
For example, did you see the last James Bond, Quantum of Solace? Did you notice a strange thing about this film? I know it's politically progressive, basically James Bond saves the Eva Morales' regime from capitalist coup. But did you notice that there is no sex at the end? This is the first James Bond film where at the end, the couple they just embrace themselves, they are just too traumatized -- nothing happens.
Now let's go even lower -- Dan Brown. We really cannot go lower.
<...> Things are even more interesting in the last Dan Brown Film "Angels and Demons". There is sex in the novel <...> but not in the film. Isn't it strange, like up till now we've been saying that Hollywood is adding sex to make it more commercial. Now Hollywood is deleting sex. Why?
I claim that -- and this is part of subjective comodification and here I am incurably romantic -- even this idea of passionate sexual attachement or passionate love is more and more perceived as potentially dangerous. This narcissistic solipsistic subjective economy is getting so strong that in the same way that we like to get today on the market coffee without caffeine, sausages without fat, cakes without sugar, beer without alcohol or whatever, we like love without its dangerous traumatic moment.
Without what? In English and in French we use happily the same expression, "tomber" - "to fall in love". And my friend Alain Badiou drew my attention to the fact that he found one publicity in a daily newspaper in France for certain matrimonial agency, where they say precisely: "we will enable you to be in love without the fall, without falling in love". The idea is that the moment of exposing yourself, opening yourself to the danger of it should be controlled.
Now this then is our universe today."
and i think it is something i believe in religiously since the age of fourteen
когда небо еще синее а фонари уже включены
остановиться и вспомнить все прошлое до минуты
хотя бы на миг поверить что больше этого никогда не забуду
и вдруг я вспоминаю север,
и это тоже, как тогда казалось, огромный мир,
все время покрытый снегами.
я не помню холода, но помню эти бесконечные белые пространства.
я помню старшего брата, самую лучшую в мире маму,
папу, совсем молодого, в смешной меховой шапке.
он держит меня маленькую за руку, и мы куда-то идем.
наверное, в гости.
на севере мы очень часто ходили в гости,
или гости приходили к нам.
кто-то садился за пианино, и все пели
"мы желаем счастья вам".
и на самом деле, это все очень просто: детство, семья,
настоящая дружба, добрые песни и белый-белый снег.
но от этой искренности и простоты ты вдруг оказываешься
совсем беззащитным, почти без кожи.
особенно, когда знаешь, что ничто никогда не проходит
и где-то совсем маленькая я иду со своей маленькой семьей
по бесконечной зиме, но только холода нет,
и нет ни зла, ни обид, ни усталости.
но только почему так хочется плакать?
иногда вместо августа я оказываюсь в декабре,
где нет этих узких улиц и cовсем маленьких квартир в совсем маленьких домах без лифта,
а есть только темная комната и снег за окном.
и во всем этом маленьком мире только и есть что ощущение бесконечного изумления
и тепло, накрывающее с головой, как волна
и я знаю, что я бы не стала возвращаться
в это крохотное пространство вне времени
but i don't want to let go
and i think i never will
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And I will lay a bed before you; keep you safe until the end.
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Хорошо, что чужие воспоминанья
вмешиваются в твои. Хорошо, что
некоторые из этих фигур тебе
кажутся посторонними. Их присутствие намекает
на другие событья, на другой вариант судьбы -
возможно, не лучший, но безусловно
тобою упущенный. Это освобождает -
не столько воображение, сколько память,
и надолго, если не навсегда.
Узнать,
что тебя обманули, что совершенно
о тебе позабыли или - наоборот -
что тебя до сих пор ненавидят - крайне
неприятно. Но воображать себя
центром даже невзрачного мирозданья
непристойно и невыносимо.
Редкий,
возможно, единственный посетитель
этих мест, я думаю, я имею
право описывать без прикрас
увиденное. Вот она, наша маленькая Валгалла,
наше сильно запущенное именье
во времени, с горсткой ревизских душ,
с угодьями, где отточенному серпу,
пожалуй, особенно не разгуляться,
и где снежинки медленно кружатся, как пример
поведения в вакууме.
Thank you for taking the time to read this postscript note. Most people nowadays don't even bother to read their emails,
let alone auto-replies or ‘REMAIL' as the haters refer to them. I long for the glory days of the Internet when families would
gather around the hearth as father read aloud the latest auto-replies, fresh from his inbox, with the passion and zeal of a
Southern Preacher. I remember lying awake at night fantasizing about the days when I too would write informative, yet
polite automated communications that would fill the inboxes and hearts of millions around the world with joy. Sadly times
have changed. People don't spend time watching the Internet as a family anymore. They're too busy ‘texting' or ‘twittering'
or ‘facing'. They neglect their inbox. They neglect Evan. Truth be told I live a life of solitude. Mine's a lonely existence that
would make a monk shriek with envy. (Which I think you'll find really illustrates my point considering most monks take a
lifetime vow of silence. Shrieking would lead them to an afterlife of damnation.) I don't have the pleasure of entering into
conversation with anyone I choose whenever I want, no, I must sit and wait until a question is asked before I can respond.
And automatically at that. I simply cannot connect and develop interpersonal relationships with other human beings. In a
society that glorifies the assertive alpha male, it should come as no surprise to the reader that I have found little success
in dealings with the opposite sex. Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to know anyone who might be interested,
would you? If you do, please get in touch [email protected]'m a great listener
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?
Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,
Round the corner. Through the first gate,
Into our first world, shall we follow
The deception of the thrush? Into our first world.
There they were, dignified, invisible,
Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,
In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,
And the bird called, in response to
The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,
And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses
Had the look of flowers that are looked at.
There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting.
So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,
Along the empty alley, into the box circle,
To look down into the drained pool.
Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,
And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.
Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.
Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.