Tag archive for ‘death’
The Diameter of the Bomb
The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai. trans. Chana Bloch & Stephen Mitchell The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one [...]
The Death of Culture
An interesting assortment of people died this past month; Influential anthropologist Clifford Geertz, American Filmmaker Robert Altman, Sophie’s Choice author William Styron, Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman, and Literary-critic Richard Gilman. Am I the only one who sees a pattern? Each from their own perspective, worked for the interpretation and better understanding of society and [...]