Walter Benjamin, Iris & Derrida
Port Bou 
Border crossing resting place
On Truth
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. Walter Benjamin
Berlin 
Childhood
Walter Benjamin (W.B for dummies on youtube)
Three great philosophers were born on July 15.
Wlater Benjamin 15 July 1892
Iris Murdoch 15 July 1919
Jacques Derrida 15 July 1930
Derrida and Iris Murdoch
Speech is blind :On ‘Echo And Narcissus’ (Derrida on youtube)
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch
Summer Interlude, Missing Dahlia, Iris Murdoch and Jacques Derrida (previous post).
“Everything I despise about English life is in her,” Elias Canetti declares.