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(June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011)</div>
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Zahara is and Afrosoul singer from South Africa. She sings in her native tongue Xhosa and English.</div>
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Loliwe - The Train<br />
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"the train is pushing<br />
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wipe those tears off, loved one<br />
in Heaven, in the Lord<br />
lives only the holy<br />
if you want to go there, pray"<br />
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"I will come, I will come back bringing you my heart.<br />
Make it pure."<br />
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Writer and Owner of The River Cottage, Devon</div>
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Sean Brock executive chef at Husk</div>
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Charleston, South Carolina</div>
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Middendorf's legendary Shaved Catfish<br />
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Ian Orr</div>
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Owner/Head Chef</div>
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Brown's Restaurant</div>
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Derry Co Londonderry, Ireland</div>
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Grilled Chicken Breast<br />
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Hake & Plaice Fish Recipe<br />
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Easy Meatloaf<br />
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Beef Rump Steak & Pepper Stir Fry<br />
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Pear Tart<br />
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Favorite Chefs</div>
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The Little Paris Kitchen</div>
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Trout in a parcel<br />
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Quiche Lorraine<br />
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Myrtle Allen</div>
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Chef - Owner of Ballymaloe House</div>
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County Cork, Ireland</div>
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Pioneer in sustainable, seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.</div>
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The Ballymaloe Cookbook</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/87478576">Myrtle Allen A Life In Food</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user9284012">Ballymaloe House</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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Alain Passard French chef and owner of L'Arpège Paris.</div>
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Passionate about his simple garden recipes. Fruits and vegetables sourced from his three organic kitchen gardens located outside of Paris.<br />
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Melon with mozzarella<br />
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Turnips in a web<br />
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Beet cooked with salt<br />
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Scallop with laurel<br />
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<a href="http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners/l-arpege">http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners/l-arpege</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Passard">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Passard</a><br />
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Favorite Chefs</div>
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Magnus Nilsson head chef at Fäviken in Sweden</div>
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Toasted Barley Tea<br />
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Traditional Flatbread<br />
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The introduction to a song is perhaps the most important part because it's what we first hear and it's what first pulls us in. Here are my Top 40 best song intros for classic pop/rock/blues genres, mostly from the 60s and 70s, with a few from the 80s and 90s.<br />
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1. Come Together (The Beatles)<br />
Paul's cool repeating bass line, Ringo's dampened drum rolls, and John's whisper-like "Shoot me" are amazing to behold. You know something special is about to happen, and you're not disappointed when it does.<br />
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2. Riders on the Storm (The Doors)<br />
The wind, rain, and thunder are a perfect fit with the eighth-note bass line; the electric piano wake up notes are followed by a pedal sustain run down the keyboard to set up the main piano groove.<br />
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3. Chest Fever (The Band)<br />
The very first three organ notes grab your attention and twist and move into a grinding sound that shakes the ground. A quick glissando launches the main lick which is the foundation of the song. The 16th note piano vamp and the electric guitar fills add tension.<br />
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4. Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds)<br />
Two Rickenbacker 12 strings with falling chord fingering and punchy starts and stops make this the signature song of folk/rock.<br />
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5. Money for Nothing (Dire Straits)<br />
The angelic, electronic keyboard pads and falsetto "I want my MTV" are overtaken by pounding drums rolls that lead to a first rate rough and ready electric guitar riff that becomes the music refrain of the song.<br />
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6. Superstition (Stevie Wonder)<br />
Great drum beat sets up an unforgettable funky clavinet riff that sustains the song.<br />
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7. Gimme Some Lovin’ (The Spencer Davis Group)<br />
Simple bass riff and primitive pounding drums provide a great backdrop to the drone of the Hammond organ. The vocal punctuation "Hey" announces the first verse.<br />
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8. Eli’s Coming (Laura Nyro)<br />
The haunting first organ note is full of drama and sets the stage for Nyro's voice with its own powerful dynamics. The soft horn textures lead into a gospel like piano vamp that establishes the song's driving beat.<br />
