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France Mémoires BD/Comics Memory – 1950/1960

by Pier Marton | Apr 21, 2010 | Art, Ego, France, Humor, Idées, Politics, Time

Based of French comic strips (les bandes dessinées – BDs) Early Visual Stimulations (based on my childhood/adolescence in France) part of my presentation CINEMATIC COMICS: IRRELEVANT IRREVERENCE? at Webster University for the Institute for Comics Studies Conference...

1,000 People Gathering for Yom HaShoah in STL

by Pier Marton | Apr 8, 2010 | Antisemitism, Ego, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, STL

A announcement about it. The writer made two mistakes though, he used “winning” for the medal my father received in the French Resistance, and he states that my mother is still alive which is unfortunately not right. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

Please Call Me by My True Names

by Pier Marton | Mar 11, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Care, Ego, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery, Politics, Racism, Wars, Women

by Thich Nhat Hanh Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow –even today I am still arriving.Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the...

Adolfo Kaminsky: Saving Lives (in French)

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Ego, France, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Racism

And one more interview. Un ami d’enfance! Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

The Kernel of Truth

by Pier Marton | Feb 14, 2010 | Ego, Health, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery

As told by Thich Nhat Hahn, in Touching Peace. There was a patient in the mental hospital in Bien Hoa who seemed to be normal. He ate and talked like other people. But he believed that he was a kernel of corn, and every time he saw a chicken, he ran for his life… When...

Un Homme Paisible par Henri Michaux (with translation)

by Pier Marton | Feb 14, 2010 | Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Idées, KeyText, Mystery, Shoah, Wars

The famous French/Belgian poet, Henri Michaux speaks here of exhaustion. Un homme paisible Étendant les mains hors du lit, Plume fut étonné de ne pas rencontrer le mur. ” Tiens, pensa-t-il, les fourmis l’auront mangé… ” et il se rendormit. Peu apres, sa femme...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus