The year “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was released, 1968, was a year of social and political turmoil. The Vietnam war, the Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in the United States and the mass protests of student movements in many countries.All of this upheaval scared a… Read More “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”: 2. Analysis
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleepingWhile my guitar gently weepsI look at the floor and I see it needs sweepingStill my guitar gently weeps I don’t know why nobody told youHow to unfold your loveI don’t know how someone controlled youThey bought and sold you I look at the world… Read More “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”: 1. Lyrics and Introduction
“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” (Bertrand Russell) The saying has also been attributed to other famous people including Andrew Carnegie or Winston Churchill, and it comes in a few variants: • “The atom bomb will never determine who is right — only who is left.”• “War never decides who… Read More War
I look at the world and I notice it’s turningWhile my guitar gently weepsEvery mistake, we must surely be learningStill my guitar gently weeps “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (1968) George Harrison was born on 25 February 1943, according to his birth certificate and his death certificate However he recognised that date as his birthday… Read More George Harrison
Il Tautogramma (gioco linguistico in cui tutte le parole del testo iniziano con la lettera, tranne articoli e preposizioni) proposto questa settimana Eletta Senso – Inchiostronerodenso – riguarda la lettera Ⓕ come FebbraioEcco la mia proposta. Francesca faticò a finire le faccende, fatte con fiacco fervore.Furtivamente fantasticava favoleggiando fastose feste, felici follie, fiabe con fate… Read More Tautogramma in Ⓕ
“The cause of war is preparation for war.” So said W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, and writer) born on this day, Febuary 23, 1868. He wrote this in his literary work “Darkwater” published in 1920 referring to World War 1, and added: “… and of all that Europe… Read More Winds of War
Have you noticed that today’s date 22.02.2022 is a palindrome date: it can be read both forwards and backwardsIn addition to this, in the English speaking world there is another peculiarity: whether it is written as 22/2/22 (day-month-year) or 2/22/22 (month-year-day) it does not vary. This is the “Twos Day” which falls on a Tuesday.… Read More Twosday
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.” Anaïs Nin, in full Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, was born in France to Cuban parents on 21 February 1903.She lived a rather controversial life, writing short stories and essays known for their eroticism.She rose to fame with her personal journals, which… Read More Anaïs Nin on Life
“A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” ～Joseph Conrad “Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.” ～Agatha Christie but fortunately: “No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.”(⇐ “Nulli sunt… Read More Evil
American writer Audre Lorde served as New York State Poet from November 1991 until her death from breast cancer in November 1992.In designating her as such, then-governor Mario Cuomo praised “her sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudice… “ In her acceptance speech, Lorde replied :“I accept this award in the name… Read More Audre Lorde: “A Litany for Survival”
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