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What are the implications of data dating instead of good old-fashioned phone calls?
With no shortage of demands competing for our time in an age of busy lifestyles, sometimes turning to our smartphones to communicate is unavoidable.
Perhaps we should instead ensure we turn away from our phones when we do score some precious alone time, […]
“Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.”
John Donne
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (French: La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 – “The Life of Adèle – Chapters 1 & 2”) is a 2013 French romantic coming-of-age drama film written, produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The film revolves around Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager who […]
“We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T. S. Eliot
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“One day in 1668, the English diarist Samuel Pepys went shopping for a book to give his young French-speaking wife. He saw a book he thought she might enjoy, L’École des femmes (The School of Women). But when he opened it, he discovered it to be “the most bawdy, lewd book that […]
“What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? … Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.”
Esther Perel
On a more serious note… a Perth photographer who was in the Ukraine when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down says the censorship of his work has deprived the victims of having their story told.
Veteran press photographer Bohdan Warchomij, who is of Ukrainian descent, had one of his most graphic photos pixilated without prior […]
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein
“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.”
Claude Chabrol
