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!