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[ by Charles Cameron — Trump on Citizen Kane ]
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A Rosebud by any other name?

[ by Charles Cameron — i’m inclined to call these beauties respective variants on Beauty physical, mental, and spiritual ]
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Beauty is beautiful, and never more so than when she conveys Beauty:

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The beauties:

Surfer Maud Le Car

Violinist Hilary Hahn

Professor Lera Boroditsky

I’ve posted la belle Hélène‘s interpretation of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne on Zenpundit before, but in case you missed it, there’s also..

Pianist Hélène Grimaud

[ by Charles Cameron — believing great scripture and great poetry have much in common ]
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In what must be the most glorious mix-up of scriptures ever, this volume of Shakespeare‘s works:

was smuggled into the prison on Robben Island, S Africa, where Nelson Mandela and others were incarcerated, by Mandela’s fellow-prisoner Sonny Venkatrathnam, who invited other prisoners to sign it next to the passages that meant the most to them.

Mandela’s signature is next to the passage in Julius Caesar, Act II scene ii, beginning:

Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Featuring Krishna with his beguiling flute on its spine, the book has become known as the Robben Island Bible.

Consider: this book inspired the man who brought an end to apartheid. How important would you say literature can be in the development of leaders of moral stature?

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Image sources:

Jonathan Bate, Ten books that changed the world

Mark Brown, British Museum Shakespeare exhibition to include prized Robben Island copy

[ by Charles Cameron — a trifling coincidence on Netfix and three recommended books ]
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Trevor Howard (from Margate, Kent) played Windwalker, “a Cheyenne warrior returning from the dead to defend his family,” in the 1980 film of the same name, whereas Adam Beach (of the Saulteaux, not of the Dine, but arguably closer) played the Navajo Ben Yazzie in the 2002 film, Windtalkers:

I mention these facts becauze Netflix offered me these two flix side by side today, and it struck me that the Navaho Code Talkers were among the ones who truly walked their talk.

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In my library, unpacked yesterday and gto be shelved today, a treasure of a book..

valued for its exposition of ‘Sa’ah naaghéi, Bik’eh hózhó — walking in beauty, in old age wandering..

and hoped for, but likely sold long since to pay the rent, one of the loveliest books I have ever had the privilege to hold & behold..

[ by Charles Cameron — a graphical analog to the inside outside koan ]
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Thinking one’s way inside that demmed box…

What’s even “inside”?

Eppur si muove! Or not?

I suppose this can be today’s Sunday Surprise.

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Source:

Wikipedia, Tesseract