January 2010
23 posts
Four Tet - “Angel Echoes”
Yee!
‘He is not a bad man, mamãe,’ she said. ‘Surely you can see that.’
‘He is a weak man,’ I said. ‘A weak man is worse than a bad man. A weak man does not know where to stop. A weak man is helpless before his impulses, he follows wherever they lead.’
‘Mamãe, we are all weak,’ said Joana.
from Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
“Haunt You Down” - Pavement
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Matthew Dear - “Deserter”
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Dmitri Shostakovitch - Fugue in C major
If Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judaea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one’s life outside politics, and one’s death too: that was the example he set for his followers. Odd to find himself contemplating Jesus as a guide. But where should he...