January 2010
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“I [have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I...”
– Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).
Shigeru Umebayashi, Yumeji’s Theme (In: In the...
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[1882] Shandy Hall
LAURENCE STERNE’S HOUSE - One morning we started by train for Coxwold, which is only a few miles off. The village here is singularly charming; the yellow road mounts to it, shaded on each side by trees, and nearly at the end of the village it takes a curve just where an enormous elm tree stands out on the pathway.
Beyond is the church, and not far from this is the long one-storied,...
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Arvo Pärt, Summa (In: Summa for strings,...
“Anserem elixum calidum ex ivre frigido Apiciano:
Teres piper, ligusticum,...”
– Apicius, De re coquinaria, VI, viii, 235.
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Thelonious Monk, I didn’t know about you...
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“‘I was telling the young lady that movement, the simple capacity to change...”
– Don DeLillo, Running Dog (1978)
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“— What happen then, Mr Bones?
you seems excited-like.
— Fell Henry back into...”
– John Berryman, Dream Song 26.
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"Machado não pega ninguém"
As mulheres do auctor de Quincas Borba são em regra incolores, sem expressão.
O motivo d’esta fraqueza acha-se na estructura do talento de que as imaginou. Os grandes pintores do genero foram sempre emeritos conquistadores, como Shakespeare, Boccacio, Byron e Dumas, pai, ou insignes mexeriqueiros, como Brantôme, Saint Simon e Balzac. Para bem retratar mulheres, é indispensável sentil-as ao...
“3. The falling of Salt is an authentick presagement of ill luck, nor can every...”
– Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica (V.xxii): Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations.
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Voodoo in Haiti
“Certain exotic words are charged with evocative power. It usually conjures up visions of mysterious deaths, secret rites - or dark saturnalia celebrated by ‘blood-maddened, sex-maddened, god-maddened’ negroes. The picture of Voodoo which this book will give may seem pale beside such images. In fact - what is Voodoo? Nothing more than a conglomeration of beliefs and rites of...
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“Adieu to you, noble down-East lobster, all-too-rare-because-so-damned-expensive...”
– John Barth, “Goodbye to the fruits” (In: On with the story, 1997)
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Rubinho e a Força Bruta, Artista é o caralho (In:...
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toada velha e cansada:
“Nada impressiona tanto o estrangeiro como essa ausência de livros nas casas brasileiras.”
— Elizabeth Agassiz, Viagem ao Brasil 1865-1866.
“[Sobre o julgamento do público:] tanto melhor se ele o despreza, porque o Autor interessa em acabar com essa vida desgraçada, que se diz de Poeta.”
— Gonçalves Dias, Primeiros Cantos, 1847.
“E é isto a vida literária! Futuro!...
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“Ándeme yo caliente
y ríase la gente.
Traten otros del gobierno
del mundo y...”
– Luis de Góngora, “Letrilla”.
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“Personally, I think it’s a really neat time. I’ve got friends who...”
– SALON Features: interview w/ David Foster Wallace
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João Nogueira, Batucajé (In: Espelho, 1977.)
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João Nogueira - Wilson, Geraldo & Noel (In:...
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