Clips from the movie adaptation of the book, The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
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The Strangest Books We’ve Ever Read – Part 1
There are some bizarre books out there, and we’ve been asked to list those that are “too strange to be of interest to a well-adjusted human being”, mentioned in the shop description. Here’s a list, then, of ten of our weirdest, in a weekly series. Aghora: At the Left Hand of God – Robert Svoboda […]
Continue readingObsessed With The Mahabharata
The Mahabharata has to be one of the most amazing epics in the history of Mankind. It’s often been compared with Homer’s Odyssey and Illiad, but The Mahabharata is older, more massive, and has been kept much more alive, by South and Southeast Asian traditions, in unbroken chains of transmission.
Continue readingThe Great Attractor
The Great Attractor
Continue readingIndian Art, Ellora Caves, and Zechariah Sitchin
Cataloguing the book Indian Art and the Art of Ceylon, Central and South-east Asia reminded me of the amazing Ellora Caves in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, which is a complex of some 32 Hindu, Buddhist and Jain caves.
Continue readingThe Duchess of Malfi, 1972 production
Thank you, Youtube and Youtube users, for uploading the 1972 production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi!
Continue readingThe Wondrous Travels of Ibn Battuta
When I was studying history in school, I remember reading the one mention of Ibn Battuta in our insipid textbook, which contained almost nothing outside the bounds of British colonialism and Singapore independence. Yet even then, I was curious about this 14th century Ibn Battuta character, in the same way I was curious about Marco […]
Continue readingA Lecture By William S. Burroughs from Youtube
From Youtube A lecture by William S. Burroughs including a tape recorded experiment called “Paranormal Voices,” a cut-up experiment of Brion Gysin, experiments with Sommerville, messages from dreams, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and phrases of minimal context. Burroughs also discusses Shakespeare, computers, Homer, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Carl Jung. Lecture […]
Continue readingSocial Scientists and Weird Titles
There are some books out there with titles and author’s names (or their pen-names) that really make you question the sanity of Mankind in general, and writers in particular. Maybe I’m too straight-laced, but isn’t Menstrual Politics in Malaysia a little too esoteric, not to mention spacey, to write an entire book on? Needless to […]
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