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Where are the flowers? (a tale in five paragraphs)

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority… Children are now tyrants… They contradict their parents… and tyrannize their teachers.” Socrates (469–399 B.C.) Some elders say they don’t recognize this world; …

Nighthawks (random thoughts while reading the news)

A recent investigation has proven high IQ causes staying up late at night. Ok, that’s probably not the most accurate summary for such a costly research, but since today is Friday, I’m not going to get into technical slang. The juicy matter…

Levant (nowadays no more summer breaks)

Summer breaks, those unending periods of time in my childhood days, three long months of sun and waves during which alarm clocks, teachers and rain boots were a vague memory, almost non-existent. That natural border between the fourth and …

Time travel rocks!

If I had the opportunity to travel to the past, just one trip would not be enough to satisfy my ambitions. There are so many D dates to witness, so many lost cities and so many cool people to meet, that I don’t even know where to start. Bu…