Thursday, January 13, 2011

Why Does My Cervical Mucus Looks Like Jello?

Kim Yong-Hwa, MINIONUN GOIROWO (미녀 는 괴로워)


[ What the image-society projects as ideal (Seoul, 2010) . Photos of Marzia Poerio]

Title in English: 200 POUNDS BEAUTY. Korea, 2006.Con Ju Jin-Mo, Kim Ah-Joong, Kim Hyon-Suk, Lim Yon-shik, Park No-Shik, Song Dong-Il

In recent years, joining the usual one, and the films involved copyright, we have developed an interest for some key emotional film, if properly constructed, we would not have suspected that appeared when, at other times, we chose almost exclusively the so-called film d'essai . Se il nostro interesse per Hollywood resta limitato a pochi casi che ci sembrano più interessanti di altri, è invece più frequente la curiosità per il cinema asiatico, in parte indiano, ma più spesso, negli ultimi due anni, cinese, coreano, giapponese e di altri paesi dell'area estremoorientale, come pure alcune serie televisive, i cui prodotti sono parsi gradevoli ma anche non di rado commoventi e fondati su un'etica che, mentre rappresenta i valori diffusi dei buoni sentimenti, pare farlo, nonostante gli ibridismi parziali coi temi e i sottotesti culturali dell'Occidente, in modi che riflettono una maggiore coerenza di valori di quelli disgregati non rari nelle società statunitense ed europee. Abbiamo avuto a note of this passage, for example, reviewing the series drawn from the novels of Louis Cha, some different kinds of dramas and more.

This Korean film, directed by Kim Yong-Hwa was born from a Japanese comic book of Yumiko Suzuki, told a large audience in an ironic, engaging and human story of transformation. The main character, Hanna, singer behind the scenes that lends itself to a performer pretty but that voice can not sing, because of its ability but lack of attendance due to obesity and clumsiness, changes into a different person after the decision taken and carried out in secret to take a drastic slimming accompanied by an almost total plastic, which in Within a year, leads her to appear on stage with the name of Jenny is not clear at first even by people who knew her well, so much has changed in appearance, retaining the prestigious item, but we now possess the beauty that allows' Access to fame. It thus assists

narrative topos of Cinderella, while that of vanitas date of infidelity for themselves. Of course, Jenny / Hanna redeems himself, and really the decisive day of the concert that will launch on significant audiences, tells his story in public, reconnects with the affections, especially with her best friend and the father is sick and not opposed but supported by the public, raising as a Hanna again and abandoning the false personality, but not the body, the post-metamorphosis.

Certainly there is a history of individualism, but also hung up the value of loyalty with the nucleus of personality and a genuine resumption of altruism that the failure to market pressures image had threatened to suffocate.

The irony is also against the excessive plastic, which, according to data provided by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, South Korea sees the world's leading per capita actions (74 actions per 10,000 inhabitants in 2009 ).

The comedies of this kind are not superficial e vuote, al contrario spingono a prendere coscienza dei rapporti umani e delle difficoltà di gestire la vita individudale nella società tardomoderna che sembra liquefare gli schemi di esistenza precedenti.

[Renato Persòli]

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Congratulations Engagement Wording

Augustus Young, MAUPASSANT WANTS TO DIE IN SICILY (1885)

The street appears to be wet.
No. No. You've just been crying.
How easily we forget
the source? The pavement's drying.
I lent it my handkerchief.

The sun smiles to banish grief.

It shone on the day he died.
They all went to the beach
. I'd
rather it that way. Termites
embark from Tunisian nights
and come out in thermal springs.

In order to check the weapons,

remove dentures and eye-glass.
Flash them and they let you pass.
The horizon grits its teeth
as the black sun sinks beneath
necessity's terrible bite.

Darkness won't let you off light.



AUTHOR’S NOTE

In Sciacca there is concrete theatre abandoned to weeds. Nearby is the spa hotel where Guy de Maupassant stayed as his syphilis was entering the tertiary stage (general paralysis of the insane). The thermal springs appear to have dried up. Maupassant recovered sufficiently to write an affectionate book about Sicily.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

What Should Cervical Mucus Look Like?

Salvatore Nicosia, "died in my place" by Elias Canetti HELIUM ARISTIDE

“Studi italiani di filologia classica”, Supplemento a VII.1, 2007, pp. 105-20

In this article, suggests that some aspects of a broader research on the relationship between the individual and the author's death, Nicosia focuses on a phenomenon of the cycle, as you might say, using the pattern of 'eternal return Eliade , for which death is an element of the alternation of states that back to life: a prelude to the rebirth of spiritual darkness of death and mourning, overcome and lead to an advancement of the psyche, so the start, for example, but also more ingenerale in the various rites of the society about the relationship with thanatos.

The specific issue of Nicosia is the emotional identification with a person deceduta, la cui morte provoca la rinascita di colui che vi si era immedesimato, partendo da una constatazione di Elias Canetti sul suo rapporto di fratellanza spirituale con Cesare Pavese. Canetti scrive: “Quando la notte scorsa, in preda alla più cupa disperazione, ho preso i suoi diari [i diari di Pavese], […] lui è morto per me. È difficile crederlo: oggi, attraverso la sua morte, io sono rinato. Si potrebbe ricostruire il corso di questo misterioso processo: ma non voglio farlo. Non voglio toccare nulla. Voglio tenerlo segreto” (p. 106).

Il secondo esempio è tratto dalla vita di Jung che, colpito da infarto nel 1944, scrive in MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS OF CALR GUSTAV JUNG (New York, Random House, 1961, trad. italiana di G. Russo, Ricordi, sogni, riflessioni, 1992, Milano, Rizzoli BUR, 2006) ebbe visioni del cosmo e di un meteorite al cui interno c’era un tempio indiano, entrando nel quale ebbe la sensazione di apprendere il senso della vita e, in seguito all’apparizione del suo medico curante sotto la forma di basileus di Coo, si concluse l’apparizione lasciando l’impressione di un ritorno al mondo della falsità e del grigiore dopo aver visto la luminosità. Jung commenta: “Improvvisamente mi assalì il terrificante sospetto che il medico [che gli era comparso in quello stato di visione] dovesse morire al posto mio” (ed. it. cit., p. 348). Nicosia spiega the psychological mechanism, "someone has died in his place, and Jung may continue to live" (p. 108).

addition to an example from Joseph Karo, Nicosia deals with Aelius Aristides (117-180 years or so), which he received in a dream a "prophecy of the year" by Apollo or Asclepius (the figure is uncertain in the dream piece) which foreshadow perhaps 13 or 17 years of life left. Falling ill seventeen years after the dream, appears in another dream that Athena "heartened and promised his help" (p. 113): so we started again, but the adopted son dies in his place.

In all four cases treated, "is the same feeling of anguish death "and" identity is the psychological process that relieves: convinced that the death of someone, totally unaware of the use that he is doing, is the surrogate of his own, and that the other person 'dies in his place' "and it is always a loved one, family member or friend. Here you have a particular series of the broader context of "dying for another", which deals with research in Nicosia at the time the article was in progress). In this sense, "there is a generous and loving self-sacrifice, nor violence omicidiale exercised over others, nor any relationship between two people, but a simple, painless hermeneutic operation [...]. The frequency and variety of cases documented in other contexts, independent and distant in time, shows that we are in the presence of a deep psychological structure. It also explains why psychoanalysis is so determined to find much in Greek culture, and not only in mythology, archetypes are able to clarify certain that world, but at the same time to explain what came after "(p. 119).

[Roberto Bertoni]