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248A3008B-7B60-4371-9FCB-EC79875E525520Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T05:48:33Z2020-04-21T05:48:33Z2020-04-21T05:48:33Z051.3331298775521212.40349975672389Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0In 2016, a zoo in the Gaza Strip had to be abandoned due to war and the Israeli blockade. As the animals died one by one, they mummified in the dry, hot air. Pictures from inside the ghost zoo show eerily preserved lions, tigers, hyenas, monkeys, and crocodiles.
3B0F64CB1-CE3F-4120-A71B-73A4B42342A920Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:04:00Z2020-04-21T06:04:00Z2020-04-21T06:04:00Z051.3332665146717312.40350059326559Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Livor mortis is the pooling of blood in lower areas of the corpse, usually a person’s back. (Again, thanks, gravity.) The pools tend to be purple in color. In Latin, the phrase means “the bluish color of death.”
4E7ED8055-408C-45D9-A337-EDF79FCDA1E420Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:05:33Z2020-04-21T06:05:33Z2020-04-21T06:05:33Z051.3331389967736412.40373946824236Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0If the livor mortis is bright cherry red, that might mean the person died in the cold, or by inhaling carbon monoxide (maybe smoke from a fire). If the livor mortis is deep purple or pink, that might mean the person suffocated, or died of heart failure. Finally, if a person has lost a lot of blood, you might not find any livor mortis at all.
54C32D32A-26D9-4A6B-B09D-10A6AF05373F20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:07:06Z2020-04-21T06:07:06Z2020-04-21T06:07:06Z051.3333601722623612.40364873927894Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0putrefaction. This is when the famous green color of death comes into its own. It’s more of a greenish-brown, actually. With some turquoise
6CE8B72C5-A72D-4409-B8AE-5AD66C092F8D20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:07:13Z2020-04-21T06:07:13Z2020-04-21T06:07:13Z051.3332249599260912.40351477567372Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0even after you die there are still fun things happening inside your flesh case? Well, bacteria are the most important guests at the party. Gut bacteria go wild, digesting you from the inside.
79D60E884-E395-44F9-8A8E-1B1EC6F8810820Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:10:14Z2020-04-21T06:10:14Z2020-04-21T06:10:14Z051.3333480906781112.40355910032729Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0In a corpse, this marbling is the visible sign of blood vessels decaying and hemoglobin separating from the blood. The hemoglobin stains the skin, producing delicate color schemes in shades of red, dark purple, green, and black. The hemoglobin ring breaks down into bilirubin (turning you yellow) and biliverdin (turning you green).
8C2C62195-156F-45D3-A6DD-F93558CE240020Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:16:02Z2020-04-21T06:16:02Z2020-04-21T06:16:02Z051.3330752364242412.40368739009483Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0It’s more height than weight that determines how much ash is in that doves-and-roses urn. Women tend to be shorter—less bone—so their ashes usually weigh around four pounds. Men tend to be taller, and have ashes that weigh around six pounds
9DE2BC341-686E-426E-BC9D-40720FDF196020Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:27:21Z2020-04-21T06:27:21Z2020-04-21T06:27:21Z051.3331526931847912.40353550840357Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0The muscles in your body need ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in order to relax. But ATP requires oxygen. No more breathing means no more oxygen, which means no more ATP, which means the muscles seize up and can’t relax. This chemical change, collectively called rigor mortis, starts around your eyelids and jaw and spreads through every muscle in the body, even the organs
1015A77BF7-A426-483D-B872-1C6B31C0487D20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:28:29Z2020-04-21T06:28:29Z2020-04-21T06:28:29Z051.3332075234404512.40346894462138Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Unfortunately, rigor mortis eventually goes away. Every dead body is different, and the environment plays a big role in the timing, but after about seventy-two hours your muscles will go all floppy again—along with your duck-face lips.
11CAAB37BE-FBEC-40E9-9EBE-30446DA255C720Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-21T06:28:56Z2020-04-21T06:28:56Z2020-04-21T06:28:56Z051.3332162742337812.40351308014501Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0cadaveric spasm, also known as instantaneous rigor. Instantaneous rigor is exactly what it sounds like. When someone dies, they skip right over the floppy muscle relaxation stage and go straight into rigor mortis
12DFD27A7C-5989-4856-A1AF-3FB94441D4B220Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T05:42:23Z2020-04-22T05:42:23Z2020-04-22T05:42:23Z051.3331589074565112.40386766229344Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0extreme taphophobia, or the fear of being buried alive
1370630E8A-074E-4EF4-A90D-C09C904E1A3020Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T05:42:35Z2020-04-22T05:42:35Z2020-04-22T05:42:35Z051.3334772528360612.4038111028164Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Matthew Wall, a man living (yes, living) in Braughing, England, in the sixteenth century. Matthew was thought to be dead, but was lucky enough to have his pallbearers slip on wet leaves and drop the coffin on the way to his burial. As the story goes, when the coffin was dropped, Matthew awakened and knocked on the lid to be released. To this day, every October 2nd is celebrated as Old Man’s Day to commemorate Matthew’s revival. He lived, by the way, for twenty-four more years.
14C263EF5F-6EE6-45A7-8636-ADF854F783E220Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T05:44:16Z2020-04-22T05:44:16Z2020-04-22T05:44:16Z051.3333323438533112.40393275864894Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany01937 is not quite Ye Olden Times, but at least it’s way before you were born—Angelo Hays of France was in a motorcycle accident. When doctors couldn’t find his pulse, he was pronounced dead. He was buried quickly and his own parents were not allowed to see his disfigured body. Angelo would have remained buried if it wasn’t for the life insurance company’s suspicions of foul play. Two days after Angelo was buried, he was exhumed for an investigation. Upon inspecting the “corpse,” examiners found that it was still warm, and that Angelo was alive. The theory is that Angelo had been in a very deep coma which slowed his breathing way, way down. It was that slow breathing that allowed him to stay alive while buried.*
15694640C9-8B5B-4A17-8CA5-F28A3615442620Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:04:37Z2020-04-22T06:04:37Z2020-04-22T06:04:37Z051.332997051861612.40360202980954Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0As the soldiers slowly decompose below ground, their bodies mix with the soil, releasing arsenic. As rain and floodwater move through the soil, concentrated clumps of arsenic are washed into the local water supply. Any amount of arsenic in your water is too much arsenic, frankly—but in trace amounts it’s safe to drink. Still, a study at a Civil War cemetery in Iowa City found that nearby water contained arsenic at three times the safe limit.
16C74E1470-3A59-48E7-86D6-487A0CDD699D20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:04:55Z2020-04-22T06:04:55Z2020-04-22T06:04:55Z051.3330374165027112.40377726073955Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0most families couldn’t afford the expensive iron coffins that the train companies would allow. So enterprising men, called embalmers, started following the armies around, setting up tents, and chemically preserving the soldiers killed in battle so that they wouldn’t decompose on the journey back home. The embalmers, who were still experimenting with their craft, used everything from sawdust to arsenic. The problem with arsenic is that it’s toxic to living humans. Extremely, wildly toxic
17C6CED978-ACE6-4CA0-A049-BE020E554A8B20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:28:23Z2020-04-22T06:28:23Z2020-04-22T06:28:23Z051.3334412390037612.40378955575635Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Eating a dead human may be horrifying to you, but humans throughout history have practiced mortuary cannibalism. Mortuary cannibalism is when the relatives, neighbors, or community members consume the flesh, or ashes, or both, of a dead person
186F8A02E9-B3C1-43BC-A4E3-9F9C3800D06520Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:32:59Z2020-04-22T06:32:59Z2020-04-22T06:32:59Z051.3330693055004912.40362377979757Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0cannibalism is not against the law. It’s not criminal to eat human flesh, but acquiring the human flesh (even if the dead person wanted you to eat them) is breaking the law. The laws you’re breaking are . . . wait for it. . . . remember these? Welcome back, abuse of corpse laws! It’s considered desecration and mutilation to eat a dead body
19D927ECD5-A0B4-4392-9FF9-CE2DFA41176720Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:33:47Z2020-04-22T06:33:47Z2020-04-22T06:33:47Z051.3331343652566612.40359640790111Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0In 1945 and 1956, two researchers analyzed the donated bodies of four adult males, and estimated that the average male offers about 125,822 calories from protein and fat. That number is far below what other red meats like beef or boar can offer. (Yes, you heard me, humans are red meat.)
