The Antoninos

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quinta-feira, agosto 30, 2007

The master

I don't know what you mean by "glory", Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'

But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll

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Kiss

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Gema

'Women might be able to fake orgasms.

But men can fake whole relationships'.

Sharon Stone

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Wisdom for the ages

Whistle a happy tune, and you will be happy

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quarta-feira, agosto 29, 2007

Turning japanese

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Japanese beauty

Lia: Kojima (small island) Emi (blessed with beauty)

Lua: Kuroda (black field) Ayumi (walk - deeper meaning - walk your own way)

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terça-feira, agosto 28, 2007

Paroles

Emmenez-moi au bout de la terre
Emmenez-moi au pays des merveilles
Il me semble que la misère
Serait moins pénible au soleil

Charles Aznavour

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Desarmante

'- O que é que levava para uma ilha deserta ?

- Uma mulher '

Ricardo Quaresma

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Roubado

'Lacan tem aquela frase extraordinária [...]: «O amor é darmos uma coisa que não temos a alguém que não precisa dela».

[...] amamos no outro precisamente aquilo que ele não tem.

E o outro fica fascinado com esse objecto de fascínio que é aquilo que imaginamos nele.

O que o outro deseja não é aquilo que lhe podemos dar, mas aquilo que imaginamos nele.

E que de facto não existe.'

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segunda-feira, agosto 27, 2007

Not easy, but simple

Stacey: I want not to love Mark, I want to hate you, I want all of this to be simple. But it's not.

Dr. House: You can either have a life with me or you can have a life with him. It can't be both. It's not easy, but it is simple.

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House 2

Dr. Wilson: If you want her back, either tell her, or, better yet, shut up and cry yourself to sleep like everybody else.

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Separados à nascença

Michael Youn / Luís Figo

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Common misspellings

Izmailov / Ismylove

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In the house

Dr. Cameron: I fell in love with my husband's best friend. Near the end I was at the hospital every day and Joe would come by after work, and go for walks, and trying to talk each other through it. We just clung to each other.

Dr. Wilson: My wife wasn't dying, she wasn't even sick - everything was fine. I met someone who made me feel funny. Good. And I didn't wanna let that feeling go. What happened to you? How can anyone go through that alone. You can't control your emotions.

Dr. Cameron: No, just your actions.

Dr. Wilson: You didn't do it, did you. You didn't sleep with him?

Dr. Cameron: I couldn't have lived with myself.

Dr. Wilson: You'd be surprised what you can live with.

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Gold mine

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/House_(TV_series)

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Objet trouvé

'Can refer to naturally formed objects whose beauty is the result of natural forces as well as to man-made artifacts (such as bathtubs, wrecked cars, or scrap metal) that were not originally created as art but are displayed as such'.

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Sadder

'...and he never changed, except that he became sadder like the rest of us'

Lord Kenneth Clark, Civilisation

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sexta-feira, agosto 24, 2007

Plain to see

I was born to be the lead singer and virtuoso guitar player of a real cool rock band.

How come no one else noticed ?

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Bla bla bla

Um dia vamos ficar lúcidos e usar velhos cacos e restos de gravatas para construir instalações sensatas com chefes soltos

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Recruitment slogan

Yes, even you can save and hold in your arms a pretty woman! (*)

Come join the fire department today!

(*) Provided she was inside a blazing building; legal in most States; limited to available stock

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Epic

Bjork's poor little fish! And she has a name too.

Or had.

Linear Soul Child died in service to the blood-thirsty, teenage-eating, corporate-enriching music industry, pleasing a selfish whim of a band high on the easy hedonistic life b(r)ought by rock and roll...

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FIAB

Front Internationale - Against Boredom

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Quest

The amazing thrill of breakthrough and achievement, made possible by the kind helping hand of a friend, opening up new and so promising roads ahead !

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Epic

'The video for "Epic", which featured slow motion footage of a fish flopping out of water, received extensive airplay in the summer of 1990, despite provoking anger from animal rights activists.

The fish used at the end of video for "Epic" was Bjork's. She stated:

"There was a party at Roddy [Faith No More keyboardist]'s mansion in Berkeley and I was just coming from a poetry reading in San Francisco.

I had been given the fish [which she named 'Linear Soul Child'] from a person at that poetry reading, and brought it to Roddy's party.

That's the last time I ever saw him".'

