When Genius Surpasses Itself: A Hermeneutic Reading of Roger Waters’ Composition “Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined” . By a combination of circumstances, I was traveling in the far east of Turkey during those days. I returned to the hotel in the evening after exploring the areas around Lake Van and, following my established routine, put on my […]
Varanasi (ancient Kāśī), also known as Banaras, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world (see: Eck, Diana L. 1982. Banaras: City of Light. Princeton: Princeton University Press). The archaeological layers associated with the area of the modern city are reliably dated to the 9th or 8th century BCE, although there are […]
I Birth as an act represents the beginning of the tragedy of the individual (the person), the dawn of his suffering in a closed metaphorical, yet realistically palpable circle of the absurdity of everyday life, on the axis of the meaninglessness of existence. It is – as a beginning – consequently caused either by mere […]