Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 goravani wrote: > > This is a very unusual post and piece of writing. Dear Raghu, This is for all, not just adult(erer)s! Your ramblings remind me a bit of James Joyce, also of Dylan thomas, Bernard Shaw etc. Joyce was more disjointed but rambled like hell! Have you read Finnegan´s Wake? Or Ulysses? Don´t be too hard on yourself about your "addictions". Take it in the Irish spirit! "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree, where Alph the sacred river ran through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea!" - Dante Gabriel Rosetti. It is a wonderful poem, full of fantasy and the strange yearnings of human beings. Rosetti wrote all his poems - all beautiful - under the influence of opium! His best work was an unfinished epic, "Christabel", which was to show the battle between good and evil. Another great book I have read was Thomas de Quincey´s "Confessions of an opium eater" - very deep thoughts! Shelley and Byron also used opium to get inspiration. The drugging releases one from daily thoughts and makes way for greater truths. I too confess that my best thoughts come after a couple of pegs of whisky! "Nokomis said to Hiawatha, `You are in a depressed mood, don´t just sit and brood, take a sip of fire water!´" - Mani´s addition to Longfellow. Your Irish connection has ancient roots. Two countries or regions were centres of Aryan culture: Eire and Iran, both still have the name "home of aryans". The aryans fleeing from atlantis probably landed in Ireland first.... The whole region, from Brittany in France through Ireland, Cornwall and Wales, plus the rest of England and Scotland goes by the name "Britain" and "Great Britain". Greeks call this land "Vrethagne" and the French write "Bretagne" but the locals call it "Vrethagne"! Add an "r" and you get "Vrethragne". The rgveada is full of poems describing Indra´s defeating Vrethra and his conquest of vrethra´s domain - Vrethragne! There is magic in that area. Princes Street in Dublin was not particularly attractive, but I´ll never forget the 2 days I spent at Glendalough! Sheer beauty. I can´t say about the males, but the women of that entire area are the most beautiful and charming in my eyes. They look like angels, some have hair like flax, others like shining chestnuts, yet others blue-black like the wings of a raven. Eyes brown as autumn leaves, blue as chinaware from Delft, black as the night or a mysterious green-grey, that seem to look through your soul into eternity! In days past they had names that were like whispers in the wind, Fiona, Esme .... Fleet of foot and with wind-blown hair they loved and teased, twisted their swains around their little fingers. But danger was there! Dragons kept falling in love with them and carried them off! My sympathy is on the side of the dragons. The critters were in love. If law and opportunity had been on my side I too would have abducted one (or more!) of those angels. The knights who killed the dragons should have tried to reason with the dragons, pointed out to the physical incompatibility etc. (And sometimes the damsels were cruel: "La Belle Dame sans Merci"; and it would have been humane to rescue the dragon from the damsel and report her to the SPCA.) So you see, there are so many ways of looking at things. Hope you had a laugh! Love Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 gjlist, subra@t... wrote: > Your ramblings remind me a bit of James Joyce, > > > In Xanadu did Kublai Khan > a stately pleasure dome decree, > where Alph the sacred river ran > through caverns measureless to man, > down to a sunless sea!" > - Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! Namaste all!! i think Mani hit another nail on the head...i was just thinking exactly the same thing about Dasji's raves....they reminded me totally of James Joyce and his stream of consciousness writings...i was wondering if maybe he was one of Dasji's cousins...because the similarity seemed so strong to me.... as for the Xanadu poem, i always understood that it was Samuel Taylor Coleridge who wrote that poem...and was indeed an opium eater for inspiration....the story goes that Samuel Coleridge was in the heat of composition of this poem....and some one dropped in and disturbed his compositional space...and he lost the major part of the poem he had been working on...gone up in "smoke" so to speak....ahh....but that's the way inspiration is at any time...even without the opium...it comes and it goes...and if we don't follow it when it comes, then it does us no good to try it later, when it's gone... In the Mother's Love, and in Her Service, as ever, your own self, visvanathan Om Amrtesvaryai Namah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2001 Report Share Posted May 16, 2001 kasi_visvanath wrote: > > > > In Xanadu did Kublai Khan > > a stately pleasure dome decree, > > where Alph the sacred river ran > > through caverns measureless to man, > > down to a sunless sea!" > > - Dante Gabriel Rosetti. > > Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! > > as for the Xanadu poem, i always understood that it was Samuel Taylor > Coleridge who wrote that poem. Dear KV, Thanks for correction! My memory is failing in such details. Have not read english literature or poetry for nearly 40 years and don´t have any books to look up! Of course it was Coleridge. The story too is what I remember. BTW thanks for the info re vayuputras. regards Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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