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Josef Koudelka Spain, 1971
Przechodze przez fascynacje zdjeciami Koudelki.
I'm getting through fascination by Koudelka's photographs.
'ON EXILE' Czeslaw Milosz
While writing this essay I had before my eyes Josef Koudelka's photographs. Let my words serve as a tribute to his art of telling stories without words.
[...] Rhythm is at the core of human life. It is, first of all, the rhythm of the organism, ruled by the heartbeat and circulation of blood. As we live in a pulsating, vibrating world, we respond to it and in turn are bound to its rhythm. Without giving much thought to our dependence on the systoles and distoles of flowing time we move through sunrises and sunsets, through the sequences of four seasons. Repetition enables us to form habits and to accept the world as familiar Perhaps the need of a routine is deeply rooted in the very structure of our bodies.
In a city or a village which we have known well since our childhood we move in a tamed space, our occupations finding everywhere expected landmarks that favor routine. Transplanted into alien surroundings we are oppressed by the anxiety of indefiniteness, by insecurity There are too many new shapes and they remain fluid, because the principle of their order through routine cannot be discovered. What I am saying is perhaps just a generalization of my own experience but I hope to be understood as that experience has been shared by many especially in this century [...]
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Zaczynaja sie tygodnie egzaminow koncowych. Niedlugo chinski, potem sztuka I ekonomia. No I prawie szescio tygodniowe wakacje.
W jednej z ksiazek ekonomicznych znalazlam fragment o racjonalizmie (teoria gry) – klasyfikowanie kogos jako nieracjonalnego zamyka umysl. Lepszym wyjsciem wydaje sie pracowac ciezej aby zobaczyc swiat w sposob, w jaki druga osoba go widzi. Taka prosta I banalna teoria a tak trudna do wprowadzenia w zycie.
Ogladam Telexpress I Wiadomosci szukajac nowych sprawozdan z sytuacji na Ukrainie. Jakby nie patrzec to pierwsze w tym wieku takie wydarzenie w Europie, kiedy panstwu grozi separatyzm. Drze na mysl o wojnach I rozlewach krwi.
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And the weeks of the final exams began. Soon Chinese, later art and economics; and the beginning of almost 6 week long vacation.
Notes taken from one of the economics books, on rationalism (game theory): dismissing someone as irrational closes the mind, better to work harder at seeing the world as the other person sees it.
Such a simple and banal statement but so hard to be used in practice.
I’m searching the news for reports about the situation in Ukraine. After all this is the first event of this kind in Europe in this century, when separatism is highly probable. I tremble while thinking about wars and bloodsheds.
