by Pier Marton | Jun 27, 2013
There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. Henri Michaux, Plume 1938 Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be. – Samuel Beckett, Molloy, 1951Nothing is more real than nothing. Beckett Malone...
by Pier Marton | Apr 19, 2013
ABSTRACT: When we speak, we assume to be anchored in the present time. Yet, escape artists that we are, we are completely invested in avoiding any sensation connecting us to the present. Through religion, genes, country or any other kind of group allegiance, we feel...
by Pier Marton | Oct 19, 2012
To him who looks at the world rationally, the world looks rational in return. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History The perception of beauty is a moral test. Thoreau, Journals For the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrifying… Rilke,...
by Pier Marton | May 2, 2012
These lists are most temperamental: ultimately we are lived and know nothing about what moves us. Some friends or family members have websites like David Malkin, Aribert Munzner, others don’t. Émile Zola who taught me much about gritty realism (leading to an...
by Pier Marton | Apr 29, 2012
My interest is not to knock off what others have said [that is too easy], but to knock off what I am saying. More precisely, I am trying to stop what you are making out of what I am saying. U.G. Endorsements In the tradition of Abraham, the iconoclast… Pier Marton is...