Monday, January 23, 2006

How Do You Masterbate In Pubilc

Exasperated, funny, appalling: contemporary British authors

Elmar wrote:

In the group yesterday was a nice return, after much time spent on school sweaty papers: that of Bibe, which has been updated on the latest readings made, the window was dedicated to Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh, whose valley has read, as well as Trainspotting also The filthy , Roddy Doyle, Zadie Smith and Julie Highmore, whose novel has as its protagonist a group of reading.
has been said of the whole while, as always, among other things, Kfar launched the idea of \u200b\u200bgiving us a name, but came out proposals unconvincing, such as Fanta / Both , just because, having a can in front m'è occurred only one ...!


We have not yet read "The Squola "Which under the find a" cheap ads "and therefore came up with the idea, already hinted last time, try to make a comic of the reading group (which now still called WG): in this perspective, Keren has proposed to hold a book Controversy (extremely good at what I see), the side he thinks of something like Tongue twisters in a foreign language and dialect , and Kfar I proposed a book titled " something heroic," even though I do not remember how blown out. Of course can not miss the reviews of books and films.

But now here comes from No. 1 - Year II - March 17, 1955 "La Squola," a large and useful set of

ads cheap

- WANTED from leg amputee right and left leg amputee to purchase shoes
- WANTED justification also used. Possibly for "headache"
- SEARCH man - Diogenes
- IS CUTTING and affect banks to order. Reasonable prices, excellent references.

Fine Arts Academy - ACQUISTASI anything as long as useless, worm-eaten, as long as old, although caretaker
- CEDES urgent need because the last bench seats, good location, to the highest bidder

- would seem that someone looking for me, so I try travestimetno discrete or passport
also used
- Betrothed fled from Lecco looking for a home - Advertising Manzoni
- USUALLY Sadistic seeking H-bomb size pillow chair professor. Urgent.
- Some girls are looking for someone willing to try their
- SEARCH pushpin, but hurry before the Pia sit down!

Bello eh?!

Ed now, the literature on English authors Featured:

- Fever 90 ° , Nick Hornby (Bloomsbury Publishing 1997). Location: HOR NI NIC

- 31 Songs, Nick Hornby (Bloomsbury Publishing 2003). Location: HOR NI NIC

- The words to say, short stories edited by Nick Hornby (Bloomsbury Publishing 2001). Location: HOR NI NIC

- How to become good , Nick Hornby (Bloomsbury Publishing 2001). Location: HOR NI NIC

- The dirty , Irvine Welsh (TeaDue 2001). Location: NI WEL IRV

- Acid house, of Irvine Welsh (Bloomsbury Publishing 1999). Location: NI WEL IRV

- zero tolerance, of Irvine Welsh (Bloomsbury Publishing 2001). Location: NI WEL IRV

- The Commitments, Roddy Doyle (Bloomsbury Publishing 1998). Location: NI DOY ROD

- Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith (Mondadori 2003). Location: NI JAM MON

- The library of my dreams, Julie Highmore (Bloomsbury 2004). Location: NI HIG JUL


Until next time, that will be in 15 days as usual, namely


Monday, February 6
in the library



Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Full Metal Airsoft Chrome Desert Eagle

Portraits, appearances

The theme for the group yesterday was a portrait but also the appearance, or rather the semblance images, and indeed in the bibliography section, the next we are, in addition to portraits, even the ghosts, because basically it is a portrait a ghost, in the etymological sense (ghost comes from the greek phantàsima , shape, appearance. clipboard).
But yesterday's meeting was also the first of the new year, so I chose some of the most beautiful examples in the rich collection of nineteenth-century Almanacs Piacenza library, and we have read here and there of the songs: The Almanacs are the ancestors of practice Agendas: along with the calendar, however, reported more news of local interest, such as hours of care (we are one of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and not in Italy but in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza), days markets and fairs (there were also those of livestock), times prediction, useful information for work in the fields. Usually then you add more pages on various topics, and there were poems, sometimes humorous sometimes serious. Many of the Almanacs were monographs, that is dedicated to a specific subject: the so called Childhood was intended to raise funds for Kindergartens Piacenza, through the sale. Just on "Childhood" in 1855 we find a brief but significant indication of the educational differences (which were then regarded as normal practice) to be followed in respect of children, free to move and run around everywhere, and girls, forced instead to sit constantly on no better specified "toilet seat": perhaps the high chairs. Another almanac was entirely devoted to a curious argument: it is called Almanac magnetic-spirit and he advanced, unique, in areas rarely visited spiritualism. And here also, incidentally, women are immediately presented as subjects magnetizable better because of their docile nature, passive, easily suggestible.

legggere Then I wanted some numbers to one of the first student newspaper citizens The Squola, of which the library owns the years 1955-56: a great success. This magazine, first of all era stampato in modo estremamente professionale (forse qualcuno aveva dei genitori tipografi o redattori del quotidiano locale!) e poi usa un linguaggio che in alcuni casi è di un'attualità incredibile; oltre a ciò, è straordinariamente spassoso; quindi vi trascrivo qua sotto un'autentica perla che ha fatto ribaltare tutti dalle risate, ma non è che una fra le tante: l'articoletto (dal numero del 17 marzo 1955) firmato CRITICUS, s'intitola

Latinoque
Cum magistra in aula intrata, eius adventus acceptus est magno cum clamore, fischis choribusque suorum discipulorum, qui cogitant felicem oram esse transituri. Nemo, ut solitum est, lectionem scit, sed omnes volunt esse interrogati et hoc accidit quia, notum est, eos [mi sembra che ci dovrebbe essere il nominativo: ii, e non l'accusativo: eos - n.d.r.] qui monstrant se esse parati numquam fregati sunt. Sed pulchrum est videre quod accidit inter bancos dum magistra aliquem interrogat. Alii ad briscolam iocant in santa pace, alii paninos imbottitos a suis sociis fregatos magna cum fame ateque adpetito manducant, alii romanos, gazzettas et etiam verba cruciata legunt. Est autem caput classis qui compitum habet ut soldos colgat pro alluvionatis, sed vero in illa busta omnia intrat, cum soldibus medaglias antiquas atque cerinos, et pomorum buccias et ciccas et panis fregolas [ma forse: briciolas - n.d.r.] , atque alia innominabilia. Tamen quoniam omnia pro causa servit semper pervenimus primi cum magna gloria. Tandem campana sonat et clamor magistram saluta quae de aula exiit.
CRITICUS


Ed ora, la bibliografia sul ritratto e l'apparenza:

- Ritratti d' artista , di Susan Vreeland (Neri Pozza 2005). Collocazione: NA VRE SUS

- La passione di Artemisia , di Susan Vreeland (Neri Pozza 2003). Collocazione: ND VRE SUS

- Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio , di Vincenzo Consolo (Einaudi 1996). Collocazione: N CON VIN

- Il ritratto di Elsa Greer , by Agatha Christie (Oscar Mondadori 1980). Location: NI CHR AGA

- The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honore de Balzac (Passigli 1998). Location: BAL HON NF

- The elixir of the devil, by ETA Hoffmann (Einaudi 1989). Location: NT ERN HOF

- The photograph, by Penelope Lively (Bloomsbury Publishing 2004). Location: NI LIV PEN

- ghost stories of Henry James (Einaudi 1988). Location: NA JAM HEN

- be read at dusk. Tales of ghosts, by Charles Dickens (Einaudi 1997). Location: NI CHA December

- Ghosts and other horrors, of Montague Rhodes James ((Newton Compton 1995). Location: NI JAM MON


See you Monday, Jan. 23 at the library.

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!