tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339541322024-03-13T00:43:21.900+01:00Apple's Core...of Miss V.inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.comBlogger312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-75729085078807637882015-06-17T21:53:00.001+02:002015-06-17T21:53:47.069+02:00Behaviour Management Strategies: Tom Bennett on TES Webchat<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gxEnDDs49Xw" width="480"></iframe>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-53475082910714853262015-04-03T20:47:00.001+02:002015-04-03T20:47:26.889+02:00Adlestrop<div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">
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Yes. I remember Adlestrop—</div>
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The name, because one afternoon</div>
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Of heat the express-train drew up there</div>
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Unwontedly. It was late June.</div>
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The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.</div>
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No one left and no one came</div>
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On the bare platform. What I saw</div>
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Was Adlestrop—only the name</div>
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And willows, willow-herb, and grass,</div>
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And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,</div>
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No whit less still and lonely fair</div>
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Than the high cloudlets in the sky.</div>
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And for that minute a blackbird sang</div>
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Close by, and round him, mistier,</div>
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Farther and farther, all the birds</div>
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Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.</div>
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Your kind words and your endless time. Wealthy time.Cristal bones.</div>
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Naïve sensibility. Paradoxical life.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're Beautiful because you're classically trained. ,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you stop to read the cards in newsagents' windows about lost cats and missing dogs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because of what 1 did to that jellyfish with a lolly-stick and a big stone </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because for you, politeness is instinctive, not a marketing campaign</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because desperation is impossible to hide. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like he is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like hers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like Venus,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like his,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like she is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like Mars. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you believe in coincidence and the power of thought.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I proved God to be a mathematical impossibility </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you prefer home-made soup to the packet stuff.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because once, at a dinner party, I defended the aristocracy and wasn't even drunk. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you can't work the remote control.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because of satellite television and twenty-four hour rolling news. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like he is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like hers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like Venus,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like his,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like she is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like Mars. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you cry at weddings as well as funerals.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I think .of children as another species from a different world. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you look great in any colour including red.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I think shopping is strictly for the acquisition of material goods. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly for saying 'love at first sight' is another form of mistaken identity and that the most human of all responses is to gloat. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like he is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like hers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like Venus,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like his,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like she is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like Mars. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you've never seen the inside of a car-wash,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I always ask for a receipt. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful for sending a box of shoes to the third world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I remember the telephone numbers of ex-girlfriends and the year Schubert was born. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you sponsored a parrot in a zoo.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because when I sigh it's like the slow collapse of a circus tent. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like he is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like hers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like Venus,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like his,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like she is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like Mars. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you can point at a man in a uniform and laugh.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I was a police informer in a previous life. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you drink a litre of water and eat three pieces of fruit a day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly for taking the line that a meal without meat is a beautiful woman with one eye. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you don't see love as a competition and you know how to lose.