Freidrich Nietzsche is also dead. Right. First things first. I am not Freidrich Nietzsche. And I am not a philosophy student. Nietzsche is dead. He also died quite a long time ago. That God and Nietzsche are both dead is a coincidence. They were not in the same car or…

‘Redemption Song’ by Bob Marley and The Wailers — “All I ever have Redemption songs These songs of freedom Songs of freedom.” — Bob Marley, Redemption Song (Outro) Watched the Bob Marley musical tribute on Saturday evening on BBC and once again cried when Marley sang — in my opinion — his greatest and most powerful creation Redemption Song…

Of human folly — Blasphemy. How long has it been since we heard that term? A term now back with a vengeance and with a knife And people are sharply reminded of its legacy that troubled so many of the faithful Then. In the Dark Age of autos-da-fé, heretics, apostates, devils, and witches irrefutably…

A Poem Do you remember? Rain. Falling, fast, free, forever In England. I cannot remember. Nor can the Earth. Of that green and pleasant land. A memory of Rain? Not even that. No longer green. Pleasant still. Just. Rain. Remembered, revealed, reshown, repeated. On reels of an archive. Rain in…

Sex and the Skull I was on the Twittersphere this Sunday morning and I noticed — how could the human eye not — a tweet from my friend David Pahor. He had tweeted the above painting by the modern Italian painter Roberto Ferri (born 1978) and added a few lines…

Salman Rushdie and the cost of speaking truth to power. — “Where they burn books they will afterwards burn people” — Heinrich Heine (which was written in 1823, in reference to burning the Qur’an) Last Thursday evening (11th August) in England on BBCFour, I watched the 2012 film adaptation of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Sir). He was knighted in 2007…

The Dickian and Baudrillardian Dialectic in Season 4 of Westworld “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.” ― William Shakespeare, King Lear “Welcome to the desert of the real”. — Morpheus, Matrix I'm sorry for the title for those easily offended…

Wheels and Sex. “It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.” — Futurist…

‘Hate is Good’ — “I say to myself — sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you — one day. I say to myself — sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go — one…