#la lalla

[eternal--returned]

Lalla Essaydi ֍ Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grand Odalisque (2008)

[gregor-samsung]

“ In quarta scoprii il patriottismo: cantando in coro con le mie compagne Le ragazze di Trieste. A casa, papà era fiducioso nella vittoria; la mamma stava in pensiero per i suoi fratelli (anche zio dottore era al fronte), e per tutti i soldati. Si raccomandava a papà perché ottenesse «l’esonero» per quelli che erano padri di famiglia (loro dicevano «il zónero»). Il patriottismo era una cosa dei signori. In paese cantavano il famoso «se vuoi veder Trieste – la guardi in cartolina» e io ne soffrivo un po’. Ma Ciota andava piú in là. Cantava con aria cupa e vendicativa: e quei signori che han gridato viva la guerra or che hanno un figlio sotto terra viva la guerra non gridan piú. Capivo che non si poteva contrapporre a quel «sottoterra» le «ragazze di Trieste». “

Lalla Romano, La penombra che abbiamo attraversato, Einaudi, 1964¹; p. 155.

[boatemlag]

HEY WAIT LIFE 5 IS IN TWO DAYS

[syrenki]

half the fun of listening to classical vocal are those desperate intakes of breath that singers do in between phrases . like is this woman orgasming or in excruciating agony? it should ideally sound like both

[irisslove]

Travelogue: Marrakesh - The Last Pitstop for Morocco

[world-of-wales]

CONFIRMED ATTENDEES TO THE CORONATION OF

♚♛ KING CHARLES III & QUEEN CAMILLA ♛♚

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 🇧🇩

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo 🇰🇷

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President Alain Berset of the Swiss Confederation & Muriel Zeender 🇨🇭

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♔ ┆ Governmental Representatives

First Lady Jill Biden & Finnegan Biden and John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate 🇺🇸

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Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of the National Assembly 🇦🇿

Christophe Mboso N'Kodia Pwanga, President of the National Assembly 🇨🇩

Arnoldo André, Minister of Foreign Affairs 🇨🇷

Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation 🇿🇦

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Frederick Shava, Foreign Minister & Mthuli Ncube, Finance Minister 🇿🇼

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Cardinal Secretary of State 🇻🇦

Ambassador José Alberto Briz Gutiérrez 🇬🇹

♔ ┆ Representatives from International Organizations

Amina Jane Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General 🇺🇳

Ursula von der Leyen, President of EU Commission 🇪🇺

Charles Michel, EU Council President 🇪🇺

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament 🇪🇺

[canesenzafissadimora]

Se cerco parole

Non pensare se cerco parole

che voglia nutrirmi di vento

un dono di giuste parole

incorruttibile come la musica

dolce come la casa

triste come l'infanzia

paziente come il tempo.

Lalla Romano

[handeaux]

Here Are 17 Uncommon Curiosities Reportedly Found In The Ohio River

The Queen City, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, sits “in her garlands dressed, on the banks of the Beautiful River.” Once claimed by the French and named by them exactly that: La Belle Riviere, the Ohio has been the soul and foundation of our city ever since the first houses went up, but our Beautiful River has also proved to be a weird and moody companion, coughing up a bizarre miscellany from time to time.

Alligators In 1879, Dr. A. Jackson Howe procured a live, three-foot long alligator for display at the museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. The reptile had been captured on the Covington shore, while several others were spotted frolicking in the Ohio River among some empty coal barges. Three years later, John Thornton found an alligator sleeping beneath the floorboards of his Newport icehouse. Charles Pitts of Covington lassoed a three-and-a-half-foot alligator from the Ohio River at the foot of Covington’s Main Street in 1870.

Bodies, Lots Of Bodies Almost from the time Cincinnati was first settled bodies have been recovered from the Ohio River including suicides, victims of foul play and accidental drownings. Among the earliest casualties was Francis Kennedy, who operated the first ferry between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and who drowned while hauling beef cattle to Fort Washington. Over the years, the old newspapers printed hundreds of inquest reports, often directed toward ascertaining the identities of bodies found overnight.

