Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth. 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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Labels:
culture,
fairytales,
imaginar,
infantilizare,
maturitate,
miriam,
poetry,
poezie,
poveste,
sacred time,
youth
Friday, May 6, 2011
Notes on the youthly rebellion(s)
One of the my most recent enjoyable lectures was The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu. A writer and a Romanian now living and developing his skills abroad, just like me (but I wouldn't take the comparison further than that), he actually teaches Poetry to university students and he recalls it in a most funny and dreamy fashion in the book. Which of course, makes one think about Dead Poet's Society. :)
I will not speak more on the whole matter here because I will do it elsewhere, but I would like to share a certain remark from the text for purposes to be revealed later:
I will not speak more on the whole matter here because I will do it elsewhere, but I would like to share a certain remark from the text for purposes to be revealed later:
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