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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“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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Have you?
Read more: Have you?Have you completed the sacraments of life? Have you bowed to the April sunrise? Have you worshipped the brightness and the honeyed light dripping on the fresh leaves? Have you helped a blind mole across the gravel road and kept it safe from the fury of bikers? Have you touched bark or beetle and gladly…
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Quote of the day
Read more: 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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Springtide
Read more: SpringtideHeat. April heat. Deep, penetrating. This afterwinter sky – unfamiliar, molten, aglow – splurges on timid leaves, permeates clothes,and burrows into skin. Out by the river I am sitting on a log. The gulls have just taken off, shrieking, treading water, flapping their wings against the dormant, mirror-cold, reflected images of trees. Seconds later, suspended,…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Happiness and fulfilment are by-products of other things, of a focus elsewhere – not the narrow focus on getting and using, but a broader empathic attention. We now see ourselves in largely mechanistic terms, as happiness-maximising machines, and not very successful ones at that.” Iain McGilchrist – The Master and Its Emissary: The Divided Brain…
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Quote(s) of the day
Read more: Quote(s) of the day“There’s no greater sin than frittering your life away, Vadya. They don’t have the remotest notion that the goal of human existence might be something other than to live as long as possible, in as much comfort as possible. (…) “What these youngsters want is to be released from triviality, to escape from boredom. (…)…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“For a long time we believed that machines were man’s instrument, but it’s now clear that men were the instruments that paved the way for machines. The transition will happen slowly: machines won’t subject men to their rule, but they’ll enter man, like an urge, an intimate aspiration. Even now, becoming a flawless machine is…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“When we refuse to admit the interchangeable character of ideas, blood flows… Firm resolves draw the dagger; fiery eyes presage slaughter. No wavering mind, infected with Hamletism, was ever pernicious: the principle of evil lies in the will’s tension, in the incapacity for quietism, in the Promethean megalomania of a race that bursts with ideals,…
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Beyond Words
Read more: Beyond WordsDear friends, Beyond Words Literary Magazine will be publishing my flash fiction ‘Fish’ in its May 2024 issue. My heartfelt thanks to Gal Slonim and the Editorial Board! You can order physical copies here. A quick preview of my work is available below: Hope you enjoy.
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“…we should be appropriately sceptical of the left hemisphere’s vision of a mechanistic world, an atomistic society, a world in which competition is more important than collaboration; a world in which nature is a heap of resource there for our exploitation, in which only humans count, and yet humans are only machines – not even…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“A century ago, the physical environment was for most of humanity that of the natural world, with its rhythms and cycles, its organic, ever-growing and ever-changing interdependent life, a world to which it seemed intuitively obvious that we belong; now it has been replaced for many by an unyielding, inert, confrontational environment of non-living surfaces,…
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