Author: Fenek Solère

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I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused.
Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used.

–“Dogs,” Animals, Pink Floyd (1977)

In this documentary, Roger Waters constantly struts about the stage like an aged and anorexic Richard Gere, his spindly arms held defiantly aloft in a clichéd clenched-fist salute of solidarity with the people. (more…)

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I believe I am from the light, whereas other people are from the dark.
— Annie Haslam, lead singer of Renaissance

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

I first heard her name whispered over cocktails at the Decabrist bar on St. Isaac’s Square in St. Petersburg. Some of my friends had been hanging out with sound engineers from the Assault and Battery 2 Studio in northwest London, (more…)

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Some people think football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

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Let me make this very clear, Mr. Sassoli. You have no right to go and speak to the UK Speaker of Parliament, having conversations that are directly interfering in our domestic politics. (more…)

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. . . and there was great slaughter on either side. There were killed King Harold, and Earl Leofwine his brother, and Earl Gyrth his brother, and many good men. And the French had possession of the place of slaughter . . .

— The Worcester Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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Let’s steal some stars
For Avalon . . .
Let’s make a quest
For Avalon
Quest for finger cymbal and gong
For Avalon
— Tyrannosaurus Rex, “Stones for Avalon” (1969)

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We have always been concerned with the sacred or – perhaps more accurately – the loss of the sacred. We are searching for its echoes and traces which are scattered and hidden in surprising and forgotten places.

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Giorgio de Chirico, La cohorte invincible (1928)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds . . . The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable . . . If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

–Plato

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Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 393 donations totaling $56,422.79. (more…)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. (more…)

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(The title is a quotation from Tony Blair.)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Then, after a while, there were too many poor. Altogether too many. Folk you didn’t even know . . . Swarming all over . . . spreading through cities, houses and homes. Worming their way by the thousands, in thousands of foolproof ways. (more…)