If you’re a writer, your mentors are the people who wrote your favorite stories, and myth teaches us that the student’s heroic cycle doesn’t end with merely absorbing the mentor’s wisdom; to fully honor your teacher, you must transcend him by taking his teachings further than he could. This doesn’t mean that you become superior to your teacher: there are plenty of things which you couldn’t have seen without his help. The hierarchy between student and mentor is an illusion; it’s more like a partnership between two people with different strengths and imperfections, both working towards a common goal. Obi-Wan couldn’t have defeated Darth Vader, but neither could Luke have defeated Darth Vader without Obi-Wan’s guidance. Your teacher gives you the gift of his teaching, and you give your teacher the gift of bringing his teaching forward.
Une parodie de Star Wars par Libertas, via “Elections européennes : la droite extrême se la joue comique” de Karim El Hadj sur V pour Vidéo (April 13th, 2009)
La Marche impériale de la Guerre des Etoiles interprétée avec une combinaison de Faraday et une bobine Tesla. Electrifying, one would say !
“An a capella tribute to John Williams” et ses lyrics.
The Empire Strikes Barack (via amazingamanda & marco)
The wealth of knowledge Wikipedia has on Star Wars far outweighs that of, some would say, more important subjects. For example, the Wikipedia article on lightsabre combat is bigger than the one on Shakespeare.
