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<title><![CDATA[Surprise]]></title>
<link>http://breeg.wordpress.com/?p=146</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>breeg</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Stel je voor dat je militair bent. Je zit in Afghanistan en eindelijk komt de aflossing en word je o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stel je voor dat je militair bent. Je zit in Afghanistan en eindelijk komt de aflossing en word je overgevlogen naar Cyprus. Van daaruit gaat het terug naar huis en dan zie je als piloot van de gecharterde Boeing ineens één van je idolen staan.  De 105 Britse militairen kregen vorige zondag dus een mooi extraatje. Zo stond het in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-sir-cliff-caused-controversy-with-honky-tonk-angels-915794.html" target="_blank">The Independent</a> :</p>
<p><strong>RAF pilots flown home courtesy of Iron Maiden</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Bruce Dickinson, the singer with heavy metal outfit Iron Maiden, has in the past performed for British troops in Iraq. On Sunday, he did his bit for our boys in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Dickinson, a qualified pilot for British airline Astraeus, was behind the controls of a Boeing 747 that the Ministry of Defence had chartered to transport a group of RAF pilots back home.</p>
<p>"A lot of them recognised him because they are Maiden fans, but he was there in his professional capacity as a pilot," says an RAF spokesman. "He gave out lots of signatures to the guys."</p>
<p>Ze hebben over de eerste Golfoorlog ook een nummer geschreven. Zoals het aangekondigd werd op Donnington 92 :"This is a song about how shitty war is, cause it's started by politicians and it has to be finished by ordinary people who don't really want to kill anyway... This song is called Afraid To Shoot Strangers"</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bower Bird]]></title>
<link>http://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/?p=30</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MTH</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[


by Ann Kelley
This unusual children’s book is written with a beautiful sense of place in the ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">by Ann Kelley<a href="http://hscbelonging.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/bowerbird.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-31" src="http://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/bowerbird.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="201" /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">This unusual children’s book is written with a beautiful sense of place in the physical world and of belonging. The narrator is Gussie, twelve years old and awaiting a heart transplant. She has moved from London to Cornwall with her mother after the parents separated. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The daughter of an artist and a photographer, Gussie shares her observations of the beautiful landscape, the creatures in it, and an intriguing assortment of idiosyncratic books she ferrets out. Too sick to attend school, she longs for friendship and the simple things, like running along the beach. She has a crush on an Australian boy who is kind to her and shares her interests, but the dominant theme of the book is belonging (emphasis on <em>longing</em>). Gussie wants to be part of a family, a community, a place. She lives life to the full and wants most of all to live, whilst accepting the possibility of her own death with grace.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Written for the most part in stream of consciousness style, Ann Kelley’s beautiful book is like a river running deeply through a landscape changing gradually with the seasons. Slow and poetic, <em>The Bower Bird</em> will suit introspective readers of all ages. But it is not without a certain drama:</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Still Breathing]]></title>
<link>http://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/?p=18</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The tension - this films seems to say - between consolation that is found in love and companionship ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:&#34;">The tension - this films seems to say - between consolation that is found in love and companionship and in the knowledge that we do not suffer alone, and the sense of radical aloneness that companionship and love seem unable to reach, is at the heart of our mortal identity.                       <strong><span style="font-size:medium;">– Raimond Gaita</span></strong></span></span></p></blockquote>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><a href="http://hscbelonging.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/stillbreathing.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-20 alignright" src="http://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/stillbreathing.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="157" /></a><em><strong>Still Breathing</strong></em> is a 26 minute documentary about the life of a young man, Rob Fraser, who has cystic fibrosis. It is told with his narration and using images of the beauty of nature.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The quote above is from a review which is published in a press kit downloadable from Ronin Films, which distributes the film. Broadcast in 2002 on SBS TV in the series <em>My Way</em>, <strong><em>Still Breathing</em></strong> is also available from SA Tape Services.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;color:#ffffff;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><a href="http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/2106579187.html" target="_blank">Ronin Films</a> <span style="color:#000000;">accessed 3/9/08</span></span></div>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://www.tapeservices.sa.edu.au/details.asp?id=295416" target="_blank">Tape Services</a> accessed 3/9/08</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dick-In-Son]]></title>
