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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008
From a 2007 essay Solzhenitsyn’s Refusal by Pierre Tristam
The Gulag Archipelago is a study in power’s perversions at every level of a society unwilling to dilute it, from the very top (Stalin) to its bottom-feeding power-trippers: the secret police, the interrogators, the privileged prisoners, the prison guards (every one of which is analyzed in chapter-length details). Those hierarchies shouldn’t sound unfamiliar to anyone who’s known the hierarchies of a school, of a corporation, of any organization built on the pyramidal notion of power. Nor would Solzhenitsyn’s endless tales of policing, suspicion, torture, subtle or grand repressions sound unfamiliar to those of us pawned and pawed by the convenient terrors of “homeland security” and the “global war on terror.” If “The Gulag Archipelago” isn’t read much nowadays, it’s from ignorance, not irrelevance.
(found for Simcoe Day)
Sunday Devotional - Patti Smith (who can cover any song on earth)
You Light Up My Life on Kids Are People Too
(via Anthony Easton)
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Don`t Smoke in Bed
Within You Without You
Chat écoutant la musique (Entr’acte) by Chris Marker
Lets see the Dog Whisperer do this!! by bltmic
(found)
We're back from the woods. I'm having trouble remembering how to type. At the marsh I startled three species of heron all at once: great blue heron, night heron and green heron. We saw lots of cute little black bats, tiny furry flying cousins to Bat-boy. And we saw a hawk moth for the first time. It looked like this image stolen from butterfliesandmoths.org except the flowers were tiger lillies.
