- "KNOW THEN, my dear boy, that we need ethics because we are away from love. When we feel love we set ourselves free from any sort of ethics, from all rules and limits. Lack of love, want of love makes ethics necessary, and not the opposite. ... Men have many ways to express their experience. You know it, you are a writer yourself. I think that this is the time to get rid of Dante's model, where hell is the ark of sins and heaven an endless repetition of a laudatory haiku. Dante is really great, I don't disagree. But let's say that his model is just not accurate."
- "What would you like me to put in the place of that monument?" I asked like I was receiving an order.
- "I'd like you to experiment with the parable of the Prodigal Son. To ask yourself what life has to do with leaving your homeland, and death with coming back, perhaps." ...
Jean Marie Lefévre, The White Thinking
Excerpts
from J. M. Lefévre,
La
Pensée Blanche, 2000
Compiled, translated and introduced in English for ELLOPOS by Nat Gerrs
THE STORY roughly goes like this. Jean, a man "full of heart", wishes and tries to become a member to a society of illuminati so that he would finally give a meaning to his life. In the relevant talks great parts of the Western philosophical, religious and literary tradition are discussed or implied in a way that - combined with the other activities of the persons of the story - reveal almost everything as a sort of a "divine conspiracy" for the salvation of Jean's being, which is his real initiation to what he seeks, with love and death as the most obvious names of that initiation's way. [More]
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See also at the mail pages: We are ungrateful to the USA?
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"I
have been very fortunate in 60 years of performance," he said in 1995,
"to have learned what it means to be an eternal student, an eternal
optimist — because you hope the next time will always be a little better —
and eternally in love with music. Also, as I said to a young player the other
day, you have no idea of what you don't know. Now it's time that you begin to
learn. And you should get up every morning and say thank God, thank the Lord,
thank whomever you want, thank you, thank you, for making me a musician."
Violinist Isaac Stern, Died September 23 at 81. More
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It
is hard to match Naxos on the sheer volume and variety of repertoire. Its
release schedule brims with traditional Baroque, Classical and Romantic
repertoire, as well as many offbeat offerings. September 2001 releases include
further installments in the label's Malcolm Arnold symphony cycle (Nos. 7 &
8) led by Andrew Penny, and label stalwart Jenö Jandö begins a series
of piano works by Bela Bartók. As part of the vaunted "American
Classics" series, the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Ensemble performs
George Antheil's notorious Ballet Méchanique, and in October, the same
series offers a performance of Ned Rorem's song cycle Fourteen Songs on American
Poetry, performed by Carol Farley with the composer at the piano. Naxos is also
entering the DVD audio market with a recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by the
London Mozart Players. - More
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Charles
Dickens' works, at Great Books and Classics [a great resource for all
periods of literature]. * Valerie Kennedy, Three
of Charles Dickens' Marginal Women (including Rosa Dartle) * Copperfield
- a musical
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Now you might say, "Bad people have a good time, they get their way more than other people". Solomon says: "The evil man should not say, 'What harm will it do me if I do evil and it does not hurt me?', or, 'Who would do anything to me on that account?' ". The very fact that you do evil is to your great harm and causes you enough pain. Be assured of this by the eternal Truth, that this is a great sign of God's anger: He could do nothing worse to the sinner, neither with hell nor with anything else, than He does by permitting or allowing him to be sinful, and does not show him mercy by imposing such great distress on him that he cannot sin. And if God were to give him all the sorrow in the world, He could not afflict him more harshly than he is afflicted by being a sinner. - Meister Eckhart, Sermon 74
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