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"The Breavmans founded and presided over most of the institutions wich make the Montreal Jewish community one of the most powerfull in the world today.
The joke around the city is: The Jews are the conscience of the world and the Breavmans are the conscience of the Jews. "And I am the conscience of Breavmans," adds Lawrence Breavman. "Actually we are the only Jews left; that is, super-Christians, first citizens with cut prongs."
The feeling today, if anyone troubles himself to articulate it, is that the Breavmans are in a decline. "Be careful," Lawrence Breavman warns his executive cousins, "or your children will speak with accents."
Ten years ago Breavman compiled the Code of Breavman:
We are Victorian gentlemen of Hebraic persuasion.
We cannot be positive, but we are fairly certain that any other Jews with money got it on the black market.
We do not wish to join Christian clubs or weaken our blood through inter-marriage. We wish to be regarded as peers, united by class, education, power, differentiated by home rituals.
We refuse to pass the circumcision line.
We were civilized first and drink less, you lousy bunch of blood-thirsty drunks."
The joke around the city is: The Jews are the conscience of the world and the Breavmans are the conscience of the Jews. "And I am the conscience of Breavmans," adds Lawrence Breavman. "Actually we are the only Jews left; that is, super-Christians, first citizens with cut prongs."
The feeling today, if anyone troubles himself to articulate it, is that the Breavmans are in a decline. "Be careful," Lawrence Breavman warns his executive cousins, "or your children will speak with accents."
Ten years ago Breavman compiled the Code of Breavman:
We are Victorian gentlemen of Hebraic persuasion.
We cannot be positive, but we are fairly certain that any other Jews with money got it on the black market.
We do not wish to join Christian clubs or weaken our blood through inter-marriage. We wish to be regarded as peers, united by class, education, power, differentiated by home rituals.
We refuse to pass the circumcision line.
We were civilized first and drink less, you lousy bunch of blood-thirsty drunks."
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"His father lived mostly in bed or a tent in the hospital. When he was up and walking he lied.
He took his cane without the silver band and led his son over Mount Royal. Here was the ancient crater. Two iron and stone cannon rested in the gentle grassy scoop wich was once a pit of boiling lava. Breavman wanted to dwell on the violence.
"We'll come back here when I'm better."
One lie.
Breavman learned to pat the noses of horses tethered beside the Chalet, how to offer them sugar cubes from a flat palm.
"One day we'll go riding."
"But you can hardly breath."
His father collapsed that evening over his map of flags on which he plotted the war, fumbling for the capsules to break and inhale."
He took his cane without the silver band and led his son over Mount Royal. Here was the ancient crater. Two iron and stone cannon rested in the gentle grassy scoop wich was once a pit of boiling lava. Breavman wanted to dwell on the violence.
"We'll come back here when I'm better."
One lie.
Breavman learned to pat the noses of horses tethered beside the Chalet, how to offer them sugar cubes from a flat palm.
"One day we'll go riding."
"But you can hardly breath."
His father collapsed that evening over his map of flags on which he plotted the war, fumbling for the capsules to break and inhale."
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"Och så går det vidare i all evighet så länge barn är glada, oskyldiga och hjärtlösa." (Allra sista meningen i Peter Pan och Wendy av J.M. Barrie.)
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"Sannerligen, sannerligen säger jag eder: Om icke vetekornet faller i jorden och dör, så förbliver det ett ensamt korn; men om det dör, så bär det mycken frukt."
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Goodnight you princes of Maine you kings of New England!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jwRPJJxgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jwRPJJxgQ
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“For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from Earth but to set up Heaven on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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klorofyll skrev:“For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from Earth but to set up Heaven on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
För att förklara vad jag ser i detta med en tolkning: den här världen som vi lever i har sina brister - vi blir tvungna att kompromissa, handla så gott vi kan, osv osv - men jorden kommer aldrig bli ett himmelrike hur vi än anstränger oss.
Jag vet inte hur diktatorer tänker men det skulle inte förvåna mig om många av dem - ville skapa himmelriket på jorden... Varmed de förhävde sig själva något absurt.
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"I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, wich is surely less important than music, architecture, painting ... But whatever it's worth I did it." - YSL
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“We are in the uncomfortable position of extrapolating into the next century without understanding the last.”
Walter Munk, Twentieth century sea level: An enigma
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/99/10/6550.full.pdf
Walter Munk, Twentieth century sea level: An enigma
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/99/10/6550.full.pdf
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"Make your lives extraordinary" - Dead Poets Society
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"As soon as you stop wanting something. You get it." - Andy Warhol
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"Saliga de ödmjuka, de ska ärva landet."
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"Det är väl talat men låt oss nu odla vår trädgård" - Candide
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