Monday, December 12, 2005

Easy Way To Get Rid Of Acorns

A chill

Elmar wrote:

In December it is only natural I would say, and the Group has run properly: we begin with a good supply of chocolates ( cocoa, as you know, hot) and we started for just the warm up exercises in reading based on the stories that consolidated Group-of-4 produces fertile vein. I then read my rewrite of The man who bought the dolls , which left the audience slightly displaced: in fact, not rewrite it but is reinventing itself, based on the initial starting point supplied by Gd-four , namely the mature ladies who collects Barbie dolls, a bit like the Smithers from the Simpsons series, you know? The racks, lick-secretly in love with Monty Burns, the head and the absolute master of the nuclear power where Homer works. Well. The last time this idea in one of the stories provided me the opportunity for a reinvention, this:
Suspended in the air
- Ouch! - I find myself stretched out and sore, and I do not know why, it's dark, often as a dark wool, and I fell. I had never fallen before. What's happening? I stretch out my hands to find the virtuaLibro I was reading / floated before, but when exactly? Minutes, hours? Days, maybe? Bump something with his feet. Or someone. I hear a door creak, and it is strange: here the doors do not creak, never could do it. Why do not exist. I know that there were, at one time, I found it in a virtuaLibro prohibited: and that's why I know the meaning of the verb "creak" referring to a door.
I am very good at school. And also to rummage in virtuaLibri prohibited with my specialpassword that will never reveal to anyone.

But I do not need this now.
I'm afraid.
smear on something cold and hard, to be what Romantic writers once called the "floor" we, the floating floors virtuaLibri only read them and see them in virtualFilm. I hear something over his head, and I assume that I am in an enclosed space and very limited, but where, where? Where am I? Here perhaps there is a light. Green. "Out of Service for blackout."
No, I do not. It is not possible. We were always taught that we are immune from the Floating disasters like this. But it happened. The exit is blocked, the fluctuations have all been reset. I continue to trudge doggedly, grab the ledge with your fingernails ... what's his name? Floor, ah, yes.
And then I begin to remember. On
virtuaLibri I read as a small figurines were cut, and had asked the virtualMaestra the name of those funny things sticking out from one of these "legs" - I replied. And then he had darkened the screen and I had to start the program in organic chemistry, I did not like either, among other things. I remember they were the ones ... as they were called ... ah! Here, legs, and where they were placed. I know I could have them too, I had seen him on another of virtuaLibri prohibited, those most difficult to open with my specialPW. But a hacker has its limits. Reach out, trembling. I hear something that moves with me while I continue to drag on the rocks of that floor. With an effort I focus on these two things that I never used, because I move I move forward. I try to move them thinking about it. First one then the other. Meanwhile, here is there another light, this time is not green: it's a different light, white, dazzling.
And suddenly the darkness is interrupted, the floor no longer exists and I find that I'm using my two "legs" to move quickly, faster and faster, I know what I'm doing now is called "run ". And I see a ... what's his name ... tree? Yes, tree. It is not floating, it is planted in the ground ... what's his name .... And there are some round things above, which closely resemble the virtualFrutti, I rise on toes of my ... what are they called ... ah, here it is: feet. Reached out, grabbed one of those round things, and shooting. I know I have to, though not quite understand why. I lose my balance, round thing falls to the ground. The
fixed.
And I understand: no longer one of the Floating. They crossed over. That where there is gravity.
Recently, the Group is faced with rapid-fire questions and checks, so you find yourself short of breath and it is always difficult to talk about what we read, and also suggest topics that are, yes, indeed they are accepted for the most part suggested by the Group itself, but then I get the impression that the texts fall into the void a bit, I miss the discussions fervent than once, and now it tells the other what you have to read risucire ( and in general, he has not yet been able to finish) and you can almost never discuss one or more short stories offer. Another consideration that I do about the blog: it has become a kind of my personal notebook or at least used to someone else who does not even part of the group to download the bibliographies for term papers / Question: this is not the purpose.
Anyway here is the usual literature, this time about " cold "even though I have a feeling that by the end of the semester looming, hardly will be used in full.
- The model of Pickman, HP Lovecraft, in : Stories 1923-1926 (Mondadori 1990). Location: NA LOV HP