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I kissed the FA Cup then held it up to the crowd. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because of a single buttercup in the top buttonhole of your cardigan.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly because I said the World's Strongest Woman was a muscleman in a dress. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're beautiful because you couldn't live in a lighthouse.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm ugly for making hand-shadows in front of the giant bulb, so when they look up, the captains of vessels in distress see the ears of a rabbit, or the eye of a fox, or the legs of a galloping black horse. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like he is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like hers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like Venus,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like his,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Beautiful like she is,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Ugly like Mars. </span><br style="background-color: white; 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<i>“Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There is nothing ready made for him. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out. Probably it will be something laughable.” </i></div>
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Came we then to the place abovementioned,<br />crossed its bristled threshold through robotic glass doors,<br />entered its furry heat, its flesh-toned fluorescent light.<br />Thus with wire-wrought baskets we voyaged,<br />and some with trolleys, back wheels flipping like trout tails,<br />cruised the narrow canyons twixt cascading shelves,<br />the prow of our journeying cleaving stale air.<br />Legion were the items that came tamely to hand:<br />five stainless steel teaspoons, ten corn-relief plasters,<br />the Busy Bear pedal bin liners fragranced with country lavender,<br />the Disney design calendar and diary set, three cans of Vimto,<br />cornucopia of potato-based snacks and balm for a sweet tooth,<br />toys and games, goods of Orient made, and of Cathay,<br />all under the clouded eye of CCTV,<br />beyond the hazard cone where serious chutney spillage had occurred.<br />Then emerged souls: the duty manager with a face like Doncaster,<br />mumbling, “For so much, what shall we give in return?”<br />The blood-stained employee of the month,<br />sobbing on a woolsack of fun-fur rugs,<br />many uniformed servers, spectral, drifting between aisles.<br />Then came Elpenor, our old friend Elpenor,<br />slumped and shrunken by the Seasonal Products display.<br />In strangled words I managed,<br />“How art thou come to these shady channels, into hell’s ravine?”<br />And he: “<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To loan sharks I owe/the bone and marrow of my all</em>.”<br />Then Walt Whitman, enquiring politely of the delivery boy.<br />And from Special Occasions came forth Tiresias,<br />dead in life, alive in death, cider-scented and sock-less,<br />Oxfam-clad, shaving cuts to both cheeks, quoting the stock exchange.<br />And my own mother reaching out, slipping a tin of stewing steak<br />to the skirt pocket of her wedding dress,<br />blessed with a magician’s touch, practised in need.</div>
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But never until the valley widened at the gated brink<br />did we open our lips to fish out those corn-coloured coins,<br />those minted obols, hard-won tokens graced with our monarch’s head,<br />kept hidden beneath the tongue’s eel, blood-tasting,<br />both ornament and safeguard, of armour made.<br />And paid forthwith, then broke surface<br />and breathed extraordinary daylight into starved lungs,<br />steered for home through precincts and parks scalded by polar winds,<br />laden with whatnot, lightened of golden quids.</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">The evening advances, then withdraws again</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">Leaving our cups and books like islands on the floor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">We are drifting, you and I,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">As far from another as the young heroes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">Of these two novels we have just laid down.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">For that is happiness: to wander alone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">Surrounded by the same moon, whose tides remind us of ourselves,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">Our distances, and what we leave behind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">The lamp left on, the curtains letting in the light.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;">These things were promises. No doubt we will come back to them. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.005998611450195px;"><br /><br /><br />I love those c</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">onversational, straightforward and almost throwaway poems.<br />Poems that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 17.26103973388672px;"> you end up nodding to and agreeing and sympathising with. Poems that are impossible to imitate, though.<br /><br />They are as real as real life is.<br /><br /><br />Sometimes I wonder why on Earth am I doing learning how to divide again. Next year is going to be a tedious and quite challenging one. All in all, up to this moment I am not giving up in my dreams and convictions.</span><br />
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Since I started an internship as well as doing my final year, my life has turned... busy. Psychologically speaking its very fulfilling, physically speaking its kind of shattering. Although, I guess t</span></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">here are certain rules you must abide to enjoy yourself at a party. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My nervous system lives in rush hour and the lack of sleep turns me kind of itchy. I guess the odd weekend I would fall into temptation again, you know... the original sin Milton is obsessed with. How wonderful my poetry lectures are. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certainly I found myself behaving as if I was younger, just because of them. Sometimes I really think I'm already beginning to turn into a parody of myself, although I am surely gaining a true insight into how I should conduct myself. Who would have thought? </span></span>
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The world could sometimes be awesome although we are drinking this multi-coloured nonsense that is life.
