Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Kultur

  • Quote of the day

    Quote of the day

    “It is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World – it is here, everywhere, in the metropolises, in the White community, in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real, in a world of simulation, of the hallucination of truth,…

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  • Quotes of the day

    Quotes of the day

    “Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today! “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” “Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” “The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not…

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  • Quotes of the day

    Quotes of the day

    “Politics and religion are both expressions of our underlying moral psychology, and an understanding of that psychology can help to bring people together.” “(…) when a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. The true believers produce pious fantasies…

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  • Celebrating New Beginnings: My Prose in O Mie de Semne

    Dear friends, I hope you’ve had a wonderful New Year’s celebration! I am happy to report that my year has started well: after a wonderful afternoon skiing in #Tirol (albeit with a cold), I received word that a short #prose I authored was picked up by O mie de semne, a Romanian #literary #magazine. Here…

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  • Quote of the day

    Quote of the day

    “The way we use language to describe the Other is a large part of what gives that Other their humanity.” Toward Eternity – Anton Hur

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  • My 2024 Retrospective

    It’s that time of the year again: hot cocoa, mulled wine, and… retrospectives. You can read mine (in Romanian) here: https://atelier.liternet.ro/articol/49103/Andreea-Sepi/Drumuri-intre-acasa-si-acasa-sau-viata-ca-un-roller-coaster-2024.html. Or you can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube to see what I’ve been up to and to stay tuned for what I’m doing next! Keep an eye out for my next…

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  • New month, new book

    This coming Thursday, 19.12. at 19:00 EET, join me and other authors in my hometown of Timisoara, Romania to launch a book that talks about the city’s hidden spots and secret moments. UndergroundTM – Orasul care nu se vede, now in its third edition. My short prose, A Tramcar Called December (Un tramvai numit decembrie)…

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  • 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

    “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.” – Emil Cioran

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  • Quote of the day

    “We call intuition the sympathy by which one transports oneself into the inside of an object in order to coincide with what is unique and consequently the inexplicable. (…) Metaphysics is thus the kind of science that pretends to surpass symbols.” Henri Bergson – An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903)

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  • Quotes of the day

    Quotes of the day

    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks. “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. If we turn our mind toward the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole…

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