Tag Archives: Dostoevsky

putin: land of toska and dousha

Russians have always had a thread of excess, showing itself strong and clear against the somber texture of their existence. Extreme activity. Extreme laziness. Extreme appetite. The extremely excessive. The extravagant Slav temperament seems to be traced to all classes … Continue reading

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the sweet smell of excess

More Medvedev and Svetlana. This time they look a little better attired. Maybe the album graphics are more interesting than the album which was a bit of a dog. Why no mention for Leon Russell? What is he; chopped liver … Continue reading

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flowers for boris: if only he was clever

The Cranes Are Flying. The horrors of WWII from Russia as cinema circa 1958 playing on the moral ambiguities piercing the Soviet collective psyche still shaken by war with Germany.  It is in the great literary tradition of Dostoevsky and … Continue reading

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a grid of paradoxes

The Middle Way. To find the way through the enigma of the middle way. Vaclav Havel was beset by various interpretations of the middle course of action; between the Maimonides view and the older Aristotlean. To be stuck between the … Continue reading

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Orwell: cracked mirrors and memory holes

The mental disease of imagination…Twenty-seven years after the fateful year of 1984, we are still fascinated by George Orwell’s dystopic vision of rationalism gone mad, stark raving mad. There is always the temptation to measure how cold we are willing … Continue reading

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PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING

“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading

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MADNESS & ALTERED STATES: ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SILENCE

Only then can we see how madness and non‐madness are NOT two distinct phenomena, but rather are in dialogue, “are inextricably involved” … “In the severe world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman” . The physician speaks to … Continue reading

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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS

Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of  the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading

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ANARCHIST PAVING COMPANY

When I die let the black rag fly raven falling from the sky. Let the black flag lie on bones and skin that long last night as I enter in. For out of black soul’s night have stirred dawn’s cold … Continue reading

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SELL-OFFS & SELL-OUTS

”In an interesting side note to the much more publicized businesses involving John Paulson, Greece, and whatever else Goldman is currently getting tarred and feathered for, the bank was quietly slapped on the wrist by the SEC for violations related … Continue reading

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