Year: 2022
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The Sound of Incoherence
Piercing through a veil woven with the din of background sounds—the ticking clock, the furnace, the trickling fountain—was an incoherent chime. Not the sound of a pure note, like that from a piano key, or the alarm of the fridge complaining of an open door. This one was different; it was impure. It was a…
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Nostalgia
in: Documentary
Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, starts with the etymology of the word: “Nostalgia is a compound of two Greek terms: nostos (returning home) and algos (pain or yearning) “ [[1], p.272]. With this baseline he then submits that…
