Outside6/28/2020 The challenge is always how to leave the frame open to the outside world.
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Schopenhauer6/22/2020 `The first - and virtually the only - condition of a good style is having something to say.’
Native Tongue6/20/2020 In diaspora, who can afford a native language when one is always between languages, between names, my name, John Perivolaris? Christened Ιωάννης, informally Yiannis, in a Greek Orthodox church in Montreal, that city in-between, my parents decided that I become John. The cost of integrating in the Canadian and, subsequently, British melting pot of their aspirations.
Memorials in Concrete and Cement6/17/2020  Border of Greenmount West and Oliver, Baltimore, USA, 21 November 2009  Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran, Scotland, 16 June 2020
 François Jean Arago was a French scientist, Republican politician, and supporter of liberal causes, including the abolition of slavery, he also played a key role in officially recognising Louis Daguerre as an inventor of photography.
A Benjaminian expedition through Paris can be undertaken by following absent statues and monuments.  `Throughout his career, Fox was to champion causes associated with liberty - he was in favour of American independence and the French Revolution, and supported the abolition of the slave trade and Catholic emancipation - but his taste for gambling, drinking, and romantic intrigue earned him a reputation for excessive freedom, resulting in personal immorality and political recklessness.'
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