tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post3369676730305147436..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: It’s the poetical history of mankind - Jean-Claude Carriére's Mahabharata - it’s pure as glass, yet nothing is omittedAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26667002592312059302014-12-09T08:17:47.621-06:002014-12-09T08:17:47.621-06:00"forgot to press record" - somehow, that..."forgot to press record" - somehow, that is perfect. That fits this epic. A friend told me, long ago, that most Indians know the stories from <i>The Mahabharata</i> and <i>The Ramayana</i> first through comic book versions and later through television. The stories are told and retold, as they have been for (I'll be cautious) 2,500 years.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28407591607342925102014-12-08T23:04:53.304-06:002014-12-08T23:04:53.304-06:00I watched (and recorded on video) when it was broa...I watched (and recorded on video) when it was broadcast on TV, A life enhancing, absorbing, never to be forgotten experience though while trying to omit the adverts I forgot to press record for one section. There was an Indian production broadcast simultaneously that was more difficult to follow while fascinating. I found a graphic version, a comic in fact, in many instalments on sale in an Indian newsagent's in the Caledonian Rd N London. The newsagent knew a lot about it, and it's meanings............ CarolShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00354002254611517326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37590515166723749182014-12-06T16:21:13.012-06:002014-12-06T16:21:13.012-06:00Ha ha ha ha! What a terrible typo! Endlessly lon...Ha ha ha ha! What a terrible typo! Endlessly <i>long</i>!<br /><br />Oh, that's awful. Thanks for pointing it out so I can conceal my shame, leaving only these comments as a reminder.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91538687697240110472014-12-05T23:02:30.737-06:002014-12-05T23:02:30.737-06:00Endlessly wrong? How so? Endlessly wrong? How so? Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27617980798595992014-12-05T09:31:42.227-06:002014-12-05T09:31:42.227-06:00I hopped around in the film using the Youtube uplo...I hopped around in the film using the Youtube upload before I wrote the post, just to see if I was way, way off in the way I was imagining the play. Someday I will have to set aside some time to watch it. Not all at once, but in civilized increments.<br /><br />Not that the play's marathon version does not have its own experiential arguments. Ah, I would have loved to see that, no matter how crazy it is.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-51986780314961357882014-12-05T08:50:43.262-06:002014-12-05T08:50:43.262-06:00I had the great fortune to see this when it was pe...I had the great fortune to see this when it was performed in Los Angeles in 1987. It too carried a curse - a sore bottom from sitting for 8+ hours on a wooden bench - but some scenes still drift though my head regularly, uninvited but ever welcome. I have trouble thinking of another production I've seen of anything that was staged so evocatively. A fire burning in a circle of sand on the stage - one could lie down next to that (bench be damned) and listen endlessly to a poetical history of the world. The film is accessible on YouTube; you can watch it and ponder how Brook managed to perform its tricks on the confined space of a stage. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-48830009268946749242014-12-05T08:15:22.441-06:002014-12-05T08:15:22.441-06:00Thank you for the link. Very interesting! But I wi...Thank you for the link. Very interesting! But I will tell you this. I certainly ain't the one to blog about the cursed thing. It sounds too long, and life is too short. (Even as I write that last sentence, I have to laugh aloud at the recently discovered implications.) But seriously folks, the whole Indian "sacred" literature concept has baffled the hell out of me; it seems so alien, limitless, and inaccessible to my simple monotheistic Western mind that was too thoroughly programmed to adhere to Calvinist thinking when I was young.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26161324733641207792014-12-05T08:08:29.077-06:002014-12-05T08:08:29.077-06:00See this 2008 post on the great Clay Sanskrit Libr...See this <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2008/08/it.html" rel="nofollow">2008 post</a> on the great Clay Sanskrit Library for more on the curse. They got pretty far - 15 volumes translated before they ran out of money. But you can't translate the whole thing. Shiva won't allow it.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44825573880369955292014-12-05T07:56:22.450-06:002014-12-05T07:56:22.450-06:00Say more about the "curse."Say more about the "curse." R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com