I Can Help Too!

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Li Hongbo, papel!

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Italo Calvino in Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941–1985

Song: “Hellfire” by Yellow Fever

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Hidden Beached Whale Revealed in 17th-Century Dutch Painting

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.

Oh, You never expect a whale!

Ethical thought consists of the systematic examination of the relations of human beings to each other, the conceptions, interests and ideals from which human ways of treating one another spring, and the systems of value on which such ends of life are based. These beliefs about how life should be lived, what men and women should be and do, are objects of moral enquiry; and when applied to groups and nations, and, indeed, mankind as a whole, are called political philosophy, which is but ethics applied to society.

Isaiah Berlin The Pursuit of the Ideal

Dilo con Helvética

La ‘sensibilidad’ cubre un amplio grupo de contenidos: el sensorial, el sensacional, el sensitivo, el sensible y el sentimental, junto con el sensual. Incluye casi todo, desde el mero choque emocional y físico hasta la sensación misma presente en la experiencia inmediata. Cada término se refiere a alguna fase y aspecto real de la vida de una criatura organizada, en tanto que la vida se produce a través de los órganos de los sentidos. Pero la sensación, en el sentido de estar tan directamente incorporada a la experiencia que ilumina el significado de ésta, es el único que expresa la función de los órganos de los sentidos cuando se conduce a plena realización. Los sentidos son los órganos a través de los cuales la criatura viviente participa directamente en los sucesos del mundo que lo rodea. En esta participación la maravilla y el esplendor variados de este mundo se hacen reales para él, en las cualidades que experimenta.

J. Dewey

Not just the way we see red when we get angry—that too, moreover; it is only erroneously that one considers it something that is an occasional exception, without suspecting what deep and general law one has touched upon!—but rather like this: things swim in emotions the way water lilies consist not only of leaves and flowers and white and green but also of "gently lying there"

Robert Musil

The Silent World of dogs...

In this sequence of Jacques Cousteau ‘The Silent World " (from min. 50:05 to 58:07 approximately), the Calypso follows a herd of sperm whales and fatally hit a small breeding. Soon, many sharks congregate around the body and begin to devour it. The sailors are horrified and fascinated. But suddenly got mad. They attack the sharks, lift them up to the deck and killing them, with axes and maces. The crew's dog seems to not support the slaughter of sharks and goes away, or is only afraid ...? The sailors finally calm down and play curiously with barnacles accompanying sharks. Colin Dayan begins his book 'With dogs at the edge of life' narrating this sequence and observes: "... only the dog responds with what we can interpret as spot-on in Its gentle, unremitting regard".

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Surreal Wisteria Flower Tunnel in Japan

The spectacular views of the wisteria flowers at Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan is another shining example of Japanese perception of beauty and architecture. The private garden hosts around 150 wisteria flowering plants of 20 different species. The crown jewel of the garden, ...

After only about nine months of life, people even forget who their mothers were

Kurt Vonnegut Gálapagos