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"In 2021, Zaun and Wetzel made headlines for supporting the U.S. citizenship application of Layth Muneer, the former Iraqi soldier who had captured them but treated them with unexpected humanity during their initial capture."

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'War without a face', an article from 1991 about the Gulf war, still painfully relevant 35 years later.
https://t.co/E68wUiOFuR

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Did a search on the POW mentioned in the article, and found out this about Jeffrey Zaun:

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Upstream - an essay about a childlike element in philosophy: https://t.co/7gkYP2qgPg

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The original text is added as a word doc at the end of the translation, in case anyone would like to read it in Dutch or attempt a translation themselves.

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On what would have been his 97th birthday, a translation of his essay 'The sound of truth' (Het geluid van de waarheid). https://t.co/t2h0Nr3ErH

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What is called faith is a dormant involvement in the question that has once grown. But that question is inherently a wound and it is painful to ask it again. Historically grown religion takes place around the healed wound of a question that is no longer asked."

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"Historically grown religion takes place around the healed wound of a question that is no longer asked."
Surrounding the void, 1965

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in the background and even speak loudly phraseologically, without an authentic belief in a God being required. The white flame of a real belief in a god outside the question, against history, is hardly found here, because it is extinguished by the environment itself.

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“The strictest criterion of truth: what you cannot imagine is ripe for happening. Reality only arises at a certain degree of impossibility.”
(from 'The Detour', 1998)

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"Het strengste criterium van waarheid: wat je niet kunt verzinnen is rijp om te gebeuren. Werkelijkheid ontstaat pas bij een bepaalde graad van onmogelijkheid."
(uit 'De Omweg', 1998)

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Possibly all of this verbal activity is just an overconfident and fascinating but destined to fail episode between an original silence and the quiet that comes after a storm of words, which might barely recollect any of it.
https://t.co/79w0aV3f4R

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De heruitgave van ‘Tractaat over het spieken’ is binnen en zal een mooie plek krijgen in de rij van het oeuvre op het bureau. Dank aan @joopberding voor de aandachtige bezorging. Het boek is te bestellen via https://t.co/Dp3hwAtpOc

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