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Re: Emil and the Barbarians
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Monday, January 3 2005, 18:01:55 (CET)
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This one stopped me in my tracks recently...

"It becomes more and more silly to me that we should waste this single chance at living our precious lives passively hoping and praying for rewards in the afterlife. All the while neglecting our present opportunity at achieving a very real and immediate sense of purpose and completion. Here and now. As we are. Imperfect. I want to concentrate my energy not toward the unknown, but the attainable- love for my family, self, and life. It seems that living for something else, someplace else, would distract us from the deep living and deep loving we could be experiencing now. Here. Why strive for something unknown and uncertain, something so nebulous, when the ones we love are right here, flesh and blood, longing for our acceptance and approval that yes, they are deserving of our acceptance no matter how far they have steered from our expectations? My heaven, my next ten thousand lives are here in me, with me, everywhere.
I am alive and grateful, conscious enough, aware enough to love now, to improve now, to face my nature and death, to inspire, to sing, to live, to write, and to feel, feel, feel…"

parhad wrote:
>...I urge you all again to read the diaries of Emil Keliane...the link is on our home page. If you've ever wondered if Assyrians in the modern era can hold their own on the larger stage...you'll be reassured. When people would tell me I was the greatest Assyrian artist it would fill me with sadness and sarcasm too...what did they mean "great"? How the hell did THEY know? What were they comparing me to? Didn't they mean I was the ONLY Assyrian sculptor they knew?
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>I always wondered if being Assyrian had any impact on my sculpture...aside from the obvious impact Assyrian art made on me...but did I in any way chose sculpture because I AM an Assyrian? Emil doesn't write in Assyrian ways...whereas I do sculpt in Assyrian themes. But his writing is filled with Assyrian references...like palmettes and curls infused my work.
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>Anyway...when the bundled idiocies of our other writers and hysterians threaten to rise up and engulf you and you begin to think, like I started to, that the only really distinguishing characteristic of an Assyrian is his or her boundless stupidity...turn to Emil's writing and see what you think.
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>I was reading there just now and though I don't see the exact connection...I all of a sudden thought of the lives of the philosophers that I'm reading at the same time...and how no philosopher that I know of had any children...and that amazed me all of a sudden. Don't why I never thought of it before...or why I should now when reading Emil. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is old Jean Jacques Rousseau...who had FIVE and forced their mother to turn them all over to state run orphanages within moments of their birth...and the irony of it all is that this man advocated a return to nature...said modern man lived way too much in his head and was putting the rational ahead of the spiritual...on top of which one of his best known books, titled, oddly enough "Emile"...is all about the exceptional care that should be taken in EDUCATING A CHILD! How's that for walking the walk.
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>There has to be something missing when philosophers critique and/or ponder life and spirit and reason, coming up with elaborate systems and all without ever having changed a child's diapers or sat up with a baby who has a fever...let alone answered the really unanswerable questions from a three year old...while tackling God head-on.
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>Emil manages what Anais Nin did...and what a joy to meet another lover of hers...By diving into his very core...the "navel-gazing" that frightened deadmen and women call it...he reaches that inner river that flows through us all. Not everyone who dives for it gets there and so you get a lot of "closure" and psychobabble and gurus with huge followings...but a few fearless souls...or rather courageous in SPITE of their fears...go deeper...approach all the way and find what is really, after all, just common....common to us all. That's the greatest gift an artist has to offer.



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