by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Books, Death, Ego, Humor, Ideas, iOS, Mystery, Poet, Time
I walked in a desert. And I cried, โAh, God, take me from this place!โ A voice said, โIt is no desert.โ I cried, โWell, But โ The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.โ A voice said, โIt is no desert.โ ________________ I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round...
by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Afri, Art, Asia, Books, Dance, France, Hispanic, History, Humor, Ideas, Idรฉes, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Poet, Politics, Racism, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Women
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by Pier Marton | Dec 16, 2011 | Books, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Mystery, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women
His take on Nietzscheโs โWhatever doesnโt kill me makes me stronger.โ Oh, really? Take the case of the philosopher to whom that line is usually attributed, Friedrich Nietzsche, who lost his mind to what was probably syphilis. Or Americaโs homegrown philosopher Sidney...
by Pier Marton | Dec 15, 2011 | Asia, Middle-East, Music, Mystery, Women
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by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Care, Death, Eco, History, Human Rights, Mystery, Politics
From Forbes Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How it Hurts America โA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines.โ โ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance) Since I report on American education,...
by Pier Marton | Dec 13, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, History, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Time, Wars
From the opening of the Preface: The three lectures presented here took shape within me over the past years.ย They do not present an organized body of thought, but rather reflections and feelings grounded in the tribulations of a Holocaust childhood, wanderings and...