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Murdoch on Suffering and Morality: All of the following is out of  The Black Prince,  Iris Murdoch‘s strange, funny, frightening, e...

Standstill - Stillness - Silence: One cannot help but register the effects and implications this Corona crisis has on all of us an...

A (moderately) healthy recipe in which most of the sweetness comes from the figs. I love it. Dough: 150 g dried figs 2 e...

Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops a conspicuous and relatively abrupt cha...

Ethics vs. Aesthetics: In light of the vehemence of rejection which met the publication of Woody Allen’s latest biography the question aris...

Youth - And Why We Shouldn’t Shed Tears When It Is Gone: Undoubtedly our youth is one of the most important and well remembered ...

“A Fairly Honourable Defeat” by Iris Murdoch: In her thirteenth novel,  published 1970,  Iris Murdoch depicts a social network of...

After my success with the red wine cake (see previous blog entry) I went on a search for another mind soother and found this recipe: ...

These last days have been very, very dreary and grey. Typical Berlin after holidays: Cold, wet, grey, not very nice. And, I have to ...

Aesthetics are not an Absolute: This picture shows a painting by Jean Siméon Chardin, the 18th century French painter (1699-1779), co...

Music and Memory: For the last 2 weeks, out of over 9.500 titles, I have been editing and completing a music playlist for stream...

Identity When Hans Hofmann became a hedgehog somewhere in a Germany  that has vanished with its forests and hedgerows Shakespeare wou...

“The Tremor of Forgery” by Patricia Highsmith: Recently, in search of a light read which would get me over the first, always drear...

I  Forget Myself I forget myself like a cloud, I sing and I sing and I spin to the future in mists of white washed wool when a bird ...

Plato (again) - as seen by Iris Murdoch*: Art, this “fiction-making-process“ has always been, from the very beginning, mankind’...