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RonPrice
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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Location: George Town Tasmania Australia
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject: INEXPLICABLE ELEGANCIES |
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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.
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That's all folks!
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Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 63. He taught for 35 years in pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary and seniors schools. |
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mx2
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Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Miami, Florida
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"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...
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*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: 428
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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
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Location: George Town Tasmania Australia
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: Belated Replies |
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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:
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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
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solidred
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
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Location: Scotland
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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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