January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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barthelme, 'the rise of capitalism' →
“Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own community?” (o site é estranho e nunca li o texto diretamente, mas me pareceu o barthelme mesmo)
SUBTILITAS: artificial suburbanism →
In early 1942, Japanese submarines began to surface around the California coast as WWII expanded to US boarders. A rightfully nervous government set to protect their most valuable coastal assets, including Lockheed Manufacturing, a major producer of military planes and equipment. Located in…
October 2011
13 posts
do The Corrections, do Franzen
(…) “Once or twice every night, serving dinner at the big round table, Enid glanced over her shoulder and caught him looking, and made him blush. Al was Kansan. After two months he found courage to take her skating. They drank cocoa and he told her that human beings were born to suffer. He took her to a steel-company Christmas party and told her that the intelligent were doomed to be...
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September 2011
12 posts
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“We still, alas, cannot forestall it—
This dreadful ailment’s heavy toll;
The...”
– Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (via i-starchild)
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lista de traduções de d. pedro II →
yuhuang:
falameia:
quenching:
ele também traduziu o prometeu acorrentado, as mil e uma noites (direto do árabe) etc.
d. pedro2 <33
(vale lembrar que Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS, geógrafo, explorador, escritor, soldado, orientalista, cartógrafo, etnólogo, espião, linguista, poeta, esgrimista, diplomata britânico e tradutor de, entre outras obras, O Livro das Mil e Uma...