Catfish Of Unusual Size The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of 3 February 1849 reports that Frederick Diserens, proprietor of the William Tell restaurant, and Colonel Josiah J. Stratton of the Fire Department, had shipped a “mammoth cat fish” to the Exchange Hotel in Philadelphia. The leviathan, caught in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, measured five feet, ten inches in length and tipped the scales at 158 pounds. Prior to its shipment east, the beast hung outside Diserens’ establishment on the south side of what is now Government Square. In 2009, two fishermen landed a blue catfish measuring four feet, six inches long and weighing 96 pounds within view of downtown Cincinnati.

Chemical “Slug” The Ohio River, lined with heavily fertilized farmland and a multitude of manufacturing plants, is regularly listed as among the most polluted streams in America. Residents of a certain age will recall the great carbon tetrachloride “slug” of 1977. When a tank full of toxic “carbon tet” ruptured at the FMC Corporation facility in February of that year, it released 5000 to 6000 pounds into the Ohio River as a 50- to 60-mile “slug” of highly polluted liquid. Water purification systems up and down the river shut off intake valves until the “slug” passed.

Elephant Bathing All of Cincinnati – and Covington, too – turned out on the morning of 9 August 1860 to watch an elephant swim across the Ohio River. The elephant was Lalla Rookh, star of the Dan Rice Circus. Lalla Rookh had been, for the past decade, a highlight of Dan Rice's big-top extravaganzas. Billed as the “Pachyderm Princess,” she was famous for her tightrope act and she also danced, rang bells and fired a pistol. She was a huge draw and, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, brought out a good crowd for her river bath, estimated between 15,000 and 20,000

Ghosts No one ever solved the 1890 murder of Billy Fee, who was knifed and shot on the banks of the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. Almost a year later a young man traveling by boat up the river past the murder scene cried out that he could see shadows on the darkened waters vividly recreating the murder scene. For years, residents of Lawrenceburg venturing near the river at night reported visions of the dreadful crime, accompanied by the sounds of shrieks and gunshots.

Giant Snakes On 11 August 1849, a Clermont County “man of respectability” named John Wait swore to an affidavit in which he claimed to have seen a snake more than 30 feet in length on the banks of Hartman’s mill pond. A posse was assembled and searched all over for the beast with no results, even after draining the mill pond. Sightings, however, continued for the next decade. In 1858, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reported that the dam at Hartman’s mill had been badly damaged by a flood and the snake was assumed to have escaped toward the Ohio River. According to a 1940 article in the Cincinnati Post, the Cincinnati Zoo offered to help citizens near Gallipolis locate a snake estimated at 35 feet in length. Coincidence?

Green Clawed Beast It was a sultry afternoon on 14 August 1955 when Naomi Johnson and some friends headed to the Ohio River at Evansville for a refreshing dip. While swimming just 15 feet offshore, something swam up behind Mrs. Johnson and grabbed her leg. She felt claws scratch her leg as the thing pulled her under the water. She began kicking her assailant and was pulled under a second time before her friends lifted her out of the river. Her left leg was extensively lacerated and bruised, with one mark distinctly hand-shaped. Mrs. Johnson claimed to have seen a UFO just before she was attacked, and there were several UFO sightings in the Evansville area around the time of the incident, leading her to believe an extraterrestrial origin for her attacker.

Kentucky Border For most of our region’s history, the entire Ohio River belonged exclusively to Kentucky. That all changed on 21 January 1980, when the United States Supreme Court fixed the border between Ohio and Kentucky at the low-water mark of the river in 1792. With two centuries of dam construction and other navigational improvements, the Ohio River is significantly deeper and wider than it was in the 1790s. The border is now, in some cases, hundreds of feet off the Ohio shore.

Madonna’s Yacht Rusting away in an Ohio River tributary just 25 miles downriver from Cincinnati is a 186-foot yacht originally known as the Celt but probably most famous as the USS Sachem among a variety of names acquired over its 120-year history. Thomas Edison used it for anti-submarine research. It ran out of New York as a recreational fishing vessel and served as a coastal patrol ship during World War II. After the war it hauled tourists around Manhattan. Robert Miller of Finneytown bought the yacht for $7500 in the 1980s and rented it out to Madonna, who filmed part of her “Papa Don’t Preach” video onboard. Miller hauled it upriver to its current resting place shortly after sailing a boatload of friends around the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986.

