[....] While the cinema on the one hand increases the understanding of the needs that govern our existence, the other fails to give us a margin freedom of huge and unexpected. Our taverns and streets of our metropolis, offices and furnished rooms, stations and factories seem to close irrimmediabilmente. Then came the film and with the tenths of dynamite blew up the world like a prison, so we are now able to undertake adventure travel safely among his scattered ruins. With the first floor opens up space, with the recovery in slow motion expands. And as the magnification is not only clarification of what we see so [...] still does not show only the slow movement of the reasons already known, but it turns out completely unknown, "which are not at all the effect of a slowdown more rapid movements, but that of actual movements gliding, gliding, supernatural. " It is understood that talks about as well as the nature of the camera is different from the one that speaks to eye. Especially different in that instead of an area developed by the human conscience intervenes a space elaborated unconsciously.
Hello everyone how are you? I am really in charge these days, Christmas is at the door and the school is almost over, tomorrow is the last day hallelujah is what I would say, these first three months were not at all tiring but I really do not succeed I was more than machine, remove the times! You will spend this holiday season as 2010? I will celebrate the Christmas of my uncles as every year, I already know I'll enjoy like crazy, the day after leaving for Montefano therefore probably not be there, but I will do everything possible to make a Christmas and Happy New Year ^ ^ you all know yesterday I finally managed to send the gift via mail to my best friend Catania: Daniela. I hope she likes the gift>. \u0026lt;A present for me has already arrived but will drop only at Christmas! Now I leave you hope to hearing from you soon kisses kisses! Ah, I leave you a song that I personally really like is "What?" the song from the film by Tim Burton The Nightmare Before Christmas "
Hello how are you? I'm fine and I have to say that today I feel very Christmas, why? Why does it snow right now in Rome, but not a little, a lot, a lot! This is the second consecutive time that it snows in Rome are very happy! It 'really beautiful, so make peace and harmony *-* I just hope it lasts until this afternoon so I can go out with the snow comes down on me!
Oh yes I love the snow, perhaps because Rome did not fall almost never. Who knows ... Now I greet you, we feel bye bye!
not find that the smile is a wonderful thing? People smile when they are all beautiful. And then a smile is worth a thousand words ... then what's more beautiful than a smile as thanks, to say thank you but they are all able to smile in a sincere way to express their happiness is not for everyone. I also believe that we can fall in love with a smile. Fall in love with a smile so beautiful and sincere which you can not have joy in it that you think is possible? According to me, because a person as well as beautiful, nice and all I want to be honest ... And laughed some people see this very sincerely! I greet you, see you soon ^ ^ Francy
Tomorrow evening at the British Institute of Florence a Christmas event dedicated to Dylan Thomas.
beds will be divided during the evening of poetry and prose pieces in the original language, the highlight of the evening will be reading part of the famous radio "A Child's Christmas in Wales" an intense monologue full of nostalgia for Christmas of his childhood, and for his native Wales.
The lecture will begin at 18: 00 in the Harold Acton Library of the British Institute of Florence, Piazza Strozzi, 2.
An event suggestive wait for Christmas, for fans and readers of Dylan Thomas.
For those who can not attend or who in the meantime you would enjoy reading this piece, the original text and is integral to this link .
Good evening, everyone! How are you? I'm elated at this time > _ \u0026lt;"You have already thought about what you do for Christmas?" I have no ideas, but I would say are far too expensive .___. then I do not know ... In the lead to buy the PSP just to play a game (that game bad words ... Oh my God I redid .-.) but in the end I thought better and maybe I'll give anything a loooong less expensive. But you know how it went to finish the job famous? Well we have damage from € 15,000 package but ... I say that already the school is falling apart and you help to make it fall mah I really have no words (only profanity .-.) Now there I really feels good! Ah a conisiglio What could I give to my mother, who is cheap and useful? I share thanks in advance> _ \u0026lt;
"... With your sharingan did not see anything about the real Itachi. You have not revealed any of his illusions. Itachi killed the his friends, he killed his superiors, he killed his beloved, he killed his father, killed his mother, but was unable to kill his brother. The man who shed tears of blood and choking every feeling wiped out their relatives for the good of the village just did not make it to kill you. You know what I mean? That's for him, your life was worth more than the village. I protected until the last second of his life, giving you even tried a new power to protect you even after his death. By doing so you kill him you had become the hero of the leaf which avenged the Uchiha clan. Consumed by an illness he felt that his death was near, but for his beloved brother survived filling of drugs to fight with you and die before you. To maintain peace in the Leaf Village and Sasuke has chosen especially for you to die and make it as a criminal and a traitor. He received the stigma in exchange for honor and hatred of affection in return but despite everything Itachi died happy. Happy to have you entrusted the name of Uchiha bringing the truth to the grave with him. "
There I promised my video and now I'll watch it and tell me linker I recommend if you like ( is an obligation you have to look) Clearly joke (or maybe not!) , no joke seriously speaking, you have to see if you go and you have nothing to do for 4 minute or two, here the link (this is my first video with Vegas Pro 9 is not to be released beautiful ^ ^ ") Fighting Dreamers (Go!) - Flow [Naruto AMW] I hope you like it kisses from Francy!