2067A56CE3-9EA9-4734-AD27-CB36E2C30B5920Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:34:55Z2020-04-22T06:34:55Z2020-04-22T06:34:55Z051.3331794671815412.4036723669615Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Neanderthals or Homo erectus, had cannibalistic tendencies. But if they ate their own kind, it was for ritual purposes, not dietary purposes. Again, humans just don’t provide enough calories to compete with something like a mammoth, which would have provided a (totally worth it) 3.6 million calories
217CD9FA34-B80B-4A89-8711-CF6F920D89D520Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:36:02Z2020-04-22T06:36:02Z2020-04-22T06:36:02Z051.3331111723651412.40366741139765Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0hákarl or fermented shark, which is a beloved national dish in Iceland. The shark is buried, fermented, and hung to dry for months until its debut as a pungent, rotten treat.)
227965FF25-0FC2-440D-BA14-5B5BD0F578C820Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:37:07Z2020-04-22T06:37:07Z2020-04-22T06:37:07Z051.3332641473106612.40334296907688Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Even if the animal you ate had some sort of disease, most diseases are not zoonotic. That is to say, a human can’t get an animal disease by eating that animal. (Ebola is one of the rare exceptions.) But if you’re going to eat a human corpse it’s a different story. It is possible to contract blood-borne viruses such hepatitis B or HIV. Unlike when you eat animals, if you eat diseased human flesh, you could end up suffering from the same illness.
233C65AE85-D644-4FF8-AA39-876F39770A8320Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:38:16Z2020-04-22T06:38:16Z2020-04-22T06:38:16Z051.3331368439954212.40356420725142Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Humans can have abnormal proteins called prions. These proteins have lost their shape and proper function, and infect other, normal proteins. Unlike a virus or an infection, prions don’t have DNA or RNA, so they can’t be killed by heat or radiation. They’re tough little suckers that like to hang out in the brain and spinal column, spreading lesions and chaos. When talking about prions, scientists often point to the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. As late as the 1950s, anthropologists documented an epidemic of a neurological disease called kuru that was killing members of the tribe. Kuru is a disease caused by prions in the brain. The spread of kuru was traced to the tribe’s ritual of eating of human brains after death. The infected suffer from muscle spasms, dementia, and uncontrollable laughing or crying. The end result is a brain literally full of holes—and then death
2485C5809D-269E-4A79-A636-7CBCD399A02620Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:40:16Z2020-04-22T06:40:16Z2020-04-22T06:40:16Z051.3332453131452112.40348109026645Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0The Yarkon Cemetery in Israel has started adding burial towers that will ultimately hold 250,000 graves. The towers even respect Jewish custom by filling the burial columns with dirt so that the graves are connected to the earth. At the moment, the world’s tallest cemetery is in Brazil. Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica III contains thirty-two stories of graves, and also has a restaurant, concert hall, and gardens filled with exotic birds. When I was in Tokyo, Japan, I visited a multistory building that houses thousands of cremated remains (delivered to personal visiting rooms by automatic conveyors that locate and fetch the correct urn)
25F514887D-EBBE-476A-A925-349956DBB1F820Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:42:42Z2020-04-22T06:42:42Z2020-04-22T06:42:42Z051.3332113440421212.40346390338805Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0In Singapore, for every square mile there are more than 18,000 people. Every. Square. Mile. 18,000. People. In the United States, for every square mile there are only 92 people.
26485B0E2D-E873-49CA-AB58-F3E6E094D4AF20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:44:44Z2020-04-22T06:44:44Z2020-04-22T06:44:44Z051.333278007287112.40335988533181Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0not all near-death experiences are created equal. Not everyone finds themselves walking into a sparkling white light while scenes of childhood pets and awkward job interviews pass before their eyes. In one study, about half of the people who had a near-death experience said they were fully aware they were dead (which could be good or bad, depending on how chill with death you are). One in four people said they had an out-of-body experience. Only one in three actually moved through the good ol’ tunnel. Also, some bad news: we imagine NDEs as being positive and blissful, but that was only true about half the time. Turns out they can be pretty terrifying, too.
