tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37068552055661001122024-03-05T06:03:58.602+01:00Goodbye for nowfrom IruñaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-65417759790734818522021-06-21T10:42:00.003+02:002021-06-21T10:43:58.536+02:00Working-class background writer<p align="left" class="espaol" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span>"I always wanted to be a writer, but coming from a working-class background it was hard to feel I had that right. If you're the first generation of your family to go to college, the pressure on graduation is to go for financial security. The whole point of going to college is to get a job. You have it drilled into your head—job, money, security. Wanting to be an artist doesn't jibe with any of those three. If you go back to these people who have "slaved and sacrified" to send you to school, who are the authority figures in your life, and you tell them that you want to be a writer, a dancer, a poet, a singer, an actor, and to do so you're going to wait tables, drive a cab, sort mail, with your Cornell University degree, they look at you like you're slitting their throats. They just don't have it in their life experience to be supportive of a choice like that".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="left" class="espaol" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span>RICHARD PRICE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="left" class="espaol" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span>The Paris Review Interviews - volume I</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-40277477979257425232020-04-29T22:41:00.002+02:002020-05-01T21:15:32.590+02:00Covid-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: white;">"Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: white;">"Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some."</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">The Handmaid's Tale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: large;">“Delocalisation. Refers not only to the practice of moving production and services to where labour is cheapest, but also to the plan of destroying the status of all earlier fixed places so that the entire world becomes a Nowhere, and a single liquid market”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-size: large;">“From A to X” by John Berger</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: yellow; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: yellow; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-79584536330350036852017-11-07T00:33:00.004+01:002017-11-07T00:33:52.745+01:00As his love could dominate the pulse of time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The shock of death had made him
aware of youth already passed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">During recent years he had seldom
thought of her. But at first, after the divorce, the loss had almost destroyed
him. Then, after the anodyne of time, he had loved again, and then again. Jeannine,
she was now. Certainly his love for his ex-wife was long since past. So why the
unhinged body, the shaken mind? He knew only that his clouded heart was oddly
dissonant with the sunny, candid autumn day. Ferris wheeled suddenly and,
walking with long strides, almost running, hurried back to the hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Why had he come? He suffered. His
own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage
of the years. He felt he could not bear much longer to stay in the family room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The little boy stared at Ferris,
amazed and unbelieving. And Ferris’ eyes, as he returned the gaze, were somehow
unbelieving too. Was it indeed true that at one time he had called this
stranger, Elizabeth, Little Butterduck during nights of love, that they had
lived together, shared perhaps a thousand days and nights and –finally–
endured in the misery of sudden solitude the fiber by fiber (jealousy, alcohol
and money quarrels) destruction of the fabric of married love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">‘L’improvisation de la vie humaine’,
he said. ‘There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human
existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Suspended above the ocean the
anxieties of transience and solitude no longer troubled him and he thought on
his father’s death with equanimity. During the dinner hour the plane reached
the shore of France.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">New York at morning, this midnight
Paris. Ferris glimpsed the disorder of his life: the succession of cities, of
transitory loves; and time, the sinister glissando of the years, time always.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With inner desperation he pressed
the child close – as though an emotion as protean as his love could dominate
the pulse of time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"> </span>The tradition of photographing exotic places reaches back almost to the invention of the medium. As the Grand Tour was extended to take into “the Orient” so, in the 1850s, photographers such as Francis Frith lugged their bulky equipment to the eastern Mediterranean and beyond. Once the resulting pictures of the pyramids and other wonders became widely available the desire to go to these places increased. Such was - such is - the allure and promise of photographs that people wanted to see the precise spots shown in the pictures. Part of the motive for travelling was, as it were, to <i>experience</i> the photographs on site, for real. Of course there was a lot to see that hadn’t been photographed, but the places in the frame served as oases or taverns, nodes that visibly determined one’s itinerary. Adventurous travellers naturally wanted to get off this pre-beaten track. By so doing, the places they visited gradually became parte of the track. Just as Wordsworth complained about the growing