<link>http://iamparadise.wordpress.com/?p=49</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I went on a small sojourn to Dickinson College tonight to see Jen Welsh.  We chatted for an hour or]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went on a small sojourn to Dickinson College tonight to see Jen Welsh.  We chatted for an hour or so, I met her roommates, it was good times.  I haven't seen her in a little over a year, since we had worked together at Claremont last summer.</p>
<p>It was a reminder about how I need to keep in touch better... it was a strange sensation hanging out with her.  Usually I have this fantastic ability to pick up a friendship where ever I left off, irregardless of the time that has passed in radio silence.  This was not quite the same.  It was quite obvious to me that a few layers of the onion had been put back on in our time apart.  Hopefully I can find another opportunity to go hang out with her before I leave town, because I feel awkward seeing that backwards motion so blatantly and I'd like to at least feel as close to her as I did when we worked together last summer.</p>
<p>So yeah, short trip, but a trip nonetheless.  I'll have more after the weekend, I'm going down to Myrtle Beach with Zach, Ryan, Greg, Andy, and Cisco.  Should be an adventure, and if it isn't, I'll turn it into one.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Voornemen]]></title>
<link>http://breeg.wordpress.com/?p=131</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>breeg</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Nog 10 dagen. Dan is het mijn jaarlijkse vakantie.Voor het eerst in 14 jaar is het ook echt MIJN vak]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nog 10 dagen. Dan is het mijn jaarlijkse vakantie.Voor het eerst in 14 jaar is het ook echt MIJN vakantie. Het mag een futiliteit zijn, maar zo 2 volledige weken helemaal zelf kunnen invullen... het geeft een goed gevoel. Natuurlijk heb ik al veel goede voornemens gemaakt. Enkele afspraken staan al vast voor die 2 weken en verder heb ik wat goede voornemens gemaakt.</p>
<p>Of daar iets van zal komen? Geen idee, want 10 dagen is lang. Het kan best zijn dat alle goede voornemens van tafel geveegd worden en vervangen door andere. Of misschien besluit ik wel helemaal niks te doen en mijn dagen te vullen met lezen en films kijken.  Who knows...</p>
<p>Maar in elk geval heb ik als backup toch al wat goede voornemens gemaakt. Ingeval de verveling toe zou slaan, heb ik een heel programma voor mijn grote kuis opgesteld. Waarschijnlijk zal ik er weinig van in praktijk brengen. Maar zoals een oud spreekwoord zegt "de weg naar de hel is geplaveid met de goede voornemens van de mens", en ik heb toch weeral een stukje weg afgewerkt. ;-)</p>
<p>Hier een klein liedje over dat spreekwoord... "Road to Hell" van Dickinson</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ars longa, vita brevis]]></title>
<link>http://oceanicas.wordpress.com/?p=144</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lidia</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Cuenta atrás para mi examen de Literatura Norteamericana. El sábado me quedé dormida en un parqu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cuenta atrás para mi examen de Literatura Norteamericana. El sábado me quedé dormida en un parque con el libro sobre las narices (quien haya leído a <strong>Emily Dickinson </strong>lo entenderá). Mi primer fin de semana sin trabajo en cuatro meses y lo dedico a estudiar... A eso lo llamo yo disfrutar de lo que me queda de juventud. A mi edad la gente piensa en hipotecas, no en parciales.</p>
<p>Aplastaba hormigas contra el retrato de <strong>Mark Twain </strong>pensando en lo bien que estaría tomándome un mojito bajo una sombrilla; y en que soy demasiado mayor, o demasiado torpe, o demasiado vaga para volver a estudiar.</p>
<p>El caso es que estaba tirada en la hierba, con el libro de texto a modo de almohada y autocompadeciéndome, cuando el viento se llevó mis apuntes. Al recoger las hojas, leí una frase subrayada: "<em>La literatura no es un fin, sino una pasión</em>". Y qué carallo. Hasta yo sé reconocer una señal tan evidente.</p>
<p>Mientras mi piel se vuelve aún más blanca por el reflejo de los folios, fantaseo con escaparme a una isla perdida en el Egeo con <strong>Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth </strong>y<strong> Pierce Brosnan </strong>(definitivamente, me hago mayor). No sé... Tengo la extraña sensación de que se me han adelantado...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Body Image]]></title>
<link>http://ericpratum.wordpress.com/?p=118</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ericpratum</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[On the way to work today, I heard Janice Dickinson on the Adam Corolla show talking about some model]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the way to work today, I heard Janice Dickinson on the Adam Corolla show talking about some modeling show she runs (Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency maybe?).  At one point, she was apparently asked to do a modeling show for plus size models, and she said she seriously couldn't make it through one day of auditions because she feels she can't represent fat people.  I don't blame her.  At the age of 52, she made a point that she was on a morning radio show and had already been to the gym that day, and to her, that seemed to be the difference between the waifish girls you see on America's Next Top Model and those you see on the top floor of Sak's.  Her suggestion, thin girls work out; other girls don't.  Obviously, it's not an adequate explanation.</p>
<p>Regardless, her comments got me thinking.  For the most part, who complains most about female body image?  Women, right?  And, for the most part, who watches things like America's Next Top Model?  Women, right?  I don't know if there's necessarily any correlation, but it just seems to me that you shouldn't bitch about rail thin models perpetuating an unhealthy image of beauty if you're going to turn around and then support it by watching shows with those women on them.  If you didn't support these negative images of beauty, Janice Dickinson wouldn't have a show and wouldn't be on the radio talking about it.</p>