2748DF4E17-A72C-4932-A5E8-2404E40589E020Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:49:59Z2020-04-22T06:49:59Z2020-04-22T06:49:59Z051.3334082690720512.40373781249704Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Religious folks may see the light as a supernatural gateway to the afterlife; scientists may see the light as caused by oxygen deprivation in the brain
28A4BF96D3-4D3E-4A05-9FA7-7C143124709220Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:50:29Z2020-04-22T06:50:29Z2020-04-22T06:50:29Z051.3331318738624812.40360474920343Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Scientists believe that seeing this light at the end of the tunnel is the result of retinal ischemia, which happens when there isn’t enough blood reaching the eye. As less blood flows to the eyes, vision is reduced. Being in a state of extreme fear can also cause retinal ischemia. Both fear and decrease in oxygen are associated with dying. In this context, the extreme white tunnel vision characteristic of NDEs starts to make much more sense.
29CCE34C40-F2A7-4B9D-8FB8-C6E680DC32AF20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:51:35Z2020-04-22T06:51:35Z2020-04-22T06:51:35Z051.3332948228543112.40364259648123Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0necrophages, the unsung heroes of the natural world. They are the death eaters, the organisms that fuel up by consuming dead and rotting things
300CCE3637-107E-4D26-8464-91FF655F18FF20Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:54:31Z2020-04-22T06:54:31Z2020-04-22T06:54:31Z051.3329394620875412.40374112690689Eilenburger Straße 19, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0why don’t they eat bones, too? The simple answer is that eating bones is hard work. Not only that, but bones are not nutritionally useful to insects. Bones are mostly made of calcium, something insects just don’t need a lot of. Since they don’t need much calcium, insects like dermestids haven’t evolved to consume it or desire it
31D670B3E4-D54B-4E4E-B8A1-71C7801AD63620Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:55:35Z2020-04-22T06:55:35Z2020-04-22T06:55:35Z051.3332260737634512.40368501492717Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0So, while dermestids and other flesh-eating bugs do not usually eat bone, if they get hungry enough, they will. Humans behave the same way. When Paris was under siege in the late sixteenth century, the city was starving. When people inside the city ran out of cats and dogs and rats to eat, they began disinterring bodies from the mass graves in the cemetery. They took the bones and ground them into flour to make what became known as Madame de Montpensier’s bread. Bone appetit! (Actually, maybe don’t bone appetit, as many who ate the bone bread died themselves.)
3288349039-88D4-454E-B8D9-94C65DC27E8422Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:56:52Z2020-04-22T06:56:52Z2020-04-22T06:56:52Z051.3333062433390912.40354514751025Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0There is strong evidence that bone worms have been eating giant marine reptiles since the time of the dinosaurs. That means the whale eaters are older than whales themselves.
33949FED16-150A-4200-8C75-BED6C1BB6E8420Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-22T06:59:55Z2020-04-22T06:59:55Z2020-04-22T06:59:55Z051.3332691367397612.40356814886445Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Other cultures gave up on burial entirely. High in the mountains of Tibet, where the ground is often too rocky and frozen for burial, and where not enough trees grow to perform cremations, a different kind of death ritual developed. To this day, bodies are laid out in an open area for a sky burial, a lovely name for the dead body being consumed by vultures. Your cat might eat you after you die, but a vulture can’t wait to rip you to pieces and carry you off into the sky.
34F530E5B8-3E18-4089-898F-22C3756BBD3420Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-23T06:16:09Z2020-04-23T06:16:09Z2020-04-23T06:16:09Z051.3333704768083812.4034332761469Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0As they break down their brand-new food source—your dead body—the microbes give off gas made of VOCs, or volatile organic compounds. The prime stinkers here tend to be sulfur-containing compounds, which makes sense if you’ve ever experienced an especially potent and sulfuric eggy fart. Sulfur is the culprit in many a stink.
3585A7852B-FB64-4740-9F5E-E6663499F60220Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?Caitlin Doughty2020-04-23T06:33:14Z2020-04-23T06:33:14Z2020-04-23T06:33:14Z051.3334224053964312.40362916382752Lene-Voigt-Park, 04317 Leipzig, GermanyLeipzigSaxonyGermany0Sometimes, larger bones, like thigh bones, require two people to pick up the bone at once. And sometimes the family will pass bone fragments to one another, chopsticks to chopsticks. This is the only time passing something between chopsticks is not considered rude. If you were to do this in public, with, say, a pork sparerib at a restaurant, it would be like bringing a funeral ritual to the dinner table. Total faux pas.
