Nature is a great painter

Nature is a great painter

Constructions in the streets of Evanston, rain, sun and soil...

By E.G

Shadow & Light

You will find beauty in everything, even in asphalt/bitumen.

By E.G

Nathalie Granger

Nathalie Granger
“A landmark of contemporary cinema, the fourth feature by acclaimed French writer/filmmaker Marguerite Duras. Nathalie Granger is an elliptical, elusory story about the world of women in which dull domestic ritual makes an undercurrent of lurking violence.”

Watch this beautiful scene with Gérard Depardieu

Through the Blue glass

Through the Blue glass
By E.G

Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge in Evanton

Under the Bridge in Evanton

By E.G

10:30 PM Summer

  10:30 PM Summer is a book by Marguerite Duras. Based on this book Julles Dassin directed a film under the same title.

“During a terrible thunderstorm, a married couple, Maria and Paul, traveling with their friends, Claire, take refuge in a small Spanish hotel. That night where, while witnessing Paul and Claire making love, a distraught Maria spots a young man-wanted for a crime of passion-hiding on a rooftop. Compelled to help the murderer elude the authorities, Maria embarks on a dangerous journey that will change her life forever.”

Last week on Bill Moyers & Company

Last week on Bill Moyers & Company
BaldemarVelasquez on Fighting for Farmworkers

Since the end of slavery in America, no workers have been more exploited than the men and women who bend to the earth in backbreaking labor, picking fruits, vegetables, and tobacco. Despite miracles of agricultural progress and innovation over the decades, the harsh lives and working conditions of migrant laborers have changed very little.

Tom Diaz on Dangerous Gun Laws

The author and gun control advocate describes how a lethal combination of self-defense laws and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.
 

"Writing is like Weeping"

"And for me, writing was like weeping. A happy book was indecent, unseemly. We ought to wear mourning as a sign of civilization, a sign that we remember every man-made death of any kind, whether it took place in prison or in war."

From a memoir by Marguerite Duras, Yann Andrea Steiner, translated from the French by Babara Bray, Page 27

After the Rain

After the Rain.

A View from My Window.
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It's Raining!

A View from My Window

Before the Rain.
E.G

A Touch of the Poet

A Touch of the Poet is a play by Eugene O'Neill.
"It and its sequel, More Stately Mansions, were intended to be part of a nine-play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. Set in the dining room of Melody's Tavern, located in a village a few miles from Boston, it centers on Major Cornelius ("Con") Melody, a braggart, social climber, and victim of the American class system in 1828 Massachusetts."

This play should be reviewed with a new perspective on immigrants and the different roles women and men play in their adapted country. It also reminds me of a novel "My Uncle Napoleon" written by Iranian writer Iraj Pezeshkzad which I believe its main character was somehow inspired by Major Cornelius Melody in this play.

Watch a scene.