[bracketing the big topics]
Posted in Famous First Words, Mind Works, Online Publishing, Social Engineering on Jan 9th, 2010
2009 war für mich persönlich ein annus horribilis, das vor allem im Zeichen trauriger familiärer und privater Ereignisse stand. Gleichzeitig war es aber auch ein Jahr, in dem sich objektive, zeitgeschichtliche Prozesse mehr und mehr in den Vordergrund gedrängt haben. Ereignisse wie die fortgesetzte Finanzkrise und die völlig inadäquate, hilflose Antwort der Politik auf diese [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Nov 20th, 2007
Whenever an Indian demographic appears as a numerator, the resulting number looks big. But whenever its population is in the denominator, the number looks small. Its like looking at the same phenomenon from opposite ends of a telescope.
Simon Cox: Running fast, in: Economist, Nov 10, 2007
Posted in Famous First Words on Nov 18th, 2007
So, finally this Weblog has gotten back to its original visual identity: The header shows the beginning of the score of Domenico Scarlatti’s otherworldly beautiful Sonata in b minor (Kk. 87), a melancholic little masterpiece accessible even to the piano novice.
Posted in Famous First Words on Oct 15th, 2007
“[...] I didn’t give a goddamn about the mythology and all the names and national flavors of Buddhism, but was just interested in the first of Shakyamuni’s four noble truths, All life is suffering. And to an extent interested in the third, The suppression of suffering can be achieved, which I didn’t quite believe was [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Sep 5th, 2007
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Jun 5th, 2007
“The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along in the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Oct 27th, 2006
“I’ve gotten plenty of flack for my views, which have been oversimplified into a rather banal ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ True, I’ve supported the Taliban and even Pol Pot in my time, but I’ve got no regrets. I’d do it again if the right situation presented itself. But to dumb down [...]
Posted in Famous First Words on Jul 22nd, 2006
…you’ve never been a 13-year old girl.”
Posted in Famous First Words on Apr 13th, 2006
Auch heute schien die Sonne wieder, da sie keine andere Wahl hat, auf nichts Neues.
Posted in Famous First Words on May 16th, 2005
Zooey rinsed his razor. “Who in hell is Lane?” he asked. Unmistakably, it was the question of a still very young man who, now and then, is not inclined to admit that he knows the first names of certain people.J.D. Salinger: Zooey