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21 Nov 09

Monkey Tricks or Foul Play (2)

Laziness
I want to add something to this well-known story and tell you about some discoveries I have made in the Bibliothèque National in Paris. Much has been written about Diderot’s nephew and Goethe’s translation. Although the existence of 1821’s publication by de Saur and de Saint-Geniès is known, there has been hardly anyone who has [...]

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20 Nov 09

Monkey Tricks or Foul Play? (1)

Monkey Tricks or Foul Play? the ‘retranslation’ of Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau
Introduction
The first time I became aware of Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau’s Nephew), was during my student years. In a Close Reading Course we students had to read the main work of Hegel, the Phänomenologie des Geistes, (Phenomenology of Spirit). In this work Hegel [...]

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19 Nov 09

Moon, a film with a view on the ‘benefits’ of Human Clones

 
Moon is a 2009 science fiction/psychological thriller film about a solitary lunar employee who experiences a personal crisis as the end of his three-year stint nears. 
Sam Bell is an employee contracted by the company Lunar Industries to extract helium-3 from lunar soil for much-needed clean energy back on Earth. He is stationed for three years [...]

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19 Nov 09

A Boy in France, by J.D. Salinger

After he had eaten half a can of pork and egg yolks, the boy laid his head back on the rain-sogged ground, hurtfully wrenched his head out of his helmet, closed his eyes, let his mind empty out from a thousand bungholes, and fell almost instantly asleep. When he awoke, it was nearly ten o’clock–wartime, [...]

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17 Nov 09

The Core of Philosophy

Wonder… and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
By Adam Smith 1723-1790,  Scottish philosopher and economist
 Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795) ‘The History of Astronomy’ [...]

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13 Nov 09

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. Click on each name to see the Nobel Laureate’s page.
The Laureates from 2009 – 1979:
         2009 – Herta Müller 1953- Germany

2008 – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 1940- France
2007 – Doris Lessing 1919- United Kingdom
2006 – Orhan Pamuk [...]

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10 Nov 09

Fiction

One of our most valuable faculties is our imagination.
Sometimes we need a little help to start this ability, or some stimulation to keep our imagination going.
Surely fiction can go beyond the borders of reason. But fiction may show us also, with delicacy and depth, Life as it is:  honest, painful and sweet.
Besides all the pleasures that fiction [...]

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