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In Hemingways Roman „Für wen die Stunde schlägt“ aus dem Jahr 1940 spricht der linke Charakter Robert Jordan von seiner Hingabe an die linke Sache der Spanischen Republik und der Unterdrückten auf der ganzen Welt. Die Figur spricht über die Stimmung in den anarchistischen und sowjetisch-stalinistischen Hoteltreffpunkten, in denen sich Aktivisten, Parteimitglieder und Kämpfer versammelten. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/eine-pflicht-gegenuber-den-unterdruckten-hemingway/

在海明威 1940 年的小说《丧钟为谁而鸣》中，左派人物罗伯特·乔丹谈到了对西班牙共和国左翼事业的奉献，并在世界各地受到压迫。 这个角色讲述了在无政府主义和苏联斯大林主义酒店会议中心的感受，活动人士、党员和战士都在那里组织活动。 ……………… 在任何一个地方，你都会感觉自己正在参加一场十字军东征。 这是唯一的词来形容它，尽管这个词已经被磨损和滥用，不再给出它的真正含义。 尽管存在官僚作风、效率低下和党派斗争，但你的感觉就像你在第一次圣餐时所期望的那样，却没有。 这是一种对世界上所有受压迫者的责任的奉献感，这种感觉就像宗教体验一样困难和尴尬，但它却是真实的，就像你听到巴赫或站在沙特尔大教堂时的感觉一样 或者莱昂大教堂，看到光线从大窗户透进来； 或者当你在普拉多看到曼特尼亚、格列柯和勃鲁盖尔时。 它让你参与到你可以完全相信的事情中，并且让你感受到与其他参与其中的人绝对的兄弟情谊。 这是你以前从未了解过的事情，但你现在已经经历过，并且你如此重视它及其原因，以至于你自己的死亡似乎完全不重要; 只是要避免的事情，因为它会干扰你履行职责。 但最好的事情是，你也可以为这种感觉和这种必要性做点什么。 你可以战斗。 https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/%e5%af%b9%e5%8f%97%e5%8e%8b%e8%bf%ab%e8%80%85%e7%9a%84%e8%b4%a3%e4%bb%bb-%e6%b5%b7%e6%98%8e%e5%a8%81/

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«Путешествие к центру Солнца» — научно-фантастический роман Жюля Верна 1868 года. Он последовал успеху своего более раннего приключенческого романа «Путешествие к центру Земли» и использовал тех же главных героев. В этой истории снова участвует немецкий профессор Отто Лиденброк, который считает, что к центру Солнца идут плазменные трубки. Профессор предположил, что в недрах Солнца баланс гравитации и антигравитации создаст пространство, по сути напоминающее Землю, с умеренным климатом и воздухом, пригодным для дыхания. Он, его племянник Аксель и их гид Ганс используют паровую ракету американской конструкции, предназначенную для самой большой в мире пушки, и запускаются к планете Меркурий, чтобы приблизиться к Солнцу. Команда сталкивается со множеством приключений, в том числе с нелепыми животными и потусторонними опасностями, прежде чем в конечном итоге возвращается на Землю, где они совершают аварийную посадку на Луне и строят воздушный шар, который позволяет им протянуть стальной трос от Земли к Луне. Последний кусочек антиматерии, который есть у профессора в табакерке, обеспечивает полет на 250 000 миль. В космическом вакууме искатели приключений просто затаили дыхание в ожидании скорого путешествия. Мужчины едут домой в соломенной корзине-гондоле, доедая последние кусочки французского хлеба и допивая последнюю бутылку вина. Гондолы причаливают на юге Италии, у вулкана Стромболи, где они оказались в последней книге. Жанр космической фантастики существовал уже задолго до Верна. Однако «Путешествие» значительно увеличило популярность этого жанра и повлияло на последующие подобные произведения. Например, Эдгар Райс Берроуз открыто признал влияние Верна на свою собственную серию «Пеллюсидар». https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2024/02/07/%d0%bf%d1%83%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%88%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%ba-%d1%86%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%82%d1%80%d1%83-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d1%86%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b6/

