Some random musings: I learned more about human nature from a serendipitous and careful reading of interesting poetry and novels than from 4 semesters of undergrad psychology survey courses. History books are as useful as novels here, but there is something about the novel that lays bare human motives yearnings and dreams. Aldous Huxleyonce wrote: […]
Pleasures
life’s simple pleasures
Watching Caprica with Baruti
I was over at Baruti’s place hanging out, talking about web back-linking and SEO, and checking out his new Computer Entertainment setup when he asked me if I’d ever seen Caprica. I never heard of it so he popped it in and we started watching it. I really got into it, I didn’t realize the […]
Chivalry, Love and Romance, Speculations on Origins – First Stab
By Kemal, Our favorite Desi FUPA, Ms. Treta Yuga, made an interesting point about the possibility of Indian Tantric ideas underlying the Western Tradition of Chivalric Romantic love, through a Muslim Sufi influence. (On the side most of this reflects the Treta Yuga more than the Satya Yuga, in that these matters concern a dim […]
Song Lyrics, Poetry or Not?
Floating around the “poetosphere” I’m noticing a good deal of debate about the validity of song lyric, especially popular song lyric, and rap in particular, as poetry. In my not-so humble opinion the debate – though well intentioned – often hits stupid levels, this is less the fault of the people on either side debating, […]