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"Now I'm ready." (But not really)inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-1965016420608022162014-02-21T22:37:00.001+01:002014-02-21T22:37:31.978+01:00“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uT3SBzmDxGk" width="480"></iframe>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-2309006253270123182014-02-11T22:26:00.001+01:002014-02-11T22:28:38.271+01:00A thought on what’s yet to come<span style="background-color: transparent;">"Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage."</span><br />
<i>(As You Like It)</i><br />
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And so it is my brain.<br />
Writing my final degree dissertation is a tough work. I would like to say the rest is easier, but it just isn't. Anyway I find it rewarding in some way, although I don't have many time to write here... oh, well. I will come back, as always.<br />
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In the meantime you can visit my twitter, as it is updated more frequently.<br />
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@theescrivener<br />
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"Thine face is not worth sunburning." <br />
(Henry V)</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alien smile ::) .</span>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-15513644060855577622014-01-18T16:55:00.002+01:002014-01-18T16:55:50.900+01:00Motion<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FoYKp6Bn-SU" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Movement.inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-3371085038305404482013-12-21T23:08:00.001+01:002013-12-21T23:08:11.671+01:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MWkN3akP3cU" width="480"></iframe>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-35351805681683404082013-12-14T00:29:00.003+01:002013-12-14T00:29:39.298+01:00Overconfident people<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'None of the hypotheses, in my view, is particularly convincing.'</blockquote>
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-So... what happened with that issue...?<br />- Heh, not a lot. But I'll tell you when we meet next time in the pub...<br />-That sounds like you are pulling me.<br />- Well, you could think that... or, you could think that I am far too busy for speaking right now, so I just think in the potential moment we casually see each other. Don't confuse yourself.<br />- Oh, right.<br />
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Do not confuse yourself.<br />inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-74001602556558021902013-12-13T00:52:00.001+01:002013-12-13T00:52:07.050+01:00The Pauli Exclusion Principle<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NCwBkNgPZFQ" width="480"></iframe><br />
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'The Pauli exclusion principle with a single-valued many-particle wavefunction is equivalent to requiring the wavefunction to be antisymmetric.'</blockquote><br />
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I don't belong here...<br />
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inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-81385205246610116032013-12-11T19:02:00.003+01:002013-12-11T19:02:43.177+01:00Smooth.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How to write good.<br />
1. Avoid Alliterations. Always<br />
2. Prepositions are not words to finish sentences with.<br />
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. They are old hat.<br />
4. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.<br />
5. Be more or less specific.<br />
6. Writers should never generalize.<br />
Seven: Be consistent!<br />
8. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.<br />
9. Who needs rhetorical questions?<br />
10. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.</blockquote>
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I'm nearly there. Again.<br />
Lasts steps are always difficult.inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-84602480595038894192013-12-08T18:37:00.003+01:002013-12-08T18:38:37.446+01:00The Christmas Flavour Concept.Staring each other from the top of nowhere.<br />
Could even be in nowhere?<br />
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How many souveninrs do I keep? How many still to go?<br />
Last night I travelled as a picture. Wearing flesh.<br />
And I did lost all the mega pixels and the measurements of your bedding pack.<br />
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How much did it cost to see each other? In time measures, please.<br />
And at the next morning I need to cheer up you cause I couldn't be bothered last night.<br />
Well, in fact I was, but too late.<br />
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Silent cinema. Genius hidden in people with grandeur delusions.<br />
(Yeah, Byron and Wilde, I won't forget that).<br />
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Concealed are the greatest anyway.<br />
Reading again and again the same caption of the journal pages.<br />
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They are being researched again.<br />
Researched again.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />But even if the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">Crystal Palace</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> hangs over Bleak House, it is, of course, not in it.<br /><br />The Christmas spirits are not the same everywhere. So does it change the Christmas flavor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Do I taste like Christmas, Sir?</span></span>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-62059492861794869572013-12-07T04:07:00.001+01:002013-12-07T04:11:04.935+01:00Twin Shadow Forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I miss your songs, I miss your hair, your laugh and even your indifference.<br />
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Oh wait, no, I don't miss this one.<br />
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As John Maddison's character used to say: I don't know why I shouldn't but I don't.<br />
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Out of the night that covers me,<br />
Black as the pit from pole to pole,<br />
I thank whatever gods may be<br />
For my unconquerable soul.<br />
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In the fell clutch of circumstance<br />
I have not winced nor cried aloud.<br />
Under the bludgeonings of chance<br />
My head is bloody, but unbowed.<br />
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Beyond this place of wrath and tears<br />
Looms but the horror of the shade,<br />
And yet the menace of the years<br />
Finds and shall find me unafraid.<br />
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It matters not how strait the gate,<br />
How charged with punishments the scroll,<br />
I am the master of my fate:<br />
I am the captain of my soul.
