by Pier Marton | Oct 16, 2011 | Care, Dance, Humor, Ideas, Music, Mystery, Sci/Nat, Teach
โWe canโt define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophersโฆ one saying to the other: โyou donโt know what you are talking about!โ. The second one says: โwhat do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?...
by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Film, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, Mystery, Objects, Poet, Politics, Review, Sound, STL, Teach, Time, Video
โ more about non-violent media โ PEACE My short review:ย Are you familiar with Barthesโ โDegree Zero of Writing,โ Lรฉvinasโs philosophy of caress* or Ozuโs elliptical cinema? For the viewer of this astounding film these came to mind, but all that is required is the...
by Pier Marton | Sep 26, 2011 | Asia, Books, Care, Eco, Ego, Health, Highlights, Ideas, Mystery, Now, Site
I amย sorry about the ?? instead of the Thai characters โ on my previous WordPress.com blog, it worked fine. I have tried some of the tips provided here โ http://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save?replies=39 โ but I need...
by Pier Marton | Sep 6, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Dance, Death, Health, History, Mystery, Time
His first book, โThe Story of Forgetting,โ was translated into 12 languages. His second novel, โStorm at the Door,โ is taking off too: One of the bravest and the most beautiful books I have ever read. Karen Russell in the NY Times. Click to email a link to a friend...
by Pier Marton | Sep 4, 2011 | Art, Death, Film, Health, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Mystery, Poet, Review, STL, Theater
A short review: Restoration โCracks let the light inโ says Leonard Cohen; director Yossi/Joseph Madmony gambled on Sasson Gabay, the venerable Israeli actor, to trust the eloquence of his face to carry that light, and he won! A great many subtleties anchor the main...
by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Mystery, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time
Protestant church officials in Austria and Germany lobbied the West German government to try to help Adolf Eichmann after his 1960 arrest. In a letter to the foreign affairs department of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Eichmann was described as โfundamentally...