numbers of visitors to the Lake District that his poetry has attracted so travellers to out-of-the-way places began to lament the tourist that came after them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As travelling has become quicker, easier and cheaper so this problem </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">-</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> or syndrome </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">-</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> has grown more acute. Whereas it once required a considerable effort of will and some ingenuity to get to Egypt, Paul Fussell, in his book <i>Abroad</i>, thinks that the coming of efficient, uniform jet travel — which ‘began in earnest around 1957’ — ‘represents an interesting moment in the history of human passivity’. Maybe so but, as Garry Winogrand’s airport photographs from the 1960s and ‘70s attest, it also heralded a great democratic expansion of the opportunity horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The pictures in Martin Parr’s Small World (...) show the places photographed by the likes of Frith (the pyramids) and they show how the excitement and promise of Winogrand’s pictures has become a source of cramped frustration. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">(...)With the inconvenience of air travel drastically increased in the wake of 9/11 the average traveller </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">—</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> i.e. anyone not in Business or First — dreads going to the airport. To add insult to injury — or, more exactly, guilt to discomfort — we are acutely conscious of the cost to the environment, of the way that air travel is contributing to global warming. In this context a stay-at-home like Fernando Pessoa seems almost visionary: ‘What is travel and what use is it? All sunsets are sunsets; there is not need to go and see one in Constantinople.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It’s not just the sunsets. When people do travel to Constantinople — or anywhere else for that matter — they can increasingly expect to find many of the things and conveniences taken for granted at home. Back in the 1950S the Swiss tourist Robert Frank travelled through America photographing ‘the kind of civilization born here and spreading everywhere’. Frank was right: forty years down the line Parr finds bits and pieces of the America imperium everywhere. (He also records the contrary tendency whereby one no longer has to travel to Egypt — with the attendant threat of terror — to experience the Orient; it can be found in Las Vegas, in the shape of the Luxor.) In order to escape the tentacles of this homogenising ‘civilisation’ it is necessary to travel further and further afield. And by so doing you drag those tentacles after you. We are all responsible for the ruination we lament. Wherever you travel some kind of industry develops to cater for you – even if it’s not the kind of catering you, personally, where hoping for. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The effect of tourism are, of course, not uniform. Not all places have given themselves over entirely to tourism. But, as Mary McCarthy wrote almost half a century ago, ‘there is no use pretending that the tourist Venice is not the real Venice, which is possible with other cities — Rome or Florence or Naples. The tourist Venice is Venice. Venice is a folding picture-post-card of itself’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Venice is an extreme case. Even in Rome and Florence, however, visitors feel reassured by the way there are so many others doing, seeing — and photographing — the same things. (...) At the risk of being racist, the Japanese — the ‘lens-faced Japanese’, in Martin Amis’ phrase — seem to take particular comfort in being photographed in places where everyone else is being photographed. People go to places not to see the places but to obtain evidence — photographs of themselves — of having been there. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(...) he endorses the verdict of the narrator in Don DeLillo’s <i>The Names</i>: ‘Tourism is the march of stupidity. You’re expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travellers acting stupidity. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don’t know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm’. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(...) I suspects, also, that the people in the photographs would recognise themselves and their fellow-travellers. They would agree that, although they have chosen and paid to come to these places, sightseeing in particular and holidaying generally are often the opposite of fun — partly because of all the other <i>tourist</i>. (Like car drivers moaning about traffic, the discerning tourist often complains that a place is “too touristy”.) And the money, even in supposedly cheap places, slips through your fingers like water. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There is no way round it: to travel, either as a backpacker or package tourist, is to be forced into being an incessant consumer. Factor in queues, hassle, jet-lag and tummy upsets and it’s a wonder, even now, when travel has become so easy, that people still want to do it. Phillip Larkin certainly didn’t want to, but he did consent, every year, to take his mother away for a dismal week somewhere in England (he didn’t believe in ‘abroad’). The experience led him to develop ‘a theory [that] “holidays” evolved from the medieval pilgrimage, and are essentially a kind of penance for being so happy and comfortable in one’s daily life’. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-15748940046772093032016-08-01T23:04:00.000+02:002016-08-01T23:04:15.378+02:00To endeavor to live the life which you have imagined<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-40486261460870938152016-05-03T12:41:00.001+02:002016-05-03T12:41:52.326+02:00To be a writer<p dir="ltr">And I was a writer. In Australia I'd written since my early twenties. I'd just begun to establish myself through my first published work when my marriage collapsed, I lost the custody of my daughter, and I lost my life in drugs, crime, imprisonment, and escape. But even as a fugitive, writing was still a daily custom and part of my instinctual routine. Even there, in Leopold's, my pockets were full of notes, scribbled onto napkins, receipts, and scraps of paper. I never stopped writing. It was what I did, no matter where I was or how my circumstances changed. One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared.  And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair. <br>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-17895259954103009492016-01-09T15:13:00.000+01:002016-04-22T07:39:19.679+02:00Daddy, is it raining without water again?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh, there are answers. He is that
way because of the corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because the devil
has claimed him for one of his own. It is because he is a Texan; it is because
he has renounced God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is that kind of man because
the only woman he ever<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>loved
cheated on him, or he was born that way, or he was having problems of
adjustment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>The Naked and the Dead</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Norman Mailer</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-56720060811400663022015-08-29T12:39:00.003+02:002015-08-29T12:39:29.157+02:00the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Emotions, in my experience, aren’t
covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness”, “joy”, or “regret”.
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies
feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic
train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster”. Or:
“the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy”. I’d like to show how
“imitations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the
hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age”. I’d like to have a word for
“sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of
getting a room with a minibar”. I’ve never had the right words to describe my
life, (…).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">- Hey,- she said to Richard - do you think it's possible you're homosexual?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">- You ask that now?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">- I don't know. It's just that sometimes guys who have to screw a million women are trying to prove something. Disprove something.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Freedom</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Jonathan Franzen</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Two relevant legs of the quantum theory are the "superposition of states" and "quantum knowing". The theory of superposition says that atoms are in many possible states simultaneously. They searching among the various alternative energy states (an effect Michael Conrad called "quantum scanning"), and they don't "choose" a state until they collide with matter or are observed. The famous argument in support of this is provided by the double-slit experiment, in which a low-intensity beam of photons is projected onto a wall punctured with two vertical slits. Behind the wall is a screen. Because the intensity is low and the photon stream is "dilute", each photon should pass through one slit or the other. Instead, the patterns on the screen suggest that each photon passes through both slits at once. The bizarre but oft-replicated experiment seems to suggest that a photon can be in two places simultaneously. <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Quantum theory says the photon is not just in those two places, but in many others as well. Scientist decided the best way to talk about a photon's location would be to imagine a three-dimensional graph of all possible states. This is called the state space, and the "wave function" is a way of characterising all the possible states that the photon may be in. Amazingly, when a particle comes into contact with matter—the molecules on the screen in the famous two-slit experiment, for instance—the wave function "collapses" to a single point, and the photon is forced to choose a single state to be in. When we observe something, we don't see all its possible states—we see only one. We force it to be in only one state through the act of seeing or measuring it.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The idea of quantum knowing states that movements of atoms, electrons, or other quantum particles may, under certain instances, be synchronises at great distances. As Hameroff writes, "The greatest surprised to emerge from quantum theory is quantum inseparability or nonlocality which implies that all objects that have once interacted are in some sense still connected! Erwin Schrödinger, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics, observed in 1935 that when two quantum systems interact, their wave functions become 'phase entangled.' Consequently, when one system's wave function is collapsed, the other system's wave function, no matter how far away, instantly collapsed too."<br />
Biomimicry, Invention Inspired by Nature<br />
JANINE M. BENYUS<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-53969374698686966182015-02-15T15:47:00.002+01:002015-02-15T15:47:47.114+01:00Accumulations, Yayoi Kusama<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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for – furnish, equip, dress, accessorise – a society in which the devastations
of fascist ultra-authoritarianism, war deprivation and even atomic obliteration
