People
Salaam,
People are interesting. The way they look, speak, act etc. Just thinking about how people look. If one's eyes are slightly stretched you look like someone from the east, if you are eyes are slightly more apart than normal (like that woman from the sprite advert) you look...weird, if you have no eyebrows you look odd etc etc. Little little things we take for granted, if ever so slightly altered has a huge impact.
I remember watching Match of the Day (its been 4months + since iv watched it...) and listening to the footballers speak when they gave their little interview after the match and everytime i heard one of them speak for the first time (eg Bekham with his girly voice) their voice never used to "match" how i thought they would speak wrt how they look. I think this was because you've seen them so often playing football and they're not speaking and you build some expectation of how you think they'll sound, and then when you hear them its completely different.
Also with how people look. Like before i came to Amman i'd heard of Sheikh Rabbani and read some of his stuff. Based on this i imagined him as some standard sheikh, big white beard, turban etc...but then to my surprise when i saw him, he was a young, smart looking non-stereotypical sheikh (he always reminds me of Bq with a beard...yes! Bq with a beard!)
You think i'm bonkers with the above? Ok a little experiment.
Someone sent me a link about this guy called Georges Perec, a french author/artist. I'll say some stuff about him, and then you imagine what he looks like, and then we'll compare?
Georges Perec was born in 1936 and was a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, and considered by many to be one of the most important post-WWII authors. Perec was born in a working class neighborhood in Paris, the only son of Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He started writing reviews and essays for prominent literary publications, while studying history and sociology at the Sorbonne. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy. Amongst his most famous works is a 200+ page novel without using ANY word which contains the letter "e" in it. Yes. Then he wrote another book ONLY using words which contains the letter "e" in them...and he also did lots of other random bizarre things.
So what do you think he looks like?
Click here to find out...
Salaam
Ps, bizzarre post i know. Anyway wrt me, will iA be going to Petra and Wadi Rum tomorrow and am planning a trip to Turkey for the end of term. Still not sure what to wrt Egypt Vs Jordan...
People are interesting. The way they look, speak, act etc. Just thinking about how people look. If one's eyes are slightly stretched you look like someone from the east, if you are eyes are slightly more apart than normal (like that woman from the sprite advert) you look...weird, if you have no eyebrows you look odd etc etc. Little little things we take for granted, if ever so slightly altered has a huge impact.
I remember watching Match of the Day (its been 4months + since iv watched it...) and listening to the footballers speak when they gave their little interview after the match and everytime i heard one of them speak for the first time (eg Bekham with his girly voice) their voice never used to "match" how i thought they would speak wrt how they look. I think this was because you've seen them so often playing football and they're not speaking and you build some expectation of how you think they'll sound, and then when you hear them its completely different.
Also with how people look. Like before i came to Amman i'd heard of Sheikh Rabbani and read some of his stuff. Based on this i imagined him as some standard sheikh, big white beard, turban etc...but then to my surprise when i saw him, he was a young, smart looking non-stereotypical sheikh (he always reminds me of Bq with a beard...yes! Bq with a beard!)
You think i'm bonkers with the above? Ok a little experiment.
Someone sent me a link about this guy called Georges Perec, a french author/artist. I'll say some stuff about him, and then you imagine what he looks like, and then we'll compare?
Georges Perec was born in 1936 and was a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, and considered by many to be one of the most important post-WWII authors. Perec was born in a working class neighborhood in Paris, the only son of Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He started writing reviews and essays for prominent literary publications, while studying history and sociology at the Sorbonne. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy. Amongst his most famous works is a 200+ page novel without using ANY word which contains the letter "e" in it. Yes. Then he wrote another book ONLY using words which contains the letter "e" in them...and he also did lots of other random bizarre things.
So what do you think he looks like?
Click here to find out...
Salaam
Ps, bizzarre post i know. Anyway wrt me, will iA be going to Petra and Wadi Rum tomorrow and am planning a trip to Turkey for the end of term. Still not sure what to wrt Egypt Vs Jordan...
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