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<title><![CDATA[Das Bildniss des Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ein wunderbares Buch; man versucht augenblicklich sich jeden Wort zu merken um es bei Gelegenheit zu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ein wunderbares Buch; man versucht augenblicklich sich jeden Wort zu merken um es bei Gelegenheit zu zitierern. Aber bei dieser Masse an unverbesserlichen Zitaten, meistens aus dem Munde Lord Henrys ist man zum Scheitern verurteilt. <a href="null"><img class="alignright" title="oscar wilde" src="http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/humanrights/timeline/wilde-oscar.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="288" /></a></p>
<p>Die Geschichte an sich ist ebenfalls hinreissend, gruselig und dandylike. Es passiert selten, dass ich von einem Buch faszieniert bin, aber bei diesem war ich es.</p>
<p>Und die ewige Jugend ist natürlich auch immer ein interressantes Motiv, und ein gänzlich unmoralisches Leben, hat doch durchaus auch seinen Reiz.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Anfangs lieben Kinder ihre Eltern; wenn sie älter werden, halten sie Gericht über sie; manchmal verzeihen sie ihnen."</p>
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<p>"[Auf dem Lande] steht man so früh auf, weil man so viel zu tun hat, und legt sich so früh zu Bett, weil man so wenig zu denken hat</p>
<p>"Bei der Wahl seiner Feinde kann man nicht vorsichtig genug sein."</p>
<p>"Dafür gab es keine Sühne; aber wenn Vergebung unmöglich war, war doch Vergessen möglich."</p>
<p>"Das Gewissen macht uns alle zu Egoisten."</p>
<p>"Das ist eines der Geheimnisse des Lebens: Die Seele mit den Mitteln der Sinne und die Sinne mit den Mitteln der Seele zu heilen."</p>
<p>"Das Leben war zu kurz, dass man die Fehler eines anderen auf seine Schultern laden konnte. Jeder lebte sein eigenes Leben und zahlte seinen eigenen Preis dafür. Das Schlimme war nur, dass man für einen einzigen Fehler so oft bezahlen musste."</p>
<p>"Das wirkliche Leben war Chaos, aber es lag eine schreckliche Logik in der Phantasie."</p>
<p>"Der einzige Unterschied zwischen einer Laune und der ewigen Liebe besteht darin, dass die Laune etwas länger dauert."</p>
<p>"Der einzige Weg, eine Versuchung loszuwerden, ist, ihr nachzugeben."</p>
<p>"Der Kultivierte bereut nie einen Genuss. Der Unkultivierte weiß überhaupt nicht, was ein Genuss ist."</p>
<p>"Der Mensch ist vielerlei, aber vernünftig ist er nicht."</p>
<p>"Der Reiz der Ehe besteht im Wesentlichen darin, beide Teile zu einem Leben in Verstellung zwingen."</p>
<p>"Der Tod und schlechtes Benehmen sind die einzigen Dinge, die das neunzehnte Jahrhundert nicht wegerklären kann."</p>
<p>"Der Wert eines Gedankens hängt nicht von der Integrität dessen ab, der ihn ausdrückt."</p>
<p>"Die Beichte, nicht der Priester, erteilt uns die Absolution."</p>
<p>"Die Bücher, die von der Welt unmoralisch genannt werden, sind Bücher, die der Welt ihre eigene Schande zeigen."</p>
<p>"Die Grundlage des Optimismus ist blanke Angst."</p>
<p>"Die höchste wie die niedrigste Form der Kritik ist eine Art Selbstbiographie."</p>
<p>"Die Menschen lieben es sehr, wegzugeben, was sie selbst am nötigsten hätten. Das nenne ich den Gipfel der Großherzigkeit."</p>
<p>"Die Menschheit nimmt sich selbst zu ernst. Das ist die Erbsünde der Welt. Hätte der Höhlenmensch zu lachen verstanden, wäre die Weltgeschichte anders verlaufen."</p>
<p>"Diese Welt und ich kommen bestens miteinander aus."</p>
<p>"Durch Mode wird das wahrhaft Phantastