Misery

© Massimiliano Uccelletti

Η μιζέρια είναι σαν το δρεπάνι: θερίζει μέσα μας κάθε ικανότητα επαφής με τον άλλο και μας αφήνει άδειους, στραγγισμένους από συναισθήματα …


Muriel Barbery [Η κομψότητα του σκαντζόχοιρου, 2006]
Με ευχαριστίες στον Βασίλη

Anouar Brahem releases The Astounding Eyes of Rita

The Caliph El Outhek once said, very wisely, referring to Al Mawsili, the master of Arab vocal art: "each time he sings I have the impression that my kingdom becomes greater". In listening to Anouar Brahem play I can say that the kingdom of music becomes greater" [...] Prophetic music. When the Tunisian Anouar Brahem plays the oud, the musical cultures of the East and West are reconciled.

Wolfgang Sandner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Φθινοπωρινά φύλλα

La Seine / Ile de la Cite, Paris Oct2009 / © I.A. Daglis

Σιωπή, ακούμε το φύσημα του αέρα, τα φθινοπωρινά φύλλα θροΐζουν και παρασέρνονται από τον άνεμο, ο γάτος κοιμάται λουσμένος σ’ ένα ζεστό φως.


Muriel Barbery [Η κομψότητα του σκαντζόχοιρου, 2006]

Peaceable revolution

100 dollar bill of the Confederate States of America, 1862

If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau [Civil Disobedience, 1849]

Liberty and Disobedience

Demonstration in London, April 2009 / Dan Kitwood, Getty Images

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau (American writer and philosopher, 1817-1862)