"Zu ihr! Zu ihr!"

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αλιζάρι: κόκκινη βαφή, συνήθως χρησιμοποιούμενη για τη βαφή των κόκκινων αυγών του Πάσχα που προέρχεται από τις ρίζες του ερυθρόδανου του βαφικού (Rubia tinctorum).  Η χρήση του ριζαριού εγκαταλείφθηκε όταν η χημική βιομηχανία παρήγαγε την ένωση ανιλίνη που έδινε το ίδιο αποτέλεσμα.

Ετυμολογία: αλιζάρι < γαλλική alizari < καταλανικά alitzari < αραβική العصارة (αλ-ιζαρα: χυμός, εκχύλισμα)

(ίσως < ριζάρι < μεσαιωνική ελληνική ριζάριον < αρχαία ελληνική ῥίζα)

What thou lovest well remains,

                                   the rest is dross

What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

Whose world, or mine or theirs

                             or is it of none?

[10-3-58. A.E. Matthews Continues His "Lamp-Post-Protest".. Eighty nine year old actor A.E. Matthews is staging a "sit-down-strike" outside his three hundred year old cottage in Bushey Lane, Bushey, Herta. He is determined that the local council shall not install a modern lamp-post.. He says he will sit alongside the hole-in which the post is to be fixed-continuously until the Council changes its mind.  See also: https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/972060551177261057]

Τελειώσαμε και μείναμε μονάχοι...

First came the seen, then thus the palpable

     Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell

Τα πάντα μέσα σου γίναν ερείπια σαν βιβλική καταστροφή, γιατί ο δρόμος που έχεις πάρει γράφει "χωρίς επιστροφή".

Είσαι δεν είσαι δεκαεννέα κι έχεις γεράσει πριν γίνεις νέα. Είσαι δεν είσαι παιδί ακόμα. Πες μου, παιδί μου, τι θες στο χώμα.

Σαν σάπιο μήλο είν’ η καρδιά σου,

το βλέμμα σου καμένη γη, φτερά σπασμένα τα όνειρά σου κι όλο το σώμα μια πληγή.

«Οι χαρταετοί που μας φύγαν απ’ το χέρι είναι τυφλά μωρά στον ουρανό» Θάνος Σταθόπουλος

"That's how I found myself for the first time in this city. As it turned out, there was nothing particularly auspicious or ominous about this arrival of mine. If that night portended anything at all, it was that I'd never possess this city; but then I never had any such aspiration." 

Joseph Brodsky, Watermark - An Essay on Venice

 “I've embraced the fact that most people watch movies on their electronic devices. I do myself.

So I think about the picture a little bit differently. It kind of suits me, anyway, because even in the '80s, when

I started making films, I knew that I had the most fun doing scenes of people talking to each other

or other small activities.

And I noticed that television back then—good television—did that really well.

My impulse was not to make the widescreen extravaganza-type thing.

So now I'm back in a world where people are really watching movies on small formats and close-up works well.” 

Hal Hartley 

Amalia Moutoussi IN The Devouring Eyes, 2000, Dir. Syllas Tzoumerkas

Bronson Dudley IN Trees Lounge, 1996, Dir. Steve Buscemi

"Filmmakers thought the end of the world was happening when sound was invented." Hal Hartley