Tag Archives: Harold Pinter

endgames: withered by invisible burning rays

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Dave

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

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dave

“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

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dave

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

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

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

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Dave

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 →