{"id":18966,"date":"2012-11-20T07:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2018-09-25T19:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T02:58:38","slug":"eleven-planets-two-edens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/11\/20\/eleven-planets-two-edens\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven Planets &#038; Two Edens"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/mag\/darwish0502.html\">Palestine as a metaphor<\/a>&#8211;for exile, for the human condition, for the grief of dislocation and dispossession. In &#8220;Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky,&#8221; he writes:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the Adam of two Edens lost to me twice:<br \/>\nExpel me slowly. Kill me slowly<br \/>\nWith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/06\/04\/frederico-garcia-lorca-take-this-waltz\/\">Garcia Lorca<\/a><br \/>\nUnder my olive tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-Mahmoud-Darwish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-Mahmoud-Darwish.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish\" width=\"512\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-Mahmoud-Darwish.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-Mahmoud-Darwish-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEdward Said and Mahmoud Darwish <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>A People With No Poetry Is A Defeated People <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"prologo epifania (notre musique)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IN6JN73ZbSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Notre musique (Our Music) is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflic<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>I belong there..<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/16585\"> I have many memories. I was born as everyone is born&#8230;.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/19183\">In Jerusalem.. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/11\/05\/edward-said-and-tilda-swinton-beauty-and-brain\/ \">Edward Said<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J5O1n1LD0hg\">his sister<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-sister-Rosemarie-1940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-sister-Rosemarie-1940.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Edward Said and sister, Rosemarie 1940\" width=\"185\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-sister-Rosemarie-1940.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Edward-Said-and-sister-Rosemarie-1940-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a poem  Mahmoud Darwish bids <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmouddarwish.com\/english\/Edward_Said.htm\">Edward Said farewell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York\/ November\/ Fifth Avenue<br \/>\nThe sun a plate of shredded metal<br \/>\nI asked myself, estranged in the shadow:<br \/>\nIs it Babel or Sodom?<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P Mahmoud Darwish 1941-2008 (previous post &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/08\/07\/two-windows-and-a-story\/\">Two Windows and a Story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/alitwoshothead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/alitwoshothead.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"alitwoshothead\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/alitwoshothead.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/alitwoshothead-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ali, Fear Eats the Soul &#8211; 1974 &#8211; Fassbinder&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=E379l-rb1Jc#!\"> great film &#8211; full film on youtube <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Not numbers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=Y1olJau6Ib0#!\">Named 108 Gazans killed (11pm Nov. 19 2012) &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Top 10 Myths about Israeli <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2012\/11\/top-ten-myths-about-israeli-attack-on-gaza.html\">Attack on Gaza by Juan Cole <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/11\/05\/ways-of-seeing-john-berger\/\">John Berger<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve only been actively concerned with Palestine as a writer for about seven years. But the crisis, the injustice, the suffering of the Palestinians, have coexisted alongside my whole life as a writer. The length of this injustice, the lack of recognition of it by the rest of the world, while Israel pursues its own logic, totally regardless of the views of the external world \u2013 all this I was not conscious of then, but I am now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He describes Palestine as a metaphor&#8211;for exile, for the human condition, for the grief of dislocation and dispossession. In &#8220;Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky,&#8221; he writes: I&#8217;m the Adam of two Edens lost to me twice: Expel me slowly. Kill me slowly With Garcia Lorca Under my olive tree. Edward Said and Mahmoud &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/11\/20\/eleven-planets-two-edens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eleven Planets &#038; Two Edens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,107,17,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture","category-occupy-wall-st","category-poetry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}