Nicholas Vella Laurenti writes:
As a former long-time student of artist and musician Chev. Mro Pawlu Grech, one teaching of his that I prize above all others is that contradiction is the fundamental principle of all art.
Pawlu Grech passed away on February 10. The timing and circumstances of this event present at least three contradictions, all coincidental but significant, nonetheless.
The first contradiction is that his death happened just 10 days shy of his 83rd birthday. The second is that it occurred in the recurrence of the national feast of his biblical namesake, whereas Pawlu, though by no means an atheist, was profoundly and viscerally averse to the idea and practice of organised religion.