Now I am a lake... http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/ ... A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is ..." by Sylvia Plath en Copyright 2008 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:16:08 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss writing is a physical act, and to keep in trim, you should practice daily.

from a book called "practical guide to writing"

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/06/post_17.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/06/post_17.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:16:08 +0000 However, Rippert also said in the article that he could not be certain of the identity of the French pilot whose plane he shot down. He also hoped it was not the French author as he was a big fan of Saint-Exupery's works.


father_and_son.jpg

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/03/post_15.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/03/post_15.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:24:41 +0000 Father and Son _ Where are you now?
_ I...
I see trees,
there's a path...
_ Are you still over there?
_ the sun...
_ Where is it?
_ It's beautiful.
_ Am I over there?
_ No,
I'm all alone.

father_and_son.jpg

a film by: Alexander Sokurov

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/03/father_and_son.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/03/father_and_son.html Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:23:42 +0000 on Writing "Read, read,read. Read everything-trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! you'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."(William Faulkner)

Imitation is one of the best ways of learning. Is it not by copying that most painters acquire their skill? In the field of writing too, a great deal can be learnt by following the style of certain writers. It forces you to study a model, and gives you the framework within which to write, whilst still allowing you to be fully imaginative and creative. It is therefore a first step on the way to free writing.

from Writing for Advanced Learners of English
by Francoise Grellet

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/01/on_writing.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2008/01/on_writing.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:06:35 +0000 ...In a land of zero degree
which is neither east nor west
has neither day nor night
which is neither cold nor warm
I learned the feeling of exile

"Wong Kar-wai"

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/12/post_14.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/12/post_14.html Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:17:26 +0000 Harbinger a person or thing showing that something is going to happen or is on its way:

Daffodils are a harbinger of spring.
Cock is the harbinger of the dawn.

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/12/harbinger.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/12/harbinger.html word of the day Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:13:50 +0000 Some write to remember,
some write to forget,

Welcome to the hotel california !
such a lovely place !
such a lovely place !!

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/11/post_13.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/11/post_13.html Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:24:31 +0000 " I waited on the corner for my blind date. When this girl walked by, I said, " Are you Linda?" She said " Are you Richard?" " I said,"yeah". She said," I'm not Linda."

Richard Prince- 1991

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/10/post_12.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/10/post_12.html Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:28:21 +0000 Pierrot le fou --- I wonder what's keeping the cops. We should be in jail by now.

--- They're smart... They let people destroy themselves.


 

from the film : Pierrot Le Fou by Godard

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/09/pierrot_le_fou.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/09/pierrot_le_fou.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:21:42 +0000 “We were sometimes seized by an urge to kill our love affair before it had reached its natural end, a murder committed not out of hatred, but out of an excess of love-- or rather, out of the fear that an excess of love may bring. Lovers may kill their own love story only because they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered.”

from" On Love " by du Botton- page 163

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/08/post_11.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/08/post_11.html Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:26:27 +0000 Prenom Carmen - When everything's been lost, but it's daybreak and yet we are still breathing....
- It's called sunrise, miss.

 

form the film "Prenom Carmen" by Godard

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/prenom_carmen.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/prenom_carmen.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:54:58 +0000 Une femme est une femme - Is this a tragedy or a comedy?
- you never know with women.

 

from the film : Une femme est une femme

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/une_femme_est_une_femme.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/une_femme_est_une_femme.html Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:48:08 +0000 " She really was adorable [thought the lover, at th pinnacle of subjective judgment]. But how could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like love or devotion or infatuation were exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, by the layers imposed on them through the uses of others. At the moment when I most wanted language to be original, personal, and completely private, I came up against the irrevocably public nature of the language of the heart."

Page 103- from On Love by Alain de Botton

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/post_10.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/07/post_10.html books Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:55:48 +0000 On Love " The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [ we soon feel ungreatful ] or those who never allow us to kiss them [ we soon forget them ] , but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes."

from : On Love by Alain de Botton
page 27.

 

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/06/on_love.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/06/on_love.html books Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:53:08 +0000 I am so sorry, I didn't want to ping this blog. It was a mistake.

]]> http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/04/post_9.html http://www.maryammomeni.com/englishblog/2007/04/post_9.html Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:34:39 +0000