Sorry for the long silence. Silence has meaning when it falls between two events. Without a frame, it is just a lack of information. How could you know when I’m sitting in the dark, disconnected? Or that the power hasn’t gone out at all for nearly a week?
"Something important is lost when we perceive history as a series of images (or events) rather than deeds."
I will go one further on this: something important is lost when we perceive history as a series of images, or events, OR deeds: something is lost when we do not think of history as a set of *choices.* Someone is choosing to aim at our ambulances, instead of at our Position 0. It is not a secret where Position 0 is--ours, or theirs. We choose to aim at their soldiers. They choose instead to aim at our hospitals, our humanitarian vehicles, the homes of our grandmothers.
Never apologize for silence! Your posts bring home the devastation being inflicted. We need to hear. We may be ravenous for real life news- - but not at an overly burdensome cost to you. We have the luxury of drinking. Some of your friends can only gulp, gulp, gulp. That translation moved me to subscribe. Take care.
Here's the full text of Larysa Venediktova's “Horror Is No Different From a Dream” in English:
https://krytyka.com/en/articles/horror-is-no-different-from-a-dream
"Something important is lost when we perceive history as a series of images (or events) rather than deeds."
I will go one further on this: something important is lost when we perceive history as a series of images, or events, OR deeds: something is lost when we do not think of history as a set of *choices.* Someone is choosing to aim at our ambulances, instead of at our Position 0. It is not a secret where Position 0 is--ours, or theirs. We choose to aim at their soldiers. They choose instead to aim at our hospitals, our humanitarian vehicles, the homes of our grandmothers.
Never apologize for silence! Your posts bring home the devastation being inflicted. We need to hear. We may be ravenous for real life news- - but not at an overly burdensome cost to you. We have the luxury of drinking. Some of your friends can only gulp, gulp, gulp. That translation moved me to subscribe. Take care.