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Apr.25.2013
Black Dogs, By Ian McEwan
I still find it odd that some (if not most) people will never re-read a book. I've just re-read this one because it was my first McEwan and I was so unfamiliar with his odd story structure that the essence of the book didn’t stay with me. But that was something like ten...
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Oct.08.2012
“The Commies are guilty of plenty,” a hotel guest complained, “but maybe their worst sin has been imposing their wretched taste on half the planet.” The Hotel Palast in East Berlin sprawled like a copper-skinned reptile sunning on the soiled edge of...
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Mar.23.2012
"Not with a bang, but with a whimper."
- T.S. Elliott
T.S. Elliott's famous line is apropos to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism in general. After all the apocalyptic scenarios, it did not come down via war and bombs. It was mostly a bloodless...
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Dec.21.2009
This beautiful video was shot during a 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The French street theatre Royal de Luxe created this fairy tale of a Giant Girl in the park. Enjoy:)
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Nov.09.2009
The Brezhnev and Honecker kiss transformed Berlin from a regal enchantress into a hag. I was there five years after they demolished the Wall. Everything seemed grey. It was a grey city even then, trying to get accustomed to no wall. You may not be free to go to the other side but walls help you...
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