hi everyone. i am Praveen from chennai . this is my first post here.
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hi everyone. i am Praveen from chennai . this is my first post here.
I guess it would be polite to introduce myself. I'm Bum, an American, recently retired and living in Taipei, Taiwan. I have been returning to the things that my professional life denied me the time for, especially travel and serious reading. In the meantime I sit at cafés and watch the Far East hustle or wiggle earnestly by.
I actually haunted this site for a few months before posting the other day. I wanted to be a member because of the intelligence and maturity I observed, because people usually lay off each other's politics, and because of the general atmosphere of respect and lack of cyber-bullying here. Thanks to whoever is responsible for that.
I don't think many remember me. I've been away for quite a long while, so I thought I'd drop a hi hereabouts.
Doesn't seem like it's been that long. Welcome back!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Thanks for the welcome, Calidore!Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Hi everyone. Glad i finally made it here. More power.
Hi Max, long time no speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Hi friendy! Good to see you active! http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_clap.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/bye.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Hello there...
I'm from the often-maligned country known as Romania. Besides my native language, I also speak fluently English and, to a lesser degree, Portuguese. Also read in French, but not without a dictionary nearby.
I have an obsession for reading and writing poetry, so that is my main field; unlike most people, I'm not very keen on novels. 1) Shorter prose is better for my attention-span; 2) Many novels are written as a whole, while I am fond for the Fragment, if I may say so; 3) I am and will remain a convinced escapist. As lower middle-class as I am, I can't push aside aesthetics. I'm the kind who can admire an American abstract painting, for instance, and ignore for that moment the ridiculously high auction price of such a simplistic work of art... That doesn't mean I dislike by default a fairly realist painting or a rather straightforward novel, which may have instead a certain flavor or atmosphere. Alright, enough with the pretentious theory...
I'm deeply rooted into the tradition (yes, tradition) of modernism, of the avant-garde, so much of what I read and write belongs to that field. I owe a lot to the French and American early modernists (the gamut from Rimbaud to Whitman) and to avant-garde figures such as Tristan Tzara, who is sadly neglected in Romania (for many reasons)... Dadaism, concrete poetry, conceptual poetry - you name it. I see different kinds of beauty rather than anti-poetry (or anti-art) or plain gimmickry.
Since I live in a city where the few other artists and writers around are unambitious (if not obviously kitsch), off-line and on-line I get often rash in debates with people who throw in the towel in front of books like Tender Buttons (my current obsession) or Finnegans Wake and claim "this is worthless babble" or "these are just... experiments, not good literature". Then I realize that... I'm not thankful enough for having the Internet to meet people with tastes as eccentric as mine! So I move on and resume gardening my all-too-personal tastes. Even on FB, I prefer posting links to stuff I love rather than pointing fingers at all the things that are wrong about the world (there are always too many of them). Can't change the world, but I can at least take care of my corner. And I am either too serious or too relative about things, but that's the way I am.
Friends always remember. :) I'm also looking forward to be active here once again, if time permits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximilianus
Hi Yigru, nice to meet a polyglot here. :) I have no clue why you call your country 'oft-maligned' and I'm not so keen about poetry (I'm a novel girl), but I agree wholeheartedly that internet has helped many of us to meet people the likes of whom are not present in our physical location. I totally get that sense of being 'too serious' or 'too relative'. Been accused of the same but like you I'm happy the way I am.Quote:
Originally Posted by YigruZeltil
Ah, Time, the tyrannical clerk who knows he saved his work in one of a billion files... but feck knows which! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
Hy Everyone!
I am Haroldy a big bookworm :D.
I really happy to find this forum I hope I'll find some interesting things here :)
My favorites books:
The Catcher in The Rye
City of Glass
The Hobbit
Divergent
I'm 55 years old, double nickels if you like, ugly as a robber's dog, single, and live out in the sticks in Australia. I write when the mood strikes me, mostly strange stories. I don't know if you would call them ghost stories or horror stories, or just yarns from the dark side. That's about it for now.
Joe
hi im new here