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quarta-feira, junho 27, 2007

Ok 

I wouldn't throw him/her out of the bed for eating crisps...

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terça-feira, junho 26, 2007

Regresso ao futuro 

http://grandesclassicos.blogspot.com/2005/08/ltima-hora-furtado-no-fc-luxemburgo.html

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segunda-feira, junho 25, 2007

Common misspellings 

Science / Silence

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Power animal 



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domingo, junho 24, 2007

Bird 

'I have even rendered great services to humanity. Once, for example, [...] I found, one morning, a humming-bird in my living-room; it had come there trustingly, knowing that it was my house, but a gust of wind had slammed the door and it had been held prisioner all night between four walls.

It was perched on a cushion, minuscule and incapable of understanding, all courage gone, no longer trying to fly, weeping in one of the saddest voices I have ever heard, for one never hears one's own voice. I opened the window, it flew out and I have seldom felt happier, and I knew that I had not lived in vain'.

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Romain 

'... too many beautiful tales, and with too great a talent, in those whispering hours at the dawn of life when a child's every fiber takes an indelible imprint [...]

My longing for perfection, my dream of dealing with life as if it were literature, made me attack with impatient hands a shapeless lump of clay which no human determination can ever mould, but which has itself the frightening power insidiously to shape a human being according to its will [...]

I have wandered in pursuit of something for which art had given me a thirst but which life could not quench [...]

if I still dream of transforming the world into a happy garden, I know now that it is not so much because I love my fellow men as because I love gardens.

And I have also learned that if, for me, there is no beauty without justice, yet life cares little for logic, and can be beautiful without being just'.

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Everybody loves Romain 

'... and I put the chain around my neck and asked my beloved to marry me. By then we had already known each other for well over ten minutes and there was no point in losing more time'.

'In order to face life I have always needed the comfort of a femininity at once vulnerable and devoted, tenderly submissive and grateful, which makes me feel that I am giving when I am taking, that I am supporting when, in fact, I am leaning'.

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sábado, junho 23, 2007

Dusk 

'I had fallen in love with a young Hungarian girl [...] the war separated us and I never saw her again; it was another defeat for me and that is all there is to it.

I know that I have broken all the rules by skipping such an episode in an autobiography, but it is still too recent, only twenty years have passed'.

Promise at dawn, Romain Gary

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sexta-feira, junho 22, 2007

True 

There is something nonsensical about nonsensical.

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quinta-feira, junho 21, 2007

Strasbourgian 

The best apple in the world

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Common misspellings 

The little red hunting hood / The little red herring

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Oh boy 

'Pharmacie de la Vierge'...

Now, how to buy a pregnancy test here?

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domingo, junho 17, 2007

Who? 

Sometimes, it is quite exhausting to be me

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sábado, junho 16, 2007

Breakfast at the diner 

She - black coffee-strong, apple pie-sweet.

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quinta-feira, junho 14, 2007

Financial Times 2 



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Financial Times 1 



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segunda-feira, junho 11, 2007

Albardeira 

s.f.; rosa brava ou silvestre

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Uhm 

A área do centro histórico de Dubrovnik chama-se Pile.

A moeda nacional da Croácia é a Kuna.

No caixote do lixo do aeroporto lê-se: 'Fod'.

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My peony 

Rosa de albardeira (paeonia-lusitanica-miller).

Uma flor vermelha, com uma corola semelhante à da tulipa e com um tufo de estames a imitar um sol, apanhava-se nos montados para ocasiões especiais.

Hoje parece estar extinta; talvez o seu simbolismo de fertilidade e abundância tenha desaparecido com o suão que varreu este lugar, trazendo o deserto e a desolação.

http://arcaz.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

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sexta-feira, junho 08, 2007

Dubrovnik 



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quinta-feira, junho 07, 2007

Pássaro 

O passarinho não sabia ainda voar, tinha planado tropegamente desde o outro lado da estrada, ao lado do pai; devia ser o pai, porque foi uma companhia algo desleixada, inábil amparo nesta talvez necessária aventura.

Aterrou no alcatrão e, chegado ao passeio, puxou-se com dificuldade para cima daqueles escassos centímetros. À frente, o pai já batia as asas para subir ao muro, milhas acima.

Estava e ficou aflito, saltitando sem conseguir mais do que repetidamente embater contra a parede.

O pai voltava, com incentivos mas sem resultado, e o pobre bicho acabou por se esconder atrás de um caixote de lixo.

Ainda mais aflito ficou quando o encurralámos, um de cada lado, para que o pudesse apanhar, ouvindo o seu piar doloroso desaparecer até menos que um murmúrio, sob o olhar aflito do pai.

Coloquei aquele pequeno monte de penas sobre o muro e ele logo se atirou, coragem nascida ali do desespero, para o outro lado.

Onde o resto da família o esperava - espero - e não a boca aberta de algum gato.

E a verdade é que quis escrever isto porque um dia, como todos mas mais do que muitos, vou precisar de toda a ajuda que puder, de todas as testemunhas abonatórias, de todos os advogados de defesa.


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terça-feira, junho 05, 2007

Today 

A videoconference restricted to audio.

Now, I can look forward to an audioconference restricted to video.

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segunda-feira, junho 04, 2007

Only fair 

'But as a journalist who writes about luxury, I'm familiar with the extreme consumption that seems increasingly to engage the top end of the travel industry.

I think of a recent ski instructor I had on Gstaad, one-time teacher to Brigitte Bardot, who doubles as a pig farmer.

During the high season, he feeds his swine on the caviar and fois gras that he collects from the town's hotels bins each morning'.

Financial Times, June 3

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