Category Archives: Blogging

A documentary on Martin Heidegger

Reblogged from The Sand County: I have been increasingly engaging with Heidegger’s thought over the last few years. Right now I am dealing with George Parkin Grant’s encounter with Heidegger’s work in my doctoral dissertation. It is a riveting -and … Continue reading

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Saturday morning musing…

 It looks as if our morning run might be disrupted – sigh. I am a morning person, for me best time to write, observe the world pursuing its business in the garden – ah the crows! -and generally meditate on … Continue reading

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Daily Prompt: Too Big To Fail

Tell us about something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail (and tell us why you haven’t tried it yet).  So I set off just after dawn, and an hour later I am walking the narrow street, … Continue reading

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Daily Prompt: Memories For Sale

Photographers, share an image that says MEMORY.

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Daily Prompt: The Interview

Interview your favorite fictional character. Honoré welcomes Fraa Erasmas, in direct from the Concent of Saunt Edhar on Arbre.  Q ~ Fraa Erasmas, let me say first how moving it is for me to meet you, at last, and be … Continue reading

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#WW ~ O m’a dit/1

O m’a dit/1 [Avant-Propos] In the text: RD is Régine Deforges, PR is Pauline Réage, notes [in brackets] are from me. All html links are mine. © Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1975, 1995.  RD – Pauline Réage, you are the author of … Continue reading

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Daily Prompt: Unconventional Love

Over the weekend, we explored different ways to love. Today, tell us about the most unconventional love in your life.  She noticed him as soon as he walked into the bar. There was a sudden lowering of voices,     … Continue reading

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Of freedom and slavery

  “You are free now, O, said Anne-Marie. We can remove your rings, the collar, the cuffs, erase your mark. You have diamonds, you can go back home.” O did not cry, did not complain. She did not reply to … Continue reading

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Dry tears

Reblogged from Geminiwords:   Where the invisible knife stabs The internal scars cut deep The pain tears through her heart Yet she still doesn’t weep     “He had said nothing to her, neither goodbye, nor see you soon, nor … Continue reading

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Chartreuse Glow

Reblogged from Marousia: A chartreuse glow in a disused store, crystalline shards of torchlight caught on dust motes make cubist ghosts; silent witnesses filter the remnants of a scene. He was tied to a chair, two men blew smoke rings as a … Continue reading

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