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I went for the coffee and donuts, and traded some rhymes with the man signing books of poetry. I didn’t know who he was. He was Irish, I knew he had some poems about the problems Ireland has had over the years. I had some free time and heard about the literary reception; I’m literate, so I went. I had a plate with an onion bagel as I walked up to the poet and said, “There once was a boy from Dundalk, who didn’t know quite how to walk….” “It’s the Brits fault, think about it,” he replied with a finger in the air for emphasis as he looked at me directly. He was smiling. I like to play with words, and so did he. I thought he enjoyed a little unvarnished wordplay among all the fawning fans asking for his scribble in the front of a book. I started again, “There once was a boy from Peru, who didn’t know quite what to do, he went to his mama, who showed him a Llama….and the rest of the rhyme’s up to you.” He laughed. I can’t remember his reply to that. It was a sunny April day as we chatted in the school’s library with a couple of dozen other people around we were against a low book case. Coffee makes my brain race. Words spill out. We talked about Lord Montbatten being killed by an IRA commando team in a targeted assassination in 1979. He talked about Mountbatten being a colonial master in India enforcing English rule, that he was not just a random fisherman with a title. Heaney spoke about Montbatten being the last British Viceroy of India, an unelected dictator from a foreign country I mentioned that Lord Montbatten had been the British official in charge of the allied occupation of Vietnam at the end of WW2, and Montbatten re-armed Japanese Imperial Army troops to put down a Vietnamese Trotskyist working class uprising in 1945 in Saigon. (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/my-limericks-with-seamus-heaney/ )

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The Book of Enoch is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons and Nephilim, why some angels fell from heaven, an explanation of why the Genesis flood was morally necessary, and a prophetic exposition of the thousand-year reign of the Messiah. Three books are traditionally attributed to Enoch, including the distinct works 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch. None of the three books are considered to be canonical scripture by the majority of Jewish or Christian church bodies.

Le «Voyage au centre du soleil» est un roman de science-fiction de 1868 de Jules Verne. Il suivait le succès de son roman d’aventures intitulé “Le voyage au centre de la Terre” et utilisait les mêmes personnages principaux. L’histoire implique à nouveau le professeur allemand Otto Lidenbrock qui croit que des tubes à plasma se dirigent vers le centre du Soleil. À l’intérieur du soleil, le professeur a émis l’hypothèse que les rapports de gravité et d’anti-gravité produiraient un environnement essentiellement semblable à la Terre, avec des climats tempérés et un air respirable. Lui, son neveu Axel et leur guide Hans utilisent une fusée à vapeur de conception américaine conçue pour le plus grand canon au monde. (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/5102/ )

I got in some trouble in political circles for a piece I wrote about strolling through Boston and sticking revolutionary news papers where they should not belong. I saw myself as something like the character in Edgar Poe’s “The Man and the City.” But, as I looked at some of the other writings I had made about my walks through the city, and the people I’ve met and interacted with on the streets I began to think of the collection of Russian stories about seemingly mundane everyday events and people by Ivan Turgenev – Sketches from a Hunters Notebook. At least that’s how the title was remembered by me. As I look into the work I find the translated title would be more accurately rendered ‘Sketches From a Hunter’s Album.’ I remember one college prof quoting an Italian writer: “Translation, traitor.” Another prof said that reading fine works of literature in translation was like feeling a beautiful body with mittens on. But, the book was in my head. Or, at least the title and the idea of someone wandering around their society and learning about places and people they met. I haven’t read the stories. But I liked the title and the idea and I had thought of collecting some of the pieces I have written that might fit in that kind of a description. For instance when I met the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney at a high school I was teaching technical drawing at. I didn’t know who he was, I had fun interacting with him and feeding him limericks to complete. I didn’t find out who the man was until ten years later when he died and I recognized his picture in the news. Or when I met a girl from Donegal on the streets of Dorchester when a wild doe came down Ashmont street at 5 o’clock in the morning. I could add the piece I wrote about being at a rally to defend immigrant rights where at the beginning of the rally on Boston Common an older woman approached me and said, “You have really beautiful eyes.” Later as the rally arrived at Boston City Hall a young woman in a group also said to me, “You have really beautiful eyes.” I’m still puzzled by that. (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/sketches-from-a-hunters-notebook-xenagogue-vicene-28-jan-2019/ )

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t. Penrose’s idea of a conformal cyclic cosmology hypothesizes that our Universe arose from a pre-existing Universe that would leave imprints on our cosmos today. This is a fascinating and imaginative alternative to inflation, but the data doesn’t support it, despite Penrose’s dubious claims that it does. The original Big Bang has since been modified to include an early inflationary phase, pushing whatever came before inflation to an unobservable place. When inflation ends, the hot Big Bang ensues, and we can see evidence from the final tiny fraction-of-a-second of inflation imprinted on our observable Universe. However, we can’t see anything from before that time. Despite the assertions of one of the most famous living physicists, there’s no evidence for a Universe prior to that. (cont. https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/there-is-no-evidence-for-a-universe-before-the-big-bang-by-ethan-siegel-big-think-feb-2023/ )

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