“That pile of paper on his left was still alive, like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.” (Jean Cocteau) on the death of Marcel Proust, 18 November 1922
‘You were saying…’
“It seems that the case for the humanities has to be made yet again. While the sciences and hi-tech subjects result in discoveries of immediate application to how we live, the humanities endorse the values that make life itself worth living.” Joan Bakewell
In 1968, liberal political reforms in Czechoslovakia triggered the invasion of Soviet troops. Protests followed in which opposition was often expressed in acts of non violent resistance. When listening to the radio was banned, people responded by ‘listening' to newspaper-covered bricks on the street.
War memorial, Saint Michel L’Observatoire, France