Showing posts with label sacred time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sacred time. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2012

About "Miriam" (Completely offtopic)



Not about books or anthropology, just about my name.
I long knew its quite complex and various meanings in different cultures, which I'll not detail here now for lack of space and patience and point; but I was surprised to see The Urban Dictionary's explanations of what "a miriam" is.

So, here goes my least scholarly post on this blog (well, maybe if you consider The Urban Dictionary as part of a larger frame of clashing discourses in a funny way exposed by a blurry elite of a postmodern system of meanings... it could pass as appropriate, were there not still the un-randomness of picking precisely the entry on "miriam" out of it all):

Next paragraphs will completely quote The Urban Dictionary mentioned above.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

On movies, sacred time and marriage

Reading some film interpretation theory, I came across "Pursuits of happiness: the Hollywood comedy of remarriage" by Stanley Cavell. It tells the tales of Hollywood's typical romantic comedy where the estranged couple is reborn from its ashes. Focusing on seven such films made between 1934 and 1949, this work is still quite actual.