Hello how are you? I am just fit in these days . Yesterday I went to the comics I bought 5 other numbers of naruto and I bought some Christmas presents. Then with my friend we went to eat Japanese for the second time. The first time I took some sushi that I have to say I do not entisiasmato has taken a lot since I accidentally sushi with tuna and tuna do not like me xD, then I got an onigiri (you know those kind of triangles of rice that can be seen very often in anime? are well ^ ^) was really good, then I took the tenpura (= fried) calamari was all very good (hey I did not eat it all by myself, just three xD), but yesterday I decided to take the inside tenpura onigiri with shrimp (it was delicious *-*) then we had the fried chicken (also good) and finally we got some sweet my friend has got the green tea ice cream, which I did also try to me and we found it delicious, but I I got the fried banana was delicious too xD! In short, we ate well and we had fun loooong. We are always and thanks to all! Ah I'm probably working on a new video today on youtube and I'll put it here on the blog linker also in case of a few wanted to see it ^ ^ ^ ^ Baci Francy
tuttiiiii Good Evening, Today is very sparkling because it xD I went to school I stayed longer = = I'm fine ^ ^ Then I believe that today is my lucky day because after months I finally managed to download Sony Vegas pro 9 cracked yeeee! Then as today I had nothing to do I tried to enroll in the Japanese site Nico Nico Douga, and I did (the first time I did not) consider that it was written all in Japanese and I did not understand a Ceppa ^ ^ "So now I can hear the songs done by singers of this site, trust that really have a beautiful voice, there are two guys in particular that I like and are Sekihan and Piko, two of them is able to interpret songs sung by kids who sung by girls are monstrous (in a good way =) so this was a good day I can confirm, also Saturday I go to many manga comics I really buy that is just puff *-* a good week! Now I leave you with the interpretation made by Magnet Sekihan Piko and trust and they are always singing (the drawing of the boy with white hair instead Piko is the design of the guy with the hair Sekihan is red, in a nutshell what is right Piko xD) leave me your impressions please! kisses Francy!
Hello! How are you? I'm so much better than the past days, I resumed the desire to imagine and dream evvivaaaa! xD Today I went to school there was a casino (= forgive the word "casino" for me is very vulgar, but it makes it a good idea) I went to look for my classmates, I found them and asked "What the hell is going on here?" and they said so exaggeratedly calm (I was going to sclera bad): "Well we are occupying the school!" This is my first year in high school and I did not understand what this job ... Already yesterday, some of our school children do not have to pat not let us in, saying that if we entered we were filled with barrels, I called mom I told her what had success and she said I had to go home ... But today I find the school workers. Will be occupied for a week, tomorrow I'm going to school just for being together! The fact is that if nobody tells me what? "Occupy" a building and therefore resolve what I am going to school just to ... I'm not understanding anything! Baci Francy!