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9. Philosopher's Stone (Van Morrison)<br />
Beautiful piano and organ parts compliment each other and set the stage for Van's meditation on searching for meaning.<br />
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10. The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby)<br />
A brilliant piano introduction, free form at first, but then joining the drum beat with the song's main piano motif.<br />
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11. A Change Is Gonna Come (Otis Redding)<br />
The beautiful horn intro against the falling piano chords ends to leave a silent space that perfectly sets up Redding's signature worried line singing.<br />
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12. Wooden Ships (CSN)<br />
The dampened guitar notes at the beginning set the rhythm and introduce bold chords and aggressive lead work against standout out bass lines; seamlessly the guitar lead changes to a more mellow tone to set up the first lyrics.<br />
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13. Love and Happiness (Al Green)<br />
The first solo guitar chord brings in the title vocal line. Green worries the lines as only he can do. Five foot taps and a great guitar lick start the three chord turn around to verse one.<br />
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14. Norwegian Wood<br />
The first part of a memorable melody is repeated, the second time around by a sitar, something quite unique for popular music.<br />
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15. Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf)<br />
One of the the best guitar riffs of all time; raw, direct, hypnotic and a perfect match for Wolf's growling voice.<br />
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16. Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)<br />
The Bach-derived organ introduction is a hallmark in rock music history.<br />
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17. & 18. Brown Sugar, Give Me Shelter (Rolling Stones)<br />
Two guitars working great together with a solid drum beat create a sound that does New Orleans proud.<br />
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Haunting electric guitar chords and lead work along with the ethereal oohs build to a strong back beat to launch the opening verse. Very memorable.<br />
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19. California Girls (Beach Boys)<br />
The smooth, lilting guitar and bass joined by the horn section provide a nice contrast to the electric organ/bass vamp that starts the first verse.<br />
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20. Your Love is Forever (George Harrison)<br />
The beautiful chordal melody and harmonics set this lovely song in motion. The guitar tone surrounds the song with warmth and love.<br />
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The introduction to a song is perhaps the most important part because it's what we first hear and it's what first pulls us in. Here are my Top 40 best song intros for classic pop/rock/blues genres, mostly from the 60s and 70s, with a few from the 80s and 90s.<br />
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21. Layla (Derek & The Dominos)<br />
One of the most memorable guitar riffs to start a rock song-- equal parts strength and melody ending in a strong minor chord.<br />
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22. Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band)<br />
Great bass line joined by guitar one then guitar two create a blues/rock sound that nicely sets up the vocal to this signature Allman Brothers song.<br />
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23. Proud Mary (Credence Clearwater Revival)<br />
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This intro chord pattern has become synonymous with rollin' on a river. They really lift the energy level.<br />
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24. One of These Nights (Eagles)<br />
A nice bass lick played against a chop guitar, later joined by sustained guitar harmony notes which come to a four beat dramatic halt to start the verse. <br />
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25. Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf)<br />
A drum flam sets up one of the most memorable guitar riffs in classic rock. Definitely gets your attention-- simple, direct, and effective.<br />
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26. Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)<br />
Solid drum beat sets up the riff that can only mean one thing-- Pretty Woman is about to start.<br />
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27. Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)<br />
Moody electronic keyboard pad leads to a sparkling rhythmic guitar that joins a heavy kick drum centered beat with bass.<br />
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28. I’m a Man/Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)<br />
Solo guitar and vocal ad lib quickly jump to the famous 5 note no nonsense lick that is a perfect fit for the lyric.<br />
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29. Fire Rain (James Taylor)<br />
Smooth, melodic finger style acoustic guitar work that became the signature style of James Taylor. No one does it better.<br />
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30. Knock On Wood (Eddie Floyd)<br />
Classic soul horn section piece that all other are judged against.<br />
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This intro riff opened a new door to what was possible with an electric guitar. With Jimi Hendrix a basic blues lick becomes something completely new.<br />
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32. I'll Take You There (Staple Singers)<br />
One beat drum starts clean guitar and electric piano lick. Horns start and stop and Mavis's gospel style ad libs lead to the first line, "I know a place."<br />
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33. We Won’t Get Fooled Again (The Who)<br />
Measures of eighth note electronic keyboard set up guitar power chords and distinctive high energy drum beat.<br />
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34. Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)<br />
Another memorable and forceful guitar riff starts this classic rock song and drives each verse.<br />
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35. Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)<br />
This classic of the classics is where rock lead guitar came from.<br />
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36. Papa Was a Rolling Stone – full version (The Temptations)<br />
