"One might almost say that truth itself depends on the tempo, the patience and perseverance of lingering with the particular." (twa)

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Disrupt Politics!

Post author By Joerg Blumtritt
Post date 20/06/2011

[Original German Blog Post] “You will never be happy with strangers,They would not understand you as we,So remember the Jarama ValleyAnd the old men who wait patiently.”Alex McDade “Er sagte, es krache im Oberbau, und es krache im Unterbau. Da müsse sich sogleich alles verändern.” (“He said, it cracked in the superstructure, and it cracked […]

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The Idiot – a topical figure again?

Post author By Joerg Blumtritt
Post date 30/01/2011

ἰδιώτης,idiōtēs I) N. 1) the individual man, private citizen in oposite to the state, att.Pr.; b) the common, ignoble man 2) a) the ignorant, layman in oposite to the trained person, e.g. in oposite to a physician b) someone ignorant to poetry, a prosaic person. […] Totski muttered to himself: “He may be an idiot, […]

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