<p>I don't know.  Like I said, there may be no correlation, but this is what Janice Dickinson brought to mind.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[La multi ani Bruce !!]]></title>
<link>http://aazsm.wordpress.com/?p=16</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>trollhammer</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Azi 7 august&#8230;sau nu au gust&#8230;Bruce Dickinson( nu situ exact in fiul cui&#8230;dar plm) a ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Azi 7 august...sau nu au gust...Bruce Dickinson( nu situ exact in fiul cui...dar plm) a implinit 50 ani....traiasca maidenu traisaca bruce si saru mana ca au venit si pe la noi...de 2 ori ce pula mea :D.</p>
<p>E bine ca mosii de genul asta( Judas Priest, Metallica, Pink Floyd) nu vor sa iasa la pensie si irita cocalarii in continuare. Multumim.<img class="aligncenter" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Bruce_dickinson_discovery.jpg/220px-Bruce_dickinson_discovery.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="279" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Metal Magazine: Iron Maiden]]></title>
<link>http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/?p=261</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>giusel</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Giungiamo alla band che ha fatto la storia dell&#8217;Heavy Metal: gli Iron Maiden.

La band si form]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Giungiamo alla band che ha fatto la storia dell'Heavy Metal: gli Iron Maiden.</div>
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<p>La band si formò nel 1975. Dei membri che fondarono il gruppo oggi rimangono Dave Murray (chitarrista) e Steve Harris (bassista e fondatore).</p>
<div>Il loro primo lavoro, superbo, ha lo stesso nome della band, e risale all'80. All'epoca Paul Di Anno era il cantante, ed alla chitarra, oltre Murray, c'era Dennis Stratton. Il loro stile, influenzato dall'hard rock, era tuttavia al di sopra delle altre band emergenti, quasi fossse il loro un virtuosismo da musica classica.</div>
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<div style="position:relative;">Nell'81 incisero il primo album con Adrian Smith, Killers, altro grande capolavoro all'altezza del primo ed anche più. Ma sarà con l'entrata di Bruce Dickinson, la nuova voce, che la band diverrà celebre nel mondo intero.</p>
<div>Nell'82, i Maiden scrivono la storia del metal con l'album The Number Of The Beast (il più celebre). Con questo album gli Iron presentarono il nuovo vocalist, dalla voce acuta e graffiante e dai polmoni belli forti. L'album è oggi un must per ogni metallaro che si ritenga tale.</div>
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<p>Nell'83, con Piece Of Mind, subentrò l'ultimo della band ad essere, da lì in poi, membro fisso della band (a parte il temporaneo allontanamento di Bruce).</p>
<div>Dopo album quali Powerslave, Somewhere In Time e Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, la band era ormai consacrata nell'olimpo della musica. Si dedicò ad alcuni esperimenti musicali variando dal loro stile, come si può avvertire nell'album No Prayer For The Dying. Altro album che riscosse successo (anche se molto criticato) è Fear Of The Dark.</div>
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<p>Dopo quest'album, nel 92, Bruce decise di intraprendere la carriera solista. a lui subentrò Blaze Bayley. I Maiden continuarono a produrre album (2: The X Factor e Virtual XI) ma non ebbero lo stesso successo dei loro album passati.<br />
Nel 2003 Bruce ritornò nella band per un nuovo album che segnava un ritorno ai vecchi tempi: Brave New World.</p>
<div>Oggi gli Iron Maiden, considerati storia, continuano il loro successo di pubblico.</div>
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<p>Una curiosità: famosissima è anche la mascotte, eddie The Head. Di sicuro è grazie anche ad un simbolo quale Eddie che i Maiden sono passati alla storia.</p>
<div><em>Si narra che: Eddie nacque senza braccia, senza corpo e senza gambe. Solo una testa. Ma malgrado questo tenue difetto di nascita, i suoi genitori gli volevano molto bene e gli facevano molti regali, come cappelli e roba del genere. Così il giorno del suo sedicesimo compleanno, i genitori si imbatterono in un medico, che gli assicurò di poter dare ad Eddie un corpo. Raggianti di felicità, i genitori tornarono a casa e chiamarono Eddie, per dirgli che stavano per fargli il più bel regalo di sempre: per tutta risposta Eddie fuggì via urlando "Oh, no! Non un altro dannato cappello!"</em></div>
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<p>The Number Of The Beast</p>
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<p>Running Free, dall'album Iron Maiden</p>
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<p>2 Minutes To Midnight, dall'album Powerslave</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Despair's advantage is achieved]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>emilydickinsons</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Despair&#8217;s advantage is achieved
By suffering—Despair—
To be assisted of  Reverse
One must ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despair's advantage is achieved<br />
By suffering—Despair—<br />
To be assisted of  Reverse<br />
One must Reverse have bore—</p>
<p>The Worthiness of Suffering  like<br />
The Worthiness of Death<br />
Is ascertained by tasting—<!--more--></p>
<p>As can no  other Mouth</p>
<p>Of Savors—make us conscious—<br />
As did ourselves  partake—<br />
Affliction feels impalpable<br />
Until Ourselves are struck—</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Gubbrock]]></title>
<link>http://fariotakt.wordpress.com/?p=262</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fariotakt</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Jag vet att jag är hopplöst förlorad i det. Och jag vet att unga hatar fenomenet.
