28 5 / 2012
Dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre: We were never more free than during the German occupation.
We were never more free than during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. Every day we were insulted to our faces and had to take it in silence. Under one pretext or another, as workers, Jews, or political prisoners, we were deported EN MASSE….
(Source: writingrights.org)
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28 5 / 2012
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
24 5 / 2012
"Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up."
16 5 / 2012
Blood orange tea has become my favorite tea. The loose leaves give the the hot water with a bright crimson glow. I need to go buy some more tea leaves. This stuff makes my day.
16 5 / 2012
My dad and I always suggest trying to make homemade hummus whenever we buy the Sabra store bought stuff. I finally looked up a recipe and yesterday I made some homemade hummus, it was an absolute success.
Though I am disappointed I succumbed to using canned chickpeas. I will most definitely soak raw chickpeas over night and use them in my next hummus endeavors.
I was worried the hummus might taste a bit plain, but with excessive amounts of lemon juice, the hummus was delectable. It only took 15 minutes to make!
15 5 / 2012
The Mathematics of History | Jean Baptiste Michel TED
This TED talk enticed me into finally watch Darren Aronofsky film Pi (2008)
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