Posts Tagged ‘Friedrich Nietzsche’
Listen Aid
Guest Contributor: Dena Ratner Plugged into Clinic, your thirty-minute journey to work is colored by the band’s coke-induced fast tracks. What started out as a bleary-eyed trudge is transformed into matutinal elation as you’re gliding down the street past person after person, cars cars cars and building after building, everything is rocking with your aural jubilation As you climb up the stairs and come back forever / Summer’s in the house, untamed it was / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee until you arrive at work and barely remember how you …
The Meaning of Words: Rob Riemen on Art and Communication
Posted: August 26, 2009
Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche, culture, Thomas Mann, Leone Ginzburg, Albrecht Durer
“When words no longer tell the truth, when words turn into lies, language dies, and we with the language. It is the first and foremost task of every poet, of every novelist, to write meaningful words, to write truthful words. You don’t have to be religious, or a philosopher, or a great expert on Plato to realize that a language cannot be without truth.”









