Neil Gaiman (Fables and Reflections)

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (Fables and Reflections)

glorification of the Turkish simit / the viennese-turkish connection

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbell1975/3031702113/

the glorification of the Turkish simit by the Austrian eagle

if you come acroos a fallen simit; pick it up and put it up by a window; a reflex; a habit; the 2nd district; pazmaniten strase october 2010; ev.k has just arrived in this city of the subconscious

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ısırılmış ve düşürülmüş simit

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"You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!"

— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)

"Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren"

— Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton)

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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude"

Arthur Schopenhauer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zineysong/76728487/sizes/z/

intrinsic ridicule / tolerating existence /flaubert visited

"What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. "

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"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
— Gustave Flaubert

waiting for a bus to come; watching the dance of flight

ev.k; nov29th; wien

uçanzi / fly-yi

girl power / twist of magic / rocket jump

Spiklenci slasti / Conspirators of Pleasure

Barevný, 35 mm
Česká republika, 1997, 75 min
Sekce: Pocta Janu Švankmajerovi

spiklenci slasti/jan svankmajer; vegetable dinner with coconut sauce (ella's specialty); mom made schnapps (from the mountains); going over ideas for new works yet to come; the wind oh the wind; the dance of a table cloth; people getting cold

and it feels just -in place - to be back in the first house that i have ever stayed in vienna.

i believe the objects are alive with souls maybe everywhere but especially in this house they have a twist of magic.

we go over idioms of flying. watch excerpts from documantaries.i learn about the jumps in games.

and the Jan Svankmajer - Spiklenci Slasti - Conspirators Of Pleasure

and it reminds me somehow of kieslowski: "the double life of veronique"

so we watch the excerpt where he is moving the marionettes; and she watches his reflection as he is controlling the marionettes...

and i tell ella about my plan to do this story - interview on flying... i construct it as i explain it; finally.

thanks, ella.

she would fly

"She followed slowly, taking a long time,
As though there were some obstacles in the way;
And yet: as though, once it was overcome,
She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.
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— Rainer Maria Rilke