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klee: emptying the void
Paul Klee. First thing to hang your hat on is that his great technical skill and intellectualism were peripheral to his art. His art, for the most part, remains a mystery to be solved by most, a sophisticated harmony battling … Continue reading
where shall i seek you
The plausibility of Elie Wiesel asserting the importance of the holocaust as comparable and of equal significance to the events of Mount Sinai does seem like poetic lyricism gone amok and the elevation of the tragic to fetishised narrative of … Continue reading
what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
havel : changing horses in mid-stream
A mixed legacy that seemed to be heartily leveraged to the idea of repression and suffering as a source for sublime aesthetics. A pretext for the literary creation formed by the ravages of the totalitarian state. To many it was … Continue reading
frankl: meaning as a sheep in wolfs clothing
Logotherapy based on the idea that meaning is an objective reality, contrary to various forms of illusion, arising and conjured up within the perceptual capabilities of the observer. Is it true? It would seem that objective reality is an oxymoron. … Continue reading
reality: it ain’t necessarily so
At issue is whether meaning is an objective reality as opposed to an elaborated form of plain vanilla illusion arising from perception and dressed to the nines or is meaning a subjective reality, a fluid boundary shifter that reflects that … Continue reading
imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
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they never die in paradise apparently. just resting, waiting….
It is certainly one of the most enduring archetypes. One that even Jung could not extricate all the wrinkles, folds and complications from…. It’s called the hybridized biography. Imagined conversations of the mothers of famous men who happen to be … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Carl Jung, Chaim Soutine, John Singer Sargent, Marc Chagall, mariana cook, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, natalie david-weil, natalie David-Weill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Marche, Steven Spielberg, valentin de Boulogne, Viktor Frankl
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from that time onwards forever
A challenging of culture, a culture which wants to negate, almost perversely, intense human dramas, wants to banalize them into kitsch and either sit-com them on the laugh track or shoot it full of holes like real men. There is … Continue reading
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