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Fevered Dreams, quartz reefs in Tunisia, etc
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A long night, fevered dreams, more selections of unrelated images; that I'm in Tunisia (and thinking "this is where they filmed Star Wars!") and I find under the sand a giant quartz reef, all quartz, deep, beneath the dunes, and digging it goes deeper and deeper and there has to be something here.... I must be living in Europe, because I'm grateful I've found this so close to home...
...or I'm finding a layer of fluorite/calcite under my house, it's fractured, shatters out easily, but what can I do with this (and to dig it up is to undermine my house...)
... or I'm with people, a party, maybe I know them, maybe I don't, emotional associations, "Auld Lang Syne"...
The night passes, I'm in sweats, fitful, restive, tossing and turning, too hot, too cold, fever, chills. I'm up at 9:00, I could sleep all day but I'm not getting better and there are things to be done.
The dreams, all bits, yet the overtones, undertones, create a story much bigger than the images they provide.
Which brings me to consider an old theory, that dreams, ideas, they live outside ourselves, our mind is but an antennae to tap into them, but - given my fevered state it's probably not the time to be giving this too much consideration, my thinker's a bit bedeviled at the moment...
Covid JN.1
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And been feeling a bit under the weather lately, told myself it was the flu. Shortness of breath, thick green mucus when blowing nose, slight fever, chills, etc, so I get curious, look up the symptoms, pretty sure this is it:
Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10203470/jn1-covid-symptoms/
Today was worse, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up, feeling clubbed, back to bed, up briefly, clubbed, and back into bed.
This - reading up on the variants expected, predicted, is going to get a lot worse, most people I know have had it - in the past couple of weeks, and - for something that's going around and laying us all low (and no immunity to this to be expected from the current Vaccines, too different) - it's getting surprisingly little press. Everyone, keep calm and carry on and DON'T MISS WORK ANYONE.
If I can stay awake long enough time to make some congee and head back to bed...
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
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This was an interesting, 3 hour watch by the Soviet director Andre Tarkovsky it's a semi-biographic film on the life of Andrei Rublev, famous Russian Icon Painter of the early 15th Century.
Slowly shot, black and white (1966), a minimal of dialogue, - the background dialogue, when it's happening, isn't translated, but strangely moving.
A note, it's 3 hours long, and - in being filmed and set in a different era, Tarkovsky set a cow on fire, clubbed a dog to death and shoved a horse off a stairwell then stabbed it - not a film the SPCA would endorse, and in parts difficult to watch. Reminding me of "The Holy Mountain", where Jodorowsky killed hundreds of rabbits and blew up hundreds of toads. Unnecessarily cruel, and for people that seem to have a fair bit of Spiritual - ?? - well, it's a hard reconcile.
Then, given the time it was set in - early 1400's, when entire villages were razed by Tartars, raped and pillaged, where the King or Prince might as well decide to do the same, when the Plague was passing through Europe and killing 1/2, 2/3 people, comparing the age where death was of no consequence and seldom grieved, of no account, compared to now, where every war - Gaza - Israel, Rawanda, Ukraine, every plague - by comparison - is inconsequential and every life is held of immense value (unless you're killed by the cops). A - to the Western Mind - almost inconceivable point of view.
This is not to excuse the current state of affairs, but we've never had it so good, and it will be a long, long time before ever we have it so again.
Anyways, read up on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_(film)
The Holdovers
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Which was a quiet, understated film, about a group of students "held over" at their boarding school. A charming, melancholy, Character-driven film.
Good. Not, as reviewed, "Great", but better than a few others I've seen.
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