Tag Archives: Varia

Zürich — das große Schweigen Selbst sprachlich steht man in Zürich auf slim fit. Das Vokabular ist reduziert und höchstens mit ein paar Anglizismen gestreckt. Geschichten wird man keine hören. Weil sie niemand erzählen kann. Es wird zwar geredet, aber ohne Pointe, ohne doppelten Boden, ohne Dramaturgie: nüchterner Informationsaustausch. Alles andere ist für die Zürcher nur dekadenter Firlefanz, manchmal sogar das Sprechen selbst. Also wird gern und häufig...

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[embedded content] Marie Fredriksson (1958-2019). A great singer and fighter has passed away. Your soulful and sensitive voice will live on forever. Thanks for everything. A thing of beauty is a joy forever

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Sail on silver girl [embedded content] Still — after 50 years — I hold this for being the most beautiful pop song ever written.

 [embedded content]Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during the infamous military coup. The diplomats helped over 2000 Chileans escape Pinochet’s junta. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme. Finns were the invisible heroes.

Poem of the atoms  [embedded content]  O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing. The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, they seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable, Becomes enamoured of the sun, of which nothing can be said. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273)

 [embedded content] In loving memory of my brother Peter ‘Uncas’ Pålsson — truly ‘a red man deep inside.’

 [embedded content] Graham Bonnet’s vocal performance is just awesome — it still gives me goose pimples every time I listen to it.

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