The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.
Tag Archives: fatalism
On Homer and Rethinking My Father
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Brexit or Never Let Me Go?
Tuesday I see there is a glimmer of hope in the United Kingdom (albeit a very tiny one) as Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has dropped his opposition to a second referendum on Brexit, even though he himself supposedly wants out. This means that a possibility at least exists that Brits can reverse their catastrophic, […]
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A Weed’s Zen Acceptance of Fate
If you’re hostile towards garden weeds these days, here’s a very Zen-like Scott Bates poem from a weed’s point of view. Or maybe it’s an existentialist parable about free will.
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