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Ozu-san was committed to anti-cinema; he was a person who denied all the prestige and attractions of motion pictures as a new medium. He worried that framing out and visualizing the actual conditions of the world with cameras would confuse the order of the world. He would never accept the motion pictures’ dominance, its power to restrict its viewers from useless and gratuitous gazes. Moreover, Ozu-san sensed that the movement of time was unrecognizable. For him, if the whole life of a person or a trip to the edge of outer space is told in nothing more than a two-hour screening time, it is merely a counterfeit that deceives our eyes. Ozu-san opposed the conventional ways of cinematic expression, but he simultaneously and endlessly loved cinema. He brilliantly lived with this contradiction.

Yoshida Kiju, “Ozu’s Anti-Cinema” p35

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“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”

— Beau Taplin

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Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593)

English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe’s mysterious early death. Marlowe’s plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Reproduction of title page from The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. Written by Ch. Mar[low] 1604. The Tudor Facsimilie Texts. Under the Supervision and Editorship of John S. Farmer. Issued for the Subscribers by the Editor of The Tudor Facsimile Texts, 1914.

“The only copy traced of this, the earliest known edition, is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from which the present facsimile has been taken. The negatives for this reproduction were made by The Clarendon Press, Oxford.”

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Remember THIS aspiring writers

You are SUPPOSED to suck in the beginning. This is normal and to be expected. All your neuroticism stems from public school. JUST RELAX.

Don’t assume that you have a lack of talent because your writing doesn’t shine from day one or even year one. Good things take time.

Forgive yourself for every single creative and rhetorical mistake you have made in the past. Your job is not to be superhuman, but to be constantly learning and improving in various and important ways over the course of years. So again…RELAX.

Your development is not linear but quite unpredictable. You might think that you are going nowhere — or only slowly improving — but a big breakthrough can literally come out of nowhere when you least expect it (in your ideas, imagery, and rhetoric)

Do not, for God sake, stare into a blank screen or an empty piece of paper and expect yourself, by yourself, to come up with amazing material. Have some great quotes and passages by your side that can inspire your thoughts and stimulate your emotions and that you can either try to imitate or that can lead you to some kind of improvisation.

Meditation, exercise, and a good diet, will give you a huge advantage as a writer and make it much easier for you to get into an inspired and creative state. I will, in later posts, speak more in detail upon these three subjects. For now, just try to be as healthy as possible and use your common sense in that regard.

You might wonder why all your experiences, all your wisdom, all your reading, all that have touched you in this life or in art, doesn’t seem to really affect your writing in the way you hoped it should. I found this extremely depressing when I started to write poetry eight months ago. I literally began to believe that I wasn’t as intelligent and creative as I had first imagined. But here’s the truth: The more you read and write — and seriously reflect upon what you read and write — the easier it will become to implement into your writing everything you have learned and experienced in this life. You simply just have to strengthen the connection between your inner knowledge (of both the conscious and the subconscious mind) and your creative writing. This takes time. Hundreds of hours even. But you will eventually get there. Trust me.

There is, however, a creative poverty that could almost entirely stem from a lack of acquaintance with good reading material (especially the “belles-lettres”). If that is the case, that you simply cannot write, because you simply do not read, or do not not read the right stuff, then begin your studies today. You can start by reading the greatest lines of Bob Dylan by clicking here.

There is so much more to say, so much more advice to give, but this will be enough for today. I will just leave you with this all-important message: DO NOT EVER GIVE UP.