November 2011
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“Nathanaël, je t’enseignerai la ferveur. Nos actes s’attachent à...”
– André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres, 1897
Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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“ENVOI Nathanaël, à présent, jette mon livre. Émancipe-t’en. Quitte-moi....”
– André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres, 1897
Nov 25th
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Ménalque is based on Oscar Wilde.
adireadire: Well this book just got a lot more immoral! ^o^
Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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Où lire du Tahar Ben Jelloun à n'en plus finir... →
Nov 25th
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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“Overwhelmed with sloth and melancholy, I dream in a bed in which I am trussed...”
– Saint-Amant, The Lazy Poet (Le paresseux), 1631 Classic.
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 17th
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“Ô vie ! C’est moi qui, Malgré toute la futilité, suis débordante de...”
– La vie, Forough Farrokhzad
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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So my way of studying for exams consists in:...
And then my favourite library is like come take me baby you can go through all my shelves and find beauties and thoughts from all over the world and history that would make your brain a far better place and also bring you pleasure~ And then I stare at my university books and they’re like LOL NO FRENCH LAW.
Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
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it's all semantics.: How Downton Abbey series 3... →
doh-rae-me: thequietworld: According to Tim Dowling of the Radio Times Episode 1: Christmas 1922 New technology brings mixed fortunes when Sir Richard Carlisle is run over by the van delivering Downton’s first radio. Mr Bates is shot while breaking out of prison, but manages to escape to Dublin where he meets Lady Sybil (now Dr Sybil Branson) in hospital. Her discovery of penicillin...
Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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The Pretty Redhead
Last January, following the unexpected success of his little book Time For Outrage!, Stéphane Hessel gave a conference in Strasbourg in which he read a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire was one of the greatest French poets who fought in the trenches during WWI and survived a head wound only to die of the Spanish flu on Nov. 9th 1918. Stéphane Hessel was 22 in 1940 when he lost his French...
Nov 11th
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“Here I am before you all a man of some intelligence Who knows life and of death...”
– Apollinaire, ‘La Jolie Rousse’ (Calligrammes, 1918) trans. Richard Price
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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“How could I refuse a man anything with a naked sword in his hand?”
– The Mark of Zorro, 1940 (I won’t. I won’t quote every sword metaphor from every swashbuckler movie that I know. I won’t. I’m stopping right now.)
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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