“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here It would not be polite to ask those older than me whether they too dream of the dead. Most of them, I suspect, are wary of any such experience and would see the question as intrusive, and of course, at a certain age, we all grow much closer to being the one dreamed of. That thought alone comes too close to the skin to be comfortable. Hamlet and His Father’s […]
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You Can Listen Here We did not move or speak for minutes after the last shot closed. The credits rolled by. We looked at them, dazed, I think, by the ferocity of what we had just encountered. Why do we feel this way? Movies are an intravenous art: find a vein, the vein that matches your curiosity or an aroused interest. Slide the figurative needle into it and tape it down – you have […]
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You Can Listen Here My first attempt at a Thanksgiving list, a sluicing, mutable thing pouring through me on drives and walks, fell apart when I thought of the poor souls who might read it who had not been as lucky as I have been. How to make a list that doesn’t read like some kind of triumphal bray? So, instead, I give thanks for this roll-call of items that has given me pleasure […]
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You Can Listen Here In Ireland in 1976, 13 years after the event, my friend and I saw twin photographs in almost every home where we were invited in for tea and buttered bread; in either the kitchen or sitting room, the Pope and John Kennedy looked down at us. In Ireland Kennedy had become the martyred saint. For many years he filled that position for our family too. I remember this about his […]
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