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RonPrice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 34 Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: INEXPLICABLE ELEGANCIES What Paul Johnson writes here about my writing task applies equally to the creative activity of the architect. "All writing is hard," writes Johnson, "Creative writing is intellectual drudgery of the hardest kind. Creative innovation, particularly on a fundamental level, requires a still more exceptional degree of concentration and energy. To spend one’s entire working life continually advancing the creative frontiers in one’s art implies a level of self-discipline and intellectual industry which few writers have ever possessed." Ron Price with thanks to Paul Johnson, “Henrik Ibsen”, Intellectuals, Harper and Row, NY, 1988, p.82. It took me twenty years to find a voice and ten more to get tone and timbre right to use at a fundamental level. After these few years devoted to advancing a Baha’i consciousness in world literature, I am aware of the concentration and energy required; and there is an element of drudgery, especially the exhaustion from an orgy of acquisitive reading and the long hours, but there is some enchantress in the soul, in the dreams, flinging open the doors of perception, passing through me like storm-winds, pressing upon the architecture of my beliefs with its transforming power, searching for nameless and inexplicable elegancies. __________ That's all folks! _________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 65. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. He has been a Baha'i for 50 years.
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mx2 millennium club Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 1977 Location: Miami, Florida	Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:48 pm    Post subject: "searching nameless and inexplicable elegancies..." That's very poetic...I am enamored with the text. I suppose to be twixted by the mysteries of life often is more satisfying than trying to unearth an answer for everything...it's beautiful. Marvelous... mx2.5 _________________ *Art of Architecture: The conscious use of skill and creative imagination in the production of an aesthetic building. *Science of Architecture: The calculated use of technical skill and knowledge in the construction of a functional building.
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Landy Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 462	Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:05 pm    Post subject: Why did you used all Caps for your suject line? Tell me of a good typewriter, the kind I can take to restaurants (no laptops)? Why do you have the urge to address the intellectual on the architecture forum? My favorite movie regarding the life of a writer is the Shining, what is yours?
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RonPrice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 34 Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:52 am    Post subject: Belated Replies Anyone who appreciates my poetic stream always gives me a sense of gratitude. So: thanks. As far as caps are concerned, there are several reasons: (1) it's a requirement at some sites, (b) sometimes it seems aesthetically pleasing, (c) sometimes it seems a useful form of emphasis. I have not used a typewriter since 1985 and have little knowledge of the form of technology. Much of my writing is, as you say, a seeming address to the intellectually inclined. I think this is largely due to the fact that I write to please myself and, as a man aged 63 who has spent 50 years in classrooms and read more books than I can count--I tend to address the intellectual in myself. I don't really have a favorite movie. I've been watching movies now for 60 years, have notes in my study on close to 100 of them, have written about several dozen of them on various internet sites. I might post one here since you are the first person to ask me in recent years: ______________________ STORIES DIEING AND STAYING ALIVE Do you remember watching The Count of Monte Cristo? There have been many screen versions and TV series. It has been estimated that the story has been filmed every 18 months since 1920. An adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, it is often considered his best work. He completed the writing of the book in 1844. Dumas got the idea for his book from a true story. He found the story in a memoir by a man named Jacques Peuchet. Dumas’ story takes place between 1814 and 1838 in Europe.-Ron Price with thanks to “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Wikipedia Online, June 15th 2006. I remember watching this story back in the fifties when we first got our TV and I was knee-high to a grasshopper as they say….. I got involved in something else that had its start in 1844---or---- should I say my mother got into this Movement with a story that went back to---let’s see---1793 but led up to a climax in 1844. One story was mainly in France and the other in Persia. Both are adventure stories dealing with justice, mercy, forgiveness, intense, near-obsessed men who suffer at the hands of fate. Time passed; I grew older—old; the Count of Monte Cristo was on TV again in 2002 and again last night here in Tasmania and I had lost interest in the story, but that other one that went back to 1844, to Shiraz, to the figure of The Bab stayed alive, but it had never been on television— was that what kept it in my mind and imagination for 50 years? RonPrice July 15th 2006 MATRIX.doc  Description: Download  Filesize:  25.5 KB  Downloaded:  1110 Time(s) _________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 65. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. He has been a Baha'i for 50 years. Last edited by RonPrice on Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:55 pm; edited 1 time in total
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solidred Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 728 Location: Scotland	Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:34 am    Post subject: Quietly evangelical, Ron. "but there is some enchantress in the soul, in the dreams, flinging open the doors of perception, passing through me like storm-winds" are my favourite lines, though, me being something of a mushy old romantic. Say, though, a force for good were to transform all persons of all nations into a peaceful unity. All good up to this point. But therein lies the danger: the whole of humanity would then be laid open, exposed, to one destructive idea, as a person exposed to no germs would build for themselves no immunity from attack. Ergo, we may not live, 'in the best of all possible worlds' as Voltaire's Pangloss gleefully declares, but I still do not see a single solution, well-intentioned though those offerings may be.
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RonPrice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 34 Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:45 am    Post subject: Thanks to Solidred Apologies for taking so many months-years to reply, Solidred. As you say and so it would be that: "the whole of humanity would then be laid open, exposed, to one destructive idea, as a person exposed to no germs would build for themselves no immunity from attack." There would still be germs, there would still be evil men and evil deeds, perfection being illusive. The subject is complex. I trust you still exist at this site.-Ron _________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 65. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. He has been a Baha'i for 50 years.
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solidred Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 728 Location: Scotland	Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:50 am    Post subject: I don't contribute to this forum as much as I used to, but I still check it out every week or so. Thanks for your response, Ron. I like the way you phrased 'the intellectual in myself' [my emphasis] back in your earlier post. It allows for the straightforward possibility of communication between the intellectual in me, an architect and the intellectual in you, a teacher, without either of us having to hide behind or battle with claims to esoteric knowledge, whether we possess it or not.
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RonPrice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 34 Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:20 pm    Post subject: Esoteric Knowledge One thing about living in Australia, solidred, as I have done for the last 38 years, is that it levels-out any claims to or efforts in the direction of esotericism. You have to be an everyday sort of guy here to survive--this is especially true as a teacher. Still, now in my retirement, I read all sorts of things which I never talk about with my friends and associations. These people would see much of what I read as esoteric--if they knew what the word meant. Autumn has arrived here and with it the rain as spring has come to your part of the world, I suppose. -Ron _________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 65. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. He has been a Baha'i for 50 years.
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