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Clocks and times

Spring forward, Fall back

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Nice

Verse, Bridge, Hook

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Common misspellings

Women who love too much [Robin Norwood] / I cannot stop giving, I'm thirty-something [ Faith no More - Midlife crisis]

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Faith No More

[Verse 1]
Go on and wring my neck
Like when a rag gets wet
A little discipline
For my pet genius
My head is like lettuce
Go on and dig your thumbs in
I cannot stop giving
I'm thirty-something

[Bridge]
Sense of security
Like pockets jingling
Midlife crisis
Suck ingenuity
Down through the family tree

[Hook]
You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you (you're only you)
Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleeding enough for two
It's a midlife crisis...
It's a midlife crisis...

[Verse 2]
What an inheritance
The salt and the kleenex
Morbid self attention
Bending my pinky back
A little discipline
A donor by habit
A little discipline
Rent an opinion

[Bridge 2]
Sense of security
Holding blunt instrument
Midlife Crisis
I'm a perfectionist
And perfect is a skinned knee

[Hook]
You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you (you're only you)
Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleeding enough for two
It's a midlife crisis
It's a midlife crisis...
It's a midlife crisis...

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quinta-feira, agosto 23, 2007

House

A constant cane

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Que...

Quem mostra falsa modéstia está a esconder arrogância, que esconde um desejo de afirmação, que por sua vez esconde um complexo de inferioridade…

...que por sua vez esconde uma enorme segurança interior, que por sua vez esconde um ser em paz consigo, que por sua vez esconde falsa modéstia, que...

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Ui !

'Cadastre-se, é grátis!'

Este brasileiro dói...

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Roubado

'Ainda me tramo [...]

A beleza absoluta funciona como um handicap. As mulheres bonitas vivem obcecadas com a ideia de que apenas lhes valorizam a imagem, sentem-me inseguras.

E a agravar, dois efeitos cumulativos: a beleza traz-lhes uma volatilidade passional e, sendo perfeitas, o amante pouco ou nenhum impacto tem sobre a coisa amada, que sem metamorfose fica por colonizar.

Irrepreensivelmente bonitas e sensuais, parecem cartoons animados das mulheres do Milo Manara, boas para a punheta ou para platonismo. Ora, uma mulher que valha realmente a pena tende a estar a meio caminho entre a punheta e o platonismo, como as criaturas do Hugo Pratt. A aprendizagem sentimental cumpre-se quando se foi do Manara ao Pratt.

E o rosto desta mulher, anguloso, magro e com os cabelos despenteados, podia ter vindo de uma prancha do Pratt.

Ainda me tramo'.

http://memoria-inventada.weblog.com.pt/

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Recorte 2

'I mean, I've had fantastic unhappiness in my private life, as the clippings will tell you'.

Ian McEwan, sobre o seu divórcio

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quarta-feira, agosto 22, 2007

Lama

'Apesar da chuva e da lama, conseguis levantar poeira.

E isso para um não crente como eu, é milagre! Mas não façam disto um milagre canonizado, ou a cada 14 de Agosto teremos uma nova Fátima, com peregrinos, garrafões, Tonys Carreiras e quejandos!

Levantem lama, que foi com lama que se criou o mundo!'

Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, durante o concerto dos Mão Morta em Paredes de Coura 2007

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terça-feira, agosto 21, 2007

Meu

Now you have an education, shelve it somewhere, and move to real things

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Toujours

- Toi, je t'aimerai toujours, dis-je

Elle se retourne contre le mur, et elle dit seulement:

- Contente-toi de m'aimer tous les jours.

Daniel Pennac

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segunda-feira, agosto 20, 2007

Route 666

Sonhos de viagens pelos Estados Unidos, desavindos.

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First man, first use - part II

About a Roman using the word 'entourage' in 'The First Man in Rome'.

Meaning 'attendant persons', it comes from the French 'entour' - that which surrounds - and was first recorded in English in 1860.

So, there you go again, from the presumptuous reviewer.

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domingo, agosto 19, 2007

Common misspellings

Kir / Krill

Cocktail consisting of a mixture of white wine and crème de cassis (blackcurrant liquor)
/ Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans (major source of food for whales, for example)

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Save

'You will not be saved by the Holy Ghost.

You will not be saved by the God Plutonium.

In fact, you will not be saved!'

The prince of darkness

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Sari

Traditional female garment in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, it is a very long strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from four to nine metres in length, which can be draped in various styles.

