Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Free Groping On Trains And Buses

If the books go to the library, the library can get books? The debate is open.

Elmar wrote:

On April 27 was translocated the classroom, where it meets the Group of Reading, held educational activities with classes of high school and made the conference in October -November and December on topics such as the relationship between the Word and Image in Judaism and Islam, ties novel-film and the history of the sixteenth century, in a room on the ground floor of the Library Passerini Landi - via Carducci 14, Piacenza, local that:

1. has no habitable

2. has no independent income

3. has no connection to the Internet

4. is not intended to connect the screen to the VHS-DVD, with the obvious consequence that the plasma screen on the wall, and cost thousands of euro, it is virtually an empty shell.

I explained the situation to the group that spontaneously drafted a letter to be sent to the local newspaper, Freedom ', to the accompaniment of many signatures from students and teachers in these 8 years have learned to appreciate what Educational Department ago; n must be on too many illusions: the situation, generated by an almost surreal series of events related to the long yard, will not change abruptly. But at least we will make our voice heard.

Actually what I think about where we need to focus attention is the fact that the Education Department, since there has always been perceived as a foreign body authentic vocation of a library. That is to choose books, buy, catalog them and organize them into a coherent whole, promoting research and retrieval of bibliographic information, lend, but always without considering the merits of the content. The books go to the library, where they are handled, labeled, made available and provided. But never, perhaps, when read directly from the professionals; or at least not this fall nell'ossatura of their duties is a plus, the work can be read when you have time to do so, the proof is that the experience of reading groups and recently (two years) in a centuries-old library like ours. And that's why over 8 years of 4 directors who succeeded not only there was one that did not ask: " But the Education Department, what does ?". Question that has never been addressed either to the catalogs or the Conservative Fund Old, because these words, cataloging, storage, data processing, are part of the DNA of the library, and not only that of Piacenza, but the library in general, Library with the uppercase "B". Perhaps because
, paradossalmetne, the library does not aim so much to read and talk about what the books say, but particular emphasis to make them available as objects, open, browse, perhaps crossing the content start, just maybe, the alien is, not covered by its physiology.
Too bad, though.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

How To Reset Club Combination Lock

Scriptures. To recognize

Elmar wrote:

begins today with two papers, the publication of some examples of the vast and disorganized (= none at all the titles, which is not facilitates the reproach of the texts, if necessary. Right? Right? ) literary production of some participants in the group read: yesterday we witnessed a theatrical staging: Keren and hand, the authors have interpreted a delicious piéce humorous, with no title for the note, like all their stories, which I transcribe below, the title could be what, for office, I decided to give me:

Really?

"Peter, tell me, what is the capital of Germany?"

Peter: "Um, teacher ... I could not study yesterday ... because my grandmother's dog attacked me just as I picked up the geography book to defend myself and I of course I had to use the book as a shield. And the dog has eaten. "

" E 'for the dog if you grandmother died three or four times already? The dog that attacks you always just when you're doing your homework? "

Peter:" Er ... no, actually it is a grandmother who became my grandmother recently, because my grandfather has run remarried. Anyway, I believe that dogs have some strange aversion to books and notebooks. "

" Peter, you're always the same: you lodge this afternoon at school an extra hour to help the caretaker to unclog the toilet. Then write on the blackboard a hundred times DO NOT HAVE TO INVENT STORIES love life MY GRANDFATHER. It'll stay here until we learn the lesson of geography. "

Peter:" But teacher, I have today ... now I have to go ... I have to go to the divorce of my grandfather, you know, in confidence, new relationships with her grandmother are at a critical point ... because of his dog. "

" Oh, Peter! I do not believe, then you can not always invent all these excuses. Want to talk to your parents. "

Peter:" Master, really ... my parents during this period have not a minute more to the story of his grandfather. You know how ... "

" Peter's enough: come to the blackboard you wonder. "

Peter:" Master, really right now I can not get up from the chair because the doctor has strictly forbidden me to do too much effort: I have low blood pressure. "

" Ah, then you wonder the place Peter. Tell me what year was the discovery of America. "

Peter:" La-la-la-la-lalla-lallerooo! Song and dance teacher: I suffer from attention deficit disorder. "

" I can not hold more -U. Now we go by the director what do you tell four. We will call your parents. Let's go. "

Peter:" No, teacher! I promise I will now do the good, not more disturbing, indeed! [sobs and blows her nose loudly] not send me by the director! "

" Oh, okay. Okay! But you must promise me that from now on will say no more absurd lies, no ailments, no excuses. Promise? You promise? "

Peter:" Truly, teacher, are suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder that keeps me from making promises or keep them. And I also have a disease that prevents me to concentrate and study. But I can try. "

