RILKE, Rainer Maria - Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus

I didn't discover Rilke when I needed him but when I finally started reading his works I knew th...

3/31/2012
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The Real Sins: 2. Ignorance

My second article in the series entitled "The Real Sins" is something on ignorance. The su...

3/28/2012
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Palace of Culture, Iasi, Romania [Architecture]

Iași is a city in north-east Romania close to the border with the Republic of Moldavia. In pop cultu...

3/25/2012
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Hassan Rana (visual) and Junoon (audio)

Junoon is a Pakistani Sufi -rock band, actually the only such musical project I know about from Pak...

3/23/2012
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On Spirituality

In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. My Muslim readers will find this introductory stat...

3/18/2012
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Learn Other Languages

1. Introduction. This is the introduction, if you already know a few things about language familie...

3/14/2012
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Vladimir Putin, Russia and the changing world

Two decades ago the world was like a cake, more or less divided in two. The standoff that was the Co...

3/12/2012
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Niavaran Residential (visual) and Kahtmayan (audio)

I was looking through the Duo archive wondering what to present next, and it hit me, why no architec...

3/08/2012
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Ignoring the Obvious?

Time for some politics again, sometimes I feel like giving up on writing about global politics becau...

3/02/2012
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