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Domestic epiphanies

Relationships and feelings are untidy, friends and family are those you only think you know, the libidinal is a minefield, mistakes and misinterpretations are made, regrets are buried and then – out of the blue, the unconscious or the cunning of reason – something returns, resurrected,  unwanted; the truth can […]

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Fundamentalism y fanaticism

What unites all fundamentalists is an over-riding commitment to a sacred text, through which all of truth must be interpreted. The sacred text cannot be questioned; only obeyed.    Nigel Pocock   In the past the word ‘fanatick’ (sic) meant an ‘enthusiast’ and it usually seems to have had an […]

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The journey to Cavafy

A victim of homophobia, warmongering and the cancer that pursued him until he succumbed, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933) is a famed Greek-language poet whose work was barely read during his own lifetime. Despite which, his greatness would come to be widely recognised.   Antonio Paneque Brizuela    Ignored […]