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Genius of Witold Gombrowicz

22 Wednesday May 2013

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Witold Gombrowicz w Vence.

Witold Gombrowicz w Vence. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If I was to pick only one writer who resembles all my deepest existential thoughts and feelings in most precise manner, I’d point Gombrowicz without a moment of doubt. I sometimes laugh to myself when reading his works. Like a skilled fencer Gombrowicz attacks the greatest social patterns and lies within himself and therefore within nations. Uncovers everything to a naked bone. Oh, how much I identify with his words!

 

I’ve found website solely dedicated to his literary creation. Click HERE to discover his genius.

 

Know that your country is neither Grójec nor Skierniewice, not even Poland itself, and blush with energy at the thought that the country is you! So what if you are not in Grodno, Kutno, or Jedlińsk. Has man ever lived anywhere else other than in himself? You are at home even if you were to find yourself in Argentina or Canada, because a homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man. […]
I say: Don’t be crybabies! Do not forget that as long as you lived in Poland, not one of you was as concerned with Poland because it was an everyday event. Today, on the other hand, you no longer live in Poland so Poland resides more forcefully in you and it should be present in you as your deepest humanity, the polished work of generations. Know that wherever the eyes of a young man uncover his destiny in the eyes of a girl, a homeland is born. Whenever anger or admiration find themselves on your lips, whenever villainy is struck a blow, whenever the word of the wise man or Beethoven’s song ignites your soul leading it into unearthly spheres, whether it be Alaska or the equator, a homeland is born. On Saxon Square in Warsaw, in Krakow’s marketplace, you will be homeless vagrants, homebodies without a corner, wanderers, hopelessly crude moneymakers, if you allow pettiness to kill all the beauty inside you.
Diary, 1953 [Trans. Vallee]

original in polish

Wiedzcie, że ojczyzna wasza to nie Grójec, ani Skierniewice, nawet nie kraj cały, i niech krew uderzy wam na policzki rumieńcem siły na myśl, że ojczyzną waszą wy sami jesteście! Cóż z tego, że nie przebywacie w Grodnie, Kutnie lub Jedlińsku? Czyż kiedykolwiek człowiek przebywał gdzie indziej, niż w sobie? Jesteście u siebie, choćbyście znajdowali się w Argentynie lub w Kanadzie, ponieważ ojczyzna nie jest miejscem na mapie, ale żywą istotnością człowieka. […]
Nie bądźcie, mówię, mazgajami. Nie zapominajcie, że póki mieszkaliście w Polsce nikt z was Polską się nie przejmował, ponieważ ona była codziennością. Dziś natomiast nie mieszkacie już w Polsce, ale za to Polska silniej w was zamieszkała – ta Polska, którą określić należy jako najgłębszą ludzkość waszą, urobioną pracą pokoleń. Wiedzcie, że wszędzie tam gdzie wzrok młodzieńca odkrywa swoje przeznaczenie w oczach dziewczyny, tworzy się ojczyzna. Gdy na ustach waszych jawi się gniew lub zachwyt, gdy pięść godzi w łajdactwo, gdy słowa mędrca lub pieśń Beethovena rozpala nam duszę, uwodząc ją w nieziemskie kręgi, wówczas – na Alasce i na równiku – rodzi się ojczyzna. Ale na placu Saskim w Warszawie, na Rynku krakowskim, będziecie bezdomnymi włóczęgami, domokrążcami bez przydziału i wędrownymi, beznadziejnie ordynarnymi groszorobami jeśli pozwolicie aby trywialność zabiła w was piękność.
Dziennik, 1953

Quote taken from http://www.gombrowicz.net/

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Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra

17 Friday May 2013

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Nietzsche 1862a

Nietzsche 1862a (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

”There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

”O man, take care!
What does the deep midnight declare?
”I was asleep—
From a deep dream I woke and swear:—
The world is deep,
Deeper than day had been aware.
Deep is its woe—
Joy—deeper yet than agony:
Woe implores: Go!
But all joy wants eternity—
Wants deep, wants deep eternity.”

”And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

”But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

―     Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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José Ortega y Gasset

27 Saturday Apr 2013

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Minerva

Minerva (Photo credit: Jolande RM)

‘To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvellous to well-open eyes. This faculty of wonder is the delight refused to your football “fan,” and, on the other hand, is the one which leads the intellectual man through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the visionary. His special attribute is the wonder of the eyes. Hence it was that the ancients gave Minerva her owl, the bird with ever-dazzled eyes.’

– Revolt of the Masses

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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I’ve found a brilliant article about one of my favourite writers of all times, who’s work made a huge impact on my way of perceiving things around me. His fearless touching on painful, difficult matters of human condition is what I used to cherish above everything else in good writing.

witkacy

 

“It is easiest to understand Witkiewicz as a social prophet and forecaster of the decline of civilization,” wrote Jan Błoński. “Like so many others, he announced the end of art, the destruction of individuality, the decline of sensitivity to the metaphysical, though his argumentation was highly original. He believed that these virtues would be defeated by the increasing democratization of life, which would generate a society of robots who would be completely content but also perfectly dull” (“Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz jako dramaturg” / “Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz as Playwright,” Krakow, 1973).

Here’s the link to that article:

http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-visual-arts-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/stanislaw-ignacy-witkiewicz-witkacy#

 

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Body image and modern ballet

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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There’s nothing more personal and universal at the same time as human body. My arm is mine but also it is a human’s arm. I know it’s mine in every individual aspect but it also belongs to the mutual human body heritage that follows it’s own laws. Modern ballet is probably the best example of such dualism. Dancers often expose their naked bodies to the audience in order to escape that private image and extend it beyond our personal limitations simply to reveal these most apparent, however often unnoticed, laws. Present them as universal to all of us. What are these laws than and why do we need them? Well, we know exactly this world we live in and how full of sexual references it is. Media create that sort of image for commercial purposes all the time. Whole range of products and services is being released every day to intensify that aspect. From that perspective human body lost it’s dignity and asexual sense. And that’s exactly what dancers on the scene try to show in their performance. They take us away in the journey from that awry commercialised image into the other scope of perception that ultimately has power to free us.

Nagisa Shirai in Ballet Prelocaj production at Sadler's Wells in 2002

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Quotes

14 Sunday Apr 2013

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I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

– Jimi Hendrix

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My name is Agnieszka and I was born in Poland. Resident of United Kingdom since 2005. I am particularly interested in various types of creative expression: photography, poetry, art, philosophy etc. Anything that is related to mystery of human soul and it's connection with God (in any of His aspects and forms).

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