March 2013
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Muere ‘Ratón’, el toro estrella
El toro Ratón, la res más cotizada de los encierros de España, ha muerto. Tras de sí deja dos muertos por cornadas y decenas de heridos, una hoja de servicios que, lejos de encerrarle en los corrales, multiplicó su caché, especialmente en la Comunidad Valenciana. Tenía 11 años, una edad muy avanzada para un toro, pero eso no evitó que hasta el final siguiera siendo la gran atracción de las...
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Mark O'Brien: Graduation Day
Today I hear the crowd’s applause
Receive congratulations from my friends
Who studied, read, wrote and passed the test in cap and gown
Today I hope you see a man upon this stage.
The Sessions (2012)
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J. M. Coetzee: The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
He searches for
the irony,
but there is none,
as there is no salt.
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A. Camus: L'étranger (1942)
J’ai compris alors
qu’un homme
qui n’aurait vécu qu’un seul jour
pourrait sans peine
vivre cent ans
dans une prison.
Il aurait
assez de souvenirs
pour ne pas
s’ennuyer.
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A. Camus: L'étranger (1942)
Comme si
les chemins familiers tracés dans les ciels d’été
pouvaient mener aussi bien
aux prisons
qu’aux sommeils innocents.
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A. Camus: 'L'étranger' (1942)
J’espère que les chiens n’aboieront pas cette nuit. Je crois toujours que c’est le mien.
(Salamano)
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Albert Camus : L'étranger (1942)
‘Un peu plus tard, pour faire quelque chose, j’ai pris un vieux journal et je l’ai lu. J’y ai découpé une réclame pour des sels Kruschen et je l’ai collée dans un vieux cahier où je mets les choses qui m’amusent dans les journaux.’
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T. Hackford : Ray (2004)
Margie: Hey! Charles! What did I say about not cooking in the dark?
February 2013
7 posts
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J. C. Kannemeyer's Biography of J. M. Coetzee
John Christoffel Kannemeyer (1939-2011)
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– Noam Chomsky
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David Borchart on Greek philosophy
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January 2013
7 posts
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“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its...”
– Ursula Le Guin (via diariodeinvierno)
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Paul Karasik
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Jan Matejko : "Stanczyk" (1862)
Lithuania, 1654. The Russians have just taken the city of Smolensk.
Queen Bona’s jester Stanczyk sits as worried as lonely while court dignitaries are merrily feting.
December 2012
3 posts
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808-1877) : To...
Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconstant roving have no power,
And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take,—
Let me return to you; this turmoil ending
Which worldly cares have in my spirit wrought,
And, o’er your old familiar pages bending,
Refresh my mind with many a tranquil thought:
Till, haply meeting there,...
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Diego Velázquez : El príncipe Felipe Próspero...
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November 2012
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Edward Hopper's reading women
Chair Car (1965)
Second-Story Sunlight (1960)
New York Office (1962)
Hotel by a Railroad (1952)
First Row Orchestra (1951)
Hotel Lobby (1943)
Compartment C, Car 293 (1938)
The Barber Shop (1931)
Hotel Room (1931)
Two on the Aisle (1927)
Interior (1925)
September 2012
3 posts
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Sofie Muller (°1974)
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Jordi Roca : postre/dessert "Gol d'en Messi" (Goal...
(photo: Becky Lawton)
Jordi Roca is chief of desserts at El Celler de San Roca (Girona), and Messi-fan.
The three meringues (one of the nicknames of Real Madrid) are to be dribbled Messi-like/eaten first. Than you take the white chocolate ball and drop it through the sugar net in the goal/bowl filled with e.g. passion fruit, …
The whole eating has to be done on the the aaahs and ooohs of...
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François Truffaut : "Fahrenheit 451" (1966)
Oskar Werner (Guy Montag)
‘The books have nothing to say.’
Director François Truffaut with Julie Christie (Linda Montag & Clarisse)
‘Books make people unhappy, they make them anti-social.”
The first book to be burned
‘The only way to be happy is for everyone to be made equal.’
‘I want to die as I’ve lived.’
‘Go on,...
July 2012
17 posts
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Robert Morse before he became a Mad Man
Korean War (1950-1953)
1958
1961
1964
1965
1968
1969
1974
1985
2007
2010
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Quoting Coetzee : X : Bumpkin
His ambition is
to read everything
worth reading
before he goes
overseas,
so that he will not arrive
in Europe
a provincial bumpkin.
John Maxwell Coetzee, Youth
Honoré Daumier : Don Quijote leyendo (1867)
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Good news comes double : J. M. Coetzee's new born...
1) Een Manier van Vriendschap: the Correspondence of JM Coetzee and Paul Auster (in Dutch)
Coetzee & Auster
A highlight of last year’s Kingston WritersFest was when JM Coetzee and Paul Auster took to the stage to read from an upcoming collaborative work, a collection of their correspondences.
This collection is shortly to be released in Dutch, under the title Een manier van vriendschap:...
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Adam Thirlwell : Politics (2003) ("'Politics' is...
In his book called Love, the famous French novelist Stendhal explains his theory of why we like reading. It is this.
‘Just as a man has almost no physiological self-knowledge except by studying comparative anatomy, so vanity and various other causes of illusion prevent us from having a clear picture of our own passions except by studying the weaknesses of others. If this essay of mine...
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Fernand Léger : "La lecture" (1924)
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Fernando Savater: "Borges: la ironía metafísica"...
Estas tareas conjuntas prueban sobradamente que Borges y Bioy fueron lectores perspicaces y generosos, de los que saben contagiar el vicio de la lectura.
Y que no estaban aquejados del síndrome de la excelsitud literaria, que prescribe poner los ojos en blanco ante Hoffmansthal (sic) y despachar con une mueca de asco la simple mención de Agatha Christie:
el paladar del auténtico gourmet de la...
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Edmond Gréville : Beat Girls (Wild for Kicks)...
Jennifer silences her dad by revealing the coquin past of her stepmother.
In society forms change more rapidly than substances :
http://youtu.be/deRgUVx6sP0
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Judith Leyster (1609-1660, Dutch Republic)
Judith Leyster was (in 1633) the second woman painter to receive the title of “Master” (at the Sint-Lucasgilde of Haarlem)
Self-portrait (1630)
Pekelharing (The Happy Beerdrinker) (1629)
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Stanley Kubrick : The Killing (1956)
The vivid pace of this straightly told Hitchcockian movie is set by the Narrator’s Voice.
This is his scheduled account:
At exactly 3:45 on that Saturday afternoon in the last week of September, Marvin Unger was perhaps the only one among the 100.000 people at the track who felt no thrill at the running of the fifth race.
An hour earlier that same afternoon, in another part of the...
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WatchGreat docuception, narrated in a Borgean cheek-in-tongue style!
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June 2012
5 posts
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Marinus van Reymerswaele (1490-1546) : The Two Tax...