Men fakta talar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jag vet att jag är hopplöst förlorad i det. Och jag vet att unga hatar fenomenet.</p>
<p>Men fakta talar för sig själv: Dom som tjänar pengar på turnérer i rocksvängen är de gamla dinoursarier som frustande stönar fram de sista krafterna. Och dom gör det så jävla bra. De av er som såg Iron Maiden i lördags på Ullevi måste ge trummisen lite cred för att han orkade. Fan, när jag är 61 år skulle jag vilja ha hans fysik. Och pengar, haha!</p>
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<p>Och det var en underbar känsla när ca 55000 st sjöng(brölade) med i "Run to the Hills" och "Fear of the Dark" så det dånade. Men min favvolåt med de gamla stofilerna är iaf "666 Number of the Beast" Så jävla apballt. Fittknullbra, som M skulle sagt. ;-)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[theodore roethke &amp; emily dickinson]]></title>
<link>http://haeng.wordpress.com/?p=148</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>haeng</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Song by Theodore Roethke
 
My wrath, where&#8217;s the edge
Of the find shapely thought
That I carr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#999999;"><strong><em>Song </em></strong><em>by Theodore Roethke</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#999999;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">My wrath, where's the edge</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">Of the find shapely thought</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">That I carried so long</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">When so young, when so young?</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left:150px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">My rage, what's to be</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:150px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">The soul's <strong>privilege</strong>?</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:150px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">Will the heart eat the heart?</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:150px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">What's to come?  What's to come?</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></p>
<p style="padding-left:300px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">O love, you who hear</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:300px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">The slow tick of time</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:300px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">In your sea-buried ear,</span></p>
<p style="padding-left:300px;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">Tell me now, tell me now.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
<p><span style="color:#999999;"><strong><em>My Heart asks Pleasure - first (536) </em></strong><em>by Emily Dickinson<strong></strong></em></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p style="padding-left:270px;text-align:left;">The Heart asks Pleasure - first -</p>
<p style="padding-left:240px;text-align:left;">And then - excuse from pain -</p>
<p style="padding-left:210px;text-align:left;">And then - those little Anodynes</p>
<p style="padding-left:210px;text-align:left;">That deaden suffering -</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
<p style="padding-left:150px;text-align:left;">And then - to go to sleep -</p>
<p style="padding-left:90px;text-align:left;">And then - if it should be</p>
<p style="padding-left:90px;text-align:left;">The will of it's Inquisitor</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The <strong>privilege</strong> to die -</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I read two poems separately, however, arranged them together considering emotional stage.  There are certain curves of speaker's status of mind.  Will ‘love' tell ‘me' what's to come?  If the answer is given by E. Dickinson, the speaker of the poem <em>Song</em> would be very disappointed.  And I would not look forward to anything at all if the soul's privilege is only to die.  I am very lucky since I read Emily Dickinson's poem first and then Theodore Roethke's one later. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="color:#00ff00;">pleasure</span>→<span style="color:#339966;">pain</span>→<span style="color:#008000;">anodynes</span>→<span style="color:#808000;">sleep</span>→<span style="color:#993300;">the privilege to die</span>→<span style="color:#800080;">my wrath</span>→<span style="color:#ff0000;">my rage</span>→<span style="color:#ff00ff;">o love</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>* * * * *</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">에밀리 디킨슨의 저 시는 읽을 때마다 슬퍼진다.  처음에는 기쁨을 갈구하던 마음이 고통이나 없었으면 한다.  그러나 살다보니 덜컥 고통 속에 처하게 마련이었고, '그래요-  그래야만 한다면 그 고통을 이겨낼 수 있게 진통제라도' 달라고 한다.  고통을 좀 죽일 수 있을만한 뭐 어떤-  마음의 진정제 같은 것.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">진통제도 없는 삶.  삶의 고통은 누그러들지 않았나보다.  '휴, 그렇담 잠이나...'  하다가 드는 생각은, '자신의 고통 충만한 삶에 닥치는 것들이 어느 심판관의 뜻이라면 <strong>죽을 수 있는 특권</strong>을 부탁해야겠다'는 것이다.  The Heart asks Pleasure - first -  마지막에 붙은 저 'first'.  처음에나 기뻐할 희망이 있었던 것.  이건 안 슬플 수가 없다.   </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Talking books: Author comes to town]]></title>
<link>http://skegness.wordpress.com/?p=754</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angela Gooch</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Skegness Author Talking Books
Skegness author Margaret Dickinson, will be visiting Sleaford Library ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Skegness Author Talking Books</h2>
<p>Skegness author Margaret Dickinson, will be visiting Sleaford Library on Thursday 31 July to read extracts from her latest book.</p>
