Tag Archives: Harold Pinter

hero worship: pretense to reason and purpose

Our generation is in difficulties about its heroes. The individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age intends to be, has become a wraith. Heroes will not thrive in every moral climate, but that does not stop us … Continue reading

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endgames: withered by invisible burning rays

Laughter at your own risk. Heinrich Heine once wrote, “Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. So there’s to you, that tiresome crowd who have always pinched their mouths at … Continue reading

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high risk laughter: nausea of existence

“Sleep is lovely, deaht is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.” Heinrich Heine …Samuel Beckett and the celebration of the nausea of existence, which often has little to do with despair. In Beckett’s Krapp’s … Continue reading

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at the frontier edge

Strange bedfellows indeed. From the point of view of the Torah, political Zionism, statehood is anathema to fundamental religious thought. Which puts the adherents of Torah in the same soup tureen as super secular critics such as Christopher Hitchens, Harold … Continue reading

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a herd of mobile muskrats

I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street,… ( T.S. Eliot ) As Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading

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Snow White Tweets and Seven Gullible Children

  British writer Caryl Churchill’s  ten minute playlet ”Seven Jewish Children”( 7JC) is an artistic achievement that has multiple interpretations. It is art imposed over  a political and religious context whereby the audience is drawn into the relationship between church, state, and … Continue reading

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