Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Broken People



Arundahti Roy's passionate article can be found here

Shocking stuff. Not an easy read, mind you.

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Back in the land of the pure, two Christians were burned alive for "blasphemy". It is claimed that their legs were broken first so that they couldn't run away and that their bodies were wrapped in cotton so that they would burn more easily.

Are human beings really the apex of creation? What about Penguins? And does that make Beethoven's late quartets less or more sublime, or neither?




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