خويي يزيد يحبها وقرّاني اياها واحنا في الطيارة.. لكن كلاسيكية وما حبيتها
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استوعبت للتو انه نفس كاتب رواية الشطرنج Chess وهي رواية مرة حبيتها.. اتفهّمخويي يزيد يحبها وقرّاني اياها واحنا في الطيارة.. لكن كلاسيكية وما حبيتها
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استوعبت للتو انه نفس كاتب رواية الشطرنج Chess وهي رواية مرة حبيتها.. اتفهّم تشابه البطلين في هوسهم العالي في أمر ما.. وعلى قولة يزيد، عجيب هوس الكاتب بالشخصيات ذات الهوس...more
أن تحيا، هو ما أردته لك. ألم أحملك فوق الماء؟ طالبوا السماء أن تنسى رحمتها، ودعوتك أنا أن لا تأتي بعد، فمملكتك لم تكن قد أتت بعد.
فلتبكي يا صغيري، فلا ذنأن تحيا، هو ما أردته لك. ألم أحملك فوق الماء؟ طالبوا السماء أن تنسى رحمتها، ودعوتك أنا أن لا تأتي بعد، فمملكتك لم تكن قد أتت بعد.
فلتبكي يا صغيري، فلا ذنب لك. ولا تحاول أن تتناسى اسمك، فهو مطبوعٌ على جبينك. و سر تحت الشمس، وسبّابتك مصوّبةٌ نحو وجوههم.
على المذبح، كان قدرك. وهل لإبن الإله إلا أن يُصلب، فتنمحي خطاياهم؟ لم تكن مجرد كبش فداء، بل كنت أنت الروح التي دقّت أجراس الساعة.
لم يدهشني، كل قصة من القصص القصيرة عبارة عن مفارقة بسيطة تم مطّها إلى باراقراف، وهالمفارقات أغلبها دراما وحلطمة وجودية
ما عجبتني اللغة، كما لو أنه مترجلم يدهشني، كل قصة من القصص القصيرة عبارة عن مفارقة بسيطة تم مطّها إلى باراقراف، وهالمفارقات أغلبها دراما وحلطمة وجودية
ما عجبتني اللغة، كما لو أنه مترجم للعربية..
أدناه بعض النصوص اللي أعجبتني -----
"لا ترمِ الهواء بالرصاص، قد تقتل صلاةً في طريقها"
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"وُلِد النرد بلا أرقام، وبلا أدنى رغبةٍ في الربح أو الخسارة."
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"يقضي الحائط جلّ وقته في التقصّي عن هوية الشاب في الصورة التي علّقوها في الأمس على الحائط المقابل. لا يبدو شبيهاً بأحد أفراد المنزل -هكذا تتهامس الجدران-"...more
كونديرا يجيد تصوّر وسرد دوافعنا وارتباكاتنا البشرية.
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- "ماذا أصابك يا ماما، يا إلهي! ماذا بك؟ سألها، ولمست في صوته حناناً لم تلمسه فيه منذ زمن بعيكونديرا يجيد تصوّر وسرد دوافعنا وارتباكاتنا البشرية.
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- "ماذا أصابك يا ماما، يا إلهي! ماذا بك؟ سألها، ولمست في صوته حناناً لم تلمسه فيه منذ زمن بعيد.
- لا شيء يا ياروميل، لا شيء". أجابت بصوت خنقه نحيب تتزايد حدّته، وقد شجعها ما أبدعاه الابن من اهتمام بها. ومرّة أخرى ذرفت عدة أنواع من الدموع: دموع الأسى، لأنها شعرت بنفسها مهجورة؛ ودموع العتاب، لأن ابنها يهملها؛ ودموع الأمل، لأنه ربما (تبعاً لجمل القصيدة الشجيّة) سيعود لها أخيرًا؛ ودموع الغضب، لأنه واقف أمامها بطريقة خرقاء، ولا يعمد حتى لمداعبة شعرها؛ ودموع المكر التي من شأنها أن تؤثر فيه، وتشده ليبقى بقربها....more
ما هي الهوية؟ "الهوية هي التشكّل التاريخي والمعرفي لصورة الذات"، يقول صديقي إبراهيم.
