Archiv: the Knowing Few


12.03.2025 - 09:49 [ Uriah Heep Official Video / Youtube ]

Uriah Heep – The Wizard …

aken from their 1972 album ‚Demons and Wizards‘.
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He was the wizard of a thousand kings
And I chanced to meet him one night wandering
He told me tales and he drank my wine
Me and my magic man, kinda feelin‘ fine

He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire
And as he spoke, I felt a deep desire
To free the world of its fear and pain
And help the people to feel free again

Why don‘t we listen to the
Voices in our heart?
Cause then I know we‘d find
We‘re not so far apart
Everybody‘s got to be happy
Everyone should sing
For we know the joy of life
Peace and love can bring

So spoke the wizard
In his mountain home
The vision of his wisdom
Means we‘ll never be alone
And I will dream of my magic night
And the million silver stars
That guide me with their light

20.02.2025 - 19:50 [ Kyiv Independent ]

Ceasefire likely in 2025, Ukraine‘s spy chief says

Ukrainian military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov believes that Ukraine and Russia will reach a ceasefire this year, he said in an interview with Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev published on Feb. 18.

18.09.2024 - 13:30 [ Arablit.org ]

Elias Khoury on Writing

“Literature speaks in many ways. It speaks to the present, of course, and to the future, if it is good literature. But literature is also a way for the writer to make a dialogue with the dead. This is the power of literature. It is not like religion: religion gives you the feeling that you are eternal. Here, there is no eternity at all, but it opens the possibility of dialoguing with the dead.”

29.08.2024 - 22:00 [ Rolling Stone ]

Francis Ford Coppola: ‘I Have Nothing Left to Lose’

At Cannes, where it premiered in May, Megalopolis managed to be the single most divisive film of the festival; love it or hate it, Coppola’s huge swing for the philosophical fences is a truly singular work — and is exactly the movie that he wanted to make. (It’s set to hit theaters on Sept. 27.) That Coppola somehow managed in his eighties to will this long-gestating pet project into being and self-finance it against his winery for $120 million is borderline unbelievable, even given his legacy as someone willing to bet a fortune and/or a film studio to follow a dream. “I have everything to lose here,” he says, referring to this portrait of the decline, fall, and Phoenix-like rise of a civilization. “And, in a way, I have nothing left to lose anymore.”

14.07.2023 - 07:22 [ New York Times ]

The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahu’s Government Has Begun

(July 11, 2023)

Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that I’m a translator from English to English.