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Tweak says, "Sometimes they come back.."

ejab62 (ejab62) wrote,
@ 2009-08-26 20:54:00

Have you ever... ?
Watched a film, listened to music, read a book... You then slowly come back to reality and find yourself shaken to the core? You look around your living room (or wherever you are) only to feel like something has changed.
Somehow somewhere down the line the world has changed.
You're still thrilled, intrigued, shaken and have a heard time accepting returning to reality. You don't want to, really.

If you ever had that experience, you'll know what I mean. Like to share such an experience? I'd be very curious to hear from you. What book, film, music has ever had such an impact on you?

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letoutthetiger
2009-08-26 07:43 pm UTC (link)

Mmm, yes... Ezra Pound's tiny collections of translated/rewritten Chinese poems, "Cathay". It gave me hope that this appalling, awful, horrid world is just a tiny bit less horrid and that at least some of us somehow share a longing for love and peace in our lives. Somehow the mix of thousand year old poetry and Pound's ability to make an image stand very clear and let the silence around the words speak as well gave this heavy impact. I got quite the same feeling after I'd read his (collected) letters to/from surrealist poet Kitasono Katsue.

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	ejab62 2009-09-06 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	The name Ezra Pound I know but that's about it, to be honest. Letting the silence around the words speak - intriguing! (Reply to this) (Parent)

hpstrangelove
2009-08-26 10:48 pm UTC (link)

When I was younger, this happened all the time to me when I was in high school. The ideas presented in fiction and sci-fi classics (gosh, I still remember reading 1984, Catcher in the Rye, the Martian Chronicles, and the Foundation Series) were all new to me, and had a greater impact on me than books do now - I'm 50, so it's hard to find a 'new' idea that I haven't already come across. I think that's why I enjoyed the Harry Potter series when I first started it - it was something that seemed completely new to me the way that it was presented.

As far as something newer goes, the movies 12 Monkeys, Sixth Sense, the first Matrix, and Keane had a big impact on how I saw the world.

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ejab62
2009-09-06 12:48 pm UTC (link)

*Nods* I can remember reading 1984 and feeling completely devastated for quite some time. Got me very paranoia towards the government. (Has that every changed since then? Nah... )
Remember it sometimes now as the world is frighteningly heading in that direction, if not already there.

The film was not so good but the message was - 'The Net' with Sandra Bullock. How easy it is for others to erase you, your existance.
THink that is the reason I still don't use the internet for my banking.

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	carpet_diemon 2009-08-27 01:48 am UTC (link)
	There was a book called Ishmael that did that to me. Really unnerved me for a very long time. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ejab62 2009-09-06 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	What was it about then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	carpet_diemon 2009-09-07 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	It was a about mankind's place in the greater ecosystem. It sounds nerdy, but it was really quite an amazing read. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foudebassan 2009-08-27 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but the first time I read Plato (I think it was the Republic, though could've been Phenon) I felt like all the concepts I had failed to identify but knew to be true fell into place, were all linked together and made sense. I wish I'd had that feeling with other philosophers too. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ejab62 2009-09-06 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	Yes! Made me remeber - do you know 'The comfort of philosophy' by Alain de Botton? Really, really worth the read!!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

eaivalefay
2009-08-31 05:08 am UTC (link)

I recall two experiences in particular where I got that super intense, the-world-isn't-the-same feeling.

One was poetry, W.B. Yeats. "The Stolen Child" in partuclar still gives me that feeling. For me, it's surreal because I connect that much with the piece. Intense is the best word I can think of for the feeling.

The other experience is on-going at the moment, and it isn't a thing, but a person: Adam Lambert. As it is a person, I don't know if it counts, but it's in the medium of music and film, so, it maybe does? *g* His voice is thrilling for me, and his personality ridiculously sweet. There is just something about him I can't shake or get over. And "thrilled, intrigued, shaken" all to the experience.

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	ejab62 2009-09-06 12:56 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I like about all these answers - they make me curious and want to find out! Will definitively go to the libraby now and try to find that Yeats poem. As soon as the word 'Intense' appears, my curiousity is sparked. Thanks for that! You're having a crush on Adam! :D Enjoy it! (Reply to this) (Parent)