هل الآخرون هم من يعرّف الهوية؟ هل أن الهوية أصلاً هي الانعكاسات لذوما هي الهوية؟ "الهوية هي التشكّل التاريخي والمعرفي لصورة الذات"، يقول صديقي إبراهيم.
هل الآخرون هم من يعرّف الهوية؟ هل أن الهوية أصلاً هي الانعكاسات لذواتنا عند الآخرين؟ أم أن هذا يجعل الهوية الشكل السلوكي الظاهر لدى الآخرين؟ هل الهوية هي الأفكار والمفاهيم العميقة داخل وعينا؟ ...more
أحيانا أظنها قطعة من مشقة الطريق، وأحيانا أعتبرها عظمة ناتئة من جسدي تنخز الأرض و دائما آخذها معي في غفلة من الناس.
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ومرارا ألتقي بما ضيّعَهُ غيري وأضعُهأحيانا أظنها قطعة من مشقة الطريق، وأحيانا أعتبرها عظمة ناتئة من جسدي تنخز الأرض و دائما آخذها معي في غفلة من الناس.
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ومرارا ألتقي بما ضيّعَهُ غيري وأضعُهُ جانبا؛ مستغربا بحثَهم عنه لخفّتِه...
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هناك دائما ما يلهي ركبتك اليمنى لتصطدمَ بنفسِ الطاولة كُمَّ ثوبِك ليعلق في مقبضِ الباب أو جملة تركتها في غير مكانها.
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حجرٌ أخذ بيدي حيثما تهت وأظلّني في الغفلة، يندسّ صامتا في الفضة إن داهمني أحد، حينا يجرّني من ثوبي قبل مصافحة الأيدي فأشكّ أن كفّي ستخرج بيضاء.
**spoiler alert** Hardboiled, clever, and cynic, the recipe for film noir protagonist. I just love how noir-themed stories are full of subtext-rich di**spoiler alert** Hardboiled, clever, and cynic, the recipe for film noir protagonist. I just love how noir-themed stories are full of subtext-rich dialogues. Also, so many baddass femme fatales characters, noir be like!
The most thing I loved about the novel, is how everyone assumes Marlowe is looking for Regan lol. Then, turns out Regan was in big sleep all along.
Nonlinear and complex, yet not like Hercule Poirot where he is around the crime scene before it happened, which gives him easy lead, and usually the crime scene is in some mansion so the evidence is contained around. No, Marlowe was a real private detective! I love how Marlowe is thinking of suspects motives and builds on that, just like Hercule Poirot.
Marlowe couldn't decode the notebook, that's realistic unlike Sherlock. Raymond Chandler made a clever mystery story, he has the right to mock Sherlock and he actually did!
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I like how the first half of the film adaptation (1946) is almost word-for-word (except for minor shortcuts). It doesn't mean that the movie director was lazy in changing the scenes and dialogues to fit the screen better, it's that Raymond Chandler made a perfectly adaptable novel with realistic dialogues (unlike some novels where a character will go on talking for few pages, nobody does that in real life!) that heavily influenced Film Noir.
This is my second time to read a novel then watch the film adaptation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner was the first. That adaptation was heavily changed, major plot changes. But I can see why, length and inner thoughts being a major issue. The Big Sleep characters didn't have any inner thoughts (except for when Marlowe is narrating for us and sharing his thoughts with us), see why it's highly adaptable?...more
Very entertaining friendly-writing-style book that I couldn't put down till I read it all.
Did I really benefit from it in a business prospective? WellVery entertaining friendly-writing-style book that I couldn't put down till I read it all.
Did I really benefit from it in a business prospective? Well, at least indirectly. There are some similarities between what the author suggesting and that of Business Process Management course I took, it's like seeing BPM in action; delivering happiness (customer-satisfaction-oriented business)!
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مكتبة جرير مسترخصين بترجمة عنوان الكتاب. "ديليفرنق هابينس" ترجموها إلى "الوصول إلى السعادة"، هذا ليس ضعف بلغة المترجم لأن العنوان مذكور أكثر من مرة في نص الكتاب لكن تم ترجمته بشكل أدق إلى "تقديم السعادة". لاحظ أن العنوان الأنسب هو "تقديم السعادة" لأنه يدلل على أن الكتاب إداري (فكرة الكتاب هي أن التركيز على تقديم السعادة للزبون يجعل الشركة أنجح) بدلاً من عنوان "الوصول إلى السعادة" الذي يدلل بشكل خاطئ على أن الكتاب كتاب تطوير ذات مما يزيد من مبيعات جرير للكتاب..
لاحظ المفارقة: بالفعل سترتفع مبيعات الكتاب على المدى القصير لكن القارئ سيكتشف أن موضوع الكتاب مختلف عما أراد مما يحبطه و يثبّط من شرائه للكتب من مكتبة جرير، مكتبة جرير لا تعرف شيئاً عن تقديم السعادة (يبيلهم يقرون الكتاب)....more
**spoiler alert** "I bought a black Nubian goat, I have to retire three more andys.", in the novel this makes a lot of sense. Like come on, just from **spoiler alert** "I bought a black Nubian goat, I have to retire three more andys.", in the novel this makes a lot of sense. Like come on, just from the title, Do Androids Dream of Electrical Sheep, you know it's gonna be a hilarious story.
What I really love about this is how natural the world of the story is (unlike PKD's Man in High Castle). Just by the fact that andys are just like humans but lack empathy (does that make them psychopaths?) makes the story so much exciting. Cuz, how can you decide if it was a human or andy? Plus, some andys don't even know they are andys! The protagonist himself starts questioning whether he was a human or not.
From first few chapters I just didn't care how the story will end up, I was already satisfied with the world and so however the story ends up I will not complain.
So here we're following two characters, unlike MIHC, where the narration was following like 6 or 7 characters. Here and there you know all characters will clash somehow in the end. I would love if it was clash by effect like that movie Cloud Atlas and not that they eventually meet face-to-face. Anyways the second character (John Isidore) was so passive that his only purpose was to get the story going. Sure he was a "chickenhead" but on Kafka on The Shore there were 3 characters, one of them was so dumb yet a rememberable lovable active character.
So when the protagonist (the andys bounty hunter) slept with a female andy, he was no longer able to kill andys. This reminds me of Gilgamesh legend where there were a wild raised-by-animals "maugliash" man who got civilized and able to speak like humans only after sleeping with a woman (a prostitute sent by the king to civilize this beast who bothered hunters).
When the andys cut off 4 of the spider's 8 legs just to see (intellectually, heartlessly) if it can walk with 4 or not, that really bothered John (an empathetic human). This happened the same time the TV talk show host announced that Mercer was false, just a Hollywood star. This chapter was the climax of the under-story, the climax of the above-story is when the guns (laser tubes in this case) fire. I liked the Mercer myth ("the trip" myth in Robert Heinlein's Universe, another myth in a SF story, is much deeper and involved in the story), it's an important key to the story's message: Human = Empathy. Empathy to other humans, sheeps, spiders, and also andys if you're playing around. Mercer and his suffering and ascending myth with never die, even if revealed just to be a hollywood setup, because our humanity will never die. I see a strong connection between Mercer and Jesus (who died and suffered for our sins). I wonder if Nietzsche's Superman, who have no empathy for other men (because empathizing with someone means they are weak, they should be strong super-men!) and PKD's andys are the same!
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Ok so after few days of finishing the novel I watched the movie (Blade Runner, Final Cut).
***Movie Spoilers***
The movie adaptation is soooo different from the novel. The introduction was the scene where the other hunter was shot (Start Strong scene), not Deckard house with his wife and the mood organ, there was no wife or mood organs in the movie. No pets either, so Deckard didn't have the "I need to kill those andys in order to get the money to pay for a real pet" motive. He is just a retired blade runner (andys -replican- hunter). The singer was a dancer, but the seductive theme still there, obviously. But he shot her right there instead of her calling fake cups. There were no fake cups or that other hunter that Deckard cooperated with, so also there was no other tests than the empathy one, or the "sleep with an andy then kill it" like the other hunter used to say". So there were no so much of Deckard questioning whether he himself was an andy or not.
