Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
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Michel ODIKA
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Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
Michel ODIKA
Before anything, TV is a medium which permits millions of people to witness
the same events at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Thanks to TV,
however, people can also...
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Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
Michel ODIKA
Before anything, TV is a medium which permits millions of people to witness
the same events at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Thanks to TV,
however, people can also view history being made before it is censored.
Consequently, it should also be noted that the idea to pay tribute to Thomas
ELIOT first came to me a few years ago, while staying in some motel in France.
Convinced that every lonely face tells a story, I was watching the news, starving
children, legs too thin and weak to support extremely emaciated bodies roughly, an horrific irony and abhorrent paradox that we have the most
performing technology to witness human tragedy and seem unable to prevent it.
Whether we will or not: Staying quiet is as political an act as speaking out
(Arundhati ROY).
What else about Thomas ELIOT, to whose fascinating work I am strongly
drawn as a literature lover? Well, his poetic legacy, a quite fitting tool for
analyzing things prior to putting them into perspective.
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Either that or else his
dramatic work.
Thanks to Thomas ELIOT s uncompromising engagement, I
shall always be aware of a motivational fact: apart from being a critic mass of
capacity for positive change, literature cuts across contexts, conditions and
centuries.
By that alone, what we call literature, as distinguished from
journalism, stands as "news that stay news".
Far better than any other form of
expression, it is helpful in developing a powerful sense of preparedness for what
lies ahead.
By capitalizing on this momentum, ELIOT s poetry remains a tribute
to modernity - modernity being a qualitative category, not a chronological one -,
in the sense that modernity is not only a controlling and harmonizing force but
equally a creative and innovative force.
In my view, the core idea that shapes Thomas ELIOT s writing predominantly
consists of essential affirmations perpetually called in crucial questions.
At some
point, anguish and hope reach out their hands, so that the poet conjures up
pictures standing out from an instructive background like a realistic call and
warning.
When reading Thomas ELIOT s books, the readers are strongly asked
not to despair, not even over the fact that they do not despair.
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However, in a
world where there is no method but to be intelligent, they are equally requested
to be more consequential than judgemental.
According to ELIOT s calls and
warnings, there is no hope unmingled with anguish, in the same sense in which
there is no anguish unmingled with hope.
From a certain point onward,
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