Broken Beggars …
Living (2022) is a film adapted from Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), itself inspired by Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich … read the complete review here …
Art & Literature
Art – Literature – Music – Movies
The Hours …
… this opera is an immersive portrayal of depression, grief, trauma, loss, and suicide of three different women in different eras and locations in which we learn, and experience what many of our own friends, family, and patients go through.
Severance …
… a genre defying series that enables us to see a contemporary cultural construct — work-life balance — from new and different vantage points.
on delayed gratification …
W.H. Auden’s As I Walked Out One Evening … among other themes, Auden is speaking to delayed gratification … seemingly epidemic among physicians … ‘O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time …
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Ilyich … lessons on covid
Tolstoy in the Time of Covid … … lessons from reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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Ikiru …
Inspired by a Tolstoy novella, Kurosawa produces a masterpiece dealing with a topic which every human grapples with at one time or another, but which we all choose to ignore. Set in the times of the aftermath of the second world war, the movie chronicles the journey of a Japanese civic clerk coming to terms
giving thanks for pain …
… John Tavener died this past fall … Plough obituary … NYT obituary … For the last six years of his life, Tavener was crippled and in constant pain. Already suffering from Marfan syndrome, a congenital disease that affected his heart, eyes, and muscles, he suffered a series of heart attacks which he barely survived.
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weaned from our bodies …
We sicken before we die so that we will be weaned from our body. The milk that nourished us grows thin and sour; turning away from the breast, we begin to be restless for a separate life. Yet this first life, this life on earth, on the body of earth – will there, can there
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it’s a wonderful life …
… and suicide. On watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” last night, I was struck by many things. But maybe most of all by the accuracy of its portrayal of the suicide. As Paul McHugh says in The Mind Has Mountains … “Most suicidally depressed patients are not rational individuals who have weighed the balance sheet
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the death of ivan ilyich …
… a new translation, done as the translator himself was dying.
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