Reviews
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Einschlägiges Gedicht aus der Vergangenheit
Der Krieg wird nicht mehr erklärt,sondern fortgesetzt. Das Unerhörteist alltäglich geworden. Der Heldbleibt den Kämpfen fern. Der Schwacheist in die Feuerzonen gerückt.Die Uniform des Tages ist die Geduld,die Auszeichnung der armselige Sternder Hoffnung über dem Herzen. Er wird verliehen,wenn nichts mehr geschieht,wenn das Trommelfeuer verstummt,wenn der Feind unsichtbar geworden istund der Schatten ewiger Rüstungden Himmel…
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Tuna Salad and a Coke
Last night I had a dream I drove by my old childhood house in a white 1966 Shelby GT350 and picked my mother up for lunch. We drove to a decrepit little mom-and-pop diner in my hometown and went inside together. She had been telling me a conversation she had with my aunt about the…
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“The greatest failure of humanity is stagnation.”
As it has been for many of us during the last twenty months, this pandemic and period of waiting for me has been trying mentally to say the least. Of course I would love to be one of the people who learned a new language (I definitely could use it), or found a new workout…
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“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
This week, I was in a particularly doleful mood when I woke up one day and I decided to watch the first two episodes of Apple’s new show, Foundation. I must have been in a particularly susceptible disposition because I thoroughly enjoyed the escapism offered in the out of world CGI of the show. I…