ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΕΝΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΟ
Δώσαμε τη σιωπηλή συγκατάθεσή μας [γράφει ο κύριος Σαμαράς] όταν δημιουργήθηκε ένα ολόκληρο παρακράτος, που σπίλωνε συνειδήσεις και διέσυρε ανθρώπους, με την κατηγορία του «εθνικιστή». Ανάμεσά τους, στάλθηκαν στην «αντι-εθνικιστική» πυρά αναστήματα, όπως αυτό του Μίκη Θοδωράκη, του Οδυσσέα Ελύτη, του Γιώργου Σεφέρη, του Γιάννη Ρίτσου. Όλοι αυτοί θεωρήθηκαν «εθνικιστές», επειδή μίλησαν για πατρίδα, για εθνική ιδιοπροσωπεία, για Ρωμιοσύνη. Αφού σπίλωσαν τους μεγάλους πνευματικούς ταγούς του λαού μας, σήμερα, δεν αντιδρούν όταν ανεξέλεγκτοι «Ηρόστρατοι» σκορπάνε τον τρόμο μαζικά στον πληθυσμό καίγοντας κτίρια παντού."Παρακράτος" οι "αντι-εθνικιστές" αναγνώστες, "αναστήματα" και "μεγάλοι πνευματικοί ταγοί" οι ποιητές και οι συνθέτες: η τρομοκρατία της αυθεντίας απέναντι στον ελεύθερο κριτικό αναγνώστη στις γνωστές της διαστάσεις. Και το εμετικό οπλοστάσιο της "δεδομένης και ορθής άποψης" σε πλήρη ανάπτυξη.
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Κείνοι που επράξαν το κακό - τους πήρε μαύρο σύγνεφο
Ζωή δεν είχαν πίσω τους μ' έλατα και με κρύα νερά
Μ' αρνί, κρασί και τουφεκιά, βέργα και κληματόσταυρο
Παππού δεν είχαν από δρυ κι απ' οργισμένον άνεμο
Στο καραούλι δεκαοχτώ μερόνυχτα
Με πικραμένα μάτια·
Τους πήρε μαύρο σύγνεφο - δεν είχαν πίσω τους αυτοί
Θειο μπουρλοτιέρη, πατέρα γεμιτζή
Μάνα που να 'χει σφάξει με τα χέρια της
'Η μάνα μάνας που με το βυζί γυμνό
Χορεύοντας να 'χει δοθεί στη λευτεριά του Χάρου!
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Ο. Ελύτης, Άσμα Ηρωικό και Πένθιμο για τον Χαμένο Ανθυπολοχαγό της Αλβανίας, ΙΒ΄ (απόσπασμα)Με την αυτοπεποίθηση σχολικής εορτής ο Ελύτης πιστεύει ότι η νίκη του ελληνικού στρατού οφείλεται στην ανωτερότητά "μας"· και η ανωτερότητά "μας" θεμελιώνεται στα πασχαλιάτικά "μας" τσιμπούσια, στον υπερφυσικό, μαγικό "Παππού", και στις δόλιες τις αρβανίτισσες απ' το Σούλι που γκρεμίστηκαν, λένε, απ' το Ζάλογγο "χορεύοντας".
"In 1958 I wrote the following:
'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?" ...
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 2005
"Harold Pinter, who has died at the age of 78, was the most influential, provocative and poetic dramatist of his generation. He enjoyed parallel careers as actor, screenwriter and director and was also, especially in recent years, a vigorous political polemicist campaigning against abuses of human rights. But it is for his plays that he will be best remembered and for his ability to create dramatic poetry out of everyday speech. Among the dramatists of the last century, Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence; and it is a measure of Pinter's power that early on in his career he spawned the adjective "Pinteresque" suggesting a cryptically mysterious situation imbued with hidden menace." ...
Michael Billington, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 December 2008 14.24 GMT
That woman who to me seems most a woman
I do not compare to angels--or digress on schismatic Popes--
or exalt above the terrestrial or consider a madonna.
Nor do I search in others for her lineaments,
or wish for Death to free me from desire,
or consider Love an archer; or see her as a Daphne,
fleeing the embraces of Apollo, transformed into a laurel.
I am not lost in the amorous wood of Virgil.
But although I do not rhyme or use the soft Italian,
my love is a strong love, and for a certain person.
Human beings are human; I can see a man might envy
her bath water as it envelops her completely.
That's what my love would like to do; and Petrarch
can take a running jump at himself--or (perhaps?) agree.
Η "δυνατή ανθρώπινη αγάπη" με τα μέτρα της ηδυπάθειας ενός ζεστού,
ζεστού αφρόλουτρου ...
Υποβλητικό!
....the Net Geners are smarter, quicker and more tolerant of diversity than their predecessors,” Mr Tapscott argues. “These empowered young people are beginning to transform every institution of modern life.” They care strongly about justice, and are actively trying to improve society...
Contrary to the claims that video games, Facebook and constant text-messaging have robbed today’s young of the ability to think, ...the “Net Geners” are the “smartest generation ever”.
There is growing neuroscientific support for this claim. People who play video games, for example, have been found to process complex visual information more quickly. They may also be better at multi-tasking than earlier generations, which equips them better for the modern world.
Το νετ είναι γεμάτο υλικό, αν ψάξετε. Η Φόνισσα είναι πασίγνωστο κείμενο του πολιτισμού μας και έχει κινήσει την προσοχή πολλών και με πολλούς τρόπους.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.
Two beams of subatomic particles called 'hadrons' – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC.
There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. For decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of Nature, but it does not tell the whole story. Only experimental data using the higher energies reached by the LHC can push knowledge forward, challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm.
Link:http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
