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dry bones of a dead are rattling as they never rattled before.

After repeating the same conversation on one identical theme for so many years, two people still do not come to grips with their differences.

Although we can see the skeletal framework, we can’t understand the warm structure of the flesh and blood. If the spirit of politics is not alive within us, no conceptual analysis serves its function, no matter how elaborate it is.

They have been called…

The portrait of a city… is in a way like the portrait of a person, the difficulty is to catch not only the superficial resemblance but the inner self. The spirit, that’s what counts, and one should strive to portray the soul of the city with the same care as the soul of sitter.

Thus, the nature of the identity conflict often depends on the latent panic or, indeed, the intrinsic promise pervading a historical period. some periods in history become identity vacua caused by three basic forms of human apprehension: fears aroused by new facts, such as discoveries and inventions (including weapons), which radically expand and change the whole world image; anxieties aroused by symbolic dangers vaguely perceived as a consequence of the decay of existing ideologies; and in the wake of disintegrating faith, the dread of an existential abyss devoid of spiritual meaning.

Life magazine

Special section; The view from the MOON

In color: Pictures from Apollo VIII

January 20. 1969

Man at the Moon (p.10, 11)

It was mankind’s farthest in the history of explo-ration. Almost a quater-million miles from the planet earth, Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Wil-liam Andens took this photograph of the cratered surface of the moon and the glowing half-orb of earth hanging in the void of space 240,000 miles away, as they came over the horizon in their first orbit of the moon.The sun-set terminator, separating day and the shadow, surface is about 100 miles across and 480 miles to the horizon.

Woe unto the world because of offences!

for it must needs be that offeness come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!