Kategorie: Literary Journey
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Winter Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/2 As the name suggests, these literary miniatures take us to a wintry setting. On the coldest day of the year, we will encounter God. – Will he comfort us with his warmth? Or has he, too, frozen to death in this cold world? Winterly Seclusion On…
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Dreams about Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/1. At first glance, the language of dreams seems enigmatic to us. However, if we are willing to engage with their peculiar logic, they can help us see things more clearly. This is all the more true when they are a mirror of our own depths. Midnight…
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The Inter-Island Police. Talk about War and Military
Conversations with Paula 10 „Doesn’t your eternal growth lead you to live in a permanent provisional arrangement? And aren’t all the things that your growth produces actually a shackle for you? Wouldn’t you be happier without them?“ Picture: Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901): TheWar (1896); Staatliche KunstsammlungenDresden, Galerie Neue Meister…
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The Palm Wine Convention
Conversations with Paula „Are you seriously suggesting that the more people there are in a community, the less democracy is possible? If so, you might as well abolish democracy altogether!“ Picture: Ceremonial kava drinking on Tonga (kava: plant with a relaxing, slightly inebriating effect);from: Buschan, Georg: Die Sitten der Völker:…
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The Trap of Selfishness
Conversations with Paula 2 „Ultimately, we may even own more than you precisely because we own nothing. Because the fact that nobody in our community owns anything also means that everyone owns everything.“ Picture: Unknown photographer: Fifty-fifty (1922); Library of Congress, Washington
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In the Storm Surge of War
A poem from Zacharias Mbizo’s Ukrainian Apocalypse Every day, new figures are reported about deaths in Ukraine. At the same time, the abstract numbers make it easy to forget that each figure represents a personal fate and the immeasurable suffering of the victims‘ families. He was your son,your bridge into…
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