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“Perchè l’arte è soprattutto una ‘cosa mentale’ che manifesta una realtà umana: l’unica.” Este sitio forma una crónica imperfecta de mi vida. En el curso de doce años, ha sufrido una infinidad de encarnaciones; aunque, con el paso del tiempo el paréntesis entre una metamorfosis y la próxima ha crecido. Todo tiene su fin, naturalmente,…
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Why do Americans think that they’ve been to Ireland after visiting Dublin. Yes, it’s the capital but it is not Ireland. The city was founded by Norsemen and then was the seat of English dominion on the isle. And Ireland, so we are told, is a Celtic nation. Then again, I may be off the…
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While reading Strabo’s geographic tour de force, I chanced upon the following passage on Ierlen: It does seem to lay it on a bit thick. Perhaps all that is said about oi barbaroi is just fanciful chimera. Of course, no one wants to say they are fighting pussillanimous enemy; it would reflect poorly on them.…
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According to the BBC, the Foreign Office minister Kim Howells believes that the UK and Saudi Arabia have shared values1 and that the two kingdoms ought to unite around these purported shared values. Excuse me? According to the U.S. Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Report 2006 for Saudi Arabia, “Islam is the official religion,…
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Several days ago, I experienced a spine-chilling thrill, a rupture of Apocalyptic proportions, to wit, an alimentary orgasm. And what induced this Scriptural response? An artichoke. In need of groceries, I set foot in a Sainsbury’s for the first time, place where I would encounter my mythical artichoke; none of the shops I usually frequent…
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Before coming to Europe, I was an admirer of all things european. Effortlessly, I would declare ‘Europe is 50 years ahead of America in terms of morals’ as well as other europhile axioms chanted by rote. On the tour bus in Brussels, when we reached the EU parliament, a small French girl pointed at a…
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I’m in Amsterdam at the moment. I can’t say that I’m too keen on this city. Is it just or is the seedy underbelly of this city fueled by foreigners? For it seems that those offering drugs are either Afro-Caribbean or eastern europeans. Moreover, the salacious women offering themselves were squwaking in Spanish. While the…
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Una noche fría autumnal acompañada de té (Earl Grey), una que otra galleta y la música de Sufjan Stevens. Antípoda apósita a aquellas noches de invierno seis año atrás; una mezcla de agua, oscuridad: abismo primordial.
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“to increase in number and make our cities more populous, would it not seem absurd, the cause of the evil being evident and the remedy being in our own hands?º 7 For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they…
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The iPhone was introduced to-day, how exciting! (other European carriers are to be announced throughout the week, i.e., German and French) The revolutionary iPhone will be released on the 9th of November in the UK. It will retail for £269 (inc VAT), which is about $535 (the iPhone retails for $399 in the US). Also,…