- The Witch, by Anton Chekhov, in: Tales - vol.quarto (Einaudi 1974). Location: ND CEC ANT

- Christmas Eve, by Guy de Maupassant, in: Tales of Parisian life (Einaudi 1996). Location: NF GUY MAU

- Elves , Ludwig Tieck, in: The blond Eckbert and Other Stories (Studio Tesi 1990). Location: NT TIE LUD

- The spell of nature, Dino Buzzati, in: Sixty stories (Mondadori 1995). Location: N DIN BUZ

- Jemima girl mountain , Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in: Tales of the Jazz (Mondadori 1990). Location: NA FIT BETWEEN
- The wax doll and stepmother, Olive Schreiner, in: 1899 short stories (Ed. Labor 1988). Location: NI SCH OILS
Monday, December 19th will be the last meeting of the Group before the break for the (deserved) holiday season: it attempts to be complete!


to MONDAY 'December 19
14.30'
IN LIBRARY

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Cakes In A Shape Of A Bike

Rewriting between Aristotle and Publius Aurelius Statius

Elmar wrote:
The last time we did an experiment: since Keren, the LAT, the Kam and had Ledy invented the game to write a duet of short stories, and we read any one in particular inspired me, so I have asked to be able to do the rewriting.
said than done: and here it is.
Title: The man who bought the dolls.
again. Yes, once again, yes : has happened yet. Maybe it's fatigue, I have concerns? Maybe. But I have to go back: they are there, lined up, quiet, property: always smile.
are waiting for me.
never turn your head to peek at all the people go by. And there are many in this period onwards. I choose more than one, usually two, three best. Then I line up to pay, like everyone, I come quickly to my house, I lock myself in the room, sometimes I keep up my coat and begin to undress, then get dressed. Adagio. Always the same gestures, the same smiling faces, some with open mouth, someone else just mentioned with a stretching of the lips. Arms up and arms down. Mani long, red nails, nails pink.
I prefer them brown hair, are in fashion this year. A beautiful black-charcoal. I dye them too, sooner or later. What I do not go down is that blonde that seems so plastic. So shiny. And when I touch them, sometimes their hair I have left in the hands of tufts.
Disgusting.
And their clothes for me are those vestments. With this cold weather there are those who only brings a sequined top, boots and a pair of shorts, even without socks. But as they do, I can not resist. With those necklines, then. I would have liked to try the purple jacket with a green scarf, but she did not want to get rid of and I know I was not able to take it away: it seemed sewn on.
is not the first time I understood.
I'm getting old, my fingers are more agile and subtle as ever.
Or is the cold.
Yes, I have to do something to warm them. To warm up. It's cold. Now turn a nice fire here, in the middle of the room. That's it, no fear, stop barking Ken, no one will get hurt, I do not need to repeat it, I know they will stand still, as always.
Why are not afraid of fire. They
, my little. My Barbies three hundred seventy-four.

