July 2011
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La Sorcière started reviewing Downton Abbey. Obviously it was the push I needed to start watching it myself.
*yay 1910s*
(S’il y a des francophones dans le coin qui ne connaissent pas encore les reviews de séries de la Sorcière, vous ne savez pas ce que vous perdez ! =) )
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maikie replied to your post: So since I see one or two humans are around
Tu vas me donner envie de lire du Gary. Bien jouer.
*savoure son instant de gloire XD*
(Je n’arrive pas à décider lequel de ses bouquins est mieux pour commencer. L’homme à la colombe pour la rapidité et la rigolade ? Les Enchanteurs est superbe, mais on peut s’y perdre… Les racines du ciel,...
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So since I see one or two humans are around
If it’s not already the case, I obviously urge you to go and read the books of The Man With So Many Lives. You won’t regret it.
/propaganda
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J'oubliais.
« J’estime pour ma part que votre renvoi par le peuple français signifie tout autre chose que la décision que de Gaulle ne devrait plus gouverner la France. Au risque de conclure à la légère, je sens qu’il s’agit là encore d’une preuve qu’à l’âge de l’informatisation, les “grands hommes” sont tombés en désuétude : la technique propre aux solutions économiques tendant de plus en plus à...
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I need to make a Romain Gary tumblr
One never knows, perhaps one or two humans will read it. And I could finally resume a sane life.
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“J’ai fini par expédier à Bidault un télégramme personnel, surchiffré, priorité absolue : “J’ai l’honneur d’informer Votre Excellence qu’il a neigé à treize heures pendant vingt minutes sur Berne. Il convient de remarquer que cette chute de neige n’a pas été annoncée par le service météorologique helvétique et je laisse à Votre Excellence le...
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Z. dit : I love the bit with dandy clothes in the middle of Nazi headquarters. I LOVE IT.
I love... do you know who the Baron is in Gary's books ?
(not that I love the Baron himself, but I like Gary's idea of the cliché of British aristocracy and... anyway)
Zoridia dit : no ?
Z. dit : idealists are the last aristocrats
they want to always be dressed elegantly and perfectly
even among the ugliest ugliness of down-to-earth humanity
they do irony and detachement and high-placed values that never die
they're like knights protecting a Lady, except this Lady is Freedom, or Justice, or Equality, what you want
and so they have to behave like Knights.
Zoridia dit : Oh.... This is beautiful.
Z. dit : but the world, nowadays world, won't allow them
so their last elegance is the way they dress properly
metaphorically, morally
but the Baron does that practically
he goes around the world in British dandy clothes and never gets a stain on them
he doesn't talk, but he always seems on the verge of laughter.
(sometimes the Doctor reminds me a bit of him.)
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Watchyolanee:
Still so awesome.
Glorious. *_*
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Yolanee's hideout: Art for ourselves →
yolanee:
So few weeks I was sitting on a bench in our city’s square drawing this picture and some building studies when this older woman sits next to me. The other benches were mostly empty, she could have had sat there. I think she was curious about what I was doing.
She said: “Well, I guess that’s sort of decent for your age.”
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It is sooo difficult to remember this. Thank you for...
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How are you guys? =) Sorry for being so un-quality lately ‘-‘
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“Out of his zestful studies of man, from Thucydides to the Encylopaedists, from...”
– Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (via alanfuckingkhan)
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shergawia: The U.S. and more than 30 other... →
abudai:
More than 30 countries recognized the Libyan opposition as the “legitimate authority of Libya” Friday, a move that would keep up the military pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and potentially free up cash the rebels urgently need.
Such a move is a major upgrade for the opposition Transitional National Council, which has been seeking formal recognition from the United...
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In others words, I am very very tired - and...
The official debate about “French identity” has been shelved, but those who launched it in the first place still insinuate the same ideas through their everyday words. It has always existed, of course, but I hate it nonetheless.
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According to the French Prime Minister, traditions...
Environmentalist Eva Joly said it’d be nice to stop the military pomp on France’s Bastille Day.
Fillon basically called her uneducated and dumb. And then the stupidness/childishness/disgust/attacks on her double nationality started flowing.
Good work on making them talk about you, madam ;)
…I stand for - fuck yes, I support that - remembrance, memory, the respect of nowadays...
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Bouncing into Graceland: truthfacts about my... →
katiehipschman:
Neil Gaiman once wrote a Nebula-winning story using only the middle row of his keyboard.
Harper Collins has taken out a 2.5 million dollar insurance policy on Neil Gaiman’s accent.
If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
Neil Gaiman does not use Microsoft’s grammar-check. Microsoft uses a Gaiman-check.
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