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Ballet Mecanique

Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artists Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy. Although the film was intended to use Antheil's score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. As a composition, Ballet Mécanique is Antheil's best known and most enduring work. It remains famous for its radical style and instrumentation as well as its storied history.

In concert performance, the "ballet" is not a show of human dancers but of mechanical instruments. Among these, player pianos, airplane propellers, and electric bellsstand prominently onstage, moving as machines do, and providing the visual side of the ballet. As the bizarre instrumentation may suggest, this was no ordinary piece of music. It was loud and percussive –- a medley of noises, much as the Italian Futurists envisioned new music of the 20th century.

Lacrimae rerum

Lacrimae rerum is the Latin for "tears of things." The words themselves are from "lacrima, -ae," a first declension noun meaning "tear" (appearing here in the nominative plural) and from "res, rei" a fifth declension noun meaning "thing" (appearing here in the genitive plural).

The term comes from line 462 of Book I of The Aeneid, an epic poem written in Latin by Virgil, one of Rome's most distinguished poets, in the 1st century BC. Aeneas, while crying, says, "sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt" as he gazes at one of the murals found in a Carthaginian temple, which depicts battles of the Trojan War and deaths of his friends and countrymen. Translated this says, "There are tears of things and mortal things (sufferings) touch the soul." As he stands there, Aeneas is overcome by the futility of warfare and waste of human life. The burden man has to bear, ever present frailty and suffering, is what would define the essence of human experience.

A translation by the famous classicist Robert Fagles renders the quote as: "The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart."

Robert Fitzgerald, meanwhile, translates it as: "They weep here \ For how the world goes, and our life that passes \ Touches their hearts."

Νίκος Νικολαΐδης

LACRIMAE RERUM (1962)

«Ξεκινώντας από τη μουσική, πλάστηκε μια ιστορία που μοιάζει με τη ζωή του ανθρώπου. Ο άνθρωπος γεννιέται, χαίρεται, πεθαίνει...
Το Lacrimae Rerum ξεκινά από φωτογραφίες εξωτερικές σε νεκροταφείο καϊκιών όπου η άμμος δίνει την αίσθηση της υπόγειας ζωής σε αντίθεση με το «τελειωμένο» των σάπιων όγκων που φαντάζουν σαν σκελετοί. 
Ο σταυρός στην ακρογιαλιά συνδέεται άμεσα με το εσωτερικό της εκκλησίας που ακολουθεί την αίσθηση του φόβου, του θανάτου, της θρησκείας... και εδώ σταματά η μουσική του Γκρίηκ...

Ακολουθούν νεκρά πλάνα εσωτερικού σπιτιού με τα αντικείμενα σε κατάσταση χαμού και εγκαταλείψεως.  
Ύστερα, σε μουσική Σούμπερτ, τα αντικείμενα σβήνουν έως ότου η φωτογραφία φθάνει σε μια τέλεια παύση.
Και τώρα αρχίζει ο χορός. Το ξύπνημα, η έξαρσις που θα καταλήξει μοιραία στο θάνατο.  Και στην εκμηδένιση. Η κίνησις της μηχανής είναι ελεύθερη προς το κυκλικό σε μουσική Σαιν-Σανς.  

Ο θάνατος και η ανυπαρξία έρχονται μέσα σε κάθετες και διαγώνιες γραμμές ενώ η φωτογραφία γίνεται συγκεχυμένη.
Η κούκλα σπάει συμβολίζοντας τον θάνατο με την έντονη ασπράδα του προσώπου της και ο χρόνος σταματά στο ρολόι. Το κερί συμβολίζει την αιώνια ανάμνηση και τα τρία σύμβολα ενώνονται στο τελευταίο πλάνο.»

«Η ταινία είναι ένα βιντεοκλίπ πάνω στην ημιτελή του Σούμπερτ».

reference: http://www.nikosnikolaidis.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=11

Arthur Schopenhauer

THE ART of BEING RIGHT

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An ad hominem (Latin: "to the man", "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person advocating it.^[1] The ad hominem is normally described as a logical fallacy,^[2][3][4] but it is not always fallacious; in some instances, questions of personal conduct, character, motives, etc., are legitimate and relevant to the issue

Ad hominem tu quoque (literally: "You also") refers to a claim that the source making the argument has spoken or acted in a way inconsistent with the argument. In particular, if Source A criticizes the actions of Source B, a tu quoque response is that Source A has acted in the same way. This argument is fallacious because it does not disprove the argument; if the premise is true then Source A may be a hypocrite, but this does not make the statement less credible from a logical perspective. Indeed, Source A may be in a position to provide personal testimony to support the argument.

For example, a father may tell his son not to start smoking as he will regret it when he is older, and the son may point out that his father is or was a smoker. This does not alter the fact that his son may regret smoking when he is older.

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