small world

A month ago, posted here was a poem discovered by accident -- "Ode to the Cat," by Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet and diplomat.

Last year, on September 30, this blog wrote about Jackie,a movie by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain.

It turns out, Larrain also directed, overlapping the Jackie project, a film about Pablo Neruda the Cat-poem guy, titled Neruda.

Maybe it is true:
"Everything is connected to everything else."
----------- (A quotation attributed variously to Leonardo DaVinci and Marilu Henner....)

The L.A. Times called Neruda "a richly imagined biographical fantasia."

---------------- I love that Cat poem:

...the cat
only wants to be a cat
and any cat is a cat
from his whiskers to his tail,
from his hopeful vision of a rat
to the real thing,
from the night to his golden eyes.


There is no unity
like him,
the moon and the flower
do not have such context:
he is just one thing
like the sun or the topaz,
and the elastic line of his contours
is firm and subtle like
the line of a ship's prow.
His yellow eyes
have just one
groove
to coin the gold of night time.

Oh little
emperor without a sphere of influence
conqueror without a country,
smallest living-room tiger...

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One could go through line-by-line, analyzing and discussing each....

Neruda was a poet, it says.  And a diplomat.  

(Now, that's "Career Day"...!)


You can listen to an interview with filmmaker Larrain on You Tube -- type in

DP/30: Pablo Larrain, Jackie

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