httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY&feature=player_embedded
Time-lapse animation from Google Earth depicting seismic activity off the coast of Japan between March 9 and 14. The big one hits at 1 minute 17 seconds.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_4A6d_Q-U
The actual last tango from Last Tango in Paris (Video not embedded; click on the above image and hit the YouTube link)
Today is Bernardo Bertolucci‘s birthday (born 1940).
Frye on violence and sexuality in Secular Scripture:
In romance violence and sexuality are used as rocket propulsions, so to speak, in an ascending movement. Violence becomes melodrama, the separating of heroes from violence, angels of light from giants of the dark. Sexuality becomes a driving force with a great deal of sublimation in it. In the traditional romance, where the heroine is so often a virgin reaching her first sexual contact on the last page, the erotic feeling is sublimated for the action of the story. (CW 18, 120)