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Amazing Grace in Budapest

by Pier Marton | Jan 10, 2013 | Care, Humor, Magyar, Music, Spectacle, Theater

Bolyki Balázs, frónt ember (a Bolyki Soul & Gospel Kórus) Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind but now I see. Shout, shout for glory, Shout, shout aloud for glory; Brother, sister, mourner,...

When in New York, Eat Like a Hungarian!

by Pier Marton | Dec 20, 2012 | Magyar

An article in the New York Times: On the Upper East Side, Memories Fueled by Strudel (NEW YORK, NY 10028) Andre’s Café, 1631 Second Avenue (between 84th & 85th Street) Mon-Sun 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. (212) 327 1105 Their menu is below… And across the street about a...

It Takes Very Little Effort/Brain to Be Stupid

by Pier Marton | Dec 3, 2012 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Politics, Racism

Mi Magyarok megvédjük Zsidó honfitársainkat. We the Hungarians will defend our compatriots. Nous les Hongrois nous défendrons nos compatriotes. Viktor Orban Viktor, Miniszterelnök, Prime Minister of Hungary, Premier Ministre de Hongrie. Said in the Hungarian...

On the BBC: The BBC, Hungary’s Jews & Guilt

by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2012 | Jewish, Magyar, Media, Politics, Shoah

The BBC cannot acknowledge their guilt. This is as close as they can go. The BBC and the Hungarian Holocaust on BBC 4 “Hindsight… It was not the job of the BBC to warn the Jews… startling… fatigue… (had they known) those Jews who died would have died fighting, and...

Troubled Hungary

by Pier Marton | Aug 19, 2012 | Antisemitism, History, Magyar, Middle-East, Racism

Hungary far-right leader discovers Jewish roots by Pablo Gorondi BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanád Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about...

Kati Marton on “Paris, a love story”

by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2012 | Books, Death, France, Jewish, Magyar, Wars, Women

Kati Marton’s new book is called Paris: A Love Story, speaking on NPR, about recovering from loss. 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...

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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