Cortés
                                                          &
                                                          Moctezuma, by
                                                          Hugo Santander
                                                          Ferreira Aparts from Cortés y Moctezuma were presented with texts of Literature Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek by Project Theatre Studio in Viena, Austria
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Now directing a play for the
Masquerade Theatre,
Chennai, India
Civilización
Or Ulises' journey from the Jungle, his home-town, to the earthly delights of Civilization

 An absurd comedy, now staged by the
Masquerade Theatre of Chennai. Read the original text
here

Being in Creation
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A book on metaphysics and ontology, Why do we live? What is eternity? Who is God? What's death?

Lincoln
                                                  Cathedral
Books
A poem
Read by the author

The Death of a Nation
 
 FRANKLIN.-If six nations of ignorant savages were capable of forming a powerful and, as it seems, an indissoluble state--I refer to the Hotinoshoni league of nations, won't we be able to be up to the challenge of uniting the American English Colonies? While we are, as they say, slaves of a single man, they are masters of their lives. To the Hotinoshoni all men are created equal, endowed by their gods with equal rights.


Book reviews


... Salman Rushdie belongs to that unfortunate group of writers and filmmakers who after a premature success find themselves in the quagmire of Status Quo complacency ... the voluptuous heroine dies asserting that Galileo was right in affirming that the earth spins around the sun. The melodramatic effect of her final words is sadly spoiled by physics (the earth spins around the sun as the sun spins around the earth and both around the Milky Way: Galileo was not as right as we would like to believe), but by the lengthy reflections of Professor Malik Solanka...
 
Rushdie, Salman, Fury

Istanbul
Academic papers
 ... One of the greatest misconceptions of aesthetics is that poetry corresponds primarily to emotions: «There is no question, then, that a work of art is presented to sensuous apprehension» Thoughts appear to be the private privilege of philosophy. But emotions cannot exist by themselves. They require the assistance of the mind, or―as Kant pointed out in his third critique, they must be subordinated to the mind in order to become sublime.

Ascendancy of Poetry over Philosophy

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Theatre plays

ALI
   My Dad has not died as yet. I no longer have hopes to get his inheritance. You know. I know I will die first than him. My family owns eight buildings. And look where I live! I heard you are a drug-addict.

Essays

... Vladimir and Estragon are tortured by the evidence that Godot won't ever come, and yet they maintain their faith in him. Both characters, however, avoid any direct reference to faith...

Scepticism and faith in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot


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Hyde Park London
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