D. Panikkar
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Mummy portrait. Fayum, Egypt. 2nd C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Mummy portrait. Fayum, Egypt. 2nd C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Updike's letters are a terrific read. I am just at the Harvard stage where he sounds like Psmith in the City, his prose performative even when writing to his parents and grandparents—precocity has its price. He did consume a lot of Wodehouse in his school days, I read elsewhere, but avoids pastiche.
"Updike simply had it: an instinctive feeling for the shape of American sentences, for the murmuring music of nouns and verbs and the way they could pin reality to the page."
John Updike's intimate voice:
John Updike's intimate voice:
John Updike's intimate voice
The novelist’s collected correspondence reveals a narrative of striving, sex and success
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Updike's letters are a terrific read. I am just at the Harvard stage where he sounds like Psmith in the City, his prose performative even when writing to his parents and grandparents—precocity has its price. He did consume a lot of Wodehouse in his school days, I read elsewhere, but avoids pastiche.
One has no weathered grave to visit; only an ashen mirror in which one is held again in that remembered gaze. One marks the passing in conjunctions of moon, sun, and star; in rituals of rice and sesame, flower and scent of sandal: knowing as he was, so you are, and as he is not, so shall you not be.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
One has no weathered grave to visit; only an ashen mirror in which one is held again in that remembered gaze. One marks the passing in conjunctions of moon, sun, and star; in rituals of rice and sesame, flower and scent of sandal: knowing as he was, so you are, and as he is not, so shall you not be.
Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Martha Argerich, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNR...
MARTHA ARGERICH - TCHAIKOVSKY "OCTOBER" "THE SEASONS" - (МАРТА АРГЕРИХ - ЧАЙКОВСКИЙ "ОСЕННЯЯ ПЕСНЬ"
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Martha Argerich, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNR...
Autumn. Manhattan.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Autumn. Manhattan.
Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Igor Zhukov, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC5...
The Seasons, Op.37b: October: Autumn's Song
YouTube video by Igor Zhukov - Topic
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November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Igor Zhukov, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC5...
A Blown-away Leaf. From 'An Overgrown Path'. Leoš Janáček, composer. Radoslav Kvapil, piano.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxB...
An Overgrown Path, JW 8/17 Book 1: No. 2, A Blown-Away Leaf
YouTube video by Radoslav Kvapil - Topic
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November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A Blown-away Leaf. From 'An Overgrown Path'. Leoš Janáček, composer. Radoslav Kvapil, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxB...
Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdG...
1967 - Ivan Moravec - Debussy - Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir
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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdG...
La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahC...
1967 - Ivan Moravec - Debussy - La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune
YouTube video by MJ's Vinyl Channel
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November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahC...
Autumn ablaze. New Jersey.
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Autumn ablaze. New Jersey.
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‘To Murch, who has won three Academy Awards and been nominated for six more, film editing is a sensual “full-body” experience: “a kind of dance, a choreography of images and sounds in the flow of time, forged in movement, eventually crystallising into permanence”.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lahr · Every Blink: Walter Murch makes the cut
The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or digital...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
‘To Murch, who has won three Academy Awards and been nominated for six more, film editing is a sensual “full-body” experience: “a kind of dance, a choreography of images and sounds in the flow of time, forged in movement, eventually crystallising into permanence”.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Early autumn. Manhattan.
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Early autumn. Manhattan.
Reposted by D. Panikkar
The Chinese fan palm and cobra lily by Vishnuprasad from Henry Noltie’s Flora Indica, a masterpiece of botanical-art-historical detective work.
The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
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The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
@rbgkew.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social
@sathnam.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The Chinese fan palm and cobra lily by Vishnuprasad from Henry Noltie’s Flora Indica, a masterpiece of botanical-art-historical detective work.
The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
@rbgkew.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social
@sathnam.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
@rbgkew.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social
@sathnam.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Paradise-Birds, Poems: V. Cyril Scott, composer. Nino Gvetadze, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djsn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djsn...
Poems: V. Paradise - Birds
YouTube video by Nino Gvetadze - Topic
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September 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Paradise-Birds, Poems: V. Cyril Scott, composer. Nino Gvetadze, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djsn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djsn...
Lotus Land. Cyril Scott, composer. Cyril Scott, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLb...
Lotus Land, Op. 47-1
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September 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Lotus Land. Cyril Scott, composer. Cyril Scott, piano.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLb...
In the evening the pain returned and one observed as it gathered itself from afar and swelled and rose until it swept and overwhelmed without seemingly cresting. Later, still observing, one began to admire the purity of it, the sheer strength of it, and the presence of something very much like will.
September 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the evening the pain returned and one observed as it gathered itself from afar and swelled and rose until it swept and overwhelmed without seemingly cresting. Later, still observing, one began to admire the purity of it, the sheer strength of it, and the presence of something very much like will.
Morning Light. Temple pond. Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Morning Light. Temple pond. Kerala.
Views in Angadippuram, Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Views in Angadippuram, Kerala.
At the ancestral temple. Palakkad Dt. Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
At the ancestral temple. Palakkad Dt. Kerala.
The Ghats loom. Palakkad Dt. Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Ghats loom. Palakkad Dt. Kerala.
Morning light. Village path. Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Morning light. Village path. Kerala.
Vadakkunnāthan Temple. Thrissur, Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Vadakkunnāthan Temple. Thrissur, Kerala.
Vadakkunnāthan Temple in the morning rain. Thrissur, Kerala.
September 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Vadakkunnāthan Temple in the morning rain. Thrissur, Kerala.