We believe that this post contains a high content of foolishness and stupidity I have told you, if you get traumatized YOUR fault and NOT mine! Then some information about events that happened yesterday that made me sooo sad now I have to vent! I say are so stupid for believing it really work? I'm just a girl of 14 who does not know what he wants, what has happened proves ... They are also stumped as well because I took a vow "wonderful" in Latin, I think I'll find myself a beautiful "8" report card xD And then the people who disappear, who is kidnapped but I do not know, in that crap A world we live, we are also in short period of Christmas, you should not be "good"? Ok I'm done, sorry for this meaningless post ... you are free to leave comments NOT, in fact do not do it ... Sorry still kisses from your crazy Indil (= my name is in Elvish means lily *-*)
Hello how are you? Sorry for my absence, but you know not, the tasks and everything else -.- "Today I wanted to talk about my absolute favorite manga Natsuki Takaya. Natsuki Takaya The name is a pseudonym, in fact we do not know its true name. The Takaya was born in Shizuoka in Japan in 1973 (if I did the calculation right should be 37 years old) is the sign of Cancori and her blood type is A. Natsuki Takaya has become famous thanks to the Fruits Basket manga published from 1998 to 2006, consists of 23 volumes in this manga and you notice the big change in style of manga, in fact if we compare the first numbers with the last you will see a big change, the designs have changed for the better. In Italy the Takaya came the following manga: "Dream and Illusion," "Fruits Basket" and most recently "The song of the stars" that is coming out in Italy last year, although now it is taking a break ( not is giustooo). I would greatly appreciate Qusta designer for both the stories and sometimes very original with references to magic and the supernatural is the style of sìdisegni, very clean but mostly so he can use the excellent textures *-* Kisses Francy! ^ ^
Hello everyone how are you? I'm still a bit 'down but does nothing, how are you? But I wanted to say you do not find those candy colored so cute, adorable and good> _ \u0026lt;What are we talking about? But of course, licking - licking, so colorful and fresh strength to bring the good spirits throughout the day, there are all the flavors: watermelon, lemon, strawberry, cola etc ... I remember once a German friend of Mom brought me a licking - licking huge I remember it took me three days to finish it: it was really big, then it was all colored by the most beautiful colors and bright! My favorite flavor is watermelon (it is very delicate taste and reminds me of the summer *-*) which is your favorite? In addition, you also think that lollipo put in a good mood? Now I greet you, kisses Francy
If I were to describe my life in one word: monotone. I get up, get ready and go to school to school I am interested in lessons, sometimes I get good grades and marks less attractive ... I get home, I eat, I get the dog, I do my homework after they finished I put a bit 'on the internet, or read, or I'm on the phone, so my afternoon passed, there's my parents talk of the day today, is eat, you are still a bit 'to the pc and then you go to sleep again the next day ... Of course many times I go out with my friends dearest to me: I go to comic books, movies, or simply go ing iro no destination, in short, just to be together. Of course I would say that is rather monotonous my life, as (I think) the lives of most people, I sometimes wish a shock to my life, but then I reflect and think at the end: "But I'm so happy!" A family that loves me, but few real friends, a pretty good school performance, many freedoms and duties ... I really have nothing to ask for everything I have ... But despite all the times I feel sad. Perhaps the melancholy of autumn? Who knows ... I greet you Francy
Hello everyone, first I wanted to apologize, because maybe I can not inclined to follow the blog because of the checks and several questions .-. So forgive me ^ ^! "I feel unbeatable at this time and happy, without absolutely knowing why ^ ^". During this time I'm seeing three souls: Togainu No Chi, Lucky Star and Bakuman! Today I'll just Bakuman.
The series is relatively new, it began to emerge in Japan in 2008 on the popular Shonen Jump magazine and it was enough to hear those two names to understand that this would work great: Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, creators of 'souls of the century (for me) and that is: Death Note, in fact in the history of Bakuman there are also many references to the manga written precidente first! Also coming out of the anime, subtitled in Italian for now got to the seventh episode in Japan are the tenth episode. For now, the story is about two boys Mashiro and Takagi (I call them governable affectionate and Shi Shi Shu Shu xD) Mashiro is in love with a girl named Azuki (I find it adorable). Mashiro is very good at drawing, because as a child he loved the manga Whereas Uncle mangaka, so Takagi convinces him to do a manga with him, Mashiro is convinced and makes a promise to Azuki, when she will become a voice actress and from the manga created by the two of them will create an anime, Mashiro and Azuki marry. But the way to become mngaka is not easy ... Besides the manga are gamblers (= understand this statement if you see the anime). For now, I really like, fun and easy to understand! Now I put my initials and the link where you can find the episodes and extras in some images! ^ ^ Kisses your crazy friend Francy chan!
Good evening to all. How are you? I am still happy at the thought Saturday eh eh! Today I'll put a song that I personally love it, I know just the JAL is the first opening of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. Yui sings it and the title is Again, the official video did not find, sorry! Put in place a video with the words already written and then not put the text, but still insert the translation into Italian! I hope I like it, I love it *-* translation is not mine was taken from this site: YUI - forumcommunity the translator is SAIKO !
