Posted in Octave Mirbeau, iraq, prayer on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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“You’re obliged to pretend respect for people & institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral & social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas & desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your [...]
Posted in death, iraq on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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(mise en abyme by Ben Heine – Cartoons)
Prosperity is like a sewing needle. The same point that draws the thread through the fabric strengthening it can pick the stitch apart, thus weakening it. The prosperity of the masses strengthens the social fabric; the prosperity of the few weakens it and [...]
Posted in death, iraq on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
READ THE POEM +/-
(mise en abyme by Ben Heine – Cartoons)
Prosperity is like a sewing needle. The same point that draws the thread through the fabric strengthening it can pick the stitch apart, thus weakening it. The prosperity of the masses strengthens the social fabric; the prosperity of the few weakens it and [...]
Posted in Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden, civilization, hope, iraq, prayer, protest poetry on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“You’re obliged to pretend respect for people & institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral & social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas & desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes [...]
