Category: Philosophy
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Tunes of Glory, Fifty Years later
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Having seen Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, featuring Alec Guinness and the impeccably dappered and incisive Dennis Price with the usual suspects of English black comedy of the Fifties — Peter Sellars, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, et al, Jane and I have become dazzled by the Guinness portrayals. In 1958…
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I Have One Day to Live
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I will finish the week, the month and go on to 2011, but I pose this to myself, for one day I will have one day to live. Regardless of the sickness, be it cancer or a stroke, there is the day before that. And if I were to be…
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A Speculative Sharing, Make of It What You Will
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Across the spastic reaches of the void, convulsive and coughing tears of rent space, a laryngectomy of time, we come in. We plunge through, like a finger probing a hole. And after we are in, we are a raving neonate unknown to itself, years away from any kind of contemplation…
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Yelp
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I am perplexed why I keep on writing. I associate to Krishnamurti who was asked by a disciple, if you will, why he continued his teaching after so many decades, given that most people had heard his message and did not change. He answered that a rose has to give off its…