TRANSLATION:
I said to myself that I had to pursue my dreams even if someone has interfered in this street full of people Not that I want to go back in past I'm just looking at the sky I lost hope you understand
not show her face sad as if sacrifice something The tears do not stop the pain We carry within us Among this myriad I'm waiting to hear who? I wrote on a blank sheet of paper "I want to be more honest " From what I'm running from? E 'this what is called" reality "? " For what I'm experiencing? " In the middle of the night my memories do not disappear There is even a place to go to take refuge because I always attacked first Life is too long to clear these feelings? Why can not I accept this pain and left behind? I excuse me. Ah, I'm sorry I can not say as I am concerned because Everything I changed that day anything that'll change tomorrow not put them in order I hope you understand. I close my eyes but I could see things that can not be seen I want to make sure you do not hear more rumors (rumors) unnecessary not lie more as Friend my heart is shaking from deep yearning feeling runs through my body Currently I'm waiting. The reality that is. "For what I'm experiencing?" I want to scream aloud. Can you hear me? there is not even a place to go to take refuge because I always attacked first We are grateful for all your kindness why I want to become stronger (I'm on the way) will welcome friends and enemies How do I open the next door? I'm thinking a story from which one can not escape began open your eyes, open your eyes Life is too short to erase all these feelings? want to start all over again in this way will complete all things I left unfinished start again "For what I'm experiencing?" I want to scream aloud. Can you hear me? there is not even a place to go to take refuge because I always attacked first We are grateful for all your kindness and that is why I want to become stronger. Why not take this pain and I left behind?
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (October 27, 1914 - November 9, 1953)
"You and I must, in early July, to go along with Hollywood . We can take a ship from London, direct but slow, San Francisco, and then fly to Los Angeles in an hour or so more. Out of Hollywood, in a big comfortable house in the hills, we will spend a month with Stravinsky . We have just seen in Boston and we decided to work and - for me - so simple that I can write the book in time that we remain there. It is not simple optimism: the I can do and will be done. In advance, give me £ 500 and tickets, first class, and then another 500 pounds - and then the copyright to the death. "
So wrote Dylan Thomas's wife Caitlin in May 1953 , and death that, at a time of renewed confidence, he felt so far away, actually it was around the corner waiting for him. This was one of the many letters in which Thomas sought to reassure his wife, especially when he was abroad, as American tour in the last years of his life, let alone in Wales to deal with debts and raising children. loved Caitlin Thomas, loved her dearly, but a love child and irresponsible, a betrayal of the other needed to remind you, perhaps to remind himself, his feelings for her, telling her to flush and his designs for the sign and made promises of new, huge profits, promises that he believed he alone now. Caitlin knew that the proceeds of U.S. readings and any other statutory or publication would never have had time to get to her; alcohol dominated the life of Thomas now more than any love or ambition.
The proposal to which the poet mentioned in the letter, however, seemed an opportunity not to be missed Dylan Thomas and Igor Stravinsky had gathered, for what that will be their first and only meeting, the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston , where the composer was staying, May 22, 1953. "As soon as I saw him," recalls Stravinsky in his Conversations, "I realized that the only thing possible was to love him. He was nervous, however, smoking a cigarette after another, and complained of pain caused by gout ... The color and swelling of his face and his skin revealed the abuse of alcohol. " Together they talked about writing a work on "a new creation of the world", in which one man and one woman were the only survivors or arrived from outer space on an Earth devastated and began a new course, starting from the creation of a new language, which was perhaps the most tickling the fancy of Thomas. In
June 1953 he returned to Laugharne, Wales, Thomas writes a letter enthusiastically by the composer says he has many ideas for the libretto of the opera - "good, bad or chaotic" - that does not send can write just fine (he had broken his arm before leaving New York), and refers to the autumn visit to California. Stravinsky was in Hollywood, where he waited for a long telegram announcing the arrival of Thomas: only one will receive the November 9, announcing the death of the great poet. "All I could do was cry," recalls Stravinsky. "It was a blow terrible for me as for all those who knew the genius of Dylan Thomas. " He decided in the coming months to compose a work still in memory of the poet, and did it using the text of the poem more than any other lent itself to There, the touching "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." The work, written for string quartet, four trombones and tenor, and entitled In memoriam Dylan Thomas , was completed in the spring of 1954 and performed for the first time in Los Angeles on September 20, 1954 . Aldous Huxley gave a commemorative speech. Today, the anniversary of the death of Thomas, propose again listening to this work.
