October 6, 2024 8:32 am

Meeting Bench

THE WAKE – Poetry, by Jules Supervielle

THE WAKE We saw the wake, but nothing of the boat, because it was happiness that had passed by. They gazed at each other, deep in their eyes a perception at last of the promised clearing, where great stags were running in all their freedom. No hunter entered that country without tears. It was the next day, after a night …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Maintenant je reviens, by Jean-Louis Aubert

MAINTENANT JE REVIENS > Maintenant je reviens, a ce que j’ai toujours été, je reviens a pied, reviens en février, maintenant je reviens, a ce pour quoi je suis fait, je reviens chanter, est-ce bien un métier? Je reviens de tout, ce qui n’est pas moi, non ce n’étais pas moi, je reviens vers vous, et je n’en reviens pas, …

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LIVE, FLESH – Poetry, by Pierre Reverdy

LIVE, FLESH Rise up corpse and walk nothing new under the yellow sun, the last of the last of the coins of gold, the light that flakes away, under the layers of time, the lock on the breaking heart. A thread of silk, a thread of lead, a thread of blood after these waves of silence. Signs of love’s black …

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THE STRANGER – Novel, by Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born on November day in French colonial Algeria. Despite his family’s extreme poverty, he attended the University of Algiers, and after dropping out of the university, he entered the world of political journalism. While in wartime Paris, he developed his philosophy of the absurd. For him, existence seemed simply, absurd.                                The Stranger (published in 1942), it is …

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SPORTS GOODS – Poetry, by Philippe Soupault

SPORTS GOODS Brave as a postage stamp. He went his way, gently clapping his hands to count his footsteps. His heart as red as a wild boar, beat beat, like a butterfly, pink and green, from time to time he planted a little flag of silk, when he had marched enough. He sat down for a rest and fell asleep, …

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THE LITTLE PRINCE – Novel, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

After France’s defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife fled occupied France, and sojourned in North America, where he became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. Its earlier memoir, recounted his aviation experiences in the desert of Sahara, the same experiences in this novella. In July 1944, Saint-Exupéry’s aircraft disappeared …

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ALL GROWN-UPS WERE ONCE CHILDREN – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his simple secret

THE LITTLE PRINCE 1/3 – After France’s defeat in 1940 (and its armistice with Germany), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife fled occupied France, and sojourned in North America, where he became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. Its earlier memoir, recounted his aviation experiences in the desert of Sahara, the same experiences in this novella. In …

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THE SIMPLE SECRET – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / The Little Prince, images by a dream

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THEATRICAL SCENES WRAPPED BY HARMONIOUS PALETTES – Countrysides, city and inner landscapes of Pieter Quast

PIETER QUAST 1/3 – He was a Dutch painter (born and died in Amsterdam). Pieter Jansz Quast gave his age as twenty-six when his marriage banns were published on June 29, 1632. For its wittier imagery, the stage performances in The Hague and the theatrical characters etched by Callot, yes, was they really important. Observing its works you can admire …

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PIETER QUAST (1605/1647), DUTCH PAINTER – Small social genre paintings and theatrical scenes

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