in my own vernacular at last!
Many thanks to The Hindu for promoting local culture(s)
Comparing the insights of this play with the truths of Christian theology is very exciting.
E.g. The eschatological judgment of the various social classes – the poor/victims are vindicated with everlasting life and the middle/upper class which was complicit in the sustaining and promoting of dehumanizing systems are condemned to be born as goats (to be butchered) in their next generation.
The transformation of the goat to man, and the man to goat, is a central metaphor for understanding the play as a whole.
Sage ~ Messiah ~ Lamb-Man!
“Mundhirikotte” (Tamil) – play review (Hit – 3.5/5)
Slowly but surely sucks you in, and before you know it, the sucker punch is delivered!
Is something like childhood friendship powerful enough to challenge and even overcome entrenched evils like caste?!
The ending is both tragic and comic – tragicomedy
The mother commits suicide, but KP is “adopted” by Ahmed (& family)…
Conservative relationships
Vs.
Radical partnerships
Now, do you understand the meaning of the title?
The hero (Karuppannasamy) is the one who hastens progress (through his incredulous faith in the new friendship), therefore moving ahead of his time (or place in the line)…!
What made Ahmed, who was initially hostile to KP, become his true friend??
The acting was outstanding. It is not dazzling or gripping, but subtle and powerful
“A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” – movie review (Good – 3/5)
Note that almost all the characters are old, ugly and sad!
The pigeon is actually worried about not having any money… (because you can’t depend on anybody else to be there for you).
We are the pigeons… incessantly and hopelessly wondering about ourselves! Are we anything more than living fossils??
The third encounter with death contrasts with the first two, in that the latter focuses on the event (of physical death), whereas the former is a long inventory of all the ways that death operates (as a lethal, insidious & ubiquitous process) within life itself.
Watching it on a big screen (Chris’ house) did make the experience much better than it would have been, had I watched it on my laptop.
It was both gorgeous (without the glamour) and poignant (not gripping)!
Word for the day
