Rambles

An occasional series of stray thoughts and incisive quotes ....  

What use is the world to a man whose wife is a widow ...

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Sometimes I think my body has a mind of its own P.J. Galligan

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Communism is a form of Heavy Meitheal  P.J. Galligan

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Taste is a commodity and the weapon of a particular class  Bertolt Brecht

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"An té a thabharfas scéal chughat tabharfaidh sé dhá scéal uait."

He who comes to you with a story will bring two away.

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The powerful can't tell stories: boasts are the opposite of stories, and any story, however mild, has to be fearless: the powerful today live nervously.

Stories are one way of sharing the belief that justice is immanent. And for such a belief, children, women and men will fight at a given moment with astounding ferocity. This is why tyrants fear storytelling: all stories somehow refer to the story of their fall.  John Berger from "Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls" in Hold Everything Dear

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"Tá iasg 's a bh-fairge ní's fearr ná gabhadh a ríamh."

There is a fish in the sea better than ever was caught yet.

To be continued ...