"We do not become writers, dancers, musicians, helpers, peacemakers. We came as such." C.P.Estés
Thursday, May 31
language
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
Wednesday, May 30
Tuesday, May 29
violence
"There is no obvious explanation for this grim event, nor can one be found. The Japanese soldiers, who had expected easy victory, instead had been fighting hard for months and had taken infinitely higher casualties than anticipated. They were bored, angry, frustrated, tired. The Chinese women were undefended, their menfolk powerless or absent. The war, still undeclared, had no clear-cut goal or purpose. Perhaps all Chinese, regardless of sex or age, seemed marked out as victims."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
My mind struggles to comprehend any of that.
It just cannot process any of that.
How do people go from being a person as we understand it to an animal, because such brutality does not have any other name. NO, actually, animals do not torture, they kill to feed, but not to humiliate and torture. So what is it? What is the name of this sort of violence?
I cannot process any of it.
Sunday, May 27
Saturday, May 26
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