Neferisis
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Just a dreamer holding on to what is precious: hope
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Post by Neferisis on Jan 13, 2011 21:18:05 GMT 8
Lynette, I found your cards in the web! You're right, the Caselli Tarot is not well known. The subtle colors of its drawings are so pleasant to the eye. However, the Renata Herber Tarot I couln't find on the net. Perhaps it is a collectionists' tarot? ¿What your favorite spread or way of reading, Lynette? The celtic cross is my specialty  It goes directly to the issue but provides some context. I usually leave 3 cards at every point of the cross.  |
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Post by lynette on Jan 13, 2011 21:19:18 GMT 8
I love books! Reading has been my greatest passion since I was wee, and I got a whole wall of my sitting room lined with bookshelves. I long gave up on keeping them systematically stacked, tho, chaotic person that I am ^-^. Just grabbing some of what´s in my reach: 1. Richard Adams - Watership Down 2. Mark Frost - The List of Seven 3. Connie Willis - Doomsday Book 4. Monica Ali - Brick Lane 5. Peter Hoeg - Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee 6. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell 7. Simon Totfield - Simon´s Cat 8. Schilddorfer & Weiss - Narr 9. Peter Robb - M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio 10. Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey 9th Peter Robb - M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio I have a question about what is this book?  Hans played a few years ago, the painter Caravaggio. ;D |
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Post by jenny on Jan 13, 2011 21:19:22 GMT 8
1.- Poetry: The Captain Verses by Pablo Neruda. 5.- Short Stories by Jorge Luis Borges. I had to read Neruda and Borges at University for a Spanish lit class that I took. I had a scary Chilean die-hard lit teacher that made their work come alive. Not only did she make us study their work, but their life and back grounds. It was really interesting to learn about them - they wrote some interesting stuff. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 13, 2011 22:02:50 GMT 8
Lynette, I found your cards in the web! You're right, the Caselli Tarot is not well known. The subtle colors of its drawings are so pleasant to the eye. However, the Renata Herber Tarot I couln't find on the net. Perhaps it is a collectionists' tarot? ¿What your favorite spread or way of reading, Lynette? The celtic cross is my specialty It goes directly to the issue but provides some context. I usually leave 3 cards at every point of the cross. Renata Herber Tarot Cards www.knihajilemnice.cz/renata-herber-poselstvi-tarotu/d-24466/, unfortunately, I not found a better link.... I use different kinds of interpretations, but most have the most simple - three card tarot reading. Or just the one card. I am using more and more difficult interpretation only if I resolve when I have something important. But the amateurs are more simple types of interpretations. I have books in many different kinds of interpretations about life, and I know some wonderful web sites with interpretations.  |
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Post by Gg on Jan 13, 2011 22:20:16 GMT 8
On the decidedly less high brow side -- LOVE Simon's Cat!!!!
I've read a couple of Merisi's biographies, but not this one. Is it comparable to SACRED AND PROFANE or PAINTER OF MIRACLES?
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Post by Gg on Jan 13, 2011 22:59:51 GMT 8
Jenny's back!
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Neferisis
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Post by Neferisis on Jan 14, 2011 3:51:41 GMT 8
I love books! Reading has been my greatest passion since I was wee, and I got a whole wall of my sitting room lined with bookshelves. I long gave up on keeping them systematically stacked, tho, chaotic person that I am ^-^. Just grabbing some of what´s in my reach: 1. Richard Adams - Watership Down 2. Mark Frost - The List of Seven 3. Connie Willis - Doomsday Book 4. Monica Ali - Brick Lane 5. Peter Hoeg - Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee 6. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell 7. Simon Totfield - Simon´s Cat 8. Schilddorfer & Weiss - Narr 9. Peter Robb - M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio 10. Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey What an interesting list... since I haven't read any of those fantasy and historical fiction authors. But I will, or at least I'll try I'd begin the list by reading "The Man Who Became Caravaggio" imagining Hans Matheson is playing this character again  |
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Post by Gg on Jan 14, 2011 4:02:13 GMT 8
this should help with that:
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Neferisis
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Post by Neferisis on Jan 14, 2011 4:02:55 GMT 8
1.- Poetry: The Captain Verses by Pablo Neruda. 5.- Short Stories by Jorge Luis Borges. I had to read Neruda and Borges at University for a Spanish lit class that I took. I had a scary Chilean die-hard lit teacher that made their work come alive. Not only did she make us study their work, but their life and back grounds. It was really interesting to learn about them - they wrote some interesting stuff. Hi Jenny! ;D Ha ha! I bet your teacher was very dramatic! Borges is imaginative and fantasy like, while Neruda is very political and romantic. Did you watch the movie "Il Postino"? |
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Neferisis
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Post by Neferisis on Jan 14, 2011 4:06:15 GMT 8
On the decidedly less high brow side -- LOVE Simon's Cat!!!! I've read a couple of Merisi's biographies, but not this one. Is it comparable to SACRED AND PROFANE or PAINTER OF MIRACLES? Ha ha ha! That's exactly how my black cat was ;D |
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Post by Gg on Jan 14, 2011 4:09:26 GMT 8
great movie! I'm with Isis, you should watch "Il Postino" if you haven't... and all things Italian...  just as a general rule |
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Post by Gg on Jan 14, 2011 4:21:28 GMT 8
you're watching that Bathory trailer right now, aren't you?!!
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Post by cat on Jan 14, 2011 4:50:21 GMT 8
you're watching that Bathory trailer right now, aren't you?!! Yes. And very good it is too! EDIT:Really liked the Simon's Cat video you posted aswell Gg. I've seen those vids before ages ago. You reminded me of them again. Thanks! |
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Post by cat on Jan 14, 2011 4:57:38 GMT 8
Whilst on the subject of Tarot Cards, I have always been interested in possibly buying a set of Angel Cards. I know they are made, but I don't seem to be able to find any. I saw one pack of them years ago and nothing since unfortunately.
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Post by bubastis on Jan 14, 2011 6:10:45 GMT 8
Simon´s Cat never fails to make me laugh >^.^<.
About the Robb book on Caravaggio some of you have asked about: it a kind of slightly speculative biography, especially in the end about his death. But it´s a very good read, entertaning and it gives you the feeling to get to know the man, as both a painter and a person.
Caravaggio is my favourite artist (I blame it on Jarman´s movie and Nigel Terry´s powerful performance), and I was so so thrilled to learn Hans has played him...but the Bathory movie was a let-down to me, because of the inaccurate way Caravaggio himself was written (like he brought the Madonna of the Rosary to Vienna himself and him saying the signed all his pictures with the name Caravaggio...which he did not). But I guess I can accept it as ficition for the sake of the story ^-^. And I liked Hans´ performance, of course, it makes me kinda wish he´d reprise the role in a real biography piece and show us a Caravaggio with all the energy, anger and complexity of the man. He´d be divine. (sorry for me rambling away)
Gg, I have read neither Sacred or profane or Painter of miracles yet, but I put them on my to-get list ^-^. Do you know the one by Helen Langdon? I thought it was quite good, too.
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It goes directly to the issue but provides some context. I usually leave 3 cards at every point of the cross.
Hans played a few years ago, the painter Caravaggio. ;D
just as a general rule