Necessary Looking

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,500+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"... श्रीमंत बाळासाहेब पंतप्रतिनिधी : "बहुश्रुतता असल्याशिवाय सुसंस्कृतता नाही"

Monday, September 16, 2024

Lauren Bacall@100

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#LaurenBacall100 Lauren Bacall Billboard, 1948 King Syndicate  illustration by Dal Holcomb
Friday, September 13, 2024

Rajnigandha, 1974@50...Early Sprouts of Different Love?

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Katherine J. Chen, ‘In Praise of “Plain” Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister ‘, Literary Hub, July 23 2018: “...Could ...
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Monday, September 09, 2024

Jane Greer@100...Still In the Present

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When I had not read any of the below stuff, I was swept off my feet by Greer's performance when I first saw  Out of the Past, 1947 ...  ...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

An Ordinary Day and A Special Day

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 Philip Larkin's Days What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be ha...
Monday, September 02, 2024

Carol Reed& Graham Greene's 'The Third Man' @75...Orson Welles and James McNeill Whistler

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I must have seen The Third Man a few times. What I like most about it is portrayal of Europe after WWII. And its darkness.  John Gray, Augus...
Friday, August 30, 2024

How was The Son of Man Conceived?

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 I laughed my head off when I saw this on Feb 22 2024...  artist: Dan Misdea    The Son of Man, 1964 by René Magritte
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Make a Racket, Perpetuate the Species, and Die...

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  artist: Caitlin Cass
Saturday, August 24, 2024

The Vast Majority of Humans Today have Never Seen an Unpolluted, Natural Night Sky

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  तारारूपाणि यानीह दृश्यन्ते द्युतिमन्ति वै । दीपवद् विप्रकृष्टत्वादणूनि सुमहान्त्यपि ॥३.४३.३०॥  ( महाभारत, आरण्यकपर्व) " The luminous ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Philip Ball's Enjoyable Drubbing of Richard Dawkins

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John Gray: "...In a well-known passage at the end of Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud declared: “I have not the courage...
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