Long-long time ago, the gentlemen had to hunt the ladies they liked. Not so long ago, the ladies went out and started to hunt for their Mr. Perfect. Today, however, nobody’s hunting anyone. People of both sexes sit and wait. Sometimes, every other weekend, people like to take other people for granted, as they come… Continuă lectura Season Closed
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MONKEY-BUSINESS
(To be read by men only) Worthless things seem to gain in value once they enter the area of a woman’s interest. If it’s about the lamest man alive or about a Louis Vuitton replica purse, women love to make the worthless seem praiseworthy and the other way around. Nothing excites her more than making… Continuă lectura MONKEY-BUSINESS
The Fillers
Some people look back over their shoulder in anger, in anguish, in vain. The world is moving ahead, so marvellously wrong and wide, but how were they supposed to know? They drag themselves along the ground, licking the dust off that narrow path back to themselves. They wouldn’t trade their own little „Kingdom of Good… Continuă lectura The Fillers
WHAT FOR WHOM?
Not every missionary has a mission, and for sure not every mission is entrusted to a missionary. Sometimes, a true mission gets lost in the sea of absurd ideals and abandoned hopes, or melts into the boredom of the common guy next door like ice into water. He would never fish it out; he didn’t… Continuă lectura WHAT FOR WHOM?
Broken Wisdom
Clever words, sayings, mind blowing, penetrating ideas and sophisms – they circulate everyday on social platforms. They’re un-dignifyingly called „inspirational quotes”. Bits of brilliant knowledge that, for years and centuries, were kept prisoners between the covers of books and magazines, hidden deep in strange, dark places like archives and libraries when no man ever set… Continuă lectura Broken Wisdom
On Idiots (III)
All idiots are actively and enthusiastically idiots. Imbecility is, among other things, a profession de foi. Especially for the educated ones. They all live with the illusion of depth and omnipotence. So they talk loud and a lot. For the most part, they talk sports, nutrition trends, entertainment and sexist subtleties. They also love to exchange inconsistent arguments and re-launch… Continuă lectura On Idiots (III)
On Suffering
Giving wrong meanings to your suffering is a terrible (and dangerous) thing to do. The lack of meaning is often better than false meaning. Actually, dealing with your misery is the most significant and crucial occupation you’ll ever have. Some say there is some kind of „existential dignity” in dealing with it „in style”. Well,… Continuă lectura On Suffering
On Idiots (Part II)
One of the most serious challenges a writer encounters is that of creating a credibly stupid character. Curiously, it takes less talent and less wit to make a character act, talk and look smart. Just to think how difficult it is to place a comma or to write a good dialogue! Everything you lay on… Continuă lectura On Idiots (Part II)
On Idiots (part I)
I have this extravagant need to document idiocy and people who suffer from this “condition”. Actually, to tell you the truth, I have quite a few notebooks. You never know when they come in handy. We should all reserve our right to talk about imbecility, to challenge it, to exorcise it, or complain about it.… Continuă lectura On Idiots (part I)
The Valentine’s in the details
Throughout centuries and millennia, so many imposing, memorable things were done for women! Wars, castles, cities, poems, novels, church reforms, pop songs. What have women done (for men), in return? Everything that was left to do: They wrote in their hearts every single man’s unwritten biography, they recorded and indexed in their detail-oriented minds every single picture… Continuă lectura The Valentine’s in the details
