May 2011 archive

A MAN IN WHITE

By: Lida Prypchan Man spends his days chasing after balls or hares, and that is the pleasure even of kings.  (Pascal) If we analyzed everyday life with more objectivity, we would discover that there are many simple pleasures we don’t take into account when we weigh pleasant things against pain.  Simple pleasures such as being …

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1984: A SPINE CHILLING PROPHECY

By: Lida Prypchan George Orwell (1903-1950), the pseudonym for Eric Blair, an essayist and novelist born in India and educated in England, after writing several almost documentary tales – including the political satire Animal Farm (1945), which deals with the corruption engendered by power – published his most popular novel in 1949, a year before …

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