21-11-2009, 10:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-11-2009, 10:33 PM by Helen Reyes.)
David: Nasrudin aka Hasrudin is the famous sufi sage/mystic/jokester. If memory serves his real life personality was from Afghanistan or nearby. The famous sayings all come back in a rush: Nasrudin instructs his students to ride on a horse sitting backwards into the desert without thinking of the horse's left eye. Or one day Nasrudin walks into a shop, walks up to the proprietor and asks "Have you ever seen me before in your life?" "No, sir!" "Then how do you know it's me??" etc etc.
On Murti-Bing, I think Milosz said exactly what you did about it being the Taoist pill of immortality (ma huang and ginkgo pits/silver apricots aren't good enough for them I guess), but I don't have a copy of his book handy to check.
I thought Roger Rabbit was horrible, incidentally, and never understood why it got so much praise. Unless of course you happened to work on it, in which case it was a fine film, perhaps overly ambitious, but not my cupa.
On Murti-Bing, I think Milosz said exactly what you did about it being the Taoist pill of immortality (ma huang and ginkgo pits/silver apricots aren't good enough for them I guess), but I don't have a copy of his book handy to check.
I thought Roger Rabbit was horrible, incidentally, and never understood why it got so much praise. Unless of course you happened to work on it, in which case it was a fine film, perhaps overly ambitious, but not my cupa.
