By Lida Prypchan (The City is Valencia) One of my fears has been to go to jail – to be imprisoned, even though I am innocent. But as well as being one of my fears, it has been the only answer to my dreams. I know that as a prisoner I could …
June 2011 archive
MALE AND FEMALE ALCOHOLISM
By Lida Prypchan When a woman gets drunk, she tends to hide herself away, to be ashamed of herself. A man on the other hand, for social reasons, boasts about it. The alcoholic female drinks alone, the male tends more to meet up with friends and only to become captive to the addiction …
IS OUR PROGRESS AN ILLUSION?
By Lida Prypchan The inventor of the shuttle contributed more to humanity than whoever conceived of innate ideas. (Voltaire) Progress is the unfolding of civilization. It is the progression of concepts that foster development, concepts that combat everything that is the very opposite of progress: barbarism, lack of culture, decadence. Progress is …
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 …
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