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Wicked funny

Browsing for info on the Mahabharata, I run into this terribly funny collection of "exam howlers". Surrealism + Joyce. Excerpts:

Some of the patients were plastered, & some were hanging from the ceiling.

Both his legs were cut off, & both his hands, & most of his brains were hanging through the side of his head; & he was lying on his bed -- crying.

These peace-loving animals start their life as small, furry balls, & they grow up and with any luck will find a mate, & have small, furry balls themselves.

My aunt has been unduly disturbed of late, having two small children through the utter carelessness of the local dustman.

The octopus wrapped his testicles round the diver & strangled him.

Sharks were infesting the area, & one of them was a non-swimmer.

As he walked through the room he heard the sound of heavy breeding.

(Phone-call to the Police): Please come at once: there has been an attempted sexual orgy, and five people are dead.

Clowns tie their trousers with string which, when it is pulled, shows a hair-raising scene.

I took out a book & settled down to read, but soon put it down because I couldn't read.

People were running all over the place, the boys in shorts & the girls in hysterics.

If he is not checked at the right age he will gradually develop into a vandal, & it will not be long before he is a magistrate.

Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100

'[...] I asked him whether he might be the author of the graffiti that I had seen etched in his 16th-arrondissement apartment building’s elevator on the way up. It read “Mort aux cons” (“Death to idiots”). Lévi-Strauss grinned at my joke, but did not deny it.'

Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn

"Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard

Because I'm bored, book list time! Read and burn!

"The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be." - David Foster Wallace, in the 1996 novel Infinite Jest.

Last month, Wallace committed suicide.

"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." - John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

"I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen." - from Crime and Punishment

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" - from Moby Dick

Goosebumps.

Dylan

Prof John Sutherland: "If the grey men of Stockholm felt daring (they never do) they could give [the Nobel Prize for Literature] to the best living American poet, Robert Zimmerman [aka Bob Dylan]."

"Writers have always spat in the soup of the high and mighty". - Günter Grass

"Bad men do what good men dream."

Truth and doubt

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes

Anuraag

Enjoy. The online radio station is playing a piece by Ustad Vilayat Khan right now. Exquisite. Isn't beauty the central aim of Indian music? I feel the same cannot be said of Western classical music. Music of the Baroque period may be an exception. Baroque is my favourite Western mode; Bach my favourite composer. Beauty, invention, art, even devotion.

Happy Onam.

Movies I saw recently...

Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky

Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Tarkovsky

The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah

Ashes of time
Wong Kar-Wai

Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Woman in dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Ghost Dog : The Way Of The Samurai
Jim Jarmusch

In a Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray

Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch

The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson

Babel
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Edward scissorhands
Tim Burton

The Happening
M.Night Shyamalan

The man who knew too little
Jon Amiel

Wall-E
Andrew Stanton

Mulan
Tony Bancroft And Barry Cook