<p>Margaret is a well known and highly published author, and many of her books are based in Lincolnshire, where she grew up and still lives.</p>
<p>Her visit will take place from 2pm to 3.30pm., and after a reading from her latest book, “Sing as We Go”, Margaret will give a short talk and take questions from the audience.</p>
<p>The event is free and open to all, but seating will be limited and by ticket only.  Please check at Sleaford library for availability.</p>
<p>More information on this event and all library services can be found by calling the library Customer Service Centre on 01522 782010.</p>
<p>Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. Married with two grown-up daughters, Margaret Dickinson combines a busy working life with her writing career.</p>
<p>The event is one of many to celebrate the National Year of Reading, for more information see www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/nationalyearofreading</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What I forgot to mention in my last blog posting is that the evening we watched the ORANGE full moon]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What I forgot to mention in my last blog posting is that the evening we watched the ORANGE full moon come up, fireflies were also something to behold.  Once it was dark, they glowed brightly against the backdrop of our densely, grassed woods.  So, to look at the sky above with stars glittering and then look at eye level to see miniature stars twinkle was part of our rare moment.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Also, I neglected to add that we have a wren or two who warble their happy melodies, always a welcome sound.  Now that we have the thistle seed up, we have our regular, bright yellow finches back.  Of course, without us they have plenty of wild thistle to eat from but it is like the birds "fast food haven" to go to our feeder.  The other night as I went out to see how the wild raspberries were doing that some birds "planted" out west under the western shelterbelt trees, I saw some raspberries were already ripe.  Our domesticated ones are not that far along yet but it won't be long that we will enjoy raspberries on our breakfast cereal.  What got me really excited to not only watch the remnants of a spectacular sundown but also to HEAR the howls of the coyotes out west.  I tried to call Ken out to hear but he had already retired to the house.</strong></p>
<p><strong>We have some pocket gophers that are playing havoc with our raspberry patch.  These varmits dig up beautiful rich, black soil but when they start getting into the lawn, we must put a stop to that kind of ambition.  I don't know if flooding them out will help or what to do.  I remember my grandpa would sit out on the front porch and use a BB gun to get the little rascals that were creating mounds in our front yard.  Not sure what animal rights people would say about that but once you let a gopher family in, the rest of the colony will arrive post haste.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ken has been watering with a hose our Braeburn apple trees as well as our grapes, hopefully we will have some grapes to harvest this year from the oldest vine.  I'm not sure how much we can harvest and make into jelly of the apples and raspberries since we have to be back in Kazakhstan by mid-August.  I have rhubarb I could make into sauce today.  Last night we enjoyed some store bought blueberries on our ice cream thanks to our good friend Ron Vossler.  We three enjoyed a picnic outside by grilling chicken shashlik and catching up.</strong></p>
<p><strong>It has been about a year since we saw Ron and he had just returned from a Ukrainian Holodomor/genocide conference in Dickinson, ND.  He told us stories of his recent trip to Ukraine where his relatives were from.  He has been to Ukraine about seven or eight times before.  He is a prolific writer concerning what he has unearthed about his own people (Germans from Russia) who left the Odessa, Ukraine area to settle as pioneer farmers in North Dakota.  His own relatives of two generations ago were starved out by the communist regime in 1932-33 when the Holodomor (Terror Famine) had labeled industrious farmers as "Kulaks."</strong></p>
<p><strong>On my early morning walks along the gravel roads I look around the perfect beet fields and impeccable grain fields that surround our little hobby farm, no weeds!!!  I ponder what our German farmer neighbors would do if they were forced to join the collective.  What if these prosperous farmers were told they had to hand in all their equipment to the government because they were NOT supposed to own their own property or work for their own profit?  That is precisely what happened 75 years ago in Ukraine and also in Kazakhstan to the nomads who happened to be good shepherds and owned large stock.  The Kazakhs did not fare as well with collectivization due to their lack of experience.  However, Russian and Ukrainian farmers, who were sent down to Kazakhstan to take over the open spaces fared much better with their collective farms.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our God-given freedom is a very precious thing, our freedom to earn money by hard work is rare.  That is why I am enjoying my moments in Minnesota especially since it is mosquito free.  Wonders never cease.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Art]]></title>
<link>http://bedofneuroses.wordpress.com/?p=83</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>genghiskuhn</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bedofneuroses.wordpress.com/?p=83</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nature is a Haunted House&#8211;but Art&#8211;a House that tries to be haunted.