E 'of a few hours ago that the legendary Chelsea Hotel of New York has been put up for sale: the owner is no longer able to support expenses and restructuring of that great, dilapidated building that towered up to the 800 Manhattan in the last century had become a luxury hotel frequented by writers, painters and musicians. In so many of us have passed since Mark Twain to Thomas Wolfe, by Arthur Miller to Jack Kerouac, and beside them giants of music like Bob Dylan , Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith , Janis Joplin , or the likes of Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol , here turned even a film, called "Chelsea Girls". Lowest common denominator among all these artists who gravitated around the Chelsea Hotel was not only their love for art, or celebrity. Almost all poor and deeply conformist and revolutionary, one of the studios with kitchenettes that the hotel offered at discount prices made their temporary home. And a hotel room for some of Chelsea it was the last home of a lifetime of wandering and gimmicks. And 'This was the fate of Dylan Thomas, from his room at the Chelsea was transported to St. Vincent, where he died on November 9, 1953 .
Thomas had stayed in the famous hotel with his wife Caitlin already during the second lecture tour in the United States, and he immediately set in Greenwich Village bar full of old friends in London and moved to New York. It 'possible that the whole area where there was the Chelsea reminded him of certain areas of Swansea: the trees, the houses that lined the streets, the ships anchored in the Hudson River, and most of all his favorite pub, the White Horse Tavern, one of the oldest in New York, with the atmosphere by English pub that Dylan was more familiar than anything else. Could be no money in pocket (something very common, among other things), away from his family, without a roof to sleep or a verse to be written, but wherever he was, the first thing he did was make sure that there was a nearby bar, and start attending regularly.
At Chelsea Thomas also set October 19, 1953, when he arrived in the United States for his fourth and last tour. His readings were crowded, their behavior often over the top were viewed with sympathy and admiration from the audience. And then, his voice now as an angel, now a madman, now drunk by now unmistakably Welsh accent, conquered anyone. His favorite bar was still the White Horse Tavern, which he affectionately called "The Horse", which today is a room dedicated to the memory of the poet. Here he drank his last two glasses, which were not those of the famous whiskey 18 claim, now considered unreliable, and yet become a legend, but two pints of beer at lunchtime the next day, before collapsing in the final his room at the Chelsea Hotel, in company with American lover Liz Reitell , the only real source of information on those last, frantic hours still under discussion, and her doctor, the doctor Feltenstein, which is been given responsibility an injection of morphine would have been the real cause of death of Thomas. What is certain is that Thomas never returned to live in Wales either reunited with his beloved wife and children, but died in the company of the one thing that never gave up, alcohol, making a dish that, beyond any medical report and any testimony about his last hours, maybe it was already inscribed by the principle in its short, turbulent existence.
L ' America, instead of putting an end to debt and increase the chance of Thomas and his family had in fact exacerbated the health problems of the poet, his fraying marriage and marked the tragic end of his life and his career. From America came the really significant gains popularity and that she had never achieved even in Britain, but too late because if he might enjoy. In America, Thomas had recorded for Caedmon Records debut readings of some of his poems, and these discs, integrated with other material of the BBC and other public readings, they went like hot cakes; here had ended and represented the first time Under Milk Wood, which twenty-five thousand copies sold in Britain in the six months following the death of the author; Collected Poems became a best-seller.
