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    Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, June 23, 2018
    David Matthews
    • Jun 24, 2018
    • 4 min

    Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, June 23, 2018

    In Man's Fate, André Malraux's novel about an episode in the Chinese revolution, Suan, a young terrorist, remarks that the sons of torture-victims make good terrorists. Suan and his comrade Pei are sons of torture-victims. I thought of this when I read that it was only in 1999 that Israel's High Court issued a decision prohibiting torture in investigations of Palestinian detainees suspected of involvement in terrorism. Many thousands of Palestinians were tortured over the two
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    Rodin at Portland Art Museum
    David Matthews
    • Jan 27, 2017
    • 2 min

    Rodin at Portland Art Museum

    Rodin: The Human Experience Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections Jan 21 – Apr 16, 2017 I caught the Rodin exhibit somewhat by chance on the day of its opening, unaware of it until I passed by the museum after a journal, poetry, and espresso session at Park Avenue Cafe early Sunday afternoon. To my pleasant surprise the museum galleries were less crowded than I anticipated. Perhaps citizens of our fair city had other things than art on their agendas with t
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