Man Afloat On 11 March 1879, a crowd of fifteen thousand swarmed the riverfront to catch a glimpse of the “Fearless Frogman,” Captain Paul Boynton, as he arrived in Cincinnati while floating from Pittsburgh to Cairo in a buoyant rubber suit. Outfitted with sails and oars, Boynton’s “peculiar life-saving dress” allowed him to maintain speeds of five or six miles per hour on his downriver odyssey. That night, he attended a performance at the Grand Opera House on Vine Street and, being recognized, was called to the stage and compelled to give a speech.

Mud Mermaids The Cincinnati Enquirer of 6 September 1894 reported two “nondescript creatures, horrible in appearance and strange in habits” at a sand bar in the Ohio River near Vevay, Indiana. The creatures appeared to be carnivorous, dining on fish and mussels plucked from the river. They were described as being yellowish in color, about five feet long, with webbed and clawed hands and feet. Their hairless heads had sharply pointed ears standing straight up. In the years since, the Vevay beings have been dubbed “Mud Mermaids.”

Octoman Police dispatchers along both sides of the Ohio River were swamped with frantic calls from late January to early February 1959 as dozens of residents and travelers reported strange creatures emerging from the depths. Sightings were recorded from New Richmond to the Licking River bridge. One witness compared the critter to an octopus while others said it looked like an immense human, leading to the nickname Octoman. Panic spread, with one 11-year-old boy calling the Cincinnati Post to confirm his teacher’s story that green men were clambering out of the river in platoons of twelve. To add to the mystery, all the streetlights along Kellogg Avenue from Lunken Airport to Coney Island extinguished as the first reports came in. After a week, sightings abated and Octoman seemingly disappeared.

Petroglyphs Just as the Ohio River slips across the state line from Pennsylvania, at the junction with Little Beaver Creek at East Liverpool, it covers a vast array of submerged designs carved into the rock. First recognized by French explorers in 1755, the display has been largely immersed in a much deeper river, only occasionally emerging into visibility in times of extreme drought. Hundreds of these Native American carvings were found for about 10 miles along the Ohio River from Midland, Pennsylvania through Wellsville, Ohio. The origin or date of the petroglyphs remains unknown and will likely never be determined.

Sea Lion In May 1962 several people reported a strange beast frolicking in the Ohio River near the Fernbank locks. The animal was not large; maybe three feet in length, but it was unlike anything naturally associated with the wildlife of the area. An expedition organized by the Cincinnati Zoo discovered that the mysterious visitor was a sea lion named “Playful George” that had escaped from a menagerie in Huntington, West Virginia and made its way nearly 200 miles downriver to the Markland Dam. George was captured and quarantined at the Zoo before returning home.

Sea Serpents In the dim, pre-dawn light of Friday, 11 January 1878, Ben Karrick was driving his horse-drawn delivery wagon over the Roebling Suspension Bridge when he saw a most unusual sight in the Ohio River below – a sea serpent. He told the Cincinnati Gazette that the creature’s serpentine head protruded from the water some twelve or fifteen feet and it lashed the water into foam with its tail. Karrick told the newspaper that the beast made a noise similar to the deep lowing of a cow, interspersed with a loud hissing noise. A day previously, John Davidson, master of the Silver Moon steamboat, saw a nearly identical monster while docked at Vevay, Indiana. In July 1893, pleasure boaters near Blennerhassett Island saw “a monstrous submarine animal or serpent, with an immense head and staring, bulbous eyes” gliding alongside their boat. The witnesses estimated the critter at more than 10 feet in length.

