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| The Little Mermaid. Ilustração: Edmund Dulac |
Showing posts with label Fairytales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fairytales. Show all posts
What makes things unintelligible? What is the structure of nonsense? Experience is ineffable. / Fallacies of reasoning in circles
Present! - Raymond Moody: The Logic of "Life after Death"
"Nonsense is a highly patterned phenomenon."
Raymond Moody
The question: Is there life after death, is not a scientific question, because you can't think of a way to verify that.
"The most intellectually honest thing to say is that something is going on that we don't understand. And that maybe we don't even yet have fully the logic and intellectual tools to begin to understand it."
"What I think of the external world has to do with the recurrent patterns in my consciousness. But it's just an inference to say that there is an external world. [...] We are dealing with matter, space and time with a philosophical or an abstract system of concepts, which are self-consistant. But to make the philosophical judgements beyond that... Physicalism is a philosophy. Scientism: the only rational way of securing truth and searching for knowledge is by scientific method. [...] How would we know if scientific method is the only rational means of securing knowledge and truth? Because I know it by the scientific method (?) or Because I know it by philosophy, by literary theory (?), by the law (?), by History (?). So scientism is something that a lot of people in this society value very deeply but they've never thought it through, because there have to be other rational means of securing knowledge even to know if the scientific method works. [...] I love science, but to make science your ideology of life is an inherently self-defeating move. To me, science is a wonderful method for capturing the truth about certain areas of existence, but not about other areas of existence."
"Medical doctors should take a few philosophy courses before they start fooling around with the afterlife question."
"Even if you could prove that the soul leaves the body, that wouldn't prove that there's life after death."
"The pseudo-science of parapsychology, in my opinion, is one of the main reasons why we're stuck on the afterlife question."
"What we need in this question of the afterlife is an actual skeptic."
"Since I didn't have a religious background, to me the whole notion of an afterlife was just so incredibly bizarre."
Mais aqui.
One of the best children’s illustrators of all time
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| illustration by Kay Nielsen from “The Three Princesses in the Blue Mountain |
The Dark, Enchanted Worlds of Illustrator Kay Nielsen: here
More on fairytales: here
The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling
Why are there not water-babies?
"Now little Ellie was, I suppose, a stupid little girl; for she only
asked the same question over again. "But why are there not
water-babies?" I trust and hope that it was because the professor trod
at that moment on the edge of a very sharp mussel, and hurt one of his
corns sadly, that he answered quite sharply, forgetting that he was a
scientific man, and therefore ought to have known that he couldn't know;
and that he was a logician, and therefore ought to have known that he
could not prove a universal negative—I say, I trust and hope it was
because the mussel hurt his corn, that the professor answered quite
sharply: "Because there ain't."
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby
"But she took Tom in her arms, and laid him in the softest
place of all, and kissed him, and patted him, and talked to him,
tenderly and low, such things as he had never heard before in his life;
and Tom looked up into her eyes, and loved her, and loved, till he fell
fast asleep from pure love.
And when he woke she was telling the children a story. [...] And he
listened so long that he fell fast asleep again, and when he woke, the
lady was nursing him still."
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid
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| Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee |
"And there came over the lady's face a very curious expression — very solemn, and yet very, very sweet. And she looked up and away, as if she were gazing through the sea, and through the sky, at something far, far off; and as she did so, there came such a quiet, tender, patient, hopeful smile over her face that Tom thought for the moment that she did not look ugly at all. And no more she did; for she was like a great many people who have not a pretty feature in their faces, and yet are lovely to behold, and draw little children's hearts to them at once; because though the house is plain enough, yet from the windows a beautiful and good spirit is looking forth.
And Tom smiled in her face, she looked so pleasant for the moment. And the strange fairy smiled too and said:
"Yes. You thought me very ugly just now, did you not?"
Tom hung down his head, and got very red about the ears.
"And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I shall be, till people behave themselves as they ought to do. And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister, who is the loveliest fairy in the world..."
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies
"The space between the private mind of the reader, and the book they're reading"
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| pintura de Gwen John |
Mais sobre Philip Pullman
— Negative Capability: "is a sublime expression of supreme empathy.
And empathy, is the capacity for participating in, experiencing and understanding another's feelings or ideas. It's a creative tool to help us understand each other, understand different points of views or different cultures so that we might be able to express them." mais
Ilustradores:
Antony Maitland
Charles Keeping
Fritz Wegner
Robin Jacques
Victor Ambrus
Tove Jansson
Livros:
Arthur Ransome
Leon Garfield: The Pleasure Garden
Tove Jansson: The Summer Book
Paul Berna: A Hundred Million Francs
Denys Watkins-Pitchford: Brendon Chase
Erich Kästner: Emil and the Detectives
"Pictures are always in the present tense"
Pardon my thoughts
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| Ilustração de Edmund Dulac |
O que a rainha não sabia, era que a questão entre a princesa e a ervilha prendia-se mais com uma overexcitability do que com o facto de ela ser princesa!
still on fairytales
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"Fairytales move like dreams from image to image, rather than rationally from event to event. And, like dreams, they resist explanation. A fairytale is resistant to any single simplified meaning. The multi-layered quality of a fairytale is something that many scolars acknowledge in theory, but deny in practice. Especially when they deal with oral fairytales."
Neil Philip, in Creativity and Tradition in The Fairytale
"A new mythology. We must be able to dream. We must try to find a new magic. That is what an 'oral' [versus literary] tale means to me. It is what, by subtracting meaning, leads us to dream about what is missing. We do not dream anymore when we watch these Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella."
Armando Maggi
‘We must be able to dream’
"We cannot live without mythology, it’s the way we reason, the
way we survive, the way we make sense of our world. It’s just that the
stories we’ve been using—mythic stories, fairy tales, legends—they’re
not working anymore. We need something new. What we long for is a
remythologization of reality.”
Armando Maggi, aqui