-Dickinson
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bolix</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Know that we have Dickinsoned it. That we have secretly aligned the motive to our moral objective. H]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Know that we have Dickinsoned it. That we have secretly aligned the motive to our moral objective. How you remain wounded is now the least of our concern.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Se non divento scrittrice]]></title>
<link>http://peeble.wordpress.com/?p=190</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peeble</dc:creator>
<guid>http://peeble.wordpress.com/?p=190</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stavo studiando storia, cultura e letteratura per il mio viaggio-vacanza estiva negli States&#8230;.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stavo studiando storia, cultura e letteratura per il mio viaggio-vacanza estiva negli States....</p>
<p>sono ancora all'inizio: Boston e stato del Massachussets, capitolo : Letteratura (direi che siamo nel mio preferito, senza alcun dubbio!).</p>
<p>Allora ho scoperto che andrò a fare le mie vacanze dove illustri personaggi hanno vissuto e raccontato le loro storie più famose....</p>
<p>Alcuni di loro sono: Ralph Waldo Emerson e il suo discepolo Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorn (La Lettera Scarlatta), Herman Melville (Moby Dick), Mark Twain (...Tom Sawyer) e la sua vicina di casa Harriet Beecher Stowe (La capanna dello zio Tom), Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott (Piccole donne)....</p>
<p>Non ho altro da dire... se non sarò ispirata quest'estate da quell'incantevole e magico covo di artisti, credo che potrei rinunciare!!! </p>
<p> </p>
<p>... poco distante c'è pure la casa di Stephen King.... magari vado a trovarlo e beviamo un caffè con ciambelle in veranda!!! Ahhhhh... i sogni!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quinze Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://maculture.wordpress.com/?p=97</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Super Nana</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Auteur : Charles Dickinson
Editeur : Joelle Losfeld
Année de sortie : 2006
Genre : roman
Nombre]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Auteur : Charles Dickinson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Editeur : Joelle Losfeld</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Année de sortie : 2006</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Genre : roman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Nombre de pages : 357</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span><strong>Retour vers le futur... encore un !</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://maculture.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/15.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-98 aligncenter" src="http://maculture.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/15.jpg" alt="" width="217" height="320" /></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Vous allez sans doute remarquer que les bouquins que je lis datent tous un peu… L’explication est simple : mon fournisseur non-officiel est la <strong>bibliothèque municipale</strong> de mon quartier ! Je ne trouve pas forcément les livres que je veux lire, mais je fais parfois de belles <strong>découvertes</strong>. D’autres fois, je tombe sur des navets mais en tout cas, j’ai l’avantage d’être toujours surprise.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Voici un roman assez sympa à lire cet été, en traînassant sur la plage, sans désir de grande littérature ! Quinze Minutes parle d’un sujet souvent abordé : le <strong>voyage dans le temps</strong>. Légende urbaine et fantasmes scientifiques, ce thème a le pouvoir de développer l’imagination des artistes en tous genres.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Josh Winkler, un peintre raté, dépendant financièrement de sa femme et père d’une adolescente en pleine mutation hormonale, se surprend un soir à revivre deux fois la même situation. Pour lui, l’explication est simple : il vient de remonter le temps de quinze minutes. Quelques heures plus tard, une jeune fille, semblant venir tout droit des <strong>années 1900</strong>, débarque en ville, complètement paumée. La situation se complique encore un peu plus quand toute la ville apprend que Josh a remonté le temps…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Le problème avec le truc du voyage dans le temps c’est qu’il y a toujours un moment où ça devient <strong>incohérent</strong>. Les <strong>générations</strong> s’emmêlent, les époques s’enchevêtrent, certains partent dans le passé, d’autres viennent dans le présent (qui est, par la même occasion, le futur…) et l’auteur perd un peu le fil de toutes ces pérégrinations. Dans son roman, Charles Dickinson ne déroge pas à cette règle et les derniers chapitres du livre semblent quelque peu <strong>chaotiques</strong>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>L’auteur s’attarde beaucoup sur les <strong>relations conflictuelles</strong> entre Josh et sa femme (une cartésienne pure et dure), Josh et son frère (un SDF handicapé mental), Josh et la jeune inconnue (une paysanne du début du XXe siècle) et l’<strong>intrigue</strong> perd un peu de sa fraîcheur.