Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Society

  • Feminist Haiku

    Feminist Haiku

    when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.

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  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

    seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.

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  • Quote of the day

    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…

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  • Quote of the day

    “There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Waitzkin characterizes medicine as an ideological system that “calls” the patient to be an identity that medicine maintains for him; the diagnosis is the most prevalent form of this identity. The ideological work of medicine is to get the patient to accept this diagnostic identity as appropriate and moral. When the patient accepts this identity,…

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  • Oamenii

    Oamenii

    (a poem in Romanian) Oamenii se taie cu aplomb unii pe alții Oamenii scot cuțitele și le înfig unii în alții se spintecă sfârtecă eviscerează își produc cicatrici lungi răni adânci găuri prin care poți vedea în zare o bucățică mică mică de albastru Oamenii își cară pumni se învinețesc își rup unii altora nasul…

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  • Carpathian cow-keeper

    Carpathian cow-keeper

    Come, come look at the cows, he says, just cross this little brook, don’t worry it is not too cold, and never mind this blue rope here, I will untie it in no time. I wrap it ‘round the bushes so the cows think it’s electric and don’t get away I tend to about 20…

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  • 11 million electric bikes

    11 million electric bikes

    The age of sweat is over. The age of skid marks is here. Deep trenches crisscrossing the country. Every which way, everyone’s rushing – each one of us thinking that we can squeeze more life into that cracked hourglass: 61 seconds to the minute (going on 62), can pedal faster than the rest and come…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Our ideas – and hence the principles which are stitched together from them – are answers to questions, and hence they are only as good as the questions that have helped in their ‘excavation’ and formation. (…) Modern philosophy (…) has tended to make tyrants and false ‘gods’ of ideas. Idea-ism is the most common…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Modernity is a great contradiction, consisting on the one hand of the unprecedented technological and administrative harnessing of corporeal powers and on the other hand of a plethora of souls in disintegration, the weakened personalities of men and women who are ‘no longer (being) certain of the sources of integrity’.” W. Cristaudo – Religion, Redemption…

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    “What we experience today as acceleration is only one of the symptoms of temporal dispersal. (…) Time is lacking a rhythm that would provide order, and thus it falls out of step. (…) The feeling that life is accelerating is really the experience of a time that is whizzing without a direction. (…) Life is…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Beauty is rarely mentioned in contemporary art critiques: in a reflection of the left hemisphere’s values, a work is now conventionally praised as ‘strong’ or ‘challenging’, in the rhetoric of power, the only rhetoric in all our relations with the world and with one another that we are now permitted. It has become somehow unsophisticated…

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