Art Essays

フランスの哲学者ルネ・デカルトはこんな言葉を残しています。 「旅とは、異なる世紀の人々と言葉を交わすことに近い体験である」。 　つまり世界は違う人種、言語、文化だけではなく、違う時代の国々から成り立っ ている……ということです。まあ、これはフランス人のデカルトが諸外国を旅し ながら、フランスは近代国家だけど、よその国の多くは時代的に遅れているよなっ ていう、上から目線的な発言、と言えなくもないんですが、でも世界を旅してい るとデカルトが言わんとしていることがとても良くわかる気がします。 　例えばぼくは1967年にアフガニスタンを訪れ、西のヘラートから南のカンダハー ルを経由して首都のカブールまでジープで縦断。カブールには数日滞在しました けど、この街はアラビアン・ナイトの世界そのものでした。（本文より） ロバート・ハリス　運命のダイスを転がせ！ はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/robert.html

Beim Flirt - einer Begegnungsform, die man amerikanisch Courtship-Dialogue nennt - geht es weniger um das der Metaphysik zugehörige Unsagbare als vielmehr um das sozial Unverfügbare in zwischenmenschlichen Begegnungen. Dieses Phänomen verweist mitnichten ins Übersinnliche. Es wird auf dem Feld der Rede kultiviert. Die Rhetorik, die alte Kunst der Rede mit ihrer bis in die feinsten Verästelungen der begrifflichen und strategischen Reflexion ausgearbeiteten Systematik, kennt ein vordringliches Ziel: die geschickte Beeinflussung des Gegenübers zugunsten der Interessenlage des Redners.

Wahrscheinlich hat niemand über Richard Wagner schöner und grausamer geschrieben als Friedrich Nietzsche...

Both men and women enjoy thrillers, mystery, and crime. Yet it may still feel not quite respectable, somehow a guilty (sorry!) pleasure. Do these novels so often categorized as genre offer something the literary novel does not? The market is enormous, perhaps the largest in publishing. It is a cliché which may be true that only the Bible – say - outsells Agatha Christie. And then there are films and television, either original or adapted from novels.

Some people write college essays just to turn in the required assignment, but rare students - through their passion - turn into the assignments as works of art. Five of these were actual assignments for classes in autobiography, bloomsbury, religion, peace studies, one was written just for fun during college years, and the final essay was my actual admissions essay.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.