Therefore, it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer. This I say devoid of all drama.
This is not my farewell to you. My only wish is to fight as a soldier in the battle of ideas. I shall continue to write under the heading of ‘Reflections by comrade Fidel.’ It will be just another weapon you can count on. Perhaps my voice will be heard. I shall be careful.
Thanks.
Fidel Castro Ruz
February 18, 2008
5:30 p.m.
Message in full
Imagine: Lessons linking mathematics & social justice!
Math That Matters
Nice to see an education plan that’s actually relevant to something beside indoctrinating factory workers
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
11 November 1922 - 11 April 2007
In any case, there’s bound to be much crying.
But the oubliette alone will let you think while dying.
“The Sixth Book” in The Books of Bokonon
April 9th
We were dancing a macabre dance as our nerves just vibrated to the thousands of shells and machine gun bullets… whizzing over.
I felt that if I had put my finger up, I should have touched a ceiling of sound.
Corporal Gus Sivertz of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles,
on the experience of advancing under heavy machine gun fire from the rear.
Vimy Ridge, 9 Apr 1917.
Official war photo of Vimy Ridge 1917
Photographer: Jack Turner
Source: Digital Collections website operated by the Government of Canada
