the sick and the healthy

“Papa,” Jyoti had instructed her father. “Whatever money you’ve saved for my wedding, use it for my education.”

"About 20% of girls are good.”

'Every perception of the world is reduced to to an expression of the monad itself...the libido vivendi, which satisfies itself with the solitary pleasure of the screen, does away with love by forbidding sight of the other face-invisible and real...We live in a relation through what we see to what we don't see.'

---Jean Luc Marion.

'Television with its flickering series of trivial momentary unreflective uncomprehended images, pictures the state of the prisoners in the Cave who can see the flickering shadows of things whih are themselves copies of real things.'

---Iris M.

The violence of the image that works on us-whether explicitly or implicitly. What image do we have of man or woman today? The freedom to display anything (Je suis..)..is this not just at heart the shopkeeper's mentality? Against this background, Islamic and Jewish aniconism, the Red Man's love of secrecy, is understandable. 

"Woe betide him who says to the wood, 'Wake up,'/to the dead stone, 'Bestir yourself'!"