were somehow to be rectified through the production and consumption of disposable
goods and their corresponding stereotypes, where overdoing was a social
obligation in the performance of gender, consumerism and geopolitical alike.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-73474835097551456792014-10-28T13:49:00.001+01:002014-10-28T13:50:15.327+01:00Colonialism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">It is these different
aspects of life together that make up a social culture. And it is the culture
which he inherits that gives a man his human dignity as well as his material
prosperity. It teaches him his mental and moral values and makes him feel it
worth while to work and fight for liberty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">But a culture has no
meaning apart from the social organisation of life on which it is built. When
the European comes to the Gikuyu country and robs the people of their land, he
is taking away not only the livelihood, but the material symbol that holds
family and tribe together. In doing this he gives one blow which cuts away the
foundations from the hole Gikuyu life, social, moral and economic. When he
explains, to his own satisfaction and after the most superficial glance at the
issues involved, that he is doing this for the sake of the Africans, to
“civilise” them, “teach them the disciplinary value of regular work”, and “give
them the benefit of European progressive ideas”, he is adding insult to injury,
and need expect to convince no one but himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">There certainly are
some progressive ideas among the Europeans. They include the ideas of material
properity, of medicine, and hygiene, and literacy which enables people to take
part in world culture. But so far the Europeans who visit Africa had not been
conspicuously zealous in imparting these parts of their inheritance to the
Africans, and seem to think that the only way to do it is by police discipline
and armed force. They speak as if it was somehow beneficial to an African to
work for them instead of for himself, and to make sure that he will receive
this benefit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they do their best to
take away his land and leave him with no alternative. Along with his land they rob
him of his government, condemn his religious ideas, and ignore his fundamental
conceptions of justice and morals, all in the name of civilisation and
progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">If Africans were left
in peace on their own lands, Europeans would have to offer them the benefits of
white civilisation in real earnest before they could obtain the African labour
which they want so much. They would have to offer the African a way of life
which was really superior to the one his fathers lived before him, and a share
in the prosperity given them by their command of science. They would have to
let the African choose what parts of European culture could be beneficially
transplanted, and how they could be adapted. He would probably not choose the
gas bomb or the armed police force, but he might ask for some other things of
which he does not get so much today. As it is, by driving him off his ancestral
lands, the Europeans have robbed him of the material foundations of his
culture, and reduced him to a state of serfdom incompatible with human
happiness. The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions
of centuries, to a freedom of which European has little conception, and it is
not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realised that he must fight
unceasingly for his own complete emancipation; for without this he is doomed to
remain the prey of rival imperialism, which in very successive year will drive
their fangs more deeply into his vitality and strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Facing MT.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">JOMO
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"if you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-77607458707380261382014-09-07T08:59:00.001+02:002014-09-07T08:59:48.824+02:00How the system changed from matriarchal to patriarchal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At the beginning Gikuyu people enjoyed a matriarchal system. But somehow the system changed from matriarchal to patriarchal.<br />
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It is said that while holding superior position in the community, the women became domineering and ruthless fighters. They also practise polyandry. And, through sexual jealously, many men were put to death for committing adultery or other minor offences. Besides the capital punishment, the men were subjected to all kinds of humiliation and injustice.<br />
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Men were indignant at the way in which the women treated them, and in their indignation they planned to revolt against the ruthless women's administration of justice. But as the women were physically stronger than the man of that time, and also better fighters, it was decided that the best time for a successful revolt would be during the time when the majority of women, especially their leaders, were in pregnancy.<br />
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The decision was hailed by the men who were very anxious to overthrow the rule of the opposite sex. At once the men held a secret meeting in which they arranged a suitable date to execute their plan. On the day appointed to carry out the initial stage of the revolt, the men started to act enthusiastically. They embarked on a campaign to induce the women leaders and a majority of their brave followers to have sexual intercourse with men. The women were unfortunately deceived by the flattery of the men, and blindly agreed to their inducements without without knowing the wicked plan the men had made to overthrow the women's rule.<br />