Underwater Pedestrian Newspapers around the nation carried the news in July 1878 that Captain John T. Guire, identified as “the celebrated submarine diver,” had entered into a wager that he would walk from Cincinnati to Cairo on the bottom of the Ohio River. Guire’s previous exploits in the Mississippi River at Saint Louis were cited as proof of his skill and determination. Although it was noted that Guire engaged in practice strolls near Cincinnati, it does not appear that the 500-mile underwater hike to Cairo ever materialized.

[perpassareiltempo]

Io sono in te come il caro odore del corpo come l’umore dell’occhio e la dolce saliva . Io sono dentro di te nel misterioso modo che la vita è disciolta nel sangue e mescolata al respiro 

Lalla Romano

[nesiacha]

Tag game

Rules: post 4 pieces of art you like and make a poll so that people can vote for their favourite, then tag 4 friends to do the same.

Thank you aedesluminis for tagging me. I tag @sparvverius,bolshevik-apreslalettre,@czerwonykasztelanic and @lanterne but if you don't want to do it no problem and whoever else wants to do it. :)

The arrest of Louise Michel by Girardet Jules (Piece of Art number 1)

Presumed portrait of Chérif Boubaghla and Lalla Fatma n'Soumer leading the revolutionary army signed by Félix Philippoteaux ( Piece of Art number 2)

La prise des Tuileries le 10 août 1792 by Jacques Bertaux (Piece of Art number 3)

Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot by Auguste Raffet ( piece of art number 4).

[seijun-isfra]

Lalla Essaydi

Les Femmes du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, 2008

[gregor-samsung]

“ Il mio grande amico, quand’ero piccola, fu il mio cane Murò. Murò era un «setter laverac focato», come diceva papà con compiacimento. Era figlio di Maura, la cagna del veterinario. Murò era dolce e discreto, paziente nei giochi come papà stesso. La sua fronte pensierosa esprimeva lo sforzo costante di comprendere, di prevenire. In molte fotografie Murò appare come il mio custode. In una è accanto a me, nell’orto, seduto sulle zampe di dietro, il collo eretto; è fiero, consapevole della sua dignità. C’è una somiglianza tra il cane e la bambina. Entrambi hanno sulla fronte – rigida e scura quella di lui, bianca e convessa quella della bambina – un leggero corrugamento, un’ombra di malinconia. Ma l’occhio di Murò è fisso, intrepido ed ingenuo come quello di una recluta, mentre gli occhi della bambina sembrano rivolti a considerar qualcosa di lontano e preoccupante. Anche Murò era stato, come tutti, giovane e gaglioffo. Una volta mangiò tutti i «tomini» che uno di Boves aveva portato. I cacciatori prima cosa dicevano di lui: – Questo è il cane a cui piacciono i tomini di Boves! Si prendevano questa confidenza, ma sapevano bene come Murò fosse prezioso alla caccia, e avevano per lui grande considerazione: ne parlavano con quella gravità affettuosa che osservavo nei cacciatori quando lodavano i loro cani.

Sovente la mamma ed io seguivamo papà e Murò a caccia, specie agli uccelli, lungo il Cant. Per quel genere inferiore di caccia il cane era d’impaccio e io dovevo trattenere Murò. In quei momenti Murò non era certo dolce, ma diventava anche piú bello. Dava strattoni, tendeva la testa selvaggiamente, attirato da un richiamo che pareva farlo uscire di sé. Io lo stringevo attorno al collo con le mie braccia di bambina, mi appendevo al suo collare. Quante volte Murò mi trascinò tra gli sterpi ed i sassi, di peso: gemendo lui di desiderio, io di impotenza. Dopo, mentre lui ansava trafelato, lo abbracciavo con tenerezza e gli toglievo a una a una le lappole e le pagliuzze. Diventò vecchio e negli ultimi tempi era sordo e quasi cieco. Urtava nelle gambe dei tavoli, camminava a testa bassa, chiuso in sé e avvilito. Papà disse che l’avrebbe mandato per un certo tempo presso un allevatore dove l’avrebbero curato. Fui distratta da altre cose? Ho potuto sorvolare su quella perdita? Siccome non ricordo il momento in cui dovetti capire che non avrei piú rivisto Murò; peggio, che qualcuno doveva averlo finito. (È possibile che l’abbia dimenticato proprio perché ne soffersi molto; che abbia voluto fuggire quel pensiero). “

Lalla Romano, La penombra che abbiamo attraversato, Einaudi, 1964¹; pp. 108-109.

