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A poem and me: The pleasure of reading
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The pleasure of reading. What many of us have realised, of course, is that pleasure and understanding go hand in hand. The more we possess a book, the more we come to grips with its essence, the more satisfaction it gives us. The experience becomes more relevant, more urgent.". Labels: pleasure of reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Areopagitica: a rhetorical study. Blog to learn Spanish. Course to learn Spanish. My book : "De Madrid a Varsovia". The pleasure of reading.
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A poem and me: Nil desperandum
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The maxim "Nil desperandum" ( Odes. Book I, ode vii, line 27). Seems to be in most cultures. "Never despair" is absolutely necessary to overcome problems we all encounter in life. 65-8 BCE) was a literary critic, a lyric poet, and a great satirist. He was the son of a freed slave and had the opportunity to study in Rome and at the Athens Academy. He met Cicero there. Where he also uses similar expressions such as "In adversity, remember to keep an even mind" ( Book II, ode iii, line 1). My book : "De Mad...
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A poem and me: 01/10/13 - 01/11/13
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The Piccadilly Circus murderer. End of the story. Colette produced the piece of paper out of her pocket and unfolded it. It was the same document the chief inspector had left in the banker’s house. The very same document that Frank the Knife had found at the crime scene and dropped when he got in the wardrobe. Please pay to :. Mr Mortimer Brown the amount of. 15000 pounds- - - - - - - - - - -. The deadly silence by saying:. 8220;I never expected you to find out so fast, monsieur Turpin.”. In despair, the...
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A poem and me: 01/11/13 - 01/12/13
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369 years ago, Areopagitica. Was published in 23 November 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. When John Milton wrote in his political tract that “[a] good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life” (Milton 27), he would have never imagined that his words would welcome visitors to the New York Public Library in the 21. And many other subjects. However, there is something special in Milton´s short tract. First of all,. Abrams, M&...
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A poem and me: Be content with what you have
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Be content with what you have. It was Lao - tzu. The person who said: "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you". Tradition says that he was so sad by the things he saw around that he left civilization and went to the desert on the back of a buffalo. As he approached the Great Wall gate, the gatekeeper urged him to stay and write his beliefs for future generations. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other arti...
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A poem and me: 01/11/14 - 01/12/14
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Be content with what you have. It was Lao - tzu. The person who said: "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you". Tradition says that he was so sad by the things he saw around that he left civilization and went to the desert on the back of a buffalo. As he approached the Great Wall gate, the gatekeeper urged him to stay and write his beliefs for future generations. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other articles rel...
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A poem and me: Two witty Johns
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8220;Of The Conduct Of The Understanding”,. 1632-1704) writes not only about the importance of reading but about the importance of meditating after reading. He wrote: ”. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand. Everything too; but it is not always so. Furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating. Kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over. A good book i...
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A poem and me: 01/03/14 - 01/04/14
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Two days ago I went to see The King's Singers. 1532-1594) and the Polish composer and organist Mikolaj Zielenski. In addition, they also sang five songs written by Pawel Lukaszewski. Born 1968), who appeared on stage, to everybody's joy. The entire concert was sung in Latin except for the last 30 minutes in which they spent some time singing popular American songs from the 1920's and 30's. I had a great time and hope to see them again. Labels: The Kings singers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A poem and Me.
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A poem and me: John Donne and To his mistress going to bed
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John Donne and To his mistress going to bed. Is always a pleasure. I like most of his poems,especially those in which he develops his rhetorical technique to describe sex and sensual pleasure. Perhaps my favourite one is To his Mistress going to Bed. In this poem, he expresses freely his own sexual desire as he observes his lover undressed for bed. Donne, perhaps the most popular of the so-called metaphysical poets,. My new-found-land,27 My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned,28 My mine of precio...
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A poem and me: 01/12/13 - 01/01/14
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If you wish to give a very traditional end to 2013 with a Spanish touch, you have to eat twelve grapes at twelve o'clock at night. It is said that in 1909 there was a surplus of grapes in Alicante (Spain) and someone came up with the idea of eating a grape for each stroke of the bell at twelve at night. Certainly, that was an excellent idea to encourage people to eat grapes and, little by little, what started as a local tradition ended up in a national tradition, and a must to most Spaniards. Brazilian -...
