Something special
Fictions are not biography.
Art is not photography.
Epics are not history.
They are not to be authentic
But with something special
28.10.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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False is down loaded as true
History is necessarily false.
Biography is conveniently false.
Autobiography is selectively false.
Yet those are carried as true.
10.01.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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One’s life known is not authentic.
From no angle can one see
An object in full view.
The other side behind.
From no time can one see
An object in full growth,
The other growth away.
One’s biography is half cooked.
One’s autobiography is random cooked
Can history handed down be authentic?
06.10.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
quote by Harold Rosenberg
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
quote by Annie Leibovitz
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Owain
Stray, astray!
To do it once again;
Steel, genteel!
To read it once again;
Play, pray!
To write it once again;
With the paint brush.
Owain, own, win, now, in, an;
Hear, heart!
And like the colours of your love;
Prey, pray!
Biography, philosophy, photography;
But, try to keep the vision on.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Special Friends
To all my special friends
and especially to one in particular
who knows who they are.
Everyone has special friends
whether they be girl or boy.
These special friends
always warm our hearts
bringing with them comfort and joy.
They make our lives smile
whenever we talk to them.
They lift our spirits high
all, our special friends.
29 November 2007
poem by David Harris
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Biography To History
A man’s biography
Becomes a history
With insertions of lies
By men of interest.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
quote by Kathy Griffin
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The classics
How authentic a drawing is,
How expressive a painting is,
How imaginative a poem is,
And how narrative a prose is
Define how far they are classics.
21.04.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
quote by Carter G. Woodson
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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
quote by Martin Lewis Perl
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
quote by Julian Assange
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
quote by Barbara Kruger
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Epics are read to feel the emotion
In epics,
Emotions are essentially eight.
Forerunners are the heroic and the erotic,
Interwoven with the furious and the pathetic,
Intercepted by the horrible and the surprise,
And intervened by the comic and the disgusting.
The epics
Are read and read to experience similar emotions.
01.02.2002, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Literature is the negative of photo
Literature mirrors not
What its society packs.
It mirrors what it lacks.
It is a negative reflector
And vacuum filler.
Slavery gave heroic epics.
Poverties pave for kingly epics.
Romance sprang from sexual taboo.
Eroticism clang of perversion
01.04.2002, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
quote by Philip Guedalla
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As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
quote by Tipper Gore
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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