[kabuluk]

la la la lalla la

[poesiablog60]

Io sono in te

come il caro odore del corpo

come l’umore dell’occhio

e la dolce saliva

Io sono dentro di te

nel misterioso modo

che la vita è disciolta nel sangue

e mescolata al respiro.

Lalla Romano

[pabloestaqui]

Io sono in te come il caro odore del corpo come l’umore dell’occhio e la dolce saliva Io sono dentro di te nel misterioso modo che la vita è disciolta nel sangue e mescolata al respiro

Lalla Romano, da Opere

[stardust-swan]

i really hope this doesnt sound ignorant in any way but im moroccan i was born here and lived my entire life here and like most people i was raised muslim and taught to think of other deities(?) as jinn but now after seeing your posts about lalla malika (i used to be really scared of jinn when i was a kid so sometimes they freak me out a little btw lol) im really curious what the real story is and if they have any connections to our culture.. id ask the people around me irl but id probably get yelled at and i prefer the answer of a real person than google so youre my only hope 🙏🏼

There are actually quite a lot of djinn native to Morocco. Some like Lalla Mira are even specifically said to be of Moroccan Amazigh origin, so it's not just foreign deities, they are part of Moroccan culture too (in the Middle East there's even a stereotype that Morocco is a land of djinn).

Some of them are scary, but others like Malika are kind and help people. And there are others who can be either nice or cruel depending on their mood, and others that just want to be left alone.

There's a book in French called Essai de folklore Marocain in which the author talks about djinn in Moroccan mythology:

Le monde des génies. — La terre est la demeure des génies ; il y en a partout, mais ils aiment tout particulièrement les lieux déserts, les égouts, les cabinets, les ruines, les cimetières. Ils viennent le soir sur la surface terrestre et à partir de la prière de l’Aasser, c’est-â-dire entre trois et quatre heures de l'après-midi, on doit toujours craindre de les contrarier. Ainsi si on construit des cabinets ou si on creuse un puits ou les fondations d ’un mur, on doit à cette heure-là cesser le travail parce qu’on pourrait les blesser, Du reste ils sont fort capricieux et nul n’ignore que si on creuse la terre et que cela ne leur convient pas, on trouve le matin le travail bouleversé ; il faut alors leur faire des offrandes.

La terre pour calmer leur courroux ou abandonner le travail commencé. Dans la journée, à l’heure de El Gaila qui est la plus chaude des jours d’été, ils sortent aussi de leur retraite souterraine^ Ils ont été créés en même temps que les humains. Du reste, chaque humain a son double ou Gr'ine, semblable, qui naît et m eurt avec lui et dont la vie souterraine est exactement le double de la vie humaine et ce Grïne est un génie d ’entre les génies. Mais depuis l’occupation française les génies invisibles se retirent du Maroc, et il faudra bientôt aller dans les montagnes inviolées pour les retrouver. On dit que partout où se pose le pied d ’un chrétien, il n ’y a plus place pour les génies parce que le chrétien leur fait peur avec les clous de ses chaussures. On croit que les diables ou génies sont des corps instables qui peuvent prendre toutes sortes de formes. On leur prête soixante-dix-sept appa- rences. Mais le plus souvent pour vivre au milieu des humains ils prennent la forme d ’animaux familiers, chat, chien, par exemple, et on ne sait jamais si on a affaire à un véritable animal ou à son sosie du monde souterrain. Ainsi on ne tue ni les chats, ni les chiens, car on craindrait de tuer un génie qui aurait pris cette forme et l’on redouterait sa vengeance.

If you want to learn more about djinn in Moroccan culture, I'd recommend googling Chamharouch or 3icha 9andisha as they are the best known djinn from Morocco and there's lots of writing on them. You can also look at this website, it has information on several different djinn who originate in Morocco:

https://occult-world.com/?s=Morocco