J'allais par des chemins perfides, Paul Verlaine

"J'allais par des chemins perfides,
Douloureusement incertain.
Vos chères mains furent mes guides.

Si pâle à l'horizon lointain
Luisait un faible espoir d'aurore ;
Votre regard fut le matin.

Nul bruit, sinon son pas sonore,
N'encourageait le voyageur.
Votre voix me dit : "Marche encore!"

Mon coeur craintif, mon sombre coeur
Pleurait, seul, sur la triste voie;
L'amour, délicieux vainqueur,

Nous a réunis dans la joie."

About a legend of the Rhine

It's been several years since I have been able to indulge my compulsive need for reading random literature and to be free from guilt. This year I returned from the winter holidays with a collection of legends from the borders of the Rhine. The most sexist of them involved seven orphan virgins that decided not to marry and enjoy their freedom by making fun of guys that were deluded enough to believe that they could convince them to contribute to the child conceiving business. The moral of the story goes that the seven girls died in a shipwreck on the Rhine and were turned into rocks. In this way all the other ladies that are good looking enough to be desirable by men will for ever be reminded of their rightful place in society.

M-a facut muma frumoasa, Subcarpati si Georgiana Manaila

The Danube

Kalbelia dance, Sapera family

Jurnal de protest II

17 March La parada din Galway de Sf. Patrick au participat și câțiva etnici ruși. Faptul că au folosit drapelul URSS tocmai azi mi s-a părut mai mult decât o nostalgie personală.



5 March Festivitățile din Ucraina continuă cu un bal mascat în Crimeea care a atras numeroase autocare de turiști ruși.

20 Februarie Uniunea euroasiatică își pregătește intrarea pe scena mondială cu spectacole de stradă la Kiev.

8 Decembrie Fuga prin păpușoi și dosarele penale sunt modul în care Chevron înțelege să aibă "relații constructive și pozitive cu comunitățile unde își desfășoară activitatea".



2 Decembrie Parada de ziua națională pălește în comparație cu parada de la Pungești, la 4 dimineața.

Irish Fairy Tales II, James Stephens

"..to a god grown old Time is as ruthless as to a beggerman grown old." 

"Goll could do a thing that would be hard for another person, and he could do it so beautifully that he was not diminished by any action." 

"The tooth that does not help gets no helping.."

"'And now, tell me your name?'

'I am known as Carl of the Drab Coat.'

'All name are names', Fion responded, 'and that also is a name.'"

"..Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

But Tuan pleaded: 'Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.'"

"Fionn mac Uail was the most prudent chief of an army in the world, but he was not always prudent on his own account. Discipline sometimes irked him, and he would then take any opportunity that presented for an adventure; for he was not only a soldier, he was a poet also, that is, a man of science, and whatever was strange or unusual had an irresistible attraction for him."

"The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decision are promulgated?"

"For a great wish had come upon him to walk beside the sea; to listen to the roll and boom of long, grey breakers; to gaze on an unfruitful, desolate wilderness of waters; and to forget in those sights all that he could forget, and if he could not forget then to remember all that he should remember."