Tag Archives: Gershom Scholem

and they got their butts kicked

Essence, body and soul. Everything in perfect harmony. And the bad guys got whipped big time. Apparently. But that’s all water under the bridge, even if that H2O is a bit salty with tears. And they really do want the … Continue reading

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science of fictions of zimzum

Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading

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the golem: oy vay you say

Return of the golem. The problem is not creating these golem, its how to get rid of them. If you don’t kill them off quickly while there is still a bit of moisture left in the clay, they start adapting … Continue reading

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yells of awe and anger

The death instinct laying claim. Death making a deposit on even the most modest and humble aspirations, dragging us over the abyss back to the primal aesthetic root; as Nietsche said, if you look at the abyss long it begins … Continue reading

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shock & the beautiful halo of the storyteller

The modernist moment: destruction and creative simultaneously. A self-destructive moment while shining in the process.  Can marketing create cultures out of thin air? Capturing flashes of light and bottling them, packaged as part of the cultural dialog. The Rainier beer … Continue reading

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fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism

And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin:  So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading

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perilous exile to zimzum

An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading

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above the law: shadows of angels

Germany using Israeli lawyers to help “repatriate” Kafka manuscripts and literary legacy back to Germany. Keeping the works under lock and key, like incarcerated hostages out of Jozef Fritzl. It should burnish the national brand, used as export propaganda for … Continue reading

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hunchbacks : bunches of hunches

To some, stroking the hump of the hunchback insures good luck, like “gobbo” in Italy, the impish man, wanky figure, libidinous, with top hat and hump, a kind of Berlusconi , a devilish little beast, but one with access to … Continue reading

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angelus in the midnight hour

from George Steiner: …the thesis whereby it is the ethical and cognitive duty of history, of enacted remembrance, to rescue from oblivion the oppressed, the enslaved, the victims of successful injustice, to bring them back to protesting life out of … Continue reading

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