Tag Archives: Varia

Pandemic depression antidote (VI) [embedded content] Spending most of my time nowadays — in the shadow of the pandemic — at my summer residence on my island in the Karlskrona archipelago, yours truly has plenty of time watching his favourite movies. And Mia Wasikowska is absolutely ripping in this rendering of Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre.

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Loving you is sweeter than ever (personal) [embedded content] Come sempre, questo è per te, Jeanette. Though I speak with the tongues of angels, If I have not love … My words would resound with but a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy ​… And understand all mysteries … and all knowledge … And though I have all faith So that I could remove mountains, If I have not love … I am nothing.

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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī  [embedded content]  O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing. The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, they seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable, Becomes enamoured of the sun, of which nothing can be said. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273)

Om konsten att läsa och skriva Hur ska man läsa? Det är nog en rätt vanlig fundering alla någon gång har haft kring vårt förhållningssätt till litteratur och läsande. Själv får jag anledning fundera kring detta när min älskade — som oförtrutet slukar nya böcker i ett rasande tempo — åter igen försöker övertala mig att ställa tillbaka Röda rummet, Hemsöborna, Martin Bircks ungdom, Den allvarsamma leken, Jerusalem eller Gösta Berlings saga i biblioteket och...

Pandemic depression antidote (V)  [embedded content] Spending most of my time nowadays — in the shadow of the pandemic — on my island in the Karlskrona archipelago, yours truly have plenty of time listening to one of his favourite modern composers, Max Richter, whose music helps to heal my soul.

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COVID-19 depression antidote (III) [embedded content] My dear parents took me to the cinemas to watch this awesome musical back in 1966. I was eight years old — and of course, I fell hopelessly in love with Maria. I think I still am …