Category: Uncategorized
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Enforced
What are the ways in which we can spot a terrorist? Terrorism includes all forms of violence: it means being pushed into an emotional whole of your own, it means being restricted in every way, it means that the force of that national authority would have the right to pretend that perpetuating victimhood is the…
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Closed
Words… They shape themselves and get shaped by their environments. They took these two and made something new out of them. How would the people change? How would the words do it? It does not happen on its own. It happens with a lot of encouragement, with understanding. Psychology is harmful, while it serves the…
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Fear Feeling Fear Legal Fear Cyprus
Bastille Day Constanza Terrorism in Cyprus Terrorism in Cyprus comes in different forms and languages. The two administrations who have it as their jobs to work on it refuse to any real work while they successfully breed the real terrorists themselves. It doesn’t have a practical function to define how the international law on terrorism…
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Dessert
It has never been nice to focus on money. Money on its own. It is the kind of tool, the medium in between which should have stayed just there: in the middle. Instead, it has turned into something bitter, adopting a personality of its own. Money with a capital ‘M’ became a person. A friend…
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Today
Today has not been a day like another. It has been a day with continued treatment. Sometimes it’s nice to trust other people. In fact, it’s very nice to trust other people, all the time. The more you have trust in others in your life, the more relaxed you feel. It’s not easy to have…
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Everydayness
Philosophy of The City Madrid Urban Identity Jurgen Habermas mentioned the notion of ‘Everyday’ only in passing. It is not one of the central themes to his work. It is in ‘Between Facts and Norms’ that this notion got my attention while working on the idea of Constitutional Patriotism. Lingering into the first Appendix, the…
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Voices
It has finally become possible for me to keep talking. I cannot share them on my very own website, unfortunately. It’s due to a technical reason. Here they are: https://poddy.net/melismenent1708402986
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Her
After years of boredom in her relationship, she knew that she wanted something different. She had everything she might ever think of: a huge car, a large house and children that could make her look successful. It is her success, to have the kids at home, to have the nannies to care for them, everything…
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Self- Travels
It’s taking me a long time to get to know Cyprus. I don’t know what the matter is with the pace of my discoveries. It is always open, in some sense. In another, it’s firmly shut to me. It’s closed of while all the doors resonate the same sound: closure. Closing off while keeping everything…
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Old Film New Look
I do find cultural things to do on my very own, at home, in my country where arts are not so popular. Big crowds are popular, just not arts. When you do have arts, you would be asking for more of it. A diversity of it, different genres, different perspectives and practices within the same…
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Self-Smoothie
Smoothie is pronounced differently. It takes a gentle ‘i’ which is written as an inverted ‘e’ in the International Phonetics Alphabet. It’s ‘IPA’ shortly. I have just prepared a self-smoothie. The Self-Smoothie protects you from the things outside. How much of the nutritional value of the natural ingredients are lost? Should the blade of the…
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Bourgignons are for people who kept the ‘Bourgs’.
They stayed in. They stayed within the walls: of their minds, of their cities and those of their communities. Limits of thought were determined, for them. Long before they were born. How much of it could they change? How much of it can I change? I have finished preparing my Bourgignon for myself. I do…
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On Pandemic Partying
“New Year’s Eve” A New Film on Digital. Trying out cinema on digital platfroms is new to me. It is most essential given the films at the cinemas (or lack of it thereof) in Cyprus. This new entry is about a film on Disney Plus. I do wonder why it’s called ‘Plus’ and not simply…
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Dear Apple
Dear Apple, I have started hearing strange sounds coming from the air conditioner. It’s in the guest room which I do not use very much. But recently I could not help but hear all those strange movements. I did hear it a few times in the past but I had sorted out the problem by…
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The Rain
It’s the first day of rain today. First day of rain which continues. This is so nice after the unexpected inundation I have survived with Pebble and Cuddle. They were so wise, so quiet when the external factors seemed so physically threatening. They could see the flow of the river covering the street in front…
Melis Menent 