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MADNESS BEGOTTEN OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY
By Lida Prypchan If jealousy be a sign of love, it is like a fever displayed by a sick man – a sign of life, but a sick and ill-disposed life. (Cervantes) Jealousy, love and madness should be synonyms. After all, they share similar characteristics. Jealousy is love gone …
RUNNING AWAY
By Lida Prypchan Give man a life of leisure and you will recognize him for what he really is. We live only half a life. At first, we are oblivious of this fact and spend a good number of years distracted by uncertainty and indecision. Some people are plaqued by indecision for …
LEONELA: AN OBSESSION
By Lida Prypchan “Each to his own,” said Elio, who had a habit of creating a commotion in the city square at midnight… until one day they put him in jail because of it. Elvira, Elio’s wife, had a habit of talking to herself in the mirror when she got up in the …
ONE OF THE GREATEST
By Lida Prypchan Nothing gets more on your nerves than women who believe they’re irresistible and men who think they’re just the greatest. (A highly intelligent person) “Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, I am your new professor of Parapsychology. I have made a great study of people’s personal secrets and have reached …
TRUE LOVE
By Lida Prypchan Wise is the man who is able to go back and begin again. The night they met – that pale, full-mooned night – they felt they had found that special something they had searched for all their lives. And, in truth it was so. Luisa’s eyes were big …
WILHELM REICH AND THE FUNCTION OF ORGASM
By Lida Prypchan One thing we can say about the life of Wilhelm Reich is that it was troubled. A photograph I have at hand reveals a man with a penetrating stare, protruding lips, deep wrinkles, and an expression of disillusion. Maybe it was because the era in which he lived lacked the …
HOW MUCH CAN YOU DO IN JUST 80 YEARS?
By Lida Prypchan Don Ernesto was turning eighty. With the philosophical bent of mind that was typical of him, he asked himself, just as he had forty years before, what conclusions he had drawn from life. Well, nothing extraordinary… he just wondered what he would do if he were born all over again. The …
THE PRINCE WHO DIED OF LOVE
By Lida Prypchan He whom passion has never touched can never comprehend it. (Dante) One should bid farewell to love when passion has died. Passion is the driving force behind attraction, nearness and mutual sharing, and without it those special looks cannot be shared. In general passionate relationships are rare, because so much …
ARE THERE ONLY HAPPY MOMENTS?
By Lida Prypchan An article about depression appeared in a fashion magazine at the end of which the author talked about “how to be happy again.” In order to regain one’s happiness, besides sticking to a good diet and avoiding the use of stimulants, he recommended “a short, brisk walk, or swimming fifty …
SEEKING A MEANING IN LIFE
By Lida Prypchan We have two images of the Middle Ages. Although these are opposing images, together they form one truth, a bold portrayal of the virtues and vices of what to us is an ancient era. It would be extremist, as well as an error, to vehemently accept only one of these images. The …