Wednesday, October 14, 2009

everythingliterature - Imagine

The decision to prohibit books is a sign of weakness and fear. The gesture invites to laziness and discontent. A book is art. Art is inspiration. Between covers there is paper and hard work. Imagine the man who built his house. There is science and love and pain. Banning books anywhere is an unemotional act. Those who hate other people hate them anyway. They find new ways to pick on them. Political correctness is not correct. What we feel is correct. PC cannot ban what we feel. A book has powers over emotions. It can change how we feel. Artists work with the untouchable. They are not good at other things. Most are not good at living, all consumed. Some writers become mad and commit suicide. Words don’t help anymore. They do it so well, is hard to believe they’re mad. Some are happy writers. They play with words. To the blank eyes, they seem a bit odd or impaired. Banning impaired is not PC.
By ICL

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009

everythingliterature - Scheherazade



The Story of the Porter and the Ladies of Baghdad - Fragment


She next stopped at the shop of a fruiterer, and bought of him Syrian apples, and ‘Othmani quinces, and peaches of ‘Oman, and jasmine of Aleppo, and water-lilies of Damascus, and cucumbers of the Nile, and Egyptian limes, and Sultani citrons, and sweet-scented myrtle, and sprigs of the henna-tree, and chamomile, and anemones, and violets, and pomegranate-flowers, and eglantine: all these she put into the porter’s crate, and said to him, Take it up. So he took it up, and followed her until she stopped at the shop of a butcher, to whom she said, Cut off ten pounds of meat;—and he cut it off for her, and she wrapped it in a leaf of a banana-tree, and put it in the crate, and said again, Take it up, O porter:—and he did so, and followed her. She next stopped at the shop of a seller of dry fruits, and took some of every kind of these, and desired the porter to take up his burden. Having obeyed, he followed her until she stopped at the shop of a confectioner, where she bought a dish, and filled it with sweets of every kind that he had, which she put into the crate; whereupon the porter ventured to say, If thou hadst informed me beforehand, I had brought with me a mule to carry all these things.
The lady smiled at his remark, and next stopped at the shop of a perfumer, of whom she bought ten kinds of scented waters; rose-water, and orange-flower-water, and willow-flower-water, &c.; together with some sugar, and a sprinkling-bottle of rose-water infused with musk, and some frankincense, and aloes-wood, and ambergris, and musk, and wax candles; and, placing all these in the crate, she said, Take up thy crate, and follow me. He, therefore, took it up, and followed her until she came to a handsome house, before which was a spacious court. It was a lofty structure, with a door of two leaves, composed of ebony, overlaid with plates of red gold.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Ask Eve - what do you see from where you are?



I see the beauty, the symmetry and the perfect mechanism of the leaf, there is light

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I started writing poetry and fiction when I was about 11 years old. I was awarded 2 top national literature prizes at an early age.Later I became involved in numerous literary circles in my native country, Romania. This project is a dedication to my mother, inspired teacher of literature and independent thinker.

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