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COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
Robert Altman
USA, 1982
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Nothing captures the biological argument better than the famous New Age slogan ‘Happiness begins within.’ Money, social status, plastic surgery, beautiful houses, powerful positions – none of these will bring you happiness. Lasting happiness comes only from serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin.
Monday, March 11, 2024
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Sunday, March 10, 2024
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SAMUEL BECKETT
Not to be able to open my mouth without proclaiming them, and our fellowship, that’s what they imagine they’ll have me reduced to. It’s a poor trick that consists in ramming a set of words down your gullet on the principle that you can’t bring them up without being branded as belonging to their breed. But I’ll fix their gibberish for them. I never understood a word of it in any case, not a word of the stories it spews, like gobbets in a vomit. My inability to absorb, my genius for forgetting, are more than they reckoned with. Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end. Nothing will remain of all the lies they have gutted me with. And I’ll be myself at last, as a starveling belches his odourless wind, before the bliss of coma.
The Unnamable
Not to be able to open my mouth without proclaiming them, and our fellowship, that’s what they imagine they’ll have me reduced to. It’s a poor trick that consists in ramming a set of words down your gullet on the principle that you can’t bring them up without being branded as belonging to their breed. But I’ll fix their gibberish for them. I never understood a word of it in any case, not a word of the stories it spews, like gobbets in a vomit. My inability to absorb, my genius for forgetting, are more than they reckoned with. Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end. Nothing will remain of all the lies they have gutted me with. And I’ll be myself at last, as a starveling belches his odourless wind, before the bliss of coma.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
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Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Soloman Howard, Judit Kutasi, Patrick Carfizzi
Live on 98.9 All Classical at 9:00 AM
ALBERT CAMUS
The Rebel
What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that, somewhere and somehow, one is right. The rebel says yes and no simultaneously In every act of rebellion, the rebel simultaneously experiences a feeling of revulsion at the infringement of his rights and a complete and spontaneous loyalty to certain aspects of himself.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN
Let not the gendered language detract or distract from the lucidity of Camus’s wisdom, for it is a function of his era
Friday, March 8, 2024
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YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’
Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility.
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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RAINER MARIA RILKE
"To Say For Going To Sleep"
I would like to sing someone to sleep,
by someone to sit and be,
I would like to rock you and croon you to sleep
and attend you in slumber and out.
I would like to be the only one in the house
who would know: The night was cold.
And you would like to hearken within and without
to you, to the world, to the woods,—
The clocks call striking to each other,
and one sees to the bottom of time.
And below a strange man passes yet
and rouses a strange dog.
Behind that comes stillness. I have laid
my eyes upon you wide;
they hold you gently and let you go
when something stirs in the dark.
Translated by M.D. Hester Norton
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RAINER MARIA RILKE
“The Neighbor”
Strange violin, are you following me?
In how many distant cities already
has your lonely night spoken to mine?
Do hundreds play you? Or does one?
Are there in all great cities
such as without you would
already have lost themselves in the rivers?
And why does it always happen to me?
Why am I always neighbor to those
who fearfully force you to sing
and to say: Life is heavier
than the heaviness of all things?
Translated by M.D. Hester Norton
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Saturday, March 2, 2024
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In a 1792 Letter to then-president George Washington
The only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, and bold in his temper is seen to mount the hobby horse of popular it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’
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