मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण"

समर्थ शिष्या अक्का : "स्वामीच्या कृपाप्रसादे हे सर्व नश्वर आहे असे समजले. पण या नश्वरात तमाशा बहुत आहे."

G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”

C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."

Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”

सदानंद रेगे: "... पण तुकारामाची गाथा ज्या धुंदीनं आजपर्यंत वाचली जात होती ती धुंदी माझ्याकडे नाहीय. ती मला येऊच शकत नाही याचं कारण स्वभावतःच मी नास्तिक आहे."

".. त्यामुळं आपण त्या दारिद्र्याच्या अनुभवापलीकडे जाऊच शकत नाही. तुम्ही जर अलीकडची सगळी पुस्तके पाहिलीत...तर त्यांच्यामध्ये त्याच्याखेरीज दुसरं काही नाहीच आहे. म्हणजे माणसांच्या नात्यानात्यांतील जी सूक्ष्मता आहे ती क्वचित चितारलेली तुम्हाला दिसेल. कारण हा जो अनुभव आहे... आपले जे अनुभव आहेत ते ढोबळ प्रकारचे आहेत....."

Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."

Tom Wolfe: "The first line of the doctors’ Hippocratic oath is ‘First, do no harm.’ And I think for the writers it would be: ‘First, entertain.’"

विलास सारंग: "… . . 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Monday, December 05, 2016

"नवल स्त्री"चा खास वाढदिवस...Birth of Wonder Woman 75 Years Ago

75 years ago, in December 1941, 'Wonder Woman' was born 
 

Jill Lepore, ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman’, 2014:
“...(Gardner) Fox’s Wonder Woman was a secretary in a swimsuit. (William Moulton)  Marston’s Wonder Woman was a Progressive Era feminist, charged with fighting evil, intolerance, destruction, injustice, suffering, and even sorrow, on behalf of democracy, freedom, justice, and equal rights for women. In 1942, when Fox’s Wonder Woman was typing up the minutes to meetings of the Justice Society, Marston’s Wonder Woman was organizing boycotts, strikes, and political rallies...” 
  
Los Angeles Times, September 29 2016:
“'Wonder Woman' writer Greg Rucka confirms superhero is queer.”


Lynda Carter, star of the TV series Wonder Woman, from 1975 to 1979. 

Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex

Recently I watched 'Wonder Woman', 2009

I really loved the way the film opened with following frames depicting the dialogue between Ares and Hippolyta....they way Hippolyta tells Ares how he was no good in the sack



 courtesy: Warner Bros. Animation,  DC Comics

It was interesting to read in The Guardian on July 15 2016 that "Wonder Woman artist Frank Cho quits in row over ‘vulgar’ cover".

Annys Shin described Mr. Cho for The Washington Post thus:

“Frank Cho is at his first comic book signing in Paris doing something he excels at: drawing women's breasts.

This particular set is spilling out of a bikini top as the young man who requested the sketch looks on. But as the 20 or so other men behind him in line well know, Cho is capable of drawing almost any permutation: breasts in profile, breasts under T-shirts, breasts amplifying superhero logos, and so on. And they all have one thing in common: their disproportionate size. For Cho, 38, who grew up in Beltsville, the son of Korean immigrants, the alphabet starts with two letters, both of them D...”


Artist: Frank Cho

Photograph Frank Cho / DC Comics

2 comments:

A Spectator said...

Both of them D, इथे काही pun आहे का?

Aniruddha G. Kulkarni said...

I did not understand it but I did not intend any pun...Wonder Woman is all D anyway