December 23, 2024 4:05 pm

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS – Novel by Arundhati Roy

To learn about countries and nations, it is necessary to know their cultural latitudes. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. According to Indian tradition, a divorced woman …

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INDIAN MUSIC – What you feel, inside the symmetry of the universe

To learn about countries and nations, it is necessary to know their cultural latitudes. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. Good listening of Indians music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPo-9M6Sy3s&list=RDcAMnHupwkns&index=2

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PAINTING OF LIGHT AND MOOD – Olga Wisinger-Florian, musical shades over flowers

OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN 1/4 – She was born in Vienna in one day in November, and will live to love music and Impressionist painting. Her painting of light and mood as well as her choice of motifs (alleys, gardens, fields) show strong similarities to Schinder’s works. OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN 2/4 – Socially engaged in the struggle for women’s emancipation, she represents with …

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VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA – Maurice Ravel, Bolero

The Boléro, innovative and provocative, he obtained a resounding success, going on stage in Paris in 1928. The original ballet, resembles a dance ritual, during which a woman dancing seductively on a table, while a group of men approach her gradually, with the growth of the music. Composed by Maurice Ravel in 1928, the “Bolero” is a ballet music, became …

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LOVE’S SONG – Poetry, by Rainer Maria Rilke

LOVE’S SONG And as I detain my soul, because I do not just reach your own? How I will lift it to other spheres, where you no longer is? Oh, I would hide it in something, that go missing in the dark solitude, unknown and silent in a corner, that does not vibrate more when your rivibrano the depths! But …

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THE EMPEROR’S TOMB – Novel, by Joseph Roth

The Emperor’s Tomb, Roth’s last novel, it is a novel of mothers and marriages, and tells the story of another young Trotta, first seen as a man about town, frequenting cafés and prostitutes, who is called up, and returns to the chaos and disintegration of Vienna between the wars and the coming of the Nazis. Franz Ferdinand Trotta, is in …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – To you, by Jovanotti

TO YOU > To you who you are the only in the world, the only reason to go through with my every breath, when I look at you, after a day full of words, without you to tell me anything, everything becomes clear. In you I’ve found all ‘corner, with clenched fists, with my back against the wall, ready to …

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TRICKY TWENTY-TWO – Novel, by Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum, pursues a fraternity member arrested for beating up a college dean and investigates a murder. Ken Globovic, hailed as the The Supreme Exalted Zoo Keeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that …

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GO SET A WATCHMAN – Novel, by Harper Lee

In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and realizes that her adored father is a racist. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns home from New York City, to visit her aging father, Atticus. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. http://www.amazon.com/Go-Set-Watchman-A-Novel/dp/0062409859

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THE MARTIAN – Novel, by Andy Weir

Abandoned by his crew, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. As he overcomes one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next, Mark begins to let himself believe he might make …

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