Author: Mark J. Chmiel

To Cancel or Not to Cancel?

[A TV reporter]  wanted to know how I came to terms with a Jew-hater like Richard Wagner.  I replied spontaneously: ‘There were, and there are, many fine people on earth, but none of them has…

One Reader May Suffice

Any author, [Marcel] Proust wrote Jaloux, should be happy to “write for a single, exquisite reader like you,” and he added a Proustian analogy comparing Jaloux’s contact with his book to pollen intended for “a…

Up to Me (and Us)

There is only one way to improve ourselves, and that is by some of us setting an example which the others may pick up and imitate till the new fashion spreads from east to west….

Forthwith!

All we can know is, what we, who compose humanity, must do, and what not, in order that the kingdom of God may come. That we all know. And every one need but begin to…

Blinded

I did not know the light and I thought there was no truth in life. But having become convinced that people could only live by this light, I began to seek its source and I…

Biographilia

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world,…

Song of the Night

Norm Finkelstein recommended this song, and now so do I! Now if you feel that you can’t go onBecause all of your hope is goneAnd your life is filled with much confusionUntil happiness is just…