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Dream Lessons

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Abigail

“Dream Lessons” When I was a small child, I had a recurrent nightmare in which someone was attacking me. I needed to scream for help but couldn’t, because no sound came out. I would try and try to scream, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Evil, Fashion, Guilt and Innocence, History, history of ideas, Ideology, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman | Tagged Achille Lauro, aesthetic values, being silenced, Choreographer: Mark Morris, Composer: John Adams, conformity, decency, demonstrators, Director: Peter Sellars, dream, Edouard Manet, fear, firing squad, group execution, History, human norms, Leon Klinghoffer, Librettist: Alice Goodman, Metropolitan Opera House, nightmare, normality, normative, oddball, official story, opera, ostracism, outlaw chic, personal narrative, protestors, social pressure, speechlessness, suppression, terrorists, The Death of Klinghoffer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, threat, trangressive, understanding, voice | Leave a comment
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