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Epic, the only Peak!

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The most fine art always has been Epic to me, where I belong to,
even and specially in romance.
In other words, Peak of art is Epic!
Though I know it also belongs to a terminated epoch,
when heroes were real greatness of will and sacrifice,
not just animated graphics! And that's why my writings tend to sound Nostalgic!
Like the horse which belongs just to the memories from cavaliers,
but not the vector of our real time of being.
Don Quixote was absolutely right in being born in a wrong time!
A comprehensive perception and emphasizing on this contradictory
brought Cervantes to the idea and the very point of creating Comedy (1).
I'm going to believe there'll be no achievement "In Search of Lost Time".
Proust knew well what to seek, but maybe was not aware of an unattainable hunt (2).
What is gone, is gone! And what will be, will be!
But also I think being aware of the past time may keep us from unwanted drowning in Tragedy,
and from being crumbled into tragic pit of life!
And this is both the essence of a century fatigue of a large part of the East through the inconclusive efforts,
and the dark feature of the West recent history in wars and deceptions.
The history court accepts no appeal!
Also seeking the Romantic love might belong to such closed epoch of history,
when we try to assemble nothing with nothing, when we realize the disdain of such being;
And I know well how sad it will be when we admit such supposed course of reality.
Heroes are murdered by machinery champions, while love is stifled by median egoism;
Just like how we shot the atmosphere dead, in dozens of Tragedies like the Ozone Tragedy of Modern Times (3)...
And the final achievement isn't more than what "The Old Man" brought back from "The Sea" (4).
Now let's go back to routine life, though I never believe it!
Not just because "The Show Must Go On", moreover for "the real people" who "are the real saints"!



Afshin, April, 22, 2014
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1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, considered to be the first modern European novel.
2. In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), by Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust,
was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
3. Charlie Chaplin- 1936.
4. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1952, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953.
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