tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post4187836111620519574..comments2023-04-26T05:55:06.006-07:00Comments on Frivolous Fragments: Of Soldiers & Mystics, or: from Guns to TearsFfflaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-2735559850909213932011-06-26T09:50:00.551-07:002011-06-26T09:50:00.551-07:00ah dear R - thank you for bringing the wisdom of E...ah dear R - thank you for bringing the wisdom of Emily Dickinson to thios blog ... E.D - always there to enlighten and redeem. <br />but yes indeed, if only one could get beyond the "either-or"...<br /><br /><br />But i wonder about those romantic.. Perhaps in the 19th century the shock of science was so great, it opened such thrilling, new vista's that it couldn't but make more sensitive minds boil with romantic fervour?Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-83902312214233079152011-06-26T06:58:51.250-07:002011-06-26T06:58:51.250-07:00after becoming more intimate with the japanese way...after becoming more intimate with the japanese ways, both in art and thought, i have grown more painfully acute about the limitations of our european dualism, why does it have to be always 'either-or', either the hardcore truth of science and pragmatism or contemplation and beauty? how did the japanese achieve a perfect combination of terre-a-terre pragmatism and aesthetics and spirituality in zen? (though not _our_ pragmatism, i agree, yet a similar ethics of work). <br /><br />and though i am aware of their utopian aspirations, i cannot help but admire the german Romanticists for their project of uniting science and art and religion, in something encompassing and transcending everything, Poetry...<br /><br />your post made me want to revisit this favourite poem of mine:<br /><br />I died for beauty, but was scarce<br />Adjusted in the tomb,<br />When one who died for truth was lain<br />In an adjoining room.<br /><br />He questioned softly why I failed?<br />"For beauty," I replied.<br />"And I for truth, -the two are one;<br />We brethren are," he said.<br /><br />And so, as kinsmen met a night,<br />We talked between the rooms,<br />Until the moss had reached our lips,<br />And covered up our names.Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-7963695265846217692011-06-23T12:30:04.843-07:002011-06-23T12:30:04.843-07:00Het lijkt inderdaad een sombere tijd, die Huizinga...Het lijkt inderdaad een sombere tijd, die Huizinga oproept - en toch, als je dan bijvoorbeeld dat heel delicate voorwoord leest dat Boccaccio schreef bij de Decamerone, of de liefde die spreekt uit zijn korte biografie van Dante, dan lijken sommige gemoedsaandoeningen weer heel ontroerend.<br />Ah, mijn lerares Latijn is erg geduldig en ik bevlijtig me niet genoeg. Het heeft wel iets van een geestelijke oefening, je voor een uur of twee uitsluitend in grammatica te verdiepen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-42484240503762986122011-06-19T06:22:47.628-07:002011-06-19T06:22:47.628-07:00aha, I'd indeed seen popping up Froissart in y...aha, I'd indeed seen popping up Froissart in your posts! <br />I have just finished the Herfsttij, and am still reeling - it is beautiful of course, and awesome, and impressively erudite but also somehow depressing ... Perhaps because of a whiff of vanitas vanitatis? Or because of its grim image of human nature? (in stark contrast with the superbly contemplative late medieval art). <br /><br /><br />Anyway, there was also an uplifting sentence there, announcing the renaissance, which reminded me of your post about taking latin lessons! <i>“Voor de intrede van het humanisme was niet anders nodig, dan dat een geletterde kring zich wat meer dan gewoonlijk bevlijtigde op zuiver Latijn en klassieke zinsbouw.” </i>– Misschien (hopelijk) is voor het <i> behoud</i> van het humanisme nu ook niets anders nodig dan dat enkele geletterden zich ‘bevlijtigen’ op zuiver Latijn. <br /><br /> En wat die Vlaams-Franse mix in onze contreien betreft - ja , ik wist eigenlijk niet dat de Vlaamse & Franse lotgevallen zo nauw verbonden waren geweest. (Schrijf ik nu als Nederlandstalige in Brussel die op het werk, op straat en op het web doorgaans in het Engels of het Frans communiceert ...)Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-10153452060905894182011-06-19T02:56:56.340-07:002011-06-19T02:56:56.340-07:00At the moment I'm pondering a book on the inte...At the moment I'm pondering a book on the intermingled presences of Flemish and French literature in our country - and reading some of the ancient chroniclers from Hainaut; oddly enough, (partially) avaliable as French classics in a Pléiade-edition, nowhere to be found in Dutch translations. Huizinga based his Herfsttij on them, his French must have been very good. Your mentioning him made me reread him - a very ambitious undertaking, the history of mentality!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-61821683041481965752011-06-15T11:39:12.939-07:002011-06-15T11:39:12.939-07:00ah, a Simca!!! my grandfather had a Simca!
Het &q...ah, a Simca!!! my grandfather had a Simca! <br />Het "Belgisch Museumboek" could perhaps get a sequel - unless of course the sheer title would now already be too much of a political provocation...Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-1400010763472901442011-06-14T03:18:54.046-07:002011-06-14T03:18:54.046-07:00A Luddite must, of course, leave a typo - I meant ...A Luddite must, of course, leave a typo - I meant to write "posted".<br />Ah, so nice to find a reader of our good old Belgisch Museumboek. Your reference takes me back - how we drove around the country in a little Simca from the Seventies, orange-coloured and with an orange interior, no less! There were a lot of small museums neglected because of current political trends and hypes. I particularly remember the poignantly dusty Musée du chanoine Puissant, full of drawings, textiles and architectural fragments, in Mons. Fortunately it still exists, although I don't know in what condition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-80851057467483058852011-06-13T09:05:39.768-07:002011-06-13T09:05:39.768-07:00100% comment success rate achieved. :-)
And I just...100% comment success rate achieved. :-)<br />And I just checked, but , no, the Musée de l'armée is not covered by your "Belgisch Museumboek"! (which, by the way, is the guide that has introduced me to the wonderful world of lesser known but all the more charming Belgian museums)Ffflaneurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697821220291240079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281402533658280011.post-31901908672999490382011-06-13T08:46:29.170-07:002011-06-13T08:46:29.170-07:00The Musée de l'armée has undeniable charm - I ...The Musée de l'armée has undeniable charm - I like Archduke Albert's stuffed favourite horse (an eerie visitor from the seventeenth century) and King Leopold I's campaign bed. And the great mystics, somehow one couldn't do without their presence, as an indication of the possibilities of the mind and the idea of love. <br />Like a true Luddite i have until now failed to get my comments on your beautiful musings posed, I hope I now may succeed for once.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com