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Chungking Express

Literally, "Chungking jungle", the jungle of the city; referring as well to the Chungking mansions in Hong Kong, where much of the first part of the movie is set, and to the Midnight Express food stall in the film.

The Chungking mansions building, supposedly residential, is made up of a labyrinth of curry restaurants, African bistros, clothing and sari stores, exchange offices and independent low-budget hotels.

Completed in 1961, it is known as the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong - a single bed for US$8 - and it is a large gathering place for some of ethic minorities, with an estimated 4 000 people living there.

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sexta-feira, agosto 17, 2007

Brad or

Brad and Suzy lived in a movie
Cardboard cutout superheroes and
Paragons on barstools
She was a professional teller machine user
He was your basic beautiful loser
They had no worries all they ever had was cool
And I wish that I was Brad and Suzy, I really do
I wish that I was stuck on someone
I wish that I was half of a two
I wish that we were like that baby
I wish sometimes you’d love and hate me

Pa-pa-pa-pow
Pa-pa-pa-pow

The sigma chis imbibed, decried
And tried to pry him from his
Little delta tri-omega chi fi mu hoddi toddi a-d-pi and theta
But she wouldn’t let them
Idiot’

cause her heart was as big as the world
And she was his first loving girl
And he swore he’d stand by her forever
And late at night, drunk on wine
They’d fall in bed and intertwine
And they’d make love then like nobody never
And I wish that I was Brad or Suzy

Pa-pa-pa-pow
Pa-pa-pa-pow
I wish that I was Brad or Suzy
I wish that I was in a movie

Brad and Suzy finally took off for the Florida Keys
The better to exercise their collections of clothing by j. crew
Convertible rabbit a cooler and some coozies
And six years of college course credit they’ll probably never use

But I wish that I was Brad or Suzy, I really do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SEfeaBiMKc

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Copy back home

Young Girl Reading, Fragonard, 1776

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Exquisite would-be title

The mermaid series

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Common misspellings

People's feelings / people's fillings

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quinta-feira, agosto 16, 2007

Perfect...

'Brings life to a traditional fairground attraction...'

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Common misspellings

Scheuberfouer / Chober-boier

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terça-feira, agosto 14, 2007

Ideas

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabrics of their life".

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him".

Tolstoy

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Vulcan

In 1946, Spock published his book 'The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care', which became a bestseller.

By 1998 it had sold more than 50 million copies.

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Feral

Wild and menacing

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Notes

'- Are you interested in wine?
- Only the drinking part'.

...

'- My father always used to say... you know, on the tube...? Mind the gap.
- I don't know.
- It's just the distance between life as you... dream it and... life as it is.
- I know exactly what you mean'.

...

'People anguish for years with partners who are clearly from another planet. We want so much to believe that we've found our other.
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient'.

Notes on a scandal

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Fey

Slightly insane

Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

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Wimp

A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy;

A hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe.

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Down the corner

Tarte-de-citron-Tuesday-morning-stravaganza-special

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segunda-feira, agosto 13, 2007

Futebol

Toulouse has nothing to lose.

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sexta-feira, agosto 10, 2007

A little too

'Sulla tried to look modest, humility being a little too out of character'.

The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough

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quinta-feira, agosto 09, 2007

SIWS

On the Standardized Idea-Wrestling Scale, from 1 to 10, please rate the fierceness of the fight between the two schools of thought

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SFS

On the Standardized 'Fine' Scale, from 1 to 10, please rate your degree of Finess today

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quarta-feira, agosto 08, 2007

Spanish 101

Me corto las venas o me las dejo largas ?

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terça-feira, agosto 07, 2007

Now they tell me

Plus l'homme est sensible, moins le sexe est un muscle

Jean Rochefort

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segunda-feira, agosto 06, 2007

The pajamist

'Yesterday for you

I wrote a poem so full

of lies it woke me'.

Matthew Zapruder

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Thus spoke

Rule out those kinds of convictions, as Nietzche once said, that are greater enemies of truth than lies.

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First man, first use

In 'The First Man in Rome', Colleen McCullough has a Roman use the word 'etiquette'.

Meaning 'prescribed behavior', it is a word more of the XVIII century (1750). It comes from the French 'estiquette' (label, ticket), the sense having developed from the small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the original word).

So, there you go, from the presumptuous reviewer.

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