ELLOPOS OF MUSIC
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Ellopos Guide to Classical Music  

(...) We don't have here the "geniuses of all ages", but musical indications of the European thought and feeling, an attempt of understanding them in a simple and immediate manner, which awaits for others' response and participation to be completed. (...) 

Casals, Fournier, Navarra & Rostropovich on Bach's Suites for solo cello

(...) Listening to them has been a memorable experience to me. It has never happened to me before to listen in succession to a series of interpreters offering me such a summation of musical wealth on one work, and a difficult and overplayed work at that. When that marathon-listening came to an end, I was not perhaps absolutely sure of what I would like to keep from each of them and what not; nevertheless, those four musicians have convinced me of the earnestness and respect and above all, the love that great interpreters have (and should have) when approaching works whose musical concepts are so intense. (...) 

Jacques Loussier plays the Goldberg 

(...) More conservative than his previous recordings of Bach, however, -or because of this-, Loussier's Golberg Variations maintains the unity of the original work, without becoming trivial. This balance between a devotion to the original and a peculiarity of the interpretation make this Goldbergs sound like a study on Bach's music, like a meta-music, more than a, however alive and innovative, arrangement of a work past (...) 

Neanderthal throws a glance at the press!

 Protesters cry "fascist" as Barenboim chooses a Wagner encore at the Israel Festival... [GMN] --- Narrow people!, they didn't realise that Barenboim finished the slaughter spectacularly by executing the great enemy... 

What is Music? 

On-line now: 
Plotinus, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Wordsworth, Kant, Sophocles, Dickens, Bacon, Plato, Tolstoy, Augustine, and more...

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IMAGES OF GREECE




Images of Patmos and Symi  
By Kostas Katsiyiannis

ELLOPOS Gallery

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Philip starts reading

(...) He could think of nothing else. He forgot the life about him. He had to be called two or three times before he would come to his dinner. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. Presently he began to read other things. His brain was precocious. His uncle and aunt, seeing that he occupied himself and neither worried nor made a noise, ceased to trouble themselves about him. Mr. Carey had so many books that he did not know them, and as he read little he forgot the odd lots he had bought at one time and another because they were cheap. Haphazard among the sermons and homilies, the travels, the lives of the Saints, the Fathers, the histories of the church, were old-fashioned novels; and these Philip at last discovered. He chose them by their titles, and the first he read was The Lancashire Witches,  and then he read The Admirable Crichton,  and then many more. Whenever he started a book with two solitary travellers riding along the brink of a desperate ravine he knew he was safe. (...) Read more...

W Somerset Maugham @ Student Land

New Resources

Short Story Writing

ABCtales (Anyone can upload a story or poem and the best are selected for paid publication) - Emily's tip (thank you!)

Out of the Cube (Read, Write, and Debate Articles!) - Chris' tip (thank you!)

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Rosa Dartle (Mystery)

As one rereads this novel and becomes even more familiar with the characters, the minor ones start taking on a life of their own. And Rosa Dartle is one of the more fascinating of these, because she is one of the darkest characters Dickens ever created-- darker even than those other embittered figures, Miss Havisham and Estella. The latter two undergo some sort of humanization, but Rosa Dartle remains embittered throughout. She is is the figure of spinsterhood we all fear and is used by Dickens as a sexist warning to women and a general reminder that we must not close our hearts to life because by dwelling on the negative we lose sight of the positive. Hope permeates throughout David Copperfield is Rosa Dartle is a reminder of what becomes of an individual who abandons hope. Read more...

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Agnes-David-Dora Love Triangle

(...) But Agnes, angel that she is, has her dark side. In nurturing her father by overlooking his alcoholism, she brings on the tragedy meted out by Uriah Heep; in modern parlance Agnes can very well be called Literature's Greatest Enabler. This should not blind the reader to her emotional strength with David; instead it humanizes Agnes to a degree. Without her character flaws, she would be so angelic as to be nauseating. Like Dora, Agnes is also irresistable--but in a different way (...) Read more...

mhearn @ the David Copperfield Community

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Are we a school?

Zeron writes: 

I am a Korean. 27. I like Latin that is one of the ancient languages. Teach me. I want to be learned by members and talk about wisdom and philosophy

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What about Seymour's poems?

Chad writes: 

In "Seymour: an introduction", he [Salinger] writes of a book of his brother's poems, was that book ever published, if so what is the title?

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No, I don't think Salinger ever published such a book. I was thinking that it would be among his projects all these years, but maybe this is only our wish and not Salinger's intention... - E

Christian mysticism

Oskoueiyan writes: 

Hello, I am a student in the field of philosophy and islamic theology(kalam) in Iran. I want to know more about Christian Mysticism specially about Eckhart.

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See excerpts from Meister Eckhart's works (in German or Latin) at the excellent http://www.eckhart.de/. It also includes biographical and educational information - all downloadable to read off-line! Scholarly edited and beautifully designed, a site that loves its subject, a pure example of web publishing! 

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