The Antoninos

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terça-feira, agosto 30, 2011

Sem

Um homem sem amor à mãe é um homem maldito.

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segunda-feira, agosto 29, 2011

De ficar aborrecido

"I tore it up and burned it over the spittoon. I make it a rule never to keep a scrap of paper bearing a woman's hand, and I never write them at all.

[...]

There's a man right here in Jefferson made a lot of money selling rotten goods to niggers [...]
he was taken sick. Scared the hell out of him so that when he was up again he joined the church and bought himself a Chinese missionary, five thousand dollars a year.
I often think how mad he'll be if he was to die and find out there's not any heaven, when he thinks about that five thousand a year.
Like I say, he'd better go on and die now and save money".

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

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Serradura

"...all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not".

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

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Som morto

"...because Harvard is such a fine sound forty acres is no high price for a fine sound. A fine dead sound we will swap Benjy's pasture for a fine dead sound".

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

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Madressilva

"...I had to pant to get any air at all out of that thick gray honeysuckle".

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

# posted by AF : 15:09

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Kentuckian

"Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport;
he is a Kentuckian too".

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

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Eu também

“The embrace of [the movie] ‘The Future’ arises from recognition - Hey, I know people like that’ – and so does the rejection of it: God, I hate people like that’”.

A. O. Scott, International Herald Tribune, 26 August 2011

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Good point

“[the security officer at the airport] dropped the bottle into the barrel beside him.
‘One more question. Do you ever feel a little funny about standing eight inches from a barrel full of possible explosives for the rest of the day?’”

Dick Cavett, International Herald Tribune, 26 August 2011

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segunda-feira, agosto 22, 2011

Língua

A minha pátria é a contingência.

# posted by AF : 10:01

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Meta

Stranger than fiction

Toda a metatextualidade da vida:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_than_Fiction_(2006_film)

# posted by AF : 09:40

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sexta-feira, agosto 19, 2011

Separados à nascença

Júlio Isidro e Nuno Markl

(é a voz, os tiques e o resto)

# posted by AF : 18:25

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Ficção científica

"The fight is mostly in the hands of African soldiers and private companies".

International Herald Tribune, 12 August 2011

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Lord's prayer if you're distracted

[...]
And I hope they are all nuked to smithereens.

Amen.

# posted by AF : 09:56

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Of others

"- A people have been known to give their lives for others.

- A rare phenomenon. Many more people have been known to sacrifice the dearest needs of others to some foolish whim of their own".

Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov

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Must be

"An overwhelming weight of shame came over him and seemed to press upon him to the point where he could barely breathe.

He looked at the stars - remote, uncaring - and thought: I must be the Great Fool of the Galaxy".

Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov

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quinta-feira, agosto 11, 2011

Roubado

Markets work by generating winners and losers. The children of the losers do not compete on a level playing field with the children of the winners. True equality of opportunity for the next generation requires public policy to level the field by raising the base.

Otherwise, "picking your parents with care" will continue to be the best guarantee of material success for yet another cohort of our richer children, and we will continue to squander the hopes and capacities of so many of their less fortunate contemporaries.

David Coates

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Engenharia civil

O cardan é o grande marco que sumariza a civilização humana.

A par do autoclismo, claro.

# posted by AF : 15:32

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Incrível

O engenho que está condensado nestas formas de transformar movimento vertical em circular, de transmitir força entre peças que giram sobre planos, eixos e tempos difentes, de multiplicar e inverter energia, de... de... nem sei o que dizer acerca da máquina de costura...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecting_rod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_joint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-velocity_joint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gearbox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine

# posted by AF : 09:16

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quarta-feira, agosto 10, 2011

So much depends on the weather

"You beat down the temptation, I imagine, through your strong sense of duty.

No, I rather think not. He smiled wryly. Nothing so dramatic and noble. My resistance was strenghened, for one thing, by the fact that it was cold, and for another, by the sad thought that it wouldn't take many sessions with her to kill me".

Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov

# posted by AF : 10:37

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Não se percebe a espera

"Usually they are imagined by our romantics as having been punished for their crimes by He Who Punishes,

though no one bothers to say why He waited so long".

Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov [pausa dramática acrescentada por mim]

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segunda-feira, agosto 08, 2011

Miss remarkable

Miss Remarkable & her Career is a gallows humorous animated film about inner demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown.

Às vezes é preciso enterrar as nossas expectativas para poder viver.

http://frokenmarkvardigochkarriaren.se

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sexta-feira, agosto 05, 2011

100 times

Estejamos, estejamos, estejamos.

# posted by AF : 10:09

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Miúdas à janela

Parecem mais bonitas ao longe: a distância cria o espaço para a beleza.

# posted by AF : 10:07

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quarta-feira, agosto 03, 2011

Roda livro

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel.
Once invented, it cannot be improved.

Umberto Eco

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Of course nor

Is all still super-duper with you?

Of course it is, can not imagine you otherwise, nor can the universe.

# posted by AF : 10:14

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terça-feira, agosto 02, 2011

Agora

No princípio de Agosto, no meio da cidade, no fim da manhã, estão a torrar café lá fora.

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segunda-feira, agosto 01, 2011

Também tá certo

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Chinese proverb

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Tá certo

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

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Atlantis

Last touchdown.

Obrigado; vai haver mais tristeza agora.

# posted by AF : 00:03

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