Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.
With My Tongue In One Cheek Only, I'd Suggest That Were Our Palaeolithic Ancestors To Discover The Peer-review Dredger, We Would Be Still Sitting In Caves.
State Governments Seek Local Remedies For The Globally Fabricated Deprivations And Miseries In Vain - Just As The Individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: By The Impact Of Deregulation) Seek In Vain The Individual Solutions To The Socially Fabricated Life Problems.
Jews Are No Longer Pressed And Obliged To Fight, Hide Or Deny Their Jewishness. What For? No One Actually Requires Today To Abandon The Idiosyncrasy Of Some Other Culture Or Ethnic Tradition. The Great Achievement Of This Last Period Is That We Have Been Slowly, Sometimes Reluctantly, Yet Steadily, Learning The Art Of Living With Differences.
Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming Economic Miracles Of China, Brazil Or India.
Once Upon A Time, When I Was Young, People Saw A Wedding As An Event That Determined The Rest Of Their Life. For A Rising Number Of People Today, It Is Quite Normal To "try And Err", Marry, Divorce, Marry Again.
Fully "biodegradable" Structures Are Nowadays The Ideal And The Standards To Which Most, If Not All Structures, Struggle To Measure Up.
It Is More Or Less Clear That One Idea Which Should Emerge From The Crash, Whatever Happens With The Attempts To Save The Banks From Bankruptcy And People From Being Evicted From Their Homes, Is That This Kind Of Life Is Unsustainable. We Cannot Go On Like This... Something Must Be Done.
Lev (léon) Shestov, A Russian Jew Who Later Became A French Jew And Even Converted To Catholicism, Defined God Not By His Power To Create The Laws Of Universe, But His Ability To Break Them At Will - The Capacity For Miracles. God Could Cancel The Past! For Instance, God Could Decide Retrospectively, That Socrates Was Never Poisoned... Assimilation Demanded A Miracle: That You Stop Having Been Somebody Else Before... But Only God Can Do It.
In Celan's Words A Jew Is "a Man With A Little Book Under The Shoulder." We Are The Keepers Of Tradition.
Jews And Gypsies Were Well-nigh The Only Diasporas In 19th Century Europe. Now Go To London, It Is A Collection Of Diasporas.
I Guess I Am Doomed To Remain An Outsider To The End, Lacking As I Am The Indispensable Qualities Of An Academic Insider: School Loyalty, Conformity To The Procedure, And Readiness To Obey By The School-endorsed Criteria Of Cohesion And Consistency.
