Arwa ~ 22 ~ Palestinian
Bullshit
This is an assignment I’ve had for my dramatic writing class. We had to bring a combination of someone’s dream and a personal myth and here we go:
A woman and her reflection in the mirror. Her reflection replies with “Bullshit/Bollocks”.
Woman: My name is Katherine Jonathan McDowell Greene and I am here to enlighten the way. For I am the girl who once played with fire but repented.
Reflection: Bullshit
I am lady of Shallot waiting for my own Lancelot. I have made my own story and died.
Bullshit
I am here to paint the walls with all the colors of the fire, to transmute lead into gold. you know we all had that stone
Bullshit
the kingdom of God is within us The works he does, we can do . . . and greater. He promised.
After Millennia of darkness we will bear witness to our ultimate renaissance.
Bullshit
Together we will find a way and it’s going to be what you have always dreamed of. We will do what we have always wanted. There will be time, we both know it and we will gain the time we once had.
Bullshit
You and I are similar, the things you do I do, we think the same, we dream the same, we know the same.
Bullshit
We stand in that place where we will never give up . You and I, we have time.
Bullshit
I’m not a liar, and I do know myself. There’s nothing unclear to me. I know everything that needs to be done. There is nothing else to be altered. It is not a game, it is a journey, we both should be on the same ship.
(pause)
Bullshit
I am the girl who once played with the fireflies, and lost my way into the darkness of fairyland. Will lose my way again, while you will hide in my shadow. You will never give up as I haven’t given up on anything. This way you and I are complete.
Bollocks
You are scared.
Bullshit
You are an image.
January 2012
Over The Misty Mountains Cold – The Hobbit
I found this on Tumblr and I wanted to share it here. SOURCE
| SONG: OVER THE MISTY MOUNTAINS COLD |
| ARTIST: HOWARD SHORE |
| ALBUM: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY SOUNDTRACK |
Over the Misty Mountains Cold by J.R.R Tolkien /Musical Score composed by Howard Shore
“Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old… The pines were roaring on the heights, The winds were moaning in the night,The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.”
I learned from Friends
I found this on Tumblr and thought of sharing it
Brave New World
“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t.” The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley was written in the 1930s, set in a dystopian world in the future. “Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurology.” Wikipedia.
Brave New World
I have recently read the first novel from The Hunger Games series and have read Nineteen Eighty-Four last year, so I’m quite familiar with the dystopia novel. I find this genre extremely interesting to consider in my late studies. The most interesting part of it is its mirror to our reality and the warning it carries.
At the beginning of this novel I didn’t feel encouraged to finish it, but I had to since I had to finish it before the exam. It didn’t take me long to finish it, not only because I had to, but also for the fact that it was fascinating. This book is rich with references to Shakespeare (as his title) and the way it values our lives and our reality. Perhaps our reality lacks the values we always wanted, but compared to this dystopian world in the book, I’d rather live in my misery than that “happiness” described in the book with the use of Soma (a kind of drug).
There are few characters in this book, and it’s not long at all (only 250 pages or so) but it is extremely sophisticated and loaded with ideas. It calls for work, and hard work to save our reality and restore its good art to it. Imagine us without high art, like Shakespeare? imagine us without being able to believe in what we want (like God or anything else), imagine not being able to have our own way in thinking and living. Imagine not having parents. People in the novel were born without parents, but technology. Imagine having no family, but only a hypocrite community to live with, and never to be alone or lonely. Imagine never to feel sadness or love. Imagine being a robot.
This book is a reminder and warning call, to keep our own values as individuals and look for our natural side, and keep nature beside us. We don’t have to go and live in nature and build our own lives there, but at least keep it by our sides and think about it.
In the story, the value of love is no longer available. Imagine our lives with out love and monogamy. I wouldn’t live one second with that kind of world. But, interesting enough, in real life, there are people who don’t believe in love and monogamy, and that’s so sad.