What do you think? It 's very different from the original script, no doubt, I have served only the basic idea, which I liked a lot: that of an adult male who collects Barbie dolls. The rest has features quite different from the original, nearly putting the grotesque sometimes halfway between the comic and the quasi-horror.
We talked about a subject very Interestingly the last time, namely: books for those who will not read . It popped up some titles, such as Val (who reads a lot and know a lot of authors) suggested, among other Fear and loathing in Las Vegas , Hunter Thompson (Bompiani 2000 - location NA THO HUN) Sweet like chocolate , by Laura Esquivel (TEA 1998 - location NS ESQ LAU), The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King (Sperling & Kupfer 1999 - location NA KIN STE), the proposed Lju Man Archangel , Arthur Conan Doyle (Mondadori 1995 - DOY coolazione NI ART), the Keren a timeless Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger (Einaudi, 2004 - JER SAL NA location), and Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Feltrinelli 1988 - location NS ALL ISA), the Kam The friend found , Fred Uhlman (Feltrinelli 1999 - location UHL NI FRE), I Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (Bloomsbury Publishing 2004 - NI location WEL IRV).
here next Monday for a new bibliography in the library of new books have arrived Danila Comastri Montanari, so I decided to combine the his titles those of Margaret Doody, who shares with the other writer the choice of the setting of its detective plot: the classical world. Greece with Aristotle as an investigator for Margaret Doody, Imperial Rome with the senator Publius Aurelius Statius for the Italian author.

Here then:
of Danila Comastri Montanari :
- Incitement to commit a crime (Todaro 2003). Location: TELLS DAN COM
- Olympia: survey Hellenic games (Hobby & Work 2004). Location: COM TELLS DAN

- Ars moriendi: Inquiry Pompeii (Hobby & Work 2003). Location: COM TELLS DAN

- Saturnalia (Hobby & Work 2002). Location: COM TELLS DAN

- Parce buried: the third survey of Publius Aurelius Statius (Hobby & Work 2005). Location: COM TELLS DAN
- goddess Spes last (Hobby & Work 1999). Location: COM TELLS DAN

- of Margaret Doody:

- Aristotle and the bronze ring (Sellerio 2003). Location: NA DOO Tues
- Aristotle and the mystery of life (Sellerio 2002). Location: NA DOO Tues
- Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin (Sellerio 2000). Location: NA DOO Tues
- Aristotle and poetic justice (Sellerio 2000). Location: NA DOO Tues

See you Monday 'on November 21 at 14.30', to the library!

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

How To Remove Membership From Poptropica



Elmar wrote:
Yesterday was an operational meeting, because we have discussed how best to publicize the group, which lately is a little tightening on itself. Sure, it's inevitable that you create the nucleus of / frequent / regular ici / e, but you do not understand why people so called "new" to be once, twice and then disappear. We wonder why: there seemed to be neither aggressive / self-celebrating and neither s, and certainly not boring / ee / authoritarian / and, in some way. From someone raises the possibility of proposing a kind of educational credit at the end of year (school) that I personally raise more than one concern, given that one of the first reason of existence the group was just her being from another school , which would inevitably with the fall if we introduce the speech claims. Another reason for doubt about a certain disaffection on the part of some historical components of the Group, which inexplicably (or with the usual excuses of "I have to study to be verified" "I workouts") have begun with the defections. , so hath been established that I will make a widespread distribution to the student newspapers of the leaflet + ID group, and let's see what happens. In any case, as far as I'm concerned, there are at least a couple more things I can not explain, and the total absence of adults, although as the months have made their (occasional) appearance to express heartfelt interest, such as also shows the disappearance of the rest in a record time of 20 to 30 leaflets " Carpe diem!" that advertise the group, distributed in the library at the end of last school year.


That said, here is the bibliography which will be discussed next time, between 15 days and that is Monday, November 7, the theme is Mirror:


- Armand the Vampire, by Anne Rice (Longanesi 1998). Location: NA RIC ANN

- Maurice of EMForster; in: Novels (Mondadori 1994). Location: NI FOR EDW

- Through the Looking Glass , by Lewis Carroll (Einaudi 1978). Location: STORAGE. 17T.06.34

- Between the Acts ; Waves, Virginia Woolf, in: Novels (Mondadori 2002). Location: NI WOO VIR

- Garden- party, Katherine Mansfield, in: Collected Tales, vol.2 (Adelphi 1991). Location: NI MAN KAT

And an essay :