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span>Quinze Minutes se lit pourtant rapidement, le lecteur est poussé par sa propre <strong>curiosité</strong> à connaître le fin mot de l’histoire : que va faire Josh de ce pouvoir ? Et là, bien sûr, on est un peu déçu… c'est pas pour dire,  mais moi j’aurai fais mieux !</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Avion branduit ;)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Krudd Report</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Pentru cine a citit articolul de ieri, azi venim cu o completare, oarecum la tema: avionul cu care b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong><em>Pentru cine a citit articolul de ieri, azi venim cu o completare, oarecum la tema: avionul cu care barosanii de la MAIDEN pleaca in turneu. Un Boeing 757. N-as fi stiut de existenta acestuia, daca prietena Fana [deh, cine lucreaza la avioane stie] nu mi-ar fi semnalat. Puteti sa vedeti acest avion in diverse "pozitii" pe siteul <a href="http://www.airliners.net/">www.airliners.net</a></em></strong></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Avion cu motor, vine Dickinson in zbor? :)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Krudd Report</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In minunata revista Metal Hammer [editia in lb. engleza] din luna martie 2008, se afla la loc de cin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><em><strong><span lang="EN-US">In minunata revista Metal Hammer [editia in lb. engleza] din luna martie 2008, se afla la loc de cinste – adica intr-un loc foarte bun ca expunere, pagina de dreapta, sus - o stire care ne demonstreaza ca daca nu tot ce zboara se mananca, uneori ceea ce zboara iti poate da de mancare [adica show me the money]. </span></strong></em></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#ffffff;"><span>:)</span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. Bruce Dickinson, cunoscut de majoritatea fanilor IRON MAIDEN drept cel mai celebru solist al formatiei lor preferate </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#ffffff;"><span>:)</span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">, are o companie aviatica. In revista citata, se anunta faptul ca la cateva concerte din turneul din 2008 al IRON MAIDEN, compania lui Bruce executa zboruri de placere [???] pentru fani. In oferta se specifica ca plecarile sunt din UK, in lista de orase figurand si ceea ce noi, romanii, numim capitala - Bucuresti. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Excursia ar costa ceva in jur de 450 de euro in care, pe langa zborul propriu-zis [fara taxele de aeroport sau asigurare], este inclus biletul pentru concert, transportul de la aeroport la sala si retur si poate o ciunga in avion.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Desi chestia asta era anuntata de foarte mult timp, in luna martie erau deja sold out ofertele pentru Varsovia si Praga. De Bucuresti, nicio vorba. Nici macar din partea organizatorilor concertului de pe Cotroceni, care ar fi putut folosi acest lucru ca instrument de promovare, mai ales ca, ATENTIE!, la mansa avionului va fi, ladies and gentlemen, insushi-dansushi, domnu’ Dickinson...</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Da, asa scrie la revista. Bruce va chilota avionul, insa doar la intoarcerea de la concert. Managerii si agentia de booking vor sa fie 100% siguri ca Bruce ajunge la fiecare concert, cu un avion care nu e pilotat de el. Dupa ce se termina concertul, pilotul Bruce are drept de zbor… </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#ffffff;"><span>:)</span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Toate ca toate, insa avionul de pasageri al companiei lui Dickinson se numeste Flight 666… :lol:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US">Siiiiiiiiiiiix, Siiix, Siiix/The number of the beast </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#ffffff;"><span>:)</span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span lang="EN-US"> si multe aplauze pentru pilot, dupa aterizare.</span></span></p>
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Epicuro nella sua celeberrima Lettera a Meneceo sulla felicità, sostiene che la morte non esiste, ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Epicuro</strong> nella sua celeberrima <em>Lettera a Meneceo</em> sulla felicità, sostiene che la morte non esiste, o meglio che essa "non costituisce nulla per noi, dal momento che il godere e il soffrire sono entrambi nel sentire, e la morte altro non è che la sua assenza [...] Quando noi viviamo la morte non c'è, quando c'è lei non ci siamo noi". Se il filosofo del Giardino cerca qui di trovare argomenti volti a dissolvere quella che ritiene una paura insensata e priva di fondamento, mi sento di proporre una distinzione tra la "morte" come concetto statico e astratto, e il fenomeno del "morire" da intendersi come divenire e momento dialettico del vivere. Detto altrimenti: perché non sostituire l'opposizione astratta vita/morte con quella del vivere/morire?</p>
