Friday, June 5, 2020
Via FB / Elis Regina
Elis
Regina participava ativamente da política, principalmente, contra a
Ditadura Militar no Brasil nos anos de chumbo em que viveu.
Via Daily Dharma: Changing Your Conditioning
Practicing mindful awareness of... our conditioning and habits of the mind helps us to know what we are up against within ourselves as we seek to make change in the world.
—Rhonda Magee,“Making the Invisible Visible”
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—Rhonda Magee,“Making the Invisible Visible”
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Via White Crane Institute / FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali
1898 -
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA,
Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936); a Spanish poet and
dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An
emblematic member of the Generation of ‘27, he was killed by
Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the
Spanish Civil War. Born in Fuente Vaqueros, province of Granada, on
June 5, 1898, Federico García Lorca is internationally recognized as
Spain's most prominent lyric poet and dramatist of the twentieth
century. His poetry and plays have been translated into dozens of
languages and have been the object of study by critics all over the
world.
Since his murder in 1936 at the hands of Spanish fascist forces,
Lorca has become a legendary tragic hero. One cannot help speculating
about Lorca's unfulfilled projects, the many more works he had planned
to write and would have written had he not been the victim of a death
that to this day is still clouded with controversy.
Equally controversial are the thinly veiled homoerotic motifs and
themes present in Lorca's work that have long been intentionally
silenced and overlooked by those wishing not to "soil" the reputation of
one of Spain's most respected bards; among them, the Franco regime, the
Lorca family, and homophobic Lorquian scholars who have dedicated their
lives and careers to Lorca's work yet refuse to acknowledge a line of
criticism that takes into account homoerotic desire.
In 1919, Lorca went to study at the University of Madrid and lived at the Residencia de Estudiantes--a
student residence founded in 1910 as a center of intellectual life for
gifted students. Among the students at the "Resi," as it was familiarly
known, were Spain's most talented young artists and writers. The
surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, with whom Lorca fell deeply in love,
and Luis Buñuel, later famous as a film maker, became close friends with
Lorca, whose room soon became a popular meeting place for intellectuals
around Madrid.
For a marvelous treatment of these relationships, see the film
Little Ashes, directed by Paul Morrison. With Javier Beltrán, Robert
Pattinson, Matthew McNulty. After what has been generally described as a
"mysterious emotional crisis" (in fact, a depression brought on by
Dalí's sexual rejection as well as by a stormy relationship with a young
sculptor, Emilio Aladrén Perojo), Lorca traveled to New York City in
1927. This trip inspired some of his most singular poetic pieces, later
collected under the title Poet in New York (1940).
After leaving New York City, Lorca spent three months in Cuba, a
place he had dreamed of visiting ever since he was a child and where he
spent, according to his own account, the happiest days of his life.
Following his stay in New York City and Cuba, Lorca began to be more
daring in the representation of homosexuality.
Far away from his family and conservative Spanish values, he was
able to conceive and begin writing his most openly homosexual work: "Ode to Walt Whitman," the dramatic piece The Public, and the unfinished The Destruction of Sodom. "Ode to Walt Whitman,"
published in Mexico in 1934 in a limited edition of fifty copies, but
never published in Spain during Lorca's lifetime, reveals the poet's own
contradictions concerning homosexuality. The ode takes on a moralistic
tone by marking a clear distinction between a pure and de-sexualized
homosexual love, epitomized by Whitman the lover of nature, and a
debased sexuality, associated with the "maricas" or faggots (effeminate
homosexuals).
The Public, which with the exception of
two scenes published in a Spanish magazine during Lorca's life was not
published until 1978, and even then in an incomplete version, presents
an examination of repressed homosexual desire as well as a defense of
the individual's right to erotic liberty.
Lorca categorized The Public, his most experimental play, as belonging to his "impossible theater." Also belonging to the impossible theater is The Destruction of Sodom,
of which Lorca apparently wrote one act, although today only the first
page of the piece survives. The theme of this play, according to Ian
Gibson, was to be "the pleasures of the homosexual confraternity, who
have made such a contribution to world culture."
Via White Crane Institute / IVY COMPTON-BURNETT
Ivy Compton-Burnett
1892 -
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT,
English novelist, born (d: 1969); Published as “I. Compton-Burnett,”
all her many novels, which have been called “morality plays for the
tough-minded,” are satires of the least attractive aspects of human
nature as found among the nobility and landed gentry of the
late-Victorian world. They are very strange and very intelligent novels
by a very strange and intelligent woman. Compton-Burnett lived most of
her life in a “romantic friendship” with Margaret Jourdain, a woman
several years her senior and a well-established scholar and expert in
18th century furniture.
There was no question in the Jourdain/Compton-Burnett household as
to who was numero uno. Jourdain talked and Compton-Burnett listened.
Even when the novelist’s fame far exceeded the scholar’s, no one entered
their sanctum sanctorum without paying court to Jourdain alone. They
had no sexual contact with each other, nor with anyone else, Jourdain
believing that only men experienced sexual desire and Compton-Burnett
explaining that they were “essentially a pair of neuters.” When Jourdain
died, the novelist was almost sixty, but her subservience and
dependence never ended. She continued to talk with her friend” I say,
what do you think? Do you like it? Would you advise me? What shall I
do?” Strange. Fascinating. Eerie. Like her novels.
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