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Rebetiko is a kind of urban Greek folk music; the emblematic instrument is the bouzouki, a stringed instrument with a teardrop-shaped body and a thin, elongated neck. The most famous bouzouki player is Manolis Karantinis. What Jimi Hendrix is to the guitar, Manolis Karantinis is to the bouzouki.
Horatio Nelson turned a blind eye.
Roberto Bolaño, although he took inspiration from Cortazar, was a much better writer: “I did catch some phrases, some stray words, the predictable ones, I suppose: Quetzalcoatl’s ship, the nighttime fever of some boy or girl, Captain Ahab’s encephalogram or the whale’s, the surface of the sea that for sharks is the enormous mouth of hell, the ship without a sail that might also
be a coffin, the paradox of the rectangle, the rectangle
of consciousness, Einstein’s impossible rectangle (in a universe where rectangles are unthinkable), a page by Alfonso Reyes, the desolation of poetry.”
De Hogeweyk (weyk being Dutch for a group of houses) is a more humane alternative to the traditional nursing home, the difference being that the inhabitants, elders with dementia, are given a simulacrum of a living, breathing village to frequent—with a grocery store, a restaurant, and a cinema. Nurses are disguised as neighbors and servants, the ultimate goal being that patients can continue to lead normal lives.
We are all the same, but some of us feel shackled to the ruthless efficiency and cold-hearted pragmatism of industrial capitalism.
Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices which, working from the principle that the universe we experience is nothing other than the concrete