by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Books, Death, Ego, Humor, Ideas, iOS, Mystery, Poet, Time
I walked in a desert. And I cried, “Ah, God, take me from this place!” A voice said, “It is no desert.” I cried, “Well, But — The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.” A voice said, “It is no desert.”...
by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2011 | Afri, Art, Asia, Books, Dance, France, Hispanic, History, Humor, Ideas, Idées, 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 Nietzsche’s “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” 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 America’s homegrown philosopher...
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 “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance) Since I report on...
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. They do not present an organized body of thought, but rather reflections and feelings grounded in the tribulations of a Holocaust childhood, wanderings and...