tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post188809497869607224..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: A Year Of GraceThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-36001723442251801822008-06-20T09:08:00.000+01:002008-06-20T09:08:00.000+01:00Great blog. Godard's 'Weekend' impressed me when I...Great blog. Godard's 'Weekend' impressed me when I first saw it - but 'One Plus One' left me cold when it was re-run on Sky recently. I used to love all those French New-Wave films (and still do) - especially Truffaut. Hearing about that film festival almost made me wish I lived in London again. Then after a few seconds I regained my senses.<BR/><BR/>I was interested in your observations on the uneasy relationship between revolutionary politics and art/film. Denise Levertov broaches this very theme (politics and poetry) several times in her 'New & Selected Essays' which I've just been discussing on this blog. Some of her poems are about El Salvador, the Gulf War etc. <BR/><BR/>I used to love Brecht when I studied his work a long time ago - but the plays only become truly great when they transcend the theoretical Marxist limitations Brecht puts upon them.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-91104183619031043692008-06-19T12:56:00.000+01:002008-06-19T12:56:00.000+01:00Hey also saw you were into european cinema thought...Hey also saw you were into european cinema thought you night be interested in my blog on the guardian website.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/authors/daniel_tapper/index.htmlDaniel84https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156953380864589201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-45865102769381877572008-06-19T10:26:00.000+01:002008-06-19T10:26:00.000+01:00Thanks for your comment. That poem is extraordinar...Thanks for your comment. That poem is extraordinarily imaginative and origninal. As for the Muir, it's certainly inspiring - but, as I often find with Muir, it leaves one feeling slightly inadequate and unable to live up to his high thoughts and ideals!The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-56929539521466055192008-06-18T17:55:00.000+01:002008-06-18T17:55:00.000+01:00Also have been inspired by this quote by John Muir...Also have been inspired by this quote by John Muir:<BR/><BR/>"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death...Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony."<BR/>_______________________Daniel84https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156953380864589201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-85272278100295080192008-06-18T17:53:00.000+01:002008-06-18T17:53:00.000+01:00Hey really enjoy your bog. Walked up Scafell pike ...Hey really enjoy your bog. Walked up Scafell pike las week and felt compelled to write these words, cheers:<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Over hanging top lip toes painted red<BR/> <BR/>lined up silent walks up high, lying<BR/> <BR/>on shaved grass discussing the word<BR/> <BR/>misogyny.<BR/> <BR/>Red nosed antics<BR/> <BR/>and face painted laughs. slicing through the length and breadth<BR/> <BR/>of sun laden breath<BR/> <BR/>And the mouse with holes can see now<BR/> <BR/>sounds as rigid as an elastic band and all that is around it.<BR/> <BR/>the devine. <BR/> <BR/>and the tide of salty rust upon my legs and head<BR/> <BR/>turns me orange and naked.<BR/> <BR/>like spread ashes on a tarn of northern plateau<BR/> <BR/>eats up rock locked in the<BR/> <BR/>gaze of an iron triangle 3,000<BR/> <BR/>feet above sea level.Daniel84https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156953380864589201noreply@blogger.com