Friends
with web pages:
(well,
mostly)
Irena
Diklić
Damir Jelisavčić and Aleksandra Djorić Jelisavčić
Slobodan Popović
(page in preparation)
Dejan Rajković and Nina Rajković
Suzana Cvetićanin
Ivana Dragićević
Miloš and Ljubomir Aćimović
Nataša Stanić
Tanja Berić
Momčilo Jovanović
Vesna Milošević-Zdjelar
Aleksandar Antić
I
apologize to all other dear people not mentioned here! They know how much I
care for
and love them. They are the wood poet sang about:
That they might do this
wonder thing;
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing
understood
That was rank folly to my
head before.
Great
visionaries and personal icons:
(in
no particular order!)
Philip K. Dick – visionary above all
others, being re-discovered (sadly enough) 25 years after his death
Thomas Pynchon
– “invisible” author of masterpieces such as “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Crying of
Lot 49”
Plato – you remember what
A. N. Whitehead said about history of philosophy, don’t you?
Nick Cave – punk-rocker,
poet, actor, novelist, a prototype of creative personality
R. Buckminster Fuller – “has better claim to the
title of polymath than any man since Leonardo” (R. A. Wilson)
Borislav
Pekić – the greatest writer of my hometown,
Jorge Luis Borges – stories,
poems, puzzles, riddles, the giant who defined modernity in literature
Sir Fred Hoyle – great astronomer,
great person
Stephen Jay Gould – paleontologist,
evolutionist, fighter for science and reason, writer of both style and
substance
Rene Magritte – my favorite modern painter
Humphrey Bogart – king of actors, what
else to say?
Kurt Gödel – all in
all, perhaps the best brain of XX century (and one of its strangest characters)
Nikola Tesla
– one of the greatest inventors of all time,
Carl Sagan – it’s 10 years since his death, and his vision is livelier
than ever
Heraclitus
of Ephesos – the world is fire!
Stanislaw Lem – the
best SF author alive (stopped writing some time ago though). UPDATE:
sadly enough, Lem expired on
Howard P. Lovecraft
– controversial, scary and thought-provoking
Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky – a fascinating early futurologist
and rocket scientist
Leonard Cohen – last 30 years
would be much harder without his music
Robert Anton Wilson – great writer, even
greater conspiratologist
Abu
Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi – where did
you think terms algebra and algorithm come from?
Ursula Le Guin
– the second best SF author alive, but still a colossal figure
Strugatsky
brothers – famous duo of Russian SF writers, every book of their wise, humane
and noble
Donald
E. Knuth – computer scientist and inventor of
Maurits C. Escher
– an artist who most successfully bridged the gap between science and art
Roger Bacon – a.k.a. doctor Mirabilis and not without reason
Arnold J. Toynbee – a
historian wise beyond comprehension
Sid Meyer – the greatest
game designer in the Galaxy (as of now)
Jodie Foster – the best actress
of modern times
William S. Burroughs –
language is a virus!
Orson Welles – a
paradigm of cinematography as an art
Pieter Bruegel the Elder – best Rennaissance
painter
Beatrice Tinsley – the
best of many female astrophysicists, died tragically young
Ernesto Sabato – but also check this
out! (but don’t be too harsh – was
written long ago)
Empedocles of Acragas – one of the coolest figures in the history of
Western thought
Michael Moorcock –
father of the “multiverse” concept
Karl
Adolph Anderssen – first (unofficial) chess
grandmaster; played “Immortal” and “Evergreen” games
Gregory Chaitin
– mathematics as a novel of suspense and mystery
Danilo Kiš –
his imagined worlds are more real and alive than everyday reality
Richard Wagner
– The Ring rules all
Freeman J. Dyson
– great physicist and even greater visionary
Max
Ernst – well, the second favorite modern painter, but a great inspiration
nonetheless
E-mail me all comments and suggestions!
Last
updated: 25. VI 2006.