photo by Bob Parker ©2008 Quote by Harold Pinter from “The Art of Theater III” as quoted in The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsey, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, The Art of Writing, and Everything else in the World since 1953. New York: Picador, 2003 (page […]

Photo by Bob Parker ©2008 Quote from “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London: 1955 Here is something to suggest that social, psychological, historical, and political processes are universal; time and place are essentially irrelevant except as how specific scenarios manifest at any given moment in history. […]

© Bob Parker 2008 (Quote on propaganda is adapted from The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955, edited by Edward Mendelson, pub. Princeton University Press 1/08 as quoted in Harpers Magazine, December 2007 p. 21). (Bottom photo: Veterans for Peace Arlington Northwest memorial cemetery, Renton WA 2005 . The American death […]

While visiting New York City last fall, I noticed a foreboding edifice being constructed across the street from the United Nations. © 2008 Bob Parker This high-rise bunker, which lacks any discernible windows in its hulking mass, will house the U.S. Mission to the UN. Its design reflects a disturbing duality: the inability of occupants […]