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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Socialism's diagnosis of "social parasitism"...Joseph Brodsky knew about that...
...hundreds of hungry...
02/06/2014 18:21
Petitioners Ms. Chen Bisyan (left) and Ms. Yu Hong in Beijing "black" prison in January 2012. Photo courtesy theepochtimes.com
Петиционеры вырвались из чёрной тюрьмы в Пекине |
| Дата: 06-02-2014 18:21 |
Hundreds of hungry, exhausted and miscarrying petitioners
broke out of the "black" Quarantine in Beijing
Carol VIKENKAMP. Epoch (The Epoch Times)
Petitioners Ms. Chen Bisyan (left) and Ms. Yu Hong in Beijing
About 600 disgruntled complainants standing near the
detention center, blocking traffic in protest against maltreatment. They claimed that during the celebration of the
Chinese New Year of poorly fed, did not give no water, no blankets, according
to Radio Free Asia (RFA). At least 1,000 asylum
for several days were arrested and sent to the "Help and Support Center
Matszyalou ", as reported by the applicant Ying Ligang from Jiangxi RFA
reporter. "They shouted slogans
calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping eradicate corruption and uphold human rights,
- said Mr. Ying. - They even blocked traffic
for several hours. " Petitioners come to Beijing
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Ah, so...
Socialism's diagnosis of "social parasitism"...Brodsky knew about that...as Sabina Spielrein and her brothers learned..the hardest way...and, of course, Solzhenitsyn...
...actual dialogue transcribed during the 1964 trial:
Judge: And what is your profession in general?
Brodsky: Poet translator.
Judge: Who recognized you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
Brodsky: No one. And who enrolled me in the ranks of humanity?
Judge: Did you study this?
Brodsky: This?
Judge: To become a poet. You did not try to finish high school where they prepare, where they teach?
Brodsky: I didn't think you could get this from school.
Judge: How then?
Brodsky: I think that it . . . comes from God.
Brodsky: Poet translator.
Judge: Who recognized you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
Brodsky: No one. And who enrolled me in the ranks of humanity?
Judge: Did you study this?
Brodsky: This?
Judge: To become a poet. You did not try to finish high school where they prepare, where they teach?
Brodsky: I didn't think you could get this from school.
Judge: How then?
Brodsky: I think that it . . . comes from God.
Brodsky is forced to leave the city he knows and loves—"A
city whose color was fossilized vodka,"—and finds himself in America,
where, 23 years later, he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and where,
four years after that, he would become Poet Laureate of the United States. In
the midst of his glory, however, he is perpetually haunted by memories of a
home to which he will never return; a home from which his parents watch him on
the news and wait for his infrequent calls, wishing only to see him once more
before their death.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Schmerzensgewalt | 'You mean there's actually a word for it?'
Schmerzensgewalt ["A storm of pain."]
...Rape:
Years later the experience can cause pain all over the body
After being raped, even years later, pain can occur - often in areas of the body that had nothing to do with the violence. The connection with the crime often goes undetected, and in the worst case scenario, can lead to senseless operations.
Soft
tissue rheumatism, they told her. You must learn to live with the
pain. From the family doctor she got opioids. She needed more of it,
but the strong medication helped little. The bank teller lost her job
because she was constantly sick.
"The
woman was totally at the end of her rope," said Ulrich Egle, medical
director of the Psychosomatic Clinic in Gengenbach recalls of the 46-year-old woman
who presented two months ago. She was fortunate for the doctor was able to
explain the complaints as a reaction to the trauma over years of rape by her
stepfather .
The
relationships are often unrecognized
In the
nineties, researchers observed that rape victims often complained of muscular
pain, headache and bone pain, which could be accounted for directly by former
traumas. Recently scientists at the University of North Carolina
About 60
percent of the 74 study participants suffered three months after the rape under
new-onset pain in at least one region of the body, most commonly on the head,
neck, back or abdomen. "We know that such pain may occur even years
after that," says Egle. He has researched and published for 20 years
ago about it, but hardly anyone seemed interested.
"The
importance of the problem is considered too little," says Georgios
Kokinogenis, senior physician in psychosomatic medicine at the University Hospital Bern
Constant
stress sensitizes the body
One explanation
is that the body after the rape is still under stress and secretes stress hormones
and neurotransmitters which display in other regions.
However,
the symptoms could also be a sign that the woman has repressed situations not
handled properly from the past in which she felt powerless or helpless. For
example, recently a woman in Kokinogenis had burning pain on her cheeks a few
months after a rape.
The
doctors found out also that in her childhood her father had given her almost
daily slaps. "After the rape the feeling of helplessness and
humiliation came up again, and the woman experienced the same pain in the
face," explains Kokinogenis. When he made it clear to her the
relationship with earlier trauma, the pain disappeared.
Therapy
instead of surgery
The third
explanation for ‘displaced’ pain came ten years ago from California
The
doctor observed this phenomenon frequently in people with chronic pain, such as
in the back. "They run from doctor to doctor and eventually end up
having an operation on a disc, but the pain does not get better," says
Egle. He recommends a psychosomatic pain therapy that combines several
modules such as group and individual interviews, sport and relaxation
techniques with each other.
Rape...
The woman
with the full body pain had learned from her mother's rejection of the
occurrence of the trauma by the stepfather.
Nobody listens to me, the whole world is evil, and I cannot get too
close." - became the worldview of the 46-year-old woman. In treatment with
Dr. Egle she learns to gently open up to others and learns when it’s healthy to
say "no. " Her pain is increasingly better.
"Her
previous doctors have repeated the same message as her mother and have not
listened to her," says Egle. "With the opioids they only made it
worse." He wishes every physician who treated a woman after a rape, would
observe not only their bodies but also their souls. "This could allow many
women to avoid years of pain and unnecessary therapies. " -Felicitas
Witte, Years after a rape: pain in body and soul, Spiegel Online, 11/11/13
Speaking of...
New Afghanistan law to silence victims of violence against women
A new Afghan law *will allow men to attack their wives, children and sisters without fear of judicial punishment, undoing years of slow progress*in tackling violence in a country blighted by so-called "honour" killings, forced marriage and vicious domestic abuse. The small but significant change to Afghanistan's criminal prosecution code bans relatives of an accused person from testifying against them. Most violence against women in Afghanistan is within the family, so the law – passed by parliament but awaiting the signature of the president, Hamid Karzai – will effectively silence ... more »
My Note: Big splash: UN condemnation of the Vatican but, of course, NOTHING about the continued barbarity towards innocent victims in most of the world...like women and children...indicating very definitively where that body stands...
A First Step
Cynthia Haven: “There is no life without patience.” This thought is expressed at least twice in The Ghost Writer. Could you expand on it a little? -Interview post at Book Haven with Philip Roth
It reminded me of 1 Corinthians 13 and the beginning of an important definition...
LOVE IS PATIENT, love is kind.....
Aren't you grateful that is the way God loves us?
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It reminded me of 1 Corinthians 13 and the beginning of an important definition...
LOVE IS PATIENT, love is kind.....
Aren't you grateful that is the way God loves us?
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This is
what Hopkins
Saturday, February 1, 2014
St. Brigid of Kildare
St. Brigid of Kildare
Excerpt:
Ora pro nobis!It is the feast of the great Irish abbess, St. Brigid of Kildare. During the fall of Rome and before the rise of Islam, as Europe descended into chaos, Brigid built a center of learning, contemplation, art, and scholarship that would last a thousand years. To quote:....
Excerpt:
Ora pro nobis!February 1918
*Wrestling with Darkness*
Somewhere, too, the planes were
fighting forward; the night flights went on and on like a persistent malady,
and on them watch must be kept. Help must be given to these men who with
hands and knees and breast to breast were wrestling with the darkness, who knew
and only knew an unseen world of shifting things, whence they must struggle
out, as from an ocean. And the things they said about it afterwards
were--terrible!
"I turned the light on to my hands
so as to see them." Velvet of hands bathed in a dim red dark-room glow;
last fragment that must be saved of a lost world. (p. 38-39):
Dark Lightning:
Shattering
“My idea of God is
not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it
Himself. He is the great Iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this
shattering is one of the marks of His presence?” (qtd. in Smit). ~C.S.
Lewis
1918: to Alessandra
"Only those can understand us who
ate from the same bowl with us." -Quotation
from a letter of a Hutzul* girl. a former zek ~Alexandr Solzhenitsyn,
‘The Destructive Labor Camps’, Gulag Archipelago II
There is no limit to what should be
included in this part. To attain and encompass its savage meaning one
would have to drag out many lives in the camps--the very same in which one
cannot survive for even one term without some special advantage because they were invented for destruction.
And from this it follows that all those
who drank of this most deeply, who explored it most fully, are already in their
graves and cannot tell us. No one now can ever tell us the most
important thing about these-camps.
And the whole scope of this story and
of this truth is beyond the capabilities of one lonely pen. All I had was a
peephole into the Archipelago, not the view from a tower. But, fortunately,
several other books have emerged and more will emerge. In the Kolyma Stories
of Shalamov the reader will perhaps feel more truly and surely the
pitilessness of the spirit of the Archipelago and the limits of human despair.
To taste the sea all one needs is one
gulp…
The Fingers of
Rosy-fingered Eos, so often mentioned
in Homer and called Aurora
When our compatriots heard via the BBC that M. Mihajlov
claimed to have discovered that concentration camps had existed in our country
as far back as 1921, many of us (and many in the West too) were astonished:
That early really? Even in 1921?
Of course not! Of course Mihajlov was
in error. In 1921, in fact, concentration camps were already in full flower
(already even coming to an end). It would be far more accurate to say
that the Archipelago was born with the shot of the cruiser Aurora. *
And how could it have been otherwise?
Let us pause to ponder.
Didn't Marx and Engels teach that the
old bourgeois machinery of compulsion had to be broken up, and a new one
created immediately in its place? And included in the machinery of
compulsion were: the army (we are not surprised that the Red Army was created
at the beginning of 1918); the police (the militia* was inaugurated even sooner
than the army); the courts (from November 22, 1917 ); and the
prisons. How, in establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, could they
delay a new type of prison?