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(William Earnest Henley)<br />
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I'm emptying.<br />
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P.D: <span style="background-color: white; color: #686256; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: justify;">La batalla entre el </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #686256; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: justify;">nadaqueperder</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #686256; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: justify;"> y la mentirijilla de la autosuperación. </span>inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-3856388760563890392013-11-27T22:54:00.000+01:002013-11-27T23:02:36.192+01:00Touch and go<div class="tr_bq">
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London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes--gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.</div>
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Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.</div>
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Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look.</div>
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The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.</div>
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Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth.
On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting her — as here he is — with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be — as here they are — mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might. On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to be — as are they not? — ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets, who peep in through the glass panes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it and where the attendant wigs are all stuck in a fog-bank! This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man’s acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, “Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!” […]’</div>
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Charles Dickens creates an image of a filthy and dirty London. Concern and pressure.<br />
He gives strength to fog. Just as you do.<br />
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And yet it does <i>float</i>.inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-35836700641146623502013-11-24T16:06:00.000+01:002013-11-24T16:06:05.040+01:00The Song of the Earth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because<br />He had seven coats on when he came,<br />With three pair of boots--but the worst of it was,<br />He had wholly forgotten his name. </blockquote>
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He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,<br />Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"<br />"What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"<br />But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!" </blockquote>
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(Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark)</blockquote>
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El horrible plan de planear.<br />Suave.<br />
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'He did not wear his scarlet coat,<br />
For blood and wine are red,<br />
And blood and wine were on his hands<br />
When they found him with the dead,<br />
The poor dead woman whom he loved,<br />
And murdered in her bed.<br />
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He walked amongst the Trial Men<br />
In a suit of shabby grey;<br />
A cricket cap was on his head,<br />
And his step seemed light and gay;<br />
But I never saw a man who looked<br />
So wistfully at the day.<br />
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I never saw a man who looked<br />
With such a wistful eye<br />
Upon that little tent of blue<br />
Which prisoners call the sky,<br />
And at every drifting cloud that went<br />
With sails of silver by.<br />
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[...]'<br />
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(Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of the Reading Gaol)inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-52135523168475452112013-11-12T20:43:00.001+01:002013-11-12T20:46:15.037+01:00W.A.S.P. Just because I like to wonder about silly things, playing with words and some other stuff. I have been rambling in the WASP acronym. I find it curious and appealingly paradoxical. Recently to broad my mind to another people and maybe cultures seems to be more rewarding than the mere fact of interacting with other people just for the sake of doing it. <br />
Well, there it goes:<br />
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WASP(s)<br />
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant<br />
White Anglo-Saxon People<br />
Wireless Application Service Provider<br />
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein<br />
(and more technical acronyms)<br />
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There's the music band WASP, as well...<br />
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And then there’s the old, presumably Jewish joke: WASPs leave and don’t say goodbye, Jews say goodbye and don’t leave. Speaking of what I found this very interesting <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2013/07/ghosting_the_irish_goodbye_the_french_leave_stop_saying_goodbye_at_parties.html">article about ghosting</a>.<br /><br />
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And... I dunno...<br />
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We Are Sex Perverts?<br /><br /><br />Just Ghost.inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33954132.post-14414094766219185832013-11-12T15:48:00.000+01:002013-11-12T15:48:00.735+01:00An Apple's Core<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vdCGnuccRv0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
'-What are you thinking so earnestly?' said he, as they walked back to the ball-room; -'not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head your meditations are not satisfactory.'<br />Catherine coloured, and said 'I was not thinking of anything'<br />'That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me'<br />'Well then, I will not.'<br />'Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to cease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.'</blockquote>
<br />(Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)inkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00775534090598916659noreply@blogger.com0