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Martin Amis the agnostic

 From Wikipedia: Martin Amis and Agnosticism In 2006, Amis said that "agnostic is the only respectable position, simply because our ignorance of the universe is so vast" that atheism is "premature". Clearly "there's not going to be any kind of anthropomorphic entity at all", but the universe is "so incredibly complicated", "so over our heads", that we cannot exclude the existence of "an intelligence" behind it. [134] In 2010, he said: "I'm an agnostic, which is the only rational position. It's not because I feel a God or think that anything resembling the banal God of religion will turn up. But I think that atheism sounds like a proof of something, and it's incredibly evident that we are nowhere near intelligent enough to understand the universe ... Writers are above all individualists, and above all writing is freedom, so they will go off in all sorts of directions. I think it does apply to

You can't take it with you

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 Most religions have a way of saying that death is just a passage to another world, another way of being. There's " go beyond the veil" , " pass over" (or the more ridiculous abbreviation " pass "), and " go to a better place " etc. etc. Even some Buddhist meditations on death talk about " not being able to take it with you " (body, possessions etc.), which implies that the dead person is going somewhere. The Japanese have two ways of expressing death. shinimasu ( 死 ( ) に ま す ) and nakunarimasu ( 亡 ( ) く な り ま す ). This latter seems more real, though it is politer than shinimasu. Nakunarimasu can be interpreted as "to become nothing". Which is a more honest expression of the reality. I had a shock after reading Bad Blood by Lorna Sage... ...she had become nothing. The book was so good I looked for more writings by her, but discovered she had died in January 2001 and did not leave any similar works to Bad Blood. I am not

Getting rid of books

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 Too many books, not enough space. And, in the end, how many of the books you own will you ever read again? I've decided to start a cull, the latest victims... Those that have so far survived the cull have done so because they have pictures in them:          Though there are  some fiction books I'll never get rid of, multiple reads always give pleasure...  

Mostre di Owen Ransen

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 Settembre 1997, Biennale di Venezia, Unimplosive Art   Dicembre 2004, Villa Pomini, Castellanza   Settembre 2005, Biblioteca di Pregnana Milanese.     Settembre 2009, Studio F22 Palazzolo sull'Oglio (BS)       6 quadri, 12 immagini... Le stesse opere da diversi punti di vista     Ottobre 2010, con Silvia Menuzzi, Spazio Zero, Gallarate.     Maggio 2019, Famiglia Legnanese, Legnano       Novembre 2022, Atelier Ferioli , Legnano, Pura Vanità     Lo stesso disegno da diversi punti di vista.   Maggio 2023, Pregnana Milanese, Vanità Pura. Giugno 2023 Volpara (PV) (organizzato da Claudio Mori) Video delle sculture (1)   Video delle sculture (2)  Disegni 2020