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Talk to Dove before they destroy Paradise Forests

Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products, are buying palm oil from suppliers who destroy Indonesia's rainforests. They're causing forest destruction, species extinction and climate change. Together we can make the company stop destroying forests for palm oil. Join the international Dove campaign today and visit the site below...

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/dove-palmoil-action

(Taken from www.greenpeace.org)

BMW (versus Jaguar)

Parallel worlds have movies too

The Sweetest Little Script*

(Starring Khaled Hosseini as himself)

Me: Come on, ask me if I dislike you.

Khaled Hosseini: Do you dislike me?

Me: A thousand times over.


* Borrowed from Leonard Cohen's life changing The Sweetest Little Song.

Why I'm gonna go bankrupt...

Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Nagg: Oh?

Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

(Endgame, Samuel Beckett, 1957)

Where all my money is headed... (3)

"And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't know, restored to myself, no, I never left myself, free, yes, I don't know what that means but it's the word I mean to use, free to do what, to do nothing, to know, but what, the laws of the mind perhaps, of my mind, that for example water rises in proportion as it drowns you and that you would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery."

(Molloy, Samuel Beckett, 1951)

Where all my money is headed... (2)

"Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?"

(Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett, 1951)

Where all my money is headed... (1)

"To go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time."

(The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett, 1954)

Why I still haven't read 'The Kite Runner'...

The boys keep pushing it off the shelf. They call it "that thing"...

Sleuth (Take 2)

Andrew: What do you do, by the way?

Milo: I'm an actor.

Andrew: Good God. Are you really? I thought Maggie said you were a hairdresser.

Milo: She must have been talking about someone else.

Andrew: You mean another friend?

Milo: Another friend?

Andrew: She tends to have more than one friend.

Milo: Does she?

Andrew: Oh, yes.

Milo: I'm her only friend.

Andrew: She must be lonely.


(Taken from Sleuth, directed by Kenneth Branagh, 2007)

Sleuth: The Lion, the Bitch and the Hairdresser

Starring Michael Caine and Jude Law and with screenplay by Nobel winner Harold Pinter, how could this ever go wrong? Well, obviously it could but the director, Kenneth Branagh, plays it simple and makes it look like a play in three acts. The result is a truly amazing film. A-m-a-z-i-n-g.


(Image taken from Sleuth, directed by Kenneth Branagh, 2007)

Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night,"

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The main issues in "The Kite Runner"

Here are some of the issues that among so many others make The Kite Runner a novel hard to forget. These are the ones that in my opinion give this novel that "something else":

Live in a Lie
Superiority
Loyalty
Friendship
Redemption
Emptiness

Destruction of what is Our Home
Regret
Love
War (physical and psychological)
Bravery as Punishment
Discrimination
Expectations
Cultural differences
Cowardice versus Courage
Immigration
American Dream

I decided not to explain each one of them, due to the fact that I'm not sure if all of you already read it all (and I do not want to be a spoiler). So this way, if you have any doubts or simply do not agree with something, please say so!

You are welcome to have your say about my opinion and I will be waiting for more suggestions