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| Later I asked myself: Why would people do this? |
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| He, f.e., kept a promise he had given to himself. |
For my Català-speaking friends and visitors.
To spare you lengthy passages in German, I have listed below when poems by Maragall can be heard, recited in Catalan by Jaume Villalba, in German by Àxel Sanjosé.
• 05:16 – 08:12
• 24:27 – 27:20
• 34:10 – 35:38
• 41:45 – 43:39
• 50:58 – 54:41
• 58:39 – 1:02:04
• 1:12:52 – 1:15:52
May you enjoy.
Joan Maragall (10 October 1860 – 20 December 1911)
"At 70 years old if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words 'Fuck off' much more frequently".
Helen Mirren * 26 July 1945
Happy birthday, ma'am!
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?Jews do not commit genocide.
A matter of principle.
In this they are similar to Germans,
Russians, US-Americans and other peace-loving folks.
Just a pious people.
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Ha! No mention of 7 October?!
That of course authorises genocide.
While I was busy proofreading the 1669 pages of my opus magnum
‘Pre-Assyrian Philately in a Nutshell’, a gasp made me look up. My
friend Sean was standing in front of me, as white as a sheet, staring at
me with terror-filled eyes.
‘I need your help,’ he groaned. And
he told me that he had been looking round an antiques dealer when a man
in a white hat entered the shop. "The dealer seemed to know him, greeted
him and asked what Mr. mayor was doing here. The man answered that he
was attending to his secret business, turned round, our eyes met and
suddenly daggers flashed in his eyes. The next moment, he pulled his hat
down low over his face and disappeared."
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| photo: sa lluna |
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| photo: Xavier Puyol |
"I didn't want to scare him", he said. "I was just surprised to see him here because we have an appointment tonight at L'Estany de l'Illa."
"An enormous responsibility lies in the hands of political leaders today. [...] A mentally ill or power-obsessed dictator could then [...] doom the civilised world, but with it also his own country, to radiation death. [...] Such a possibility must never occur, and hence the need for truly international control over the development of nuclear weapons, or better: peaceful coexistence of all peoples. [...] Today, war is no longer 'the continuation of politics by other means'. In a bomb war there are no longer victors and vanquished."
Otto Hahn, 13 February 1955
Five months later, 15 July 1955, the Nobel Prize Laureate initiated the Mainau Declaration at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Among the 52 signatories worldwide were the physicists Werner Heisenberg and Max Born, as well as 15 other German and international Nobel laureates.
Two further declarations followed in 2015 (on climate change) and 2024 (on nuclear weapons).
Mainau Declarations
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| Soon I shall be dead. Even without warmongers. She takes all easy. *** Morirem tots no cal tinguin pressa a eliminar-nos. (Carme) *** Si no és avui serà qualsevol dia. Llarga l'espera. (Paula) *** És al capvespre que esperar ja no et cansa. Has posat anys. (Helena) |
Bertrand Russel on 9 July 1955:
I am bringing the warning pronounced by the signatories to the notice of all the powerful Governments of the world in the earnest hope that they may agree to allow their citizens to survive.
Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
Albert Einstein ( 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