* The title of the article is the line from a famous and beautiful song by Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel # 2
Adapted from Wikipedia.it: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_esclarrogativo
Point esclarrogativo‽ is a rare typeface, it represents, graphically, the union of two different symbols, and the question mark the exclamation mark, written in one another and with the common point. How easy it is to understand the etymology of the word "esclarrogativo" is to be found in the words "bang" and "question", which is a reasonable and understandable summary. In reading, the presence of a esclarrogativo be interpreted as a pause in the length of a fixed point, plus the intonations typical of the application and surprise. History and use point esclarrogativo [edit]
Point esclarrogativo was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter, the head of advertising firm that hoped to attract more people's attention with a new punctuation mark. After having proposed to use a magazine, he received several suggestions for the name of the new symbol: the Interrobang was preferred, a union of the Latin word QUESTIONED (ie demand) and English bang (that exclamation point), which was then translated into Italian as esclarrogativo point. Before his invention, instead of this punctuation mark (‽) were used together, the two symbols that make up today (in combinations?! And!?) To give the same idea surprise, surprise or disbelief, sometimes even if they were using more than one pair sequence in order to emphasize the ideas that each of them informed. Despite the fact that it was also invented the Unicode character (whose code is U +203 D), the point esclarrogativo is used very rarely you prefer the previous scriptures, that require no complex characters or codes. They may, however, have ambiguous meaning that the character of Speckter would not, for example, the phrase What the 5!? could be interpreted as a surprise on demand or as a simple question 5 on 5! (Lit. five factorial) with the use point esclarrogativo, however, there would be no misunderstandings. Point esclarrogativo English [edit]
In English it is customary to precede the exclamations and questions from upside down exclamation points and question marks: two examples are ¡Qué bonito día! (What a beautiful day!) And ¿Qué hora es? (What time is it?). But there is no point esclarrogativo form upside down, so the trick is working to put the upside down exclamation point at the beginning and the question straight to the end of the sentence or vice versa, as shown by the examples below: ¡Quién you this has creído eres? = ¿Quién you has creído que eres! = Who do you think you‽ The first form emphasizes the idea of \u200b\u200bdemand, while the second to cry.
Of all the animals that live between the pages of books disicio the worm is the most harmful. None of his colleagues in the matches. Maiofaga even the bug, which eats its case or the farfalo, a small wasp that eats the double with a preference for 'em "and" year old ", and is fond of words like" nothing "and" breast ". Rather annoying is the termite punctuation, or termite Dublin, gnawing semicolons causes torrential famous period, cross and delight of the proto and the critic. univerbo Very rare is the spider, so called because it feeds only the verb "propellers." This spider is now only in old texts of law, because that word is in use and expired a few examples that reappear are decimated by the spider. I will also mention two biblioanimali quite common: the subjunctive and the flea fly apocope. The first eat all the people of the subjunctive, with preference for the first plural. Some newspaper articles that seem ungrammatical are being ravaged by the flea of \u200b\u200bthe subjunctive (or so say the press). The apocope sucks "and" final verbs (amar, swimming, walking). In the nineteenth century there were millions of copies, now the species is very small. But as we said at the beginning of all biblioanimali the worm or worm disicio barter is certainly the most damaging. He strikes mostly towards the end of the story. It takes a word and carries in place of another, and put it instead of just. Shifts are minimal, sometimes you just move the first three words or worm, but the result is logical. The story loses all its devastating and malignant only after a survey can be reconstructed as it was before the worm dell'augurio disicio. So the worm acts as if by instinct or nature of his accurate we can not hate literature. We know you only action: Do not you ever ever come across a page where you passed the four disicio.
(Adapted from: Stefano Benni, "The bar sotto il mare", 1988)
We spoke today to a jury, you can see the doubt in their eyes, our words are trained to the angry, there was nothing left to change their minds. We remember when you were my accomplice, now we forget why we started this. I don't want to go in the fire, I just want to stay in my home, I don't want to hear all the liars, I just want to be with my own, I don't want to go in the fire, I just want to stay in my home. We took today what we buried, you just hope to pass, that's why you hide it, I held your weight, now it holds me, a cowards way to be in violet. You will protest what you ask your blessing, till you accept them into your nest. I don't want to go in the fire, I just want to stay in my home, I don't want to hear all the liars, I just want to be with my own, I don't want to go in the fire, I just want to stay in my home. We call them in, we call them out, we call them in, we call them out. We're coming, we're coming home, we're coming, we're coming home.
If there’s one thing that I’ve noticed out of all the things I’ve seen, it’s that you can leave a footprint in a place you’ve never been and there’s barely time to look around before you have to leave, and a mark upon the skin is not enough to make you bleed. If there’s one thing that I’m keeping out of all the things I’ve found, it’s that the best way to be heard sometimes is not to make a sound, and the things we want the most fetch not a penny nor a pound, and all it takes to find your feet is just to stand your ground. If there’s one thing that I’m sure of out of all the things I know, it’s that you can keep on going fast, I’ll still be going slow, and falling’s not that hard when you’re starting out so low, and drowning’s not that bad if you breathe and just let go, breathe and just let go. The wasted and used the things, the things broken and abused, All These small things, the treasured and the sacred things, the lost and the forsaken things, All These small things.