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The men, after completing the first act, quietly waited for the result. After six moons had elapsed the men then saw clearly that their plan had materialised. At once they organised into groups and finally carried out the revolt without much resistance. For the brave women were almost paralysed by the condition in which they are. The men triumphed, took over the leadership in the community and became the heads of their families instead of the woman. Immediately steps were taken to abolish the system of polyandry and to establish the system of polygamy.<br />
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(the tribal legend about the origin of the Gikuyu system of kinship)<br />
Facing Mt. Kenya<br />
By Jommo Kenyatta<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-81947551513597574162014-09-05T16:42:00.001+02:002014-10-21T16:26:41.577+02:00Relationship vs Love <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">First of all, there is no such thing as being isolated. To be is to be related and without relationships there is no existence. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Relationship is an interconnected challenge and response between two people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The relationship of two people creates society; society is not independent of you and me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Relationship is the awareness of interconnection between two people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Relationship is generally based on mutual gratification. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Are you in communion with your wife? Perhaps you are physically but that is not relationship. You and your wife live on opposite sides of a wall of isolation. You have your own pursuits, your ambitions, and she has hers. You live behind the wall and occasionally look over the top—and that you call relationship. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Thus relationship is sought where there is a mutual satisfaction, gratification; when you do not find that satisfaction you change relationship; either you divorce or you remain together but seek gratification elsewhere or else you move from relationship to another till you find what you seek—which is satisfaction, gratification, and a sense of self-protection and comfort.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So relationship invariably results in possession, in condemnation, in self-assertive demands for security, for comfort and for gratification, in that there is naturally no love.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If there is real relationship between two people, which means there is communion between them, then the implications are enormous. Then there is no isolation; there is love and not responsibility or duty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Relationship is really a process of self-revelation, which is a process of self-knowledge; in that revelation there are many unpleasant things, disquieting, uncomfortable thoughts, activities. Since I do not like what I discover, I run away from a relationship which is no pleasant to a relationship which is pleasant. Therefore, relationship has very little significance when we are merely seeking mutual gratification but becomes extraordinarily significant when it is a means of self-revelation and self-knowledge. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When you love, that is when you give yourself over to something entirely , wholly, then there is no relationship. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If you do love, if there is such a love, then it is a marvellous thing. In such love there is no friction, there is no the one and the other, there is complete unity. It is a state of integration, a complete being.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There can be true relationship only when there is love but love is not the search for gratification. Love exist only when there is self-forgetfulness, when there is complete communion, not between one or two, but communion with the highest; and that can only take place when the self is forgotten.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">On Relationship</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The First and Last Freedom</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">J. Krishnamurti</span><br />
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"Though relationship is painful we cannot run away, by means of isolation, by becoming a hermit and so on."</div>
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The First and Last Freedom</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-12501141779989557192014-08-27T20:43:00.000+02:002014-08-27T20:43:45.344+02:00The Rwandan Genocide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the priest protested but he was told by gendarmes that the church was harbouring "inkotanyi". The priest told the soldier that the people were Christian worshippers, the members of the congregation. But the gendarmes insisted and continued to examine identity cards. A Presidential Guard officer arrived and told the soldiers not to waste their bullets because the Interahamwe would soon come with machetes. Then the militia came in, one hundred of them, and threatening the priest they began to kill people, slashing with their machetes and clubs, hacking arms, legs, genitals and the faces of the terrified people who tried to protect the children under the pews. Some people were dragged outside the church and attacked in the courtyard. The killing continued for two hours as the whole compound was searched. Only two people are beloved to have survived the killing at the church. Not even babies were spared. That day in Gikondo there was a street littered with corpses the length of a kilometre.<br />
There were UN witnesses to the killing in Gikondo. Major Jerzy Maczka and Major Chudy Ryszard, both from Poland, were among the unarmed UN military observers (UNMOs) from sixteen countries, spread throughout Rwanda and living in local communities to ensure compliance with the peace agreement. The observers were an integral part of UNAMIR. When the attack on the church began, the two Polish major had been in the gardens. With rifle barrels held at their throats by gendarmes, the two were forced to watch as the militia pulled people out of the church and killed them. They saw how families run for their lives. Maczka tried to contact UNAMIR headquarters but the channels on the Motorola system were jammed with calls for help, and he could not get through. Afterwards he helped the priest with the wounded and took photographs of the dead. What he had witnessed was clear cooperation and a division of labour between the police and the army on the one hand, and the militia on the other. He knew they were looking for Tutsi. There were a pile of identity cards, charred as though in an effort to burn them to erase any evidence that these people existed.<br />
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An accurate death toll for the Rwandan genocide may never be possible. The figure of 800,000 is now generally accepted, though it remains unclear why this number is so commonly used . It is a statistic provided by Human Rights Watch but it seems to be based on a census of Tutsi in 1991 and does not estimate the number of other victims who died in the genocide. A higher figures given for several experts present in Rwanda while the genocide took place. Philippe Gaillard, the Chief Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who had an intimate knowledge of the country, its politics and its population, and was probably the first person to recognise that genocide was likely, estimates that up to one million people were killed. The figure is confirmed by Charles Petrie, the deputy co-ordinator of the UN Rwanda Emergency Office.<br />
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The sexual crimes in the genocide were unparalleled. The rape of women was so extensive that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), thanks largely to representations by human rights groups, would later make an historic determination that systematic rape is a crime against humanity and that sexual violence constitutes genocide in the same way as other acts.<br />
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The catastrophic failure over Rwanda has been examined by the UN, in an independent inquiry seeking to establish the role of the organisation in what happened. The Report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the UN during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda was authorised by Kofi Annan, who became Secretary-General in December 1996 after the US vetoed a second term for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali.<br />
This report, published in December 1999, called the genocide one of the most abhorrent events of the twentieth century. The report left no doubt that each part of the UN system, and in particular the Secretary-General, the Secretariat, the Security Council and the members state, had to assume and acknowledge their responsibility in the failure to prevent genocide. The circumstances of the genocide have also been considered by an international panel created by the Organisation of African Unity and a report, 'Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide", was published in Addis Ababa in July 2000. It showed how the potential to prevent the genocide was very real; it would have been possible to at least minimise significantly the carnage once it began. Those who most egregiously failed to use their power and influence included the governments of France, Belgium, the USA, the UK, the Catholic Church and the UN Secretariat.<br />
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Conspiracy to Murder, The Rwandan Genocide<br />
by Linda Melvern<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-48982115354433419042014-08-24T11:58:00.000+02:002014-08-24T11:58:35.509+02:00Can I help you to avoid the rain?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">am in the Rwandan National Museum, in Huye (Butare). I am walking around the gardens. Suddenly it starts to rain. A girl, a young one, maybe she is sixteen, comes to me and asks me something in French. I say, 'sorry, I don't speak French. Then she says in English ' Can I help you to avoid the rain?'.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I say 'yes' and she brings me a small house, a kind of storehouse. We sit beside each other. We have a casual conversation. She has finished the school, las year, but she cannot afford a university degree. She earns 25,000 Rwandan francs per months working at the museum. One year at the university are one million. I think to myself, around 1,100€. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most time we feel silent. The rain is harder. Suddenly I decide to go. I say 'maybe I try to reach the reception hall. Thanks.' She smiles. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As I walk under the rain I wonder... maybe, this is what I am looking for, who I am looking for. Just somebody who helps me to avoid the rain</span>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-63602993084630475242013-12-27T09:54:00.000+01:002013-12-27T09:54:44.214+01:00Your death will serve as warning
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I recommend this book by the French writer George Perec (available in Spanish, in English,..).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Although the title says "a story of the sixties", I think this book is also about today in the "developed world", the "first world".</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706855205566100112.post-57726846859588075862013-11-27T12:41:00.001+01:002013-11-27T12:41:00.973+01:00The Wrong PlaceI recommend it<br />
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