Nietzsche and the Artist

Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction to life, the great stimulant of life.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche.

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p.155). This complemented the twin tendencies of his writings to emphasize, on the ...

 
continue... 20 January 2011 // Literature
 
The trail of the meat

The trail of the meat

CHAPTER I
The Trail of The Meat

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Literature
 
The intelligent and disillusioned characters who make us feel better

The intelligent and disillusioned characters who make us feel better

Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums with every single shot stylistically beautifully executed is an invitation to the human disastrous condition and the poignant humorous escapism ...

 
continue... 08 January 2011 // Movies
 
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

1984 by George Orwell. Part Three excerpted from the book and clips from films

p.234

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It ...

 
continue... 07 January 2011 // Literature, Movies
 
They’ve got you looking so hard for any flaw, that that’s all you see

They’ve got you looking so hard for any flaw, that that’s all you see

Irene: Don't touch me!
I don't even know who you are.

Vincent: I'm the same as I was yesterday.

Irene: No more lies, Jerome.

Vincent: ...

 
continue... 21 December 2010 // Movies
 

Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.  He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.  The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.  His many legs, pitifully thin ...

 
continue... 14 November 2010 // Literature