* de minimis non curat praetor / the praetor does not concern himself with trifles.
Ο J.R.R. Tolkien έγραψε το ίσως το διασημότερο incipit της Φανταστικής Λογοτεχνίας διορθώνοντας γραπτά φοιτητών του στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του '30. Είκοσι χρόνια αργότερα, σημειώνει σε μια επιστολή προς τον μεγάλο ποιητή και φίλο του W.H. Auden: "All I remember about the start of The Hobbit is sitting correcting School Certificate papers in the everlasting weariness of that annual task forced on impecunious academics with children. On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...
So today, a greek film, Dogtooth, has been nominated for the "Foreign Language Film" Oscar, - the relevant hype in Twitter has already broken out. If you have watched the film, it will be difficult...
A famous quotation, from a superb movie - which might in some ways relate to the universe of "digitally projected Identities of the Self" which we are experiencing. Then again, maybe it doesn't - ...