That is to say that it was altogether
impermissible to delay in the matter of prisons, whether old or new.
In the
first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the
most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."! And are
draconic measures possible-without prison?
What new could the proletarian state
contribute here? Lenin was feeling out new paths. In December, 1917, he
suggested for consideration the following assortment of punishments
---confiscation of all property ... confinement in prison, dispatch to the
front and forced labor for all who disobey the existing law."2 Thus.
we can observe that the leading .idea of the Archipelago-forced labor-had
been advanced in the first month after the October Revolution.
And even while sitting peacefully among
the fragrant hay mowings of Razliv* and listening to the buzzing bumblebees,
Lenin could not help but ponder the future penal system. Even then he had
worked things out and reassured us: ''The suppression of the minority of
exploiters by the majority of the hired slaves of yesterday is a matter so
comparatively easy, simple and natural, that it is going to cost much less in
blood ... will be much cheaper for humanity" than the preceding
suppression of the majority by the minority.3
According to the estimates of emigre
Professor of Statistics Kurganov, this "comparatively easy" internal
repression cost us, from the beginning of the October Revolution up to 1959, a
total of ... sixty-six million-66,OOO,OOO-lives. We, of course, cannot
vouch for his figure, but we have none other that is official.
And just as soon as the official figure
is issued the specialists can make the necessary critical comparisons.
It. is interesting to compare other
figures. How large was the total staff of the central apparatus of the
terrifying Tsarist Third Department, which runs like a strand through all the
great Russian literature? At the time of its creation it had sixteen persons,
and at its height it had forty-five'. A ridiculously small number for even the
remotest Cheka provincial headquarters in the country. Or, how many political
prisoners did the February Revolution find in the Tsarist "Prison of the
Peoples"? All these figures do exist somewhere ... In all probability
there were more than a hundred such prisoners in the Kresty Prison alone, and
several hundred returned from Siberian exile and hard labor, and…
The February Revolution, which 'opened
wide the doors of the Tambov Prison, found there political prisoners in the
number of seven (7) persons. And there were more than forty provinces. (It is
superfluous to recall that from February to July, 1917, there were no political
arrests, and after July the number imprisoned could be counted on one's
fingers.)
Here, however, was the trouble: The
first Soviet government. was a coalition government, and a portion of the
people's commissariats had to be allotted, like it or not, to the Left SR's,
including, unhappily, the People's Commissariat of Justice, which fell to them.
Guided by rotten petty bourgeois concepts of freedom, this People's
Commissariat of Justice brought the penal system to the verge of ruin[sic]. The
sentences turned out to be too light, and they made hardly any use at all of the
progressive principle of forced labor.
In February, 1918, the Chairman
of the Council of People's Commissars, Comrade Lenin, demanded that the number
of places of imprisonment be increased and that repression of criminals be
intensified,4 and in May, already going' over to concrete guidance,
he gave instructions5 that the sentence for bribery must be not
less than ten years of prison and ten years of forced labor in addition,
i.e., a total of twenty years. This scale might seem pessimistic at first:
would forced labor really still be necessary after twenty years? But we know
that forced labor turned out to be a very long-lived measure, and that even
after fifty years it would still be extremely 'popular.'
One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich: 5:00 AM .
Outside a loud hammer bangs on a rail,
repeatedly.
The man awakens on a filthy, sawdust
mattress.
A lurid yellow light.
Two men carry a barrell of shit out of
the barracks.
A blast of bitter cold air.
The warden barks and the man rises and
dresses, fast.
Crunching of snow beneath their feet.
A door opens with a merciful rush of
warm air.
~Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Friday, January 31, 2014
Anecdotal Evidence: `A Spy in the Service of Literature'
Anecdotal Evidence: `A Spy in the Service of Literature': And an uncharacteristically terse snippet from Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus (1944): “While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
Again, we’re not talking about formal influence. I have no idea whether Sinyavsky was familiar with any of these writers. All were bottomlessly curious. None was a systematic thinker. Here is a passage from A Voice from the Chorus devoted to the great Isaac Babel, who was murdered with a bullet in the head by the NKVD in Lubyanka seventy-four years ago this week, on Jan. 27, 1940:
"[Isaac] Babel exhibited a trait common, perhaps, to all writers: he was not merely an observer, he was also a snooper. All his life he spied 'through the keyhole' in the hope of seeing...
Again, we’re not talking about formal influence. I have no idea whether Sinyavsky was familiar with any of these writers. All were bottomlessly curious. None was a systematic thinker. Here is a passage from A Voice from the Chorus devoted to the great Isaac Babel, who was murdered with a bullet in the head by the NKVD in Lubyanka seventy-four years ago this week, on Jan. 27, 1940:
"[Isaac] Babel exhibited a trait common, perhaps, to all writers: he was not merely an observer, he was also a snooper. All his life he spied 'through the keyhole' in the hope of seeing...
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