Here’s a thought: In the Ubahn between Görlitzer Bahnhof and Schlesiches Tor, I sat reading the first sentences of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and was completely blown away by the transition between looking down at the page, at her exquisite sentences gleaming, twining there like strands of liquid emerald running pages long, and then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death’
ordinary extraordinary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death, philosophy, religion, writing on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
collectives
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animals, biography, death, writing on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the DDR Museum today (the German (or Deutchses) Democratic Republic = GDR in English), I discovered among other things that children in Kindergartens had to have collective potty breaks, which meant that they sat in a row all together on potty seats and couldn’t stand up until everyone was finished. I’m still not sure [...]
arne naess
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biography, death, nature, writing on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Norwegian mountaineer, philosopher, founder of “deep ecology”, dies at 96. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/europe/15naess.html?_r=1
a life without memory
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biography, death, psychology on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
H.M. dies at 82. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?_r=1&hp
odetta
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biography, death, feminism, human rights, music, women writers on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you get a chance, watch this wonderful 20 minute video in the New York Times on civil rights folk singer, Odetta, who died this week: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html
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