Life and Fate – documentary
Stumbled across an excellent documentary by Priscilla Pizzato, Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman (in French, with English subtitles) on...
Hunger in the raw
This is one of the most graphic, disturbing descriptions of the effects of severe hunger I have seen, written by...
Particles of human life
This week, glad to share fine metaphors both written by journalists. Here The Economist pays a suitably eloquent and moving tribute...
Birds of war
The more I learn about birds, the more that 'bird brain' seems a misnomer. Here they are in a war...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
Space for thought
I like the notion that a confined physical space need not impede vast thought. It reminds me of an injunction...
A simple summary of perfection
Grossman has a simplicity and clarity to his writing and I like his definition of perfection, not as an...
Torment-filled pupil
This doesn't refer to a struggling school child but rather the traumatic last moments of a horse in a war...
The happiest time of life
Listening time: 3 minutes. A beautiful description of the sheer, unbounded joy of being alive in a...
An ocean bed of learning
These two intellectuals find common ground in more than the fact of loving the same woman. Despite this rivalry, they...
The three ‘S’s of happinesss
A dulcet and sibilant summary of the source of felicity. Wishing you thrice times blessings of slumber, sunshine and sweets....
Bright eyes like glass grapes
‘Bright eyes’ implies a warm, sparkling, engaging personality until you slam up against ‘rather like glass grapes’, and then you...
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