Word: gibran
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...Bell Jar, which was shocking to her and difficult to understand, and when she returned it, asking for another, the librarian said that as far as she knew The Bell Jar was the only serious book about grieving women the library had." Instead, Betsy finds solace in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet...
...posited that all of human knowledge has been fed into Proteus, but it seems to be fixated on two authors. One is Sade. How else explain the frequency with which it contrives to place its loved one in variously humiliating bondage scenes? The other is surely Kahlil Gibran, from whom it has obviously borrowed its sententious prose style. In the end, Proteus manages to get itself destroyed-too big for its breeches as it were. But not before it effects a kind of reincarnation: the child Christie conceives looks exactly like the one she lost to cancer. There are enough...
...Loeb Ex this weekend. Hali by G.V. Desani, a four character play that is perhaps more like a quiet reading than a show, is the traditional Hindu story of a beautiful nature boy and his representations of family, love, and emotional life. With a voice reminiscent of Kahil Gibran, Desani quiets the emotions and stills the action to bring to the audience that famous peace. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee Saturday at 3. Free tickets are available at noon the day before the performance at the Loeb box office...
...brace of former lovers (male), flies West to work on her film, and there finds the vacant, curiously dippy Josh, a 27-year-old aspiring screenwriter who is to be the love of her life. For now, anyway, Isadora composes lines to him that read like hard-core Kahlil Gibran: "My soul is mine;/ My mouth belongs...
...poems in the book confirm the popularized notions of Islamic fatalism. "The fates have ways unaltering, and men's aims are beyond their impotent reach," writes Gibran. Mikhail Nuaymah declares: "Fate is my ally and destiny my travelling mate." Shukri takes resignation furthest: "Life is but a continual dying/Goodness and pleasures are but borrowed...