[Being-toward-birthdays from An und für sich by Adam Kotsko
I
once wrote that Melancholia provides the
only possible answer for what to do when you know for sure you’re going to die
and yet you still have agency up until that moment. In that situation, where
every action would be meaningless, there are no good options — indulging in one
last pleasure would be hollow, pretending everything is normal would be
pathetic, etc. The only possible choice is to make a gesture that is
consciously meaningless, like the building of the shelter at the end of Melancholia.]
[Life A
User's Manual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia By 1975, Bartlebooth
is 16 months behind in his plans, and he dies while he is about to finish his
439th puzzle. Ironically, the last hole in the puzzle is in the shape of the
letter X while the piece that he is holding is in the shape of the letter W. The Destiny of Percival Bartlebooth, or the Ultimate Truth of Jigsaw Puzzles 18 Nov 2011
– By Rastko Antic At the heart of
‘Life: A User’s Manual’ by Georges Perec is the destiny of Percival
Bartlebooth, a foreigner with a secret — a secret long kept from the reader
(revealed almost at the precise centre, like everything else about the book it
is mathematical). THE BARTLEBOOTH FOLLIES - New York Times 15 Nov
1987 – LIFE, A USER'S MANUAL By Georges Perec. Translated by David Bellos.
Like many of the other stories in ''Life,'' Bartlebooth's weird saga can be
read as a parable (of sorts) about the efforts of the human mind to impose an
arbitrary order on the world. Again and again, Perec's characters are swindled,
hoaxed and thwarted in their schemes, and if there is a darker side to his
book, it is perhaps to be found in this emphasis on the inevitability of
failure. Even a self-annihilating project such as Bartlebooth's cannot be
completed,]
[Immanuel Kant (Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy) Copyright © 2010 by
Michael Rohlf rohlf@cua.edu
Michael Rohlf rohlf@cua.edu
Kant retired from teaching in 1796. For nearly two
decades he had lived a highly disciplined life focused primarily on completing
his philosophical system, which began to take definite shape in his mind only
in middle age. After retiring he came to believe that there was a gap in this
system separating the metaphysical foundations of natural science from physics
itself, and he set out to close this gap in a series of notes that postulate
the existence of an ether or caloric matter. These notes, known as the Opus
Postumum, remained unfinished and unpublished in Kant's lifetime, and scholars
disagree on their significance and relation to his earlier work. It is clear,
however, that these late notes show unmistakable signs of Kant's mental
decline, which became tragically precipitous around 1800. Kant died February
12, 1804, just short of his eightieth birthday.]
He
wasn’t exactly abandoned and certainly not abused. He lived with his brothers
in England
[Rajesh
Khanna: You are the reason I am an actor - Tom Alter Jul 20, 2012 IBNLive.com
In Anand, just before he enters Ramesh Deo’s office,
there is a close-up of the swinging door, and the crowd went berserk upon just
seeing the door in Dushman, when he woos Bindu and tilts his cap, the entire
cinema hall screamed; in Amar Prem, when he sings to Sharmila on the studio
created Hooghly, young and old alike sighed… and with Waheeda again on the Hooghly, the real one this time, and the
two of them as star-crossed as any lovers could be and in his thick sweater, he
made a fashion statement which even the downcast beauty of Waheeda’s
unbelievable eyes could not match.
He
was my hero - always will be - it is as simple as that. The relationship
between a hero and his fan is the most sacred relationship in the film world
and for me, it will always be a late afternoon in early ’70, and David and I
are cycling through the fields from Jagadhri to Yamunanagar to see Aradhana at
Yamuna Talkies.
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