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Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

The Refugee Convention entered into force on 22 April 1954. In the above text, we look at the word particularly. We note that it does not mean exclusively. Even if the head of the family (which we should consider an outdated term, but can still understand) has not fulfilled the necessary conditions for admission to a particular country, the Convention ...

Meditation on love

Can we imagine a love that is without lack, hence without desire? We sit for a brief meditation on love. Erotic love, parental love, the love for truth, beauty and the good. Imagination that our love is indeed without lack, that the constellation lover - beloved has a value as it is and does not ...

De vader de man

Ik ging naar het CPNB om de kloof te zien. Ik zag de nieuwe kloof. Twee overzijden die elkaar vroeger nog konden lijden, kraaien ophef. Een minuut of tien dat ik daar lag, in 't gras, mijn jointje gerookt, mijn hoofd vol van het landschap wijd en zijd - laat mij daar midden uit de ...

Pols

Welk voordeel kunt u doen met de droge mededeling dat ik vrouwelijke polsen aantrekkelijk vind? Het viel me een paar weken geleden ineens op tijdens een lange busrit hier in Seoul. Een vrouwlijke passagier hield zich naast me vast aan de rubberen lus, zodat haar slanke pols zich vlak naast mijn gezicht bevond. Ik observeerde de slagaders, ...

What is it like to be a pig’s brain

I read about scientists who brought a pig's brain back to life for 36 hours. What is it like to be a pig without a body? If that question is answerable, it can be answered only in the language of the mind, which is produced by that pig's brain.

Reading: Discussing Death with Death Row Inmates by Liao Yiwu

Liao Yiwu (b. 1958) is a Chinese poet and critic of the Communist regime, for which he has been imprisoned after he wrote a poem about the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. I read one of his poems today, on his 60th birthday. Discussing Death with Death Row Inmates Each night of stars is a ...

Review: Capitalism by Jürgen Kocka

This is the first of some short book reviews here on creativechoice. I love reading and will share my thoughts about the books that I are think are worth my readers' while. The short book Capitalism: A Short History begins with a concise discussion of the most important figures in the history of the concept ...

How I created a novel meme

Last night, under the influence of the free blended spirits in the backpackers hostel I stay, I told a young traveler named Joey the outline of my satire novel. Joey was interested so with but few leaps and bounds I told him the entire story. He told me he liked it, but what really touched ...

Growl

Now that I am lowered into my trench language I become an invocation. I am muscles and tendons, a pressurized blood machine, slowly releasing what was stored between the apostrophes, like a captured animal. I am a cormorant of the apocalypse, a confessing nihilist. Opinions grow on me like frozen waterfalls. My rage is inculcated, ...