The Lord, the angel of death, the butcher, the bull, water, fire, stick, dog, cat, mouse.
Highdown Fair, Angelo Branduardi, 1976 At the fair the East for two cents a mouse My father bought it. It was the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. It was the dog that bit the cat that ate the mouse which my father bought to the market. It was the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. It was the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. It was water that extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. It was the bull who drank the water that extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. It was the butcher who killed the bull that drank the water that extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought to the market. And the angel of death on the butcher who killed the bull that drank the water that extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought in the market. And finally the Lord's death on sull'angelo butcher who killed the bull that drank the water that extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the rat that my father bought to the market.
Taken from the site "Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, http://www.feltrinellieditore.it/SchedaLibro?id_volume=5001423
" Human history is the story of their misunderstandings with God, neither he understands us, nor we understand him. "Saramago The Old Testament, where Cain, the biblical personification of evil, is a man neither better nor worse than others in the presence of an evil god , unjust and envious, that really knows what he wants and especially does not like men. Twenty years after
Gospel According to Jesus Christ , José Saramago returns to explicitly deal with religion a test for impeccable style and narrative irony. If in the past, the Portuguese Nobel prize had given us his version of the New Testament, now engages with the Old. To do so, choose a character and more negative, the biblical personification of evil, he who kills his brother Cain. Reversing the traditional perspective, Saramago makes a human being neither better nor worse than others. On the contrary, the god who is out of the narrative is an evil god, unjust and envious, that really knows what he wants and especially does not like men. He is a god who refuses, apparently only on a whim and indifference, Cain's offering, resulting in the murder of Abel. Cacciato and sentenced to a wandering life, the destiny of Cain is that of a traveling PICARO riding a mule through space and time, in a wasteland at the dawn of humanity. Now the protagonist, now as a spectator, this cute little adventurer a 'villain through all the most important episodes of the biblical narrative: the expulsion from Eden, adventures with the insatiable Lilith, the sacrifice of Isaac, the construction of the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the episode of the golden calf, the tests imposed upon poor Job, and finally the story Noah's Ark (the end of which, with a master stroke, the author changes the course of human history). personal and ironic rewriting of the Bible, Cain is an outstanding literary invention and a powerful allegory that depicts the absurdity of a god who is more cruel than the worst of men. The major work of a writer at the height of his maturity, perhaps never so clear, lucid and lively.
Biography of José Saramago José http://www.feltrinellieditore.it/SchedaAutore?id_autore=253847 Saramago was born in 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal. Two years after his birth, the family of the writer, he moved to Lisbon, where his father worked as a policeman. The economic difficulties that the family pays, forcing him to abandon his studies and to take different jobs. Make it the blacksmith, the designer, proofreader, translator, journalist, and literary editor and production in a publishing house. In 1947 he published his first novel, Land of sin receiving a lukewarm reception. These were the dark years of the dictatorship of Salazar: Saramago is constantly subjected to the censure of the regime on his journalistic writings and is kept under control by Pide, the political police salazariana, who always manages to escape, even when - in 1959 - he joined the Portuguese Communist Party, then illegal. In the sixties the business of journalism Saramago and directed towards literary criticism, and in 1966 he published his first collection of poems, Poems possible. This was followed, in 1970 the collection probably cheer and chronicles of this world and the other 1971, The baggage of the traveler and the 1973 Opinions that DL had 1974. In 1974, the year of the "Carnation Revolution" - the military coup that marked the end of the fascist regime in Portugal - opens a new phase in Saramago's literary novel that takes shape in the 1977 Manual of Painting and Calligraphy , while the following year a public land called Alentejo. Also during this period he wrote for the theater (The night , 1979 and What do I do with this book? ) an activity that will continue in subsequent years ( Second Life of Francis of Assisi , 1987; In Appointments , 1993 and Don Giovanni, or the dissolute acquitted in 2005). In 1982 he published Memorial convent (published in Italy by Feltrinelli in 1984), the novel gives him notoriety worldwide. following year the death of Ricardo Reis (1984, Feltrinelli 1985), The Stone Raft (1986), History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). In the nineties, leaving The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), Blindness (1995) and All names (1997). The first decade of 2000 is the most prolific writer of Saramago, which he published seven novels: The cave (2001), duplicate Man (2002), An Essay on the lucidity (2004 ) Intermittences death (2005), Small memory (2006), The Journey Elephant (2008) and Cain (2009, ed. Com. Feltrinelli 2010). In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a recognition that aroused much controversy in the Catholic world for its well-known anti-religious positions. Controversy that they did decide to move to Lanzarote, Canary Islands. And 'who died in June 2010.
