Quote for Today: V.S. Carnes
Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over …
Quote for Today: Cornel West
The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to …
Quote for Today: Swami Dhyan Giten
I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees …
Quote for Today: Mircea Eliade
It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and resurrection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, …
Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked …
A New Image of Community: Lars and the Real Girl
Critics often praise pessimism over optimism. What if portraying the unconventional and exceptional helps create a kinder world? Video via MOVIECLIPS Classic Trailers on YouTube. Lars Lindstrom is twenty-seven years old, withdrawn and incommunicative. He’s …
Creative Freedom and Tradition: Controversies of the Wandjina
Creativity and faith sometimes collide in very unpleasant ways. What lies behind this conflict and can it ever be resolved? In the Kimberley area of Australia, indigenous tribes worship the …
Quote for Today: Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much …
Conflict in the Warrior Archetype: Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda
One of the most interesting aspects of the warrior archetype is the conflict between being a warrior and a soldier. This is at the center of Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera about a tragic love …