Daily Painting

Thomas Fransioli
RAIN IN CHARLESTON (1951)

Daily Painting

Lee Krasner
UNTITLED NO. 3 (1951)

HANNAH ARENDT
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century.

THOMAS MERTON
The Ascent to Truth

One might compare the journey of the soul to mystical union, by way of pure faith, to the journey of a car on a dark highway. The only way the driver can keep to the road is by using his headlights. So in the mystical life, reason has its function. The way of faith is necessarily obscure. We drive by night. Nevertheless our reason penetrates the darkness enough to show us a little of the road ahead. It is by the light of reason that we interpret the signposts and make out the landmarks along our way.

Reading

Arthur C. Clarke
CHILDHOOD'S END

HANNAH ARENDT
The Origins of Totalitarianism

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Watching

NATIVE SON
Pierre Chenal
Argentina-USA, 1951

HANNAH ARENDT
The Origins of Totalitarianism

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Daily Painting

Corneille
THE ARRIVAL OF THE BIRD (1951)

SAMUEL BECKETT
Molloy

And having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.

SAMUEL BECKETT
Malone Dies

Let us say before I go any further, that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.

Watching

VICTIMS OF SIN
[VÍCTIMAS DEL PECADO]
Emilio Fernández
Mexico, 1951

 

Daily Painting

Franz Klein
THE BRIDGE (1951)

Currently Playing

Jeri Southern
THE SINGLES AND ALBUMS COLLECTION (1951-59)

Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition

85. CERAMICS FROM ILZA
[CERAMIKA ILZECKA]
Andrzej Wajda
Poland, 1951

84. THE LAMP
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959

83. WHEN ANGELS FALL
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959

82. THE MUSICIANS
Kazimierz Karabasz
Poland, 1960

81. THE FAT AND THE LEAN
Roman Polanski
France, 1961

80. MAMMALS
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1962

Currently Playing

Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library
FOLK MUSIC OF PALESTINE

Daily Painting

Richard Diebenkorn
UNTITLED (ALBUQUERQUE) (1951)

Currently Watching

RANCHO NOTORIOUS
Fritz Lang
USA, 1951

Daily Painting

Alfonso Ossorio
UNTITLED (1951)