Emmanuel Chriqui

A dragon story

Ξ October 5th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Art |

20 years ago a book changed my life. It happened in a magical house of a good friend of my beautiful cousin Marie-Eve, in Jerusalem. It was a small book. It took me less than an hour to read it. Even today, I remember the magic.

This book was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.

Since then, I have read all his books. Here is a quote of his biography :

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through the secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.
We think sometimes that our’s is an age past frontiers, past adventures. Destiny, it’s way over the horizon; glowing shadows galloped past long ago, and gone.
What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure….. not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth !
Our century, they’ve changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society’s demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we’ve been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
Yet masters of reality still meet us in dreams to tell us that we’ve never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish. Intuition whispers true: We’re not dust, we’re Magic !!
Richard Bach - The Bridge Across Forever.

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Peace

Ξ February 4th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Art, Reflexion |

I wanted to write a post for peace.

But, I finally found it was too pretentious. Worse, useless.

So I found another way to describe it.

Clic on the image.

Image found on globalgalley.com

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Write a post in less than 8 minutes

Ξ January 25th, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Art, Humour |

16H52. I have 8 minutes before going to the nursery and get my daughter. Is this possible to make a post before that ?

The post must be intuitive and not logical. It reminds me of a book I recently crossed. Blink, the power of thinking without thinking. It’s about intuition as a very quick way of thinking rather than a feeling or a sixth sense.

Recently, with the desire to live better, I see lots of beautiful things around me. I re-established contact with an old friend and we speak to one another as if our last meeting dates back to yesterday (hello Alain), I discovered an extraordinary art form of light painting (video below) that I will try this weekend with my kids at home, I visited a site devoted to the extraordinary colour of Blue Klein, and I advanced in the drafting of an important document for my research. Not to mention that a person I do not even know offered me a great book on collective intelligence (thanks Olivier), and a friend came to see me this week without warning (Hi Stephane), just to say hello, which I greatly appreciate in a world that is becoming too square for my taste.

Top. 12 minutes. Published. 50% too late. For the computer engineer in me, this is is reasonable

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