" Peter, you ... You make me crazy !!!!! Now get the history book and read on page 18 "

Peter:" Master, really this morning I went to the eye and now I can not read because I have dilated pupils. "

" ENOUGH. ENOUGH. ENOUGH. You are the most shameless child that has ever existed. Now I'll knock me out and call your own. Let's go. " [takes him by the ear and is the director's office, here on the phone calls home to Peter. Respond mother] " Good morning Madam, I am the teacher of Peter. There is a problem, you can come here now? "

Mother of Peter:" Excuse me, you know, but I do not know if I can see it is a hectic period, my father is divorcing, the dog continues to tear the books of Peter and he has problems to study, and also to the eye. The work is hard, we are at a bad time lady, I'm sorry. And then this morning Someone stole my car and my husband that they have invested. What he has not done anything for Foruno, but knows it is, the hustle, fear, and my mother-in-law is a disaster in these cases. "

[The teacher slowly away from the ear and the receiver sets Pierino air hallucinated]

Peter: "What does the mother?"

"says ... says ... well, let's leave Peter. Come on, let's go back to class. "

So while we're on the subject, here are some books about Lies


- Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio - Einaudi 1987 - Location: 853.1 BOC de

- Nose , Moliere - Einaudi 1976 - Location: 842.4 MOL

- The Liar by Carlo Goldoni - Einaudi 1963 - Location: 852.6 GOL bu

- Why do we say lies , Gianna Schelotto - Mondadori 1996 - Location: N SCH GIA

- The honest liar, Tove Jansson - Hyperborea 1997 - Location: NT JAN TOV

-
Lies Women , Ulickaja of Ljudmila - Frassinelli 2005 - Location: NA ULI LJU

- The Bonfire of the lies , Gabriella Magrini - Sperling Kupfer 2001 - Location: N May GAB

- Talent of Mr.Ripley , Patricia Highsmith - Bompiani 1993 - Location: NA HIG PAT


The second is that we read the list made by Val of THINGS I HATE: the last time we had read Buzzati's story with that title and we decided to make a similar list each. Between yesterday and Val had brought them, and so we have beds while others wrote of the jet at the time, and will be published later (after the revision of the text with the additions as they come to mind)


these things I hate

- those who eat the potato with a fork
- those that pass in front of you when you're in line
- what if they pull too
- the ever-colored sweaters preposterous that my grandmother gave me for Christmas
- who never cries
- books without
smell - making the bed
- those who can not eat pizza
- those that give labels to everything and everyone
- who screams for no reason
- the butts in the seats of the bus
-
wars - the powerful who can not exploit their power
-
pollution - the unwise
- the prissy
- who is blind to the world
- who wants to do everything
a fashion - the manic exhibitionism
- the exploiters
-
health seekers - those who always put the dots on "i"
- The family of Mulino Bianco
- reality shows and trash TV
- that the Keren She drops the bracelet during the meetings of the Group
-
hypocrites - the inconsistent
- the girls should be geese
- bad movies and TV series
unnecessary - the ignorant and stupid

E 'followed a heated debate here: fashions and fashionable girls, TV and reality shows, messages and commercials, as well as on bracelets dropped. Even pens and paper were dropped because, at the same time. We then talked about books read to recently and in particular I've told my impressions The days of Arthur Rimbaud fragile, Philippe Besson, at the end, we visited the new headquarters of the House Education on the ground floor, near the media center, where the group will shortly hold its meetings. There are half of the Easter holidays and the trip to Lecce for the project on the European Parliament, so

I'll see you Monday 'May 8 IN LIBRARY

HELLO!








Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Herpes Virus On Forhead

A bibliography

Elmar wrote:

talk of hands, please read ... your hand? No, of course, but there are stories and novels that dwell on the hands, sometimes they do have a life of its own, such as Guy de Maupassant, Patrick McGrath, or that their stories offer us funny and disturbing stories of hands by self- 'human body, that they go around to the combination of all colors. And so I proposed a range of texts on the subject of articulated hand, from folklore ( cut the girl out of the hands is a French fairy tale) to up to contemporary writers, then yesterday we talked about free-wheeling of the last things read: Val is starting to complete the complete works of Irvine Welsh, missing him only two, the Ledy, which some did not participate in the Group, has updated us on his reading of this period, and so did the One and You and I'm reading Dante Alighieri and crimes of the mosaic , released recently for the Yellow Mondadori, and I would certainly say that the joy of estimators philosophy, it is rich in ideas from Convivio and for scholarly dissertations. The Keren borrowed Annie Proulx, and then after seeing Brokeback Mountain bed , and so he realized that the genre westerns (both the historical, border, than that of modern-rural setting) is not for her.

And now here's the bibliography shows or "abusive") =] if you like!