There are many things I suppose one talk about this book, but one has to read it to discuss it, and love it. Forget Nineteen Eighty-Four (which is one of my favorite books about dystopia), Brave New World is beyond compare, and I suppose it’s one of the first novels about dystopic future; it was written in 1932 and Huxley could perfectly imagine a future world that lacks important values. It’s the perfect example.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
I have had the chance to read the novel The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien for my Modern fantasy seminar midterm exam. It’s pretty exciting to learn modern and popular literature. It was exciting to learn classical popular and love literature, and now I can read and study the modern exciting ones, the ones normal people (not me) would read for pleasure. It’s a good example for a quest romance and modern too. Even though the plot takes us to another reality of another time (the middle ages of some sort) it is still modern, for I encountered a modern language and a modern characterization.
I can’t believe I am actually saying that I haven’t read the book before and just read it before the exam, but well, I never had the time for it, and now I have finally read and I’m glad I did, and I would force everyone to read it before Lord of the Rings. It’s a good story and may I say simple. There are not too many characters and the plot is quite what it is, a quest, one quest and then the journey home. There is a wonderful narrator that cannot be avoided. There are great lines and there is a great mind behind them. I wouldn’t say it’s simple as in too simple to be academically researched and studied. It’s simple as an easy read, straight to the point and short. Unlike Lord of the Rings, which have billions of characters and then a plot that goes to different directions and there are thousands of pages to read without an end. Lord of The Rings is enjoyable, but when one is in a need of an easy read for a good quest romance book, The Hobbit is the one and only. It’s a good story to be read again and again, it doesn’t a lot of time and it is as enjoyable as any good novel is.
There are a lot of things to see in this book and yet it’s short (around 350 pages) and beautiful, it has this simple beauty that can be attractive to everyone. I have truly enjoyed reading it and have also enjoyed studying it, and I suppose I might have learned a lot about it. I have asked my self the questions of who am I and what have I become on my internal journey? I have gone through a journey similar to Bilbo the hobbit, it wasn’t a journey in space, but an internal journey within my self. And I suppose I may assume that we all have gone through similar journeys. How did we cope with the fantasy world and our familiar world?
I have seen the trailer of the upcoming movie and I have to say it’s quite nice and fun, even though I’m more than sure they have added so many things that I don’t think they were necessary, specially some characters. And I don’t get it, why the title is named differently and why is there a sequel of the actual name of the novel? why there are characters of women – Galadriel? while there isn’t. And what’s with Frodo? I see they have added some characters or have added a lot of importance to characters that weren’t as important in the novel. But, oh well, this happens to every adaptation to every book. I don’t have to agree with that and they still can make a good movie, or at least admired by many. We’ll wait and see.
Here’s the trailer:
Don’t you like the dwarves song?
Ellen’s Hilarious ‘Harry Potter’ Cameo!
I’m a huge fan of Ellen DeGeneres. She’s hilarious and I can never get tired of her jokes. This one is a bit old (one year old) but one of her best.
Imagine she was actually one of the Death Eaters? she would be a hell of a Death Eater, and the only one to get easily away. Although if she was ever in the whole Harry Potter series I can imagine her among the Hogwarts staff/people.
In the Bus – poem
Few years ago (three?) I wrote a poem, it was somehow my first poem I wrote (I might have written other poetry before that but I can’t be sure about that). I have had a small crush on some guy (yes it also happens to me) and after hearing some people reading their poetry I was inspired to write my own. Here it is, my first poem.
You were there in the bus
Alone or accompanied
I was too shy to approach
and your silence didn’t encourage
I sat still
Alone
Starring at the parts I could see
of your face
You didn’t notice
You were in your own world
That I could never make out
I was in agony the whole journey
But you didn’t look
Was I invisible?
Then the bus stopped
you had to leave
you saw me
and acknowledged me with a “bye”
That is still
Looping in my mind
I have a special place for the rest of my poetry here on my website – my portfolio.
Instagram photography
My new toys
That’s what I’ve got yesterday that I suppose can be part of my new lifestyle. A new phone with qwerty keyboard for texting (Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro) and new glasses that simply look awesome on me. Now my life is going to be a bit easier I suppose.
(this picture is taken via my Transformer)