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Garcia Lorca’s Riddle of the Guitar — in French, Italian & Portuguese

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

“dream of the guitar” ZJC (2008)
One of the draw backs of the book I have put out is that it is not a bilingual edition. It is wholly in English. I am not as knowledgeable as I should be with copyright law but there is debate as to how much of Garcia Lorca’s […]

per fare una leggiadra sua vendetta

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I first fell in love with Hayao Miyazaki’s work when my brother Eli took me in L.A. to see Princess Mononoke on the big screen. From the opening credits, with the words: “in ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods …” I […]

Nijinsky’s “Lamento di Narciso”

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I don’t like everything but Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune (”The Afternoon of a Faun”) is spinning away on the stereo. It is a ballet and seems interesting enough. The Encyclopedia Mythica says this about satyrs and fauns:

[Satyrs are] deities of the woods and mountains. They are half human and half beast; they […]