THE GIFT OF DEATH Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th December 2012 http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/ “There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly...
“Plato’s Utopia is more terrifying than Orwell’s 1984 because Plato desires to happen what Orwell fears might happen. ‘That Plato’s Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history’, remarked Bertrand Russell. In Plato’s...
LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN“Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography”Editora Picador USA, 1999 (Publicado no Brasil pela Ed. Difel em 2000.Disponível para compra na Estante Virtual.) * * * * * O NAUFRÁGIO DE NIETZSCHE EM TURIM “The year-in year-out lack of a really refreshing and healing human love, the absurd loneliness...
“THE DISQUIETING MUSES” By Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Painting by Giorgio de Chirico (1909-1978) “Mother, mother, what illbred aunt Or what disfigured and unsightly Cousin did you so unwisely keep Unasked to my christening, that she Sent these ladies in her stead With heads like darning-eggs to nod And nod and...
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Travel may the poorest take Without opress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul…” EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) * * *...
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE – AN INQUIRY INTO VALUES Robert M. Pirsig (1974) (Ed. Harper Torch Philosophy, New York, 1999, 540 pgs.) Os tensos e intensos anos 1960 já haviam passado mas ainda eram visíveis no espelho retrovisor quando Robert M. Pirsig publicou Zen e a...