No Mercer myth, not so much "what makes us humans is empathy, emotions, love, etc.", it was a Terminatorish movie, as in "humans made superior machines that are going to kill them".
The really interesting thing is that the other main character (the chicken head), was one of the inventors of Nexus 6 (there is no electric pets hospital), a genius 25-years-old eccentric inventor who lives in an apartment full of machines and with a disease that makes him age faster, so he can't migrate outside Earth (this is the mention of outer space colonies apart from the rolling text in the beginning of the movie). The andys approach the inventor seeking reversion of "4 years to live" limitation. So the protagonist motivation to do the hunting is because the police is forcing him. The antagonist motivation is immortality (Gilgamesh, anyone?). In the novel, the andys were just trying to hide and live their lives and creating an underground for andys (in the movie they are really strong and only way Dickard survived the andys' leader was that the andy reached his expiration date).
I think the chickenhead character adaptation was the biggest headache for the movie's director. Changing the chickenhead meant no Mercer myth, no bug killing, the empathy theme was mostly lost. I really understand his decisions in shortcutting this 200 pages novel; it's full of events! Most of the focus in the characters and their developing is lost, no pre-war world references or even any mention of the war or that it sucks to live in Earth and that most animals are gone (so it's not that special to get a real goat as a pet, so no mentioning of pets at all in the movie). All of this and yet, the movie is 2 hours long!
In the end, a movie is a movie and a novel is a novel. Comparing them is like comparing a main course with a dessert, the movie is the dessert of course. I did like this thriller action movie called "Blade Runner" and not the "DADOEC"'s movie adaptation.
The director took full advantage of his medium, beautiful photography and a nostalgic 80s-synthetic-music soundtrack, just like that PKD took advantage of his medium with his characters inner thoughts and long dialogs....more
It was an easy read, took me 4 hours to finish it, a light language.
This is my first first-person narration novel (few chapters were in third person) It was an easy read, took me 4 hours to finish it, a light language.
This is my first first-person narration novel (few chapters were in third person) to read. Reading first few pages I thought it was the author's introduction then I found it was actually the novel.
The story was about nothing really. Just a guy telling us about his childhood and growing up (no wonder I though first chapter was the author talking about his childhood). Unlike Seinfeld the tv show (which is about nothing), this one sucked big time. It was a flat story from end to end. He could've stopped anywhere in the middle and you wouldn't get shocked. He did try to give a resolution at the end (Rita was an illusion, we all saw that coming, cliché 101) and he'a getting married to the girl he loves (after a chapter of how war sucks and how poverty too suck, I didn't like this chapter, too cliché too), but still, the ending sucked! I did enjoy the beginning however, the not-so-familiar-for-me firsr-person narration delivers huge amount of protaginst's emotions and train of thought. But after 50 pages I got bored.
There are some "surreal" elements in the novel (3:10, rita, the remains of the coffee/coffee cup reading), it reminds me of Kafka on the Shore, plus the erotica....more
Third book to read by Linda. A smooth read as you expect from her. (So smooth that I actually finished two books today, I've never even been able to fThird book to read by Linda. A smooth read as you expect from her. (So smooth that I actually finished two books today, I've never even been able to finish a book in one day not to mention two!). I was especially eager for this one and gladly I wasn't disappointed for subtexting is a skill I lack.
The understanding of subtext can, not only be used in writing scripts, but also in real life when interacting with others and trying to understand them. Of course movies/novels are all about human interaction; Agatha Christie is a genius in the field of human social relationships I always believed.
Text is just the tip of the iceberg of meaning. The way the text is said and the way it is delivered by voice and gestures (this applies to movies but not novels).
- Do you think this dress look nice? - yeah, it's fine. (You look fat in it)
Pauses can translate into subtext too - Are you okay? - yeah.... I'm fine. (I'm not okay)
Subtext can be told visually to tell character's backstory. From what the character is wearing we can tell what's her job and education. You can tell she is a nurse without the need for text. You can tell he has a bad past from the cuts in his face, without telling that explicitly.
Not to mention of course rain and lightning in horror movies, upbeat music in comedies, cliche sunset-beach-walk in romance. Also genres have their own subtext. If a house burns in a comedy you laugh, because he was so stupid and forget to turn off the oven....more