Monday 27 January 2014


Marking Holocaust Memorial Day...just to remember the shameful atrocity, just to learn and not to stain our dignity again. When I think that human mankind/manMind can fall so low and deep in the belief of his own (apparently) high sense of righteousness, sometimes even justice, I just feel sick and so fragile...liable to fall. Remembering what we did it's remembering what we are and who we want to be, as individuals and part of the "whole". I think that what John Donne, many years ago, wrote in his meditations, fits very well this matter and should...make us meditate...

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.


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