36ED307F41-88BE-411B-A557-1157CE856DE820BabelR. F. Kuang2023-02-07T14:56:10Z2023-02-07T14:56:10Z2023-02-07T14:56:10Z045.104202498504545.742597241511231226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0The abolitionist movement you know is a load of pomp. Rhetoric only. Pitt first raised the motion because he saw the need to cut off the slave trade to France. And Parliament got on board with the abolitionists because they were so very afraid of Black insurrection in the West Indies.’ ‘So you think it’s purely risk and economics.’ ‘Well, not necessarily. You brother likes to argue that the Jamaican slave revolt, failed though it was, is what impelled the British to legislate abolition. He’s right, but only half right. See, the revolt won British sympathy because the leaders were part of the Baptist church, and when it failed, proslavery whites in Jamaica started destroying chapels and threatening missionaries. Those Baptists went back to England and drummed up support on the grounds of religion, not natural rights. My point being, abolition happened because white people found reasons to care – whether those be economic or religious. You just have to make them think they came up with the idea themselves. You can’t appeal to their inner goodness. I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.’
37D5EC6BE7-58DB-4E7E-8717-31ECBE11F8FE20BabelR. F. Kuang2023-02-08T07:58:12Z2023-02-08T07:58:12Z2023-02-08T07:58:12Z045.104202677735965.74259767871893226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0Strikers in this country never won broad public support, for the public merely wanted all the conveniences of modern life without the guilt of knowing how those conveniences were procured.
3870FC0FBF-8BF3-4C03-AD90-864B8CD028FE20BabelR. F. Kuang2023-02-08T08:27:23Z2023-02-08T08:27:23Z2023-02-08T08:27:23Z045.104201489051555.742597357615256226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0The tactics of revolt spread fast. The British textile workers picked up these techniques of barricade from the 1831 and 1834 Canut revolts by silk workers in Lyon. Those revolts had been brutally repressed – but, crucially, they did not hold the backbone of the entire nation hostage
3910E7ED24-7F91-4DF2-B852-4AE6D533611120BabelR. F. Kuang2023-02-09T20:45:43Z2023-02-09T20:45:43Z2023-02-09T20:45:43Z045.104201234318525.742597001332137226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0‘It’s like I’ve known you forever.’ ‘Me too,’ Ramy said. ‘And that makes no sense,’ said Robin, drunk already, though there was no alcohol in the cordial. ‘Because I’ve known you for less than a day, and yet . . .’ ‘I think,’ said Ramy, ‘it’s because when I speak, you listen.’ ‘Because you’re fascinating.’ ‘Because you’re a good translator.’ Ramy leaned back on his elbows. ‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands
40DAFA053F-19A9-4AA5-9A7D-22CF569281DA20BabelR. F. Kuang2023-02-09T20:59:12Z2023-02-09T20:59:12Z2023-02-09T20:59:12Z045.104188364974285.742602536574182226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0Victoire knows better. Victory is not assured. Victory may be in the portents, but it must be urged there by violence, by suffering, by martyrs, by blood. Victory is wrought by ingenuity, persistence, and sacrifice. Victory is a game of inches, of historical contingencies where everything goes right because they have made it go right.
410EBECEC5-9E72-4625-922A-C068BD4EE6BC20TotalitarianismHannah Arendt2023-02-11T10:12:17Z2023-02-11T10:12:17Z2023-02-11T10:12:17Z045.104216003934875.742588003722739226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0In other words, while it has always been known that official Soviet publications served propaganda purposes and were utterly unreliable, it now appears that reliable source and statistical material probably never existed anywhere
42A1AFD977-E93D-4760-AC61-7E8ACC568D9620TotalitarianismHannah Arendt2023-02-11T10:21:12Z2023-02-11T10:21:12Z2023-02-11T10:21:12Z045.104200962446345.742582390092738226 Chemin des Pérouses, 38560 Jarrie, FranceJarrieAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesFrance0Absolute monarchy, no doubt, was a very different affair in Spain, in France, in England, in Prussia; still it was everywhere the same form of government. Decisive in our context is that totalitarian government is different from dictatorships and tyrannies; the ability to distinguish between them is by no means an academic issue which could be safely left to the "theoreticians," for total domination is the only form of government with which coexistence is not possible