Château du Lac for a moment

Jahanshah Javid
by Jahanshah Javid
27-Mar-2008
 

A few days before this last Christmas I was a guest of my dear friends Siamack and Varinder outside Brussels. Siamack picked me up from the airport and we went to dinner (and a hooka bar with his English friend David) in the center of the city.

It was magical. In the main square there was a light show accompanied by opera. The magnificent sound and colorful lights splashing on beautifully detailed, centuries-old buildings made me stop for a few moments, even though we were late for our dinner reservation. I rarely stop and fully experience beauty. Or maybe I do, but it's always for a brief while. I take pictures and move on.

At the end of the evening, on our way to Siamack's home, we passed this hotel -- Château du Lac -- by Lake Genval on the outskirts of Brussels. The twinkling light decorations were so sweet and enchanting, and the reflection on the lake made it even more dazzling.

I asked Siamack if he could stop for a moment for me to film it:

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Mr Javid, Even most

by Anonymouspohvgy o (not verified) on Sun Mar 30, 2008 03:33 PM PDT

Mr Javid,
Even most appropriate posts are being deleted.
what is the criteria for censurship?
Can you clarify this once again so we all know!


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MOST censured ITEMS

by Anonymousoinbgc; (not verified) on Sun Mar 30, 2008 02:30 PM PDT

what happened to responsible free speech
supervision please


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Kalvoks

Zarif

by Kalvoks on Sat Mar 29, 2008 06:49 AM PDT

 

 

Very Poetic but you are not playing fair.

It seems like someone is trying to rain on our parade!

My posts were shuffeled all the way down in the blog list.

No worries though as you have so eloquently stated

"Château du Lac for a moment" !

A life time can be experience in span of a quantum "Moment" ...

 

a moment a glance all it takes ... for the truth ...

 

 


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Azarin Sadegh

Dear JJ,

by Azarin Sadegh on Fri Mar 28, 2008 09:14 AM PDT

I wonder if you have seen the movie "Death in Venise" by Visconti. Your chateau du lac moment reminded me of the kind of "stopping" and awe that the main character of this movie -- a composer doubting in his own talents-- felt, facing the beauty of a young boy.

I think it is such a fascinating subject, the comparison between the effortless beauty, like the beauty of a sunrise (or the beauty that grasped your attention here) and the beauty created by art, through the artist's "blood" and pain. I think this quest to create beauty is the same as our desire to become like gods. Because after all, it is just this beauty that is eternal.

But I guess what really matters is not how this beauty is created, but how deeply it affects us.

Thanks for sharing your moemnt of awe with us,

Azarin 


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Nazy Kaviani

The writer in you

by Nazy Kaviani on Fri Mar 28, 2008 01:51 AM PDT

It is beautiful, Jahanshah! Your awe of the scene's beauty was palpable in the short clip and your post. I know what you mean about "stopping" and "experiencing" the beauty. I simply call it "seeing." I find that since I have started writing again, I look at even the most mundane things with a keener sense of observation, as though I am recording each moment in my mind, to be retrieved and retold at a later time. Moments aren't just moments. They are windows to reflecting, exeriencing, and feeling, and if we are fortunate enough to be able to write about them, they are an opportunity for recording those reflections for eternity. Thank you for sharing your moment with us.


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