segunda-feira, dezembro 26, 2011
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- "Mother Russia": personification of Russia, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc (in the Soviet period, the term Mother Motherland - Rodina-Mat - was preferred)
- Long Lost Son: (among other things) a not-so-very-good 2006 movie about a mother who finds her kid (that she believed had died 14 years before)
- JER: (among other things; on a page last updated on 25 Nov 2011): Joint Ethics Regulation, DoD
- IHT distribution: from Athens to Tokyo, including Islamabad, Moscow and Tel Aviv (this issue was printed in Madrid); adverstising inquiries: (+33) 1 41 43 92 06
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- Long Lost Son: (among other things) a not-so-very-good 2006 movie about a mother who finds her kid (that she believed had died 14 years before)
- JER: (among other things; on a page last updated on 25 Nov 2011): Joint Ethics Regulation, DoD
- IHT distribution: from Athens to Tokyo, including Islamabad, Moscow and Tel Aviv (this issue was printed in Madrid); adverstising inquiries: (+33) 1 41 43 92 06
Classificados MI6?
"Mother Russia" tried Afghanistan long before the Long Lost son did, didn't she?
Of course, he had a reason... JER
in Personals, International Herald Tribune, 21 December
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Of course, he had a reason... JER
in Personals, International Herald Tribune, 21 December
segunda-feira, dezembro 12, 2011
One is humbled
"In the summer of 1941, Flight Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded a Victoria Cross for clambering on to the wing of his Wellington bomber and - while flying 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee - extinguishing a fire in the starboard engine [...]
Churchill summed the shy, swash-buckling New Zealander to Number 10 Downing Street to congratulate him [...]
When the fearless, daredevil airman - tongue-tied in the presence of the great man - found himself completely unable to field even the simplest of questions, Churchill tried something different.
'You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence', he began.
'Yes, sir', stammered Ward. 'I do'.
'Then you can imagine', said Churchill, 'how humble and awkward I feel in yours".
Flipnopsis, Kevin Dutton
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Churchill summed the shy, swash-buckling New Zealander to Number 10 Downing Street to congratulate him [...]
When the fearless, daredevil airman - tongue-tied in the presence of the great man - found himself completely unable to field even the simplest of questions, Churchill tried something different.
'You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence', he began.
'Yes, sir', stammered Ward. 'I do'.
'Then you can imagine', said Churchill, 'how humble and awkward I feel in yours".
Flipnopsis, Kevin Dutton
domingo, dezembro 11, 2011
Great verse
"I bury my love around you".
Interpol
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Interpol
Não melhor
"I know of no better aim of life than that of perishing animae magnae prodigus in pursuit of the great and the impossible".
Nietzsche
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Nietzsche
Não mais
"There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse".
Socrates
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Socrates
Criancinhas a comer
Um bebé podia ser, não uma miniatura, mas uma redução culinária dos pais.
Ao invés da água e demais sucos, este processo resultaria na saída, na destilação, do mais volátil e imperfeito, assim concentrando no novo o sabor, o amâgo, do bom.
Não era mau que assim fosse.
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Ao invés da água e demais sucos, este processo resultaria na saída, na destilação, do mais volátil e imperfeito, assim concentrando no novo o sabor, o amâgo, do bom.
Não era mau que assim fosse.
quinta-feira, dezembro 08, 2011
Ouvido
"No Brasil, saía da escola, ía para a cachoeira e passava o dia a fumar maconha.
Em Portugal, só apanho trabalho nas obras".
Atrás do Cais do Sodré
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Em Portugal, só apanho trabalho nas obras".
Atrás do Cais do Sodré
quarta-feira, dezembro 07, 2011
O que qualquer um faria
"It does what any other unconscionable, upwardly mobile social predator would do:
enlists the help of an innocent third party and ruthlessly exploits it as a go-between".
Flipnosis, Howard Marks
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enlists the help of an innocent third party and ruthlessly exploits it as a go-between".
Flipnosis, Howard Marks
domingo, dezembro 04, 2011
Exemplo
"...não tenhamos ilusões: Todos nós suspiramos por um mau exemplo de cima, para, com ele, nos desculparmos das nossas abjecções e dos nossos vícios!".
O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
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O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
Nunca, nunca
"Mas nunca o homem se mostra tão descontente com os seus semelhantes... como quando está profundamente descontente consigo!".
O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
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O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
Achincalhante
"Nem todos trabalhavam, porém; e era pior! Arrumados às esquinas, de pernas estiradas nas valetas, pegados às portas das bodegas e baiucas, havia indivíduos ostentando todo o ar de desemprego forçado ou ociosidade viciosa. Os seus rostos magros, cor de chumbo, exprimiam um cansaço azedo e uma conformação de reses; além de certa disposição achincalhante, que era o seu único indício de revolta contra aquela estúpida resignação".
O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
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O príncipe com orelhas de burro, José Régio
