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Posted in Existential, Literature, Poems, Relationships on Feb 15th, 2008
One the Death of Summer
Day was a bright one,
A summer, a rain -
Your kiss was a grey one,
A dying, a pain:
And earth was unending,
A round one, a ball -
But love had its ending,
The finite - the gall
Of a life-time,
A season, a year,
Like the dawn of a day-time,
The dew, and the fear
Of a noon-tide,
The parchness, the [...]
Posted in Censorship, Existential, Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Literature, Religion, Science, Society, Technology, Television on Feb 3rd, 2008
It is a strange world - one after the flood. Many foolishly thought the flood was the result of global warming, but those at the Temple knew differently. It was divine retribution for those who doubted Him and tried to use science to thwart His wishes. It was retribution for those who [...]
Posted in Art, Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Literature, Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2008
In 2001 journalist Åsne Seierstad arrived in Kabul. One of the first people she met was a bookseller. She was fascinated by his stories about his battles with the different regimes and their censors, how he hid books from the police and lent them out to others. Over the weeks she got to [...]
Posted in Humanity, Language, Literature, Poems on Dec 9th, 2007
I think verbs are sexy. Well, at least I find them attractive and interesting. They do exciting things. They make things happen. They are like a kind of moving or magnetic force in the language universe. Describing them as ‘doing words’ is like calling the Mona Lisa ‘a painting’ and the Sistene Chapel ‘a building’. [...]
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