#mark fried

[deadpoetsmusings]

last days of winter 

[hours]

"Does history repeat itself? Or are its repetitions only penance for those who are incapable of listening to it? No history is mute. No matter how much they burn it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is."

— Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (translated by Mark Fried)

[hours]

"Does history repeat itself? Or are its repetitions only penance for those who are incapable of listening to it? No history is mute. No matter how much they burn it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. The right to remember does not figure among the human rights consecrated by the United Nations, but now more than ever we must insist on it and act on it. Not to repeat the past but to keep it from being repeated. Not to make us ventriloquists for the dead but to allow us to speak with voices that are not condemned to echo perpetually with stupidity and misfortune. When it's truly alive, memory doesn't contemplate history, it invites us to make it. . . A memory that's awake is contradictory, like us. It's never still, and it changes along with us. It was born to be not an anchor but a catapult. A port of departure, not of arrival. It doesn't turn away from nostalgia, but it prefers the dangers of hope."

— Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (translated by Mark Fried)

[abdullahbasaran]

January 17: The Man Who Executed God

In 1918, in the midst of the revolutionary upheaval in Moscow, Anatoly Lunacharsky presided over the court that judged God.

A Bible sat in the chair of the accused.

According to the prosecutor, throughout history God had committed many crimes against humanity. The defense attorney assigned to the case argued that God was not fit to stand trial due to mental illness; but the tribunal sentenced Him to death. At dawn on this day, five rounds of machine-gun fire were shot at the heavens.

» Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History, tra. Mark Fried, New York: Nation Books, 2013, p. 19.

[italiangleeksnet]

Il dramma della coreografia di Let's Have a Kiki

http://www.glee-italia.net/2013/01/il-dramma-della-coreografia-di-kiki/