- hand, Luke Doninelli - Garzanti 2001 - Location: DON TELLS LUC

- hand Pomarancio, Domenico Cacopardo - Mondadori, 2003 - Location: telling CAC Sun

- Four ever, by Paco Ignacio Taibo 2 - TEA 1997 - Location: NS CAP TAI

- Without hands, Titti Boffo - The Turtle 1993 - Location: NAR BOF TIT

- severed hand, Blaise Cendrars - Garzanti 1993 - Location: CEN NF BLA

- The hard hands, Rolly Marchi - Vivaldi 1996 - Location: telling Tues ROL

- Hand ; in: fantastic stories of Guy de Maupassant - Mondadori 1983 - Location: NF GUY MAU

- The girl from the hands cut ; in: The forest: myths, legends and fairy tales - Mondadori 1989 - Location: 398.2 BOS

- The hand of a maniac , in: Water and blood , by Patrick McGrath - Bompiani 1988 - Location: NI MCG PAT


Then I read " Group Photo " tell a chilling Buzzatti, and together we peeled and read other stories from that collection, I'm sorry to (ed.Mondadori 1996): in particularly impressed us the list of "Things I Hate ," and we decided that


for next time, which will be
Monday, April 3
at the same time, everyone will
a similar list.

So goodbye to April 3rd!

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Vertical Pink Line In Lcd Tv

HANDS DAY ... Those of the French language, and then ... well ... the border

Elmar wrote:

Last time we looked at two bibliographies are quite different: continuing on the itinerary contemporary European writers (novels and short stories not prior to 2000) were the featured writers in French, but since it came out a few films based on works belonging to the western genre, or border, I decided to prepare something on this subject, and so that's what bubbles pot:

first the French:

- AAA Rent , Didier Daeninckx ( Mondadori 2003). Location: NF DAE DID

- My father, of Eliette Abecassis (Tropea 2003) . Location: ABE NF ELI

- The reader , Annie François (Bloomsbury Publishing 2000). When positioning C: NF BETWEEN ANN

- Mammals, Pierre Merot (Feltrinelli 2004) . Location: NF MR PIE

- The house of the sisters, by Gilles Rozier (Einaudi 2005). Location: NF ROZ GIL

- The nightcap, Dominique Manotti (Tropea 2003) . Location: NF MAN Sun

- Bijou, by Patrick Modiano (Einaudi 2005). Location: NT WAG JAN

- Brecht's Lover, by Jacques-Pierre Amette (Bloomsbury Publishing 2004). Location: NF AME JAC

- Here is the story of Daniel Pennac (Feltrinelli 2003). Location: NF DAN PEN

- Kif Kif Tomorrow, Faiza Guen (Mondadori 2005). Location: NF GUE FAI

- The rifle of my father, by Hiner Saleem (Einaudi 2004). Location: NF SAL HIN


- then, the frontier:


- close , Annie Proulx (Baldini & Castoldi, 1999). When positioning C: NA PRO ANN
Within the collection the story: PEOPLE OF WYOMING, from which the film Brokeback Mountain

- The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy (Einaudi 1995) . Location: NA MCC COR

- Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy ( Einaudi 1998 ). Location: NA MCC COR

- Horses of Cormac McCarthy ( Einaudi 1996) . Location: NA MCC COR

- The East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Mondadori 1974). Location: NA STE JOH

- To a God Unknown, of John Steinbeck (Oscar Mondadori 1996 ) . Location: NA STE JOH

- A lady in the west , Isabella Bird (1998 EDT). C When positioning: NI BIR ISA


There's something to read that, right?

the meantime I've finished "The Book of Secrets
" of CLGrace: the story takes place in the fourteenth century (CL Grace also writes under the pseudonym Paul Harding, the series of detective stories set in ancient Mondadori Egypt, which has as its protagonist the court Amerotke) and unlikely (in my opinion) is investigating this Swinbrooke Kathryn, married to a pharmacist Colum she insists on calling "my fiery Irish" "My Wild Irish" (a bit like If I call my husband "my wild retired post office, but can you? No, you can not.) However, the basic idea was not bad: The Book of Secrets is a valuable code that contains all the codes of the secret agents of Her Majesty in France is not really true, but what gives more disturbing is the plot, better, and chaotic tangles of two plots only confusissimo lontananmente connected, the historical-political-espionage, precisely, and the poison spread in a local English village of the future because of ' ammazzamento sacrilegious (in church, where there was the right of asylum) of a knight and two archers of Lancaster, after the war ended with York.

Now I have started "Murder on Astor Place
" set in New York of the nineteenth century, starring a midwife, who already seems more likely than before, both as a plot as characters. We'll talk



Monday, March 6
library
14.30 '