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Pillars of Salt

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

Photo: Peter Horvath

In Vonnegut, that which survives being proofed by satire, as Billy Pilgrim is so mercilessly in Slaughterhouse Five, becomes both human and wise.

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Tagged acceptance, Christianity, death, empathy, feminism, humanism, humanity, irony, kitsch, misogyny, novel, plots, quietism, Reinhold Niebuhr, satire, Serenity Prayer, Slaughterhouse Five, time, war, wisdom

The Poignancy of Things

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

Photo: Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker

Chris Marker’s Sans soleil exemplifies the journey to wisdom, without once mentioning that concept.

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Tagged Amilcar Cabral, celebrations, Chris Marker, community, complexity, context, cultural difference, culture, death, empathy, global consciousness, happiness, humility, impermanence, insecurity, Japan, La jetée, Left Bank filmmakers, melancholy, memory, post-colonialism, ritual, Sans soleil, travel, wisdom

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