Category: Library
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Neighbours
You’ve probably by now seen the news clip featuring Charles Ramsey the saviour of the 10-year captives in Cleveland, Ohio. News crews have been roaming the neighbourhood trying to obtain different angles from neighbours in the area. How long had you lived nearby? Had you noticed anything strange? The usual really. We saw the same…
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Prima Giulio, Dopo Giulio
Ai primi degl’anni novanta facevo le mie prime incursioni nel mondo della politica. Un attività decente nella gioventù del partito democristiano maltese (ufficialmente ed anacronisticamente Partito Nazionalista) andò a combinarsi con una fame di informazione nutrita da settimanali politici stampati e rubriche politiche in TV. La notte si passava con un misto di satira e…
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Parties crossing the threshold of faith
If René Descartes and Anselm of Canterbury met in a fictitious room in some other dimension we cannot be sure what the resulting conversation would be. Provided they overcome linguistic difficulties of sorts (but heck, if we create the fictitious room we can create a Douglas Adams Babel Fish – or they could just both…
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The Knot
We have been away and will be for some time yet. It’s a special time in the J’accuse family. The younger J’accuse – who is as similar to J’accuse as night is to day – will be tying the knot this weekend. He may be Malta’s topmost podologist (just kidding, no ethical issues involved here…
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Guernica revisited
The other day I was browsing the news on my phone when I came across an item about a series of bombings around Irak and Afghanistan. I remember thinking how this kind of news has become so frequent as to become almost unnoticeable. My first idea of news is in the early eighties when the…
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Il-partiġjan
Hemm hu l-emblema tal-vojt. L-epitomija tan-non-sens. Il-partiġjan tipiku. Hip, hip, ħu go fik! Hemm hu. Magna orwelljana ta’ non sequitur u ċapċip fieragħ, mass meeting solo ta slogans irrilevanti, baħar ta’ bnadar bħanan go moħħu jixxejru ghal logħba li lanqas midalja ma tagħtih. Hemm hu. Ħsiebu bħal għama jdamdam bil-goff mal-parapetti u l-wesgħat ta’ din…