Pinter

Harold Pinter, playwright, 1930 - 2008.

He put meaning in what is not there.

Pause.

Pinter inserted a clearing, full of meaning, into the verbiage of our lives.

His evacuation to Cornwall and Reading from London during 1940 and 1941 before and during the Blitz and facing "the life-and-death intensity of daily experience" at that time influenced him profoundly. "His prime memories of evacuation today [circa 1994] are of loneliness, bewilderment, separation and loss: themes that are in all his works" (Billington, Harold Pinter). - Wikipedia

Inwardness

He does not care foremost about appearances. We are always looking at what's inside. At the interior.

We all should look inside ourselves.

Quotes to help explain

Meister Eckhart 14th c German mystic.

"There's a place in the soul that neither time, nor space, nor no creative thing can touch."

Irish Poet John O'Donohue:

What that means is there's "a place where there is a tranquility in you. And I think the intention of prayer, and spirituality and love, is now and again to visit that kind of inner sanctuary."

Eckhart:

Gd becomes, and Gd unbecomes.

John O'Donohue explains: Gd is only our name for it. And the closer we get to it, the more it ceases to be Gd.

Quotes to help explain

-Irish poet John O'Donohue:

"It's strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you."

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"The visible world is the first shoreline of the invisible world"

"The body is in the soul, not the soul just in the body. And in some way the poignancy of being a human being is that you are the place where the invisible becomes visible and expressive in some way."

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John O'Donohue on Beauty:

"We feel most alive in the presence of beauty. It returns us to our highest selves. A neglect of beauty is at the heart of our deepest modern crises....

"Beauty is not a luxury, but I think it ennobles the heart, and reminds us of the infinity that is within us."

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"What we're afraid of is not so much our limitations, but the infinite within us."

-Nelson Mandela

Mies' favorite Mieses

From a TIME magazine interview:
(published around 1966)

Mies singled out from a lifetime's work his half-dozen favorite buildings. In order, they are:

> Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall, a single glass-walled room, measuring 120 ft. by 220 ft. and spanned by four huge trusses. The structure simply encloses an envelope of space; the functions within can be changed by shifting movable partitions.

> The Chicago Federal Center, still under construction, and Mies's largest complex of high-and low-rise buildings.

> Manhattan's Seagram Building, the skyscraper city's most tranquil and most costly tower.

> Chicago's 860 Lake Shore Drive apartments, his dramatic demonstration of open planning for tall apartment living behind all-glass facades.

>The project for a Chicago Convention Hall where 50,000 people could gather in unobstructed space beneath a gigantic trussed roof 720 ft. square.

> The German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls.

Read the interview.