<p>Il medico inglese <strong>Iona Heath</strong> ha scritto un piccolo saggio sulla morte - <em>Modi di morire</em> - recentemente pubblicato da Bollati Boringhieri, che mi pare vada proprio in quella direzione. Premetto subito che il libro ha forse un difetto: troppe citazioni. D'altra parte era intenzione dichiarata dell'autore di servirsi, nel suo interrogarsi sui dilemmi che accompagnano il morire, della cospicua compagnia di scrittori, poeti, pensatori.<br />
Veniamo invece al pregio essenziale del libro, che secondo me si può ricondurre all'uso della parola "morire": la morte, cioè, da intendersi come processo, come fenomeno che accompagna la vita e che deve (o dovrebbe) significare qualcosa.</p>
<p><!--more-->Il ragionamento parte proprio dall'aut-aut classico, che spesso viene teorizzato e prospettato nelle discussioni su questo argomento, tra morte improvvisa e morte lenta (cioè accompagnata da una più o meno lunga malattia, dall'agonia, ecc.). Generalmente tutti rispondono che è assolutamente preferibile la prima: una morte rapida e indolore, magari nel cuore della notte, un passaggio dal sonno all'eterno riposo senza soluzione di continuità. Io stesso l'ho sempre pensata così.<br />
Ma perché, si chiede l'autore, dovrebbe essere preferibile questa tipologia di morte? Non è forse sinonimo di liquidazione, un po' come se si trattasse di un atto sbrigativo, di doversi togliere di torno il più in fretta possibile, senza arrecare disturbo? Il tempo della morte è anche il tempo di raccogliere il senso della vita: di concludere, di evocare, di perdonare o di essere perdonati. La malattia può quindi essere letta in tal senso addirittura come un'opportunità. Il morire andrebbe concepito come "parte della vita, non della morte: il morire va vissuto". (p.40). Ecco: <strong>vivere il morire</strong>, un'espressione a suo modo paradossale. Tutto il contrario di quel che accade oggi con la  anestetizzazione medica della malattia mortale: in realtà quel che viene anestetizzato non è il dolore, ma la persona ammalata e morente, cui viene così tolta l'opportunità di comprendere il <strong>senso della morte</strong> e, soprattutto, di riconnetterla al significato della vita. "Una morte medica finisce per essere tronca quasi quanto una morte violenta".</p>
<p>L'autore si sofferma poi sulla discrasia che si viene spesso a creare tra <strong>mente</strong> e <strong>corpo</strong>, argomento che mi sembra molto importante, specie se si pensa al fronte delle malattie terminali e al delicatissimo tema dell'eutanasia: se il mio corpo è in gran parte distrutto dalla malattia può non esserlo la mia mente e, viceversa, potrei essere spiritualmente pronto a morire ma non così il mio corpo. Il medico dovrebbe contribuire al riequilibrio tra questi due fronti. La medicalizzazione della morte sembra averci fatto perdere l'arte di morire, mentre invece l'eteronomia del corpo e l'autonomia morale di cui parlava <strong>Kant</strong> dovrebbero tornare ad incontrarsi - specie con il rafforzare l'elemento della consapevolezza e della comprensione. Un corpo interamente consegnato alla tecnica medica pregiudica l'autonomia del giudizio, la comprensione, la capacità di conferire significati. Si crea una disgiunzione irricucibile e irredimibile tra il corpo (sequestrato dalle macchine) e la mente (o l'anima o lo spirito o quel che si vuole), che di solito viene annichilita.<br />
Infine, la relazione (tra medico e malato, tra malato, amici e familiari) diventa la chiave di volta del morire: occhi, parole, contatto, pazienza sono insieme i gesti della <em>pietas</em> e della conclusione sensata del vivere.</p>
<p>La morte potrà sempre apparire insensata, crudele, ingiusta - ma forse se accompagnata dal conforto del morire-accanto-ad-altri, dall'unguento della pietà e non solo dalla potenza di fuoco della tecnica (che sempre più diventa invasiva, come se avesse deciso di sovrastare e possedere i corpi che invece dovrebbe servire), allora magari sarà più sopportabile per chi muore e per chi sopravvive. Ce lo ricorda anche <strong>Emily Dickinson</strong> in una sua straordinaria poesia:</p>
<p>Quando noi ci arrestiamo<br />
per morire<br />
sa di polvere il mondo.<br />
La rugiada aneliamo<br />
e gli onori non dissetano.<br />
Danno fastidio al volto di un morente<br />
le bandiere<br />
ma un piccolo ventaglio<br />
mosso da mano amica<br />
è refrigerio.<br />
Quando per te pure verrà la sete<br />
mia sia l'incombenza<br />
di procurarti balsami dell'Ibla<br />
e madide rugiade di Tessaglia.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Immagine: Edvard Munch, <em>La morte nella stanza della malata</em>, 1893</p>
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