"... like water in a ship torn ..." The Black Swan
Picture taken in Glasgow, Scotland, August 20, 2009.
"In the sleep of Leo, the seedy characters of dawn, the characters slept soundly in the morning while the sun shines and defeat the light filters into the room from all sides as the water in a torn vessel, came in, went out ... Carla's mother, Michele, had been complacent and obscene gestures, but their figures paled as if the light had faded outside the ... asleep while Leo made every effort to retain them, "not that I intended," he repeated subconsciously "not that you gave me", a poetic voice and distant, full of faint reproach, calling him from some remote place, "Leo, Leo, aroused, I am "always unconsciously deluded that he was only a dream and willfully closed his eyes, wraps up in blankets as he could, he hoped, that momentary confusion vanished, to return again in the thick and delicious tangle of the dream ... but the calls were repeated more and more clear, at last a hand shook him by the shoulder: then he opened his eyes and saw Marion. " (Taken by Alberto Moravia," The indifferent, "1949)
(Photo taken in Rotorua, New Zealand, January 20, 2008)
Taken from the site of the online bookstore "IBS, Internet Bookshop, book review of" The Black Swan. As the unlikely governs our life "by Nassim Taleb N. (2008) http://www.ibs.it/code/9788842814788/taleb-nassim-n-/cigno-nero-come.html:
" What is a Black Swan? is a isolated and unexpected event, which has a huge impact, and that only in retrospect can be explained and made predictable. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of American Science of uncertainty, and author of best-selling book Fooled by case, believes that fads, epidemics, fashion, ideas, born of genres and art schools, finance, economics, all follow the dynamics of the Black Swan. In practice, this applies to everything important that happens around us. According to Taleb, in the individual life and private life, as in the social and public, we act as if we were able to predict events, from the sentimental to the historical, natural ones. Take, for example to the profession we chose, meeting with our partner or partner, the decision to live abroad, with a sudden enrichment or impoverishment: how many of these things happened according to plan? And if we take the attack of 11 September 2001, the tsunami in the Pacific in 2004, the rise of Hitler and the war that followed the rapid end of the USSR, or the spread of the Internet, we realize that the logic the Black Swan does not know what is more important than what is known. Swan and caused many blacks are magnified, for better or for worse, precisely because they are unexpected. Taleb in this essay argues, against many of the habits of thought, that the world is dominated by what is extreme, and unknown very unlikely (according to our current knowledge), and we continue to deal with secondary issues to focus on what is known and repeated. Instead, the Black Swan, the extreme event, should be used as a starting point, not as an exception to hide under the carpet. The author proposes the idea bolder, and more annoying, that despite the progress of our knowledge, the future is increasingly unpredictable and therefore, to live in the world today, is required much more imagination than we have . In the first part of the book, Taleb explains for the most distorted in the way we perceive events, historical and current, and the mistakes we do when the confirmation and we know we forget the lesson dell'antibiblioteca Umberto Eco has more focus on unread books and treat knowledge as an opening to the improbable, rather than as a treasure or a tool to increase self-esteem. Taleb calls this kind of "antistudioso" new Socrates knows he does not know, that more advanced age and accumulate more unread books, "skeptical empiricist", because you do not cheat by Platonism of certain abstract categories that would harness the history, but it encounters the eccentric jump and the fact that the empirical reality is neither balanced nor reasonable. The second part of the essay, "We simply can not anticipate", about the mistakes we make when we are dealing with the future and limits of science that have some "anchors" to some estimates, rather than assessing absolute certain ideas and their real consequences. The third part, "The Swan dell'Estremistan gray", explores the topic of extreme events, explains how it is generated the great "intellectual fraud" of the Gaussian bell curve (the normal random variable), and reviews the ideas of natural and social sciences together under the label of "complexity". Taleb on these pages try to explain how you can reduce the surprise effect of a black swan, always subversive, turned into swans and gray and then becoming a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe possibility to occur. The finish is characterized by practical wisdom: the author invites us to be half iperscettici confirmations of others, and half aggressive and confident when others advise caution. He concludes by reminding us that we, in our small, we Swan blacks, unique and unpredictable. "