This intro is quite an arrangement in itself. Bass and hi hat start strong rhythm; then strings and wah wah guitar, then trumpet solo followed by Wurlizer; then hand clapping and kick with strings coming and going until the first vocal line.<br />
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37. Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)<br />
Grunge bands probably liked the power chords in this intro.<br />
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38. Dance To The Music (Sly & The Family Stone)<br />
Dynamic horn section against strong back beat set up a cool four measure a cappella section, followed by the title line chorus. Hard to tell where the intro stops and the main song begins, but who cares. It all works.<br />
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39. White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)<br />
Unique bass and snare drum provide backdrop for a haunting, flamenco style guitar line.<br />
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40. Never Tell Your Mother She’s Out of Tune (Jack Bruce)<br />
Great bass and horn arrangement that could only come from Jack Bruce. <br />
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Ryan Wiebe: 2014 State Small Farmer of the Year North Carolina<br />
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Vandana Shiva Speaking in Vermont in Support of GMO labelling<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685438418704718317.post-55263675793417665282014-08-16T08:26:00.000-07:002014-08-16T08:26:48.692-07:00A. R. Ammons - Selected Short Poems<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A. R. Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001)</td></tr>
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<b>Reading</b><br />
It's nice<br />
after dinner<br />
to walk down to<br />
the beach<br />
<br />
and find<br />
the biggest<br />
thing on earth<br />
relatively calm.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b>Poetry to the Rescue</b><br />
You must be<br />
nearly lost to<br />
be (if<br />
found) nearly<br />
<br />
found<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>North Street</b><br />
I tipped my head<br />
to go under the<br />
low boughs but<br />
<br />
the sycamore mistook<br />
my meaning and<br />
bowed back.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b>Substantial Planes</b><br />
It doesn't<br />
matter<br />
<br />
to me<br />
if<br />
<br />
poems mean<br />
nothing:<br />
<br />
there's no<br />
floor<br />
<br />
to the<br />
universe<br />
<br />
and yet<br />
one<br />
<br />
walks the<br />
floor.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Equilibrations</b><br />
If you walk back<br />
and forth<br />
<br />
through a puddle pretty<br />
soon<br />
<br />
you wet the whole<br />
driveway but of<br />
<br />
course dry<br />
the puddle up.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Winter Scene</b><br />
There is now not a single<br />
leaf on the cherry tree:<br />
<br />
except when the jay<br />
plummets in, lights, and,<br />
<br />
in pure clarity, squalls:<br />
then every branch<br />
<br />
quivers and<br />
breaks out in blue leaves.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Reflective</b><br />
I found a<br />
weed<br />
that had a<br />
<br />
mirror in it<br />
and that<br />
mirror<br />
<br />
looked in at<br />
a mirror<br />
in<br />
<br />
me that<br />
had a<br />
weed in it<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685438418704718317.post-86340391364034405082014-08-07T13:00:00.002-07:002014-08-07T13:00:51.583-07:00NASA Space SoundsIn space, sound exists as electromagnetic vibrations. Special Instruments on several NASA probes including Voyager have recorded these vibrations and translated them into sounds that the human ear can hear. Here are samples from the collection:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-MmWeZHsQzs" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685438418704718317.post-48576464915122606042014-08-03T13:29:00.000-07:002014-08-07T21:26:01.103-07:00Pianist Shura CherkasskyShura Cherkassky plays Jean-Baptiste Lully<br />
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Cherkassky plays Bach-Busoni Chaconne BWV1004 (II)<br />
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Shura Cherkassky plays Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Cherkassky </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rameau-Godowsky Tambourin Rec 1925 Age 15 First Recordings</span></span></h1>
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A short interview:<br />
http://www.stephenhough.com/writings/selective/cherkassky.php<br />
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Also see:<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shura_Cherkassky<br />
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“Merece lo que sueñas.”<br />
(Deserve your dream.)<br />
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"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."<br />
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“Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.”<br />
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“To love is to undress our names.”<br />
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“A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.”<br />
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“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”<br />
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”<br />
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“The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.”<br />
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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."<br />
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“For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words...”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.”<br />
― Umberto Eco<br />
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“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose<br />
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“It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery<br />
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“Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened.<br />
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"Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose<br />
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“Simple mechanisms do not love.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on.”<br />
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“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery<br />
