Who was I? and other inappropriate attentions.
Lately I have been posting stories on Wattpad about events and adventures in my past. These stories focus on what happened,…
Tag: #selves
The merely individual, subjective claim to dignity is an empty academic game, or madness. Jean Améry
The NYT interview with Edward Baptist ends with a mention of how upsetting it could be to research the violence…
Don’t eat the spoiled food, says the Buddha. It belongs to your host.
As we have seen Jean Améry wants to move beyond talk of guilt and demanding atonement. Despite his refusal to…
Forgiving is not about or for the other person, until it is.
Reversing time is not the only paradox about forgiving. When we forgive someone, we are not doing it for the…
To forgive is to reverse time.
Just as remembering the future changes time, so does forgiving. We are often advised to begin with forgiving ourselves, but…
Sometimes we remember the future
Tomorrow it will be five years since we saw The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I don’t want…
Calvary
Brendan Gleeson has played many thugs in his career, but at least in his movies with John Michael McDonagh he…
Dignity
Laura Hillenbrand describes Louis Zamperini’s struggle to survive the torments of Japanese POW camps as “stubborn retention” of his dignity. …
Sophie’s Fallacy
The term “Sophie’s Choice” has become part of the language. Sometimes it’s misapplied to difficult decisions. Sometimes to morally complex…
When do we begin to hurt?
When I posted “Pain, sensation, suffering and self” on my Tricycle blog, I introduced it with the question, “When does…