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| User: | romance_cycle (2769245) Indian Ink
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| Name: | Layla | |||||
| Location: | Evanston, Illinois, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1985-07-17 | |||||
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| AOL IM: |  October137 (Add Buddy, Send Message) | |||||
| Bio: | ........................................................................ Anish: We must not resist when life strives to close one of its many circles Eleanor: Is that Hinduism? Anish: Oh...I don't know. Perhaps. Eleanor: Well, it sounds very east of Suez. Das: Oh, but we Hindus can afford to be generous: we have gods to spare, one for every occasion. And Krishna said, 'Whichever god a man worships it is I who answer the prayer.' Das: Rasa is juice. Its taste. Its essence. A painting must have its rasa... which is not in the painting exactly. Rasa is what you must feel when you see a painting, or hear music; it is the emotion which the artist must arouse in you. Flora: And poetry? Does a poem have rasa? Das: Oh yes! Poetry is a sentence whose soul is rasa. That is a famous dictum of Vishvanata, a great teacher of poetry, six hundred years ago. Flora: Rasa... yes. My poem has no rasa. Das: Or perhaps it has two rasa which are in conflict. Flora: Oh... Das: There are nine rasa, each one a different colour. I should say mood. But each mood has its colour - white for laughter and fun, red for anger, pale yellow for tranquillity... Flora: Oh... is there one for grey? Das: Grey is for sorrow. Flora: Sorrow? I see. Das: Each one has its own name and its own god, too. Flora: And some of them don't get on, is that it? Das: Yes. That is it. Some do and some don't. If you arouse emotions which are in opposition to each other the rasa will not... harmonize, you said. Flora: Yes. Das: Your poem is about heat. Flora: Yes. Das: But its rasa is perhaps... anger? Flora: Sex. Das: The rasa of erotic love is called Shringara. Its god is Vishnu, and its colour is shyama, which is blue-black. Vishvanata in his book on poetics tells us: Shringara requires, naturally, a lover and his loved one, who may be a courtesan if she is sincerely enamoured, and it is aroused by, for example, the moon, the scent of sandalwood, or being in an empty house. Shringara goes harmoniously with all other rasa and their complementary emotions, with the exception of fear, cruelty, digust and sloth. Flora: I see. Thank you. Empty house is very good. Flora: ...I think he ticked me off but he was so nice it was hard to tell. Yes... these are all quotes from Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard And now a poem that Shaunna (wearebarnacles) sent me: To Have Without Holding -- Marge Piercy Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds that thwack like rubber bands in an open palm. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles that feel as if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, then of sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It pesters to remember the lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the work that gutters like a candle in a cave without air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killing me, but you thrive, you glow on the street like a neon rasberry, You float and sail, a helium balloon bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing on the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionate diastole and systole the rhythm of our unbound bounding, to have and not to hold, to love with minimized malice, hunger and anger moment by moment balanced. | |||||
| Interests: | 23: arcadia, bearded men, bob dylan, cate blanchett, chocolate, csny, dustin hoffman, edward norton, emily watson, england, french, hebrew, indian ink, israel, joan baez, john waterhouse, kahlil gibran, kate winslet, loreena mckennit, pablo neruda, spanish, tom stoppard, walking | |||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||
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| Friend of: | 8: bravebunny, bunniesgonim, livelybunny, mariedemichon, meggie_magpie, silentlysinking, wearebarnacles, woodrowlynn | |||||
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