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“We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-section..." He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. "Potio-section, as everybody knows, of course, is the art of slicing soup. No, no," he said to Diotallevi. "It's not the department, it's a subject, like Mechanical Avunculogratulation or Pylocatabasis. They're all under the same heading of Tetrapyloctomy."<br />
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"What's tetra...?" I asked.<br />
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"The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless."<br />
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"All right, gentlemen," I said, "I give up. What are you two talking about?"<br />
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"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossible courses are given. The school's main is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a bunch of practical jokers who meet somewhere and decide to have a contest. They invent a character, agree on a few basic facts, and then each one's free to take it and run with it. At the end, they'll see who's done the best job. The four stories are picked up by some friends who act as critics: Matthew is fairly realistic, but insists on that Messiah business too much: Mark isn't bad, just a little sloppy: Luke is elegant, no denying that; and John takes the philosophy a little too far. Actually, though, the books have an appeal, they circulate, and when the four realize what's happening, it's too late, Paul has already met Jesus on the road to Damascus, Pliny begins his investigation ordered by the worried emperor, and a legion of apocryphal writers pretends also to know plenty....It all goes to Peter's head; he takes himself seriously. John threatens to tell the truth, Peter and Paul have him chained up on the island of Patmos.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“In rereading one of the best essays I know on Dante's Paradiso, Giovanni Getto's "Aspetti della poesia di Dante" (Aspects of Dante's Poetry, 1947), one can see that there is not one single image of Paradise that does not stem from a tradition that was part of the medieval reader's heritage, I won't say of ideas, but of daily fantasies and feelings. It is from the biblical tradition and the church fathers that these radiances come from, these vortices of flame, these lamps, these suns, these brilliances and brightnesses emerging "like a horizon clearing" (Par. 14.69)...For medieval man, reading about this light and luminosity was equivalent to when we dream about the sinuous gracefulness of a movie star, the elegant lines of a car...It is this appeal to a poetry of understanding that can make the Paradiso fascinating even for the modern reader who has lost the reference points familiar to his medieval counterpart.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, On Literature<br />
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“Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana<br />
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“I asked him who had put into the crowd’s head the idea of attacking the Jews. Salvatore could not remember. I believe that when such crowds collect, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.”<br />
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“The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.”<br />
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“The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things -- an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“If you could decide on characters' destinies it would be like going to the desk of a travel agent who says: "So where do you want to find the whale, in Samoa or in the Aleutian Islands? And when? And do you want to be the one who kills it or let Queequeg do it? Whereas the real lesson of Moby-Dick is that the whale goes wherever it wants.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, On Literature<br />
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“The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.”<br />
― Umberto Eco<br />
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“The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose<br />
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“They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and<br />
hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by<br />
their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I’m a cat that hit<br />
its nose.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana<br />
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“Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was there any need to calculate the number of forms which the atoms of the Universe could create--burning at the stake all those who said their number was not finite--when it sufficed to meditate for years on one of these marine objects to realize how the deviation of a single atom, whether willed by God or prompted by Chance, could generate inconceivable Milky Ways?”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.<br />
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Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality<br />
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“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before<br />
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“There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, On Literature<br />
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“... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Five Moral Pieces<br />
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“The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum<br />
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"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."<br />
― Umberto Eco<br />
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“I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.”<br />
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose<br />
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Mon Pays (My Country)<br />
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A Chacun Sa Chance (To Each His Own Luck)<br />
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More at:<br />
<a href="http://en.blogotheque.net/2008/02/18/sidi-toure-en/">http://en.blogotheque.net/2008/02/18/sidi-toure-en/</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi_Tour%C3%A9">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi_Tour%C3%A9</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0