- The myth of Narcissus: pictures and stories from Greece to the present, Maurizio Bettini, Enzo Pellizer (Einaudi 2003). Location: 809.93351 BET

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Ibanez Srtn Preamp Problems

Let's face the mirror in Paris and elsewhere


Elmar writes:

When we met last Monday, there were two new people with us which we asked their tastes in reading: Val particularly like the contemporary English literature and not only because he has great admiration for Federigo Garcia Lorca, while outlining the Lj's an unusual and appealing metaphor likening the philosophy to jazz music. Keren listened rapt, as she and LaT this year have a good philosophy professor who knows how to understand and appreciate the discipline to their students, the Kam launched the topic for the next meeting, which will be Monday, October 10: animals. This time I decided to give priority to stories and, by force myself, I set aside the cats, including the obvious Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (but I'm so sorry!) And inserted dogs, mice and even an elephant, in a range of shades ranging from yellow to almost horror (the story of Patricia Highsmith) humor of Mark Twain and O. Henry, whose stories are truly hilarious, usually through the Hans Christian Andersen, which is produced here in an unusual marine environment. Personally, I finished reading Cui prodest? , Danila Comastri Montanari, one of the novels in the series of Publius Aurelius Statius, set in ancient Rome: I have to see if the library because there are absolutely must read. This especially takes place between the domus of Statius, the photocopying of an avid bibliophile, Marcello Veranius, the slums with its brothels, the sordid termae of Sarpedon and the game of latrunculi, sort of ancestor of chess . What I appreciate most of the books of the mountain folk are, in addition to locations philologically perfect (even here we find the exact description of a dinner of ancient Rome), neat appendices, glossaries and glossary, notes and noterelle upon us nice tribute the author.

'll notice that, since it's been a while, and I could not post the first (but all I can do, the Group!) Do not speak of the discussion the last time because I do not remember more ... . However, Paris certainly reappear next Monday, because interesting things to read there were many: from a little-known classics to get to Balzac and Sue Zola. One caveat: I started a new Yellow Mondadori title cats mystery : refer back to their exclusion, I have made this anthology of three short novels by authors who collects cats as protagonists.

Here instead, other animals, bad, elegiac, impetuous, ill-treated but also winning anyway:
- The stolen white elephant ; A dog says, by Mark Twain; in: Tales of the Mississippi (Mondadori 1992). Location: NA TWA Tues

- Memoirs of a Yellow Dog , O. Henry, in: Memoirs of a Yellow Dog and Other Stories (Adelphi 1993). Location: NA HEN
- The great sea serpent, by Hans Christian Andersen, in: Fairy Tales (Einaudi 1992). Location: ND AND HAN

- The horse murderess, Robert C. Ackworth, in: Miss Paisley's Cat (Sellerio 2001). Location: 808.83872 GAT

- The mouse bravest of Venice, by Patricia Highsmith; in: Crimes bestial (Bompiani 1999). Location: NA HIG PAT

- The canary , Katherine Mansfield, in: Collected Tales, vol.2 (Adelphi 1991). Location: NI MAN KAT
Out of competition, a essay that I found extremely interesting:

- without restraint: the dog and the woman in the imagination of ancient Greece of Christian Franco (Princeton 2003). Location: 305.40938 FRA
I read on the back Cover:
Why the dog and the woman are so often associated with literature, folklore and myth? The book reconstructs the ancient tracks that outlined the complex features of the old dog in the imagination, from Argos, the prototype of canine loyalty, to Cerberus, cruel monster that guarded the entrance to the kingdom of the dead [...] The author also suggests an explanation of the apparent paradox that in Greece, as in other civilizations of the past and present, an animal so close to man active cultural elaborations of the sign is almost always negative. The same fate he touched, and touching in many cases, to other figures, the most different ones and the most similar known to man: women .

's definitely worth taking.
Then on Monday, October 10, at the library, the usual place.
And also expect the Bibe (Thanks for the photo!) And Gi!

HELLO!