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Re: [xmca] beautiful and amazing evolution: Birds of paradise
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- From: David Preiss <daviddpreiss@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:39:17 -0400
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Other version of Walking Around in here:
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/Neruda.htm#_Toc12957968
The best one is by John Felstiner. If you google it it will show up.
David
On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:24 AM, David Preiss wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> That video reminded me of the following one on "uncontacted tribes" because both made me felt we were looking at some very primary phylogenetic experiences:
>
> http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/uncontactedtribes
>
> PLEASE WATCH IT. There is so much beauty on this planet and we scarcely can grasp and experience a minimum of it without damaging it. I wonder how much will be left for our daughters and their daughters.
>
> The video on uncontacted tribes is full of potential Vygotskian implications but I must confess that after watching the video a part of me wished those "tribes" be never contacted. (The same I felt after looking at those amazing birds).
>
> Would this poem fit the experience of Litost? It sounds like a very civilized form of human misery:
>
> http://allpoetry.com/poem/8496965-Walking_Around__Original_Spanish_-by-Pablo_Neruda
>
> Although Neruda's misery is apparently less social, I wonder whether those uncontacted tribes experience something like it.
>
> Mysterious that you mention Neruda today: his body was just unburied to check whether he was poisoned and killed by the dictatorship.
>
> David
>
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:00 PM, mike cole wrote:
>
>> Everyone is so busy, its hard to stop and allow oneself to be transported that way, David. Glad it connected for you.
>>
>> No one commented on the fragment from Kundera on Litost that I posted. I believe it is a kind of empirical verification of the kinds of claims that Manfred was making about cultural emotions. There must be some good examples from Neruda.
>>
>> I think it would help the discussion a lot, given our international, polyglot cultural second natures, if people could post accessible, compelling examples of the theoretical ideas they are promulgating in legible
>> terms.
>> mike
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:57 PM, David Preiss <daviddpreiss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing this, Mike.
>> Evolution and beauty as a joint act. Wow!
>> David
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:16 PM, mike cole wrote:
>>
>> > This brief film is really worth checking out on aesthetic and more narrowly
>> > professional lines.
>> > mike
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/embed/REP4S0uqEOc
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