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The land is civilized, free, prosperous, law-abiding, moderate and cautious. Its many virtues may be summarized as the “banality of the good.” Asked by the tabloid BILD-Zeitung what feelings Germany awakens inher, Angela Merkel once famously replied, “I think of well-sealed windows! No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows.” Timothy Garton-Ash, “The […]
The point of this letter is to propose that the coming of that distant day, and the end, therefore, of the need for the violent speech of the inner city streets, is up to us. The starving fellah (or the jobless inner city NHI, the global New Poor or les damnés), Fanon pointed out, does not have […]
Female Student: Professor, I am having trouble hearing what you say during class Male Professor: That’s ok, I know female students struggle to keep pace with male students in my classes Female Student: What did you say? Male Professor: What did I say? Female Student: Yes, you! Male Professor: Who, me?
So, fellow reader, yesterday’s post was a test. Did you pass? Just because I am not here to accompany a post about a book (in this case Artists and Buildings by Scottish artist David Harding), it doesn’t turn that post into a placeholder. I am behind every post that our librarian types; thinking within his […]
Your favorite revenant is back! Did you miss me? I hope you weren’t expecting me to narrate every day – that would be so 2016-2017! Believe it or not, I have better things to do than ramble on about every book on these shelves I call home in my endless afterlife. Sometimes I want to […]
Sometimes it feels impossible to believe in the utopias we dream about, yet sometimes the line between the system and a revolution is just a river. – Dilar Dirik
Do the best you can, stay open, be compassionate with yourself and others, be creative. Expect miracles. – Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens