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On Grief, Kathrin Stengel
In my love for the other, I desire death and life at the same time: death because I want to balance out the injustice of his death, and life because now I have a completely different appreciation for it. And even though the urge to live is stronger than the wish to die, life from [...]
Writers: Kathrin Stengel
“The Blood of Thought”: Zbigniew Herbert on Hamlet, first time in English
The mad Ophelia and the mock-mad Hamlet expressed the poet’s many-sided rebellion against the world’s ordinariness. For there is a kind of normality that is unacceptable, a base, comfortable normality that submits to reality, forgets easily. It is universal because some inner law of economics doesn’t allow us to experience reality to the full, to [...]
Writers: Zbigniew Herbert