pleiades: 6/15/08

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e trete)
Nga Altin Topi

Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,
Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.

Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;

Locksley Hall Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Duke lexuar vargjet nga poema e njohur e Tennyson-it, Locksley Hall, kridhem perseri habitor si dikur, ne thellesi te hapsires e te viteve. Buze ujrave e ne reren e plazheve, mbremjeve pranverore, neteve te kthjellta, atehere kur syte e mi nuk kishin nevoje te ndihmoheshin nga teknologjia, shpesh ne endjet e mija, hidhja syte nga qielli.

A Living Metaphor

Culture is not static, culture is a living metaphor, culture changes, culture transforms. We should think about ourselves not simply as memes replicators of a given culture, we are the cultural agents of change. We are not some repository vessels of dusty cultural archeology; we are creators, artists, culture makers and transformers.

Nowadays, the Albanian culture is in complete disarray, in a total chaos. It is waiting for us to give it a new life, and draw again from its infinite complexity and the beauty therein. What would emerge, it should not be a recapitulation of the past, and it should not be a mere identity that has been recovered. What emerges, it should be a awareness of something new, an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development, which can be called a new Albanian Civilization.

The eXodus, the archetype of liberation and freedom, remains the spiritual landscape, the essence of our times. Although freedom today has become a sort of escapism, myriads of mental arcade games of escapism from the real world, the meaning of true freedom is being connected to the reality of freedom. We have to escape from the narrow constriction of the dusty cultural memes. Now, more then ever, we have a golden opportunity, - a wide-opened window, - to connect us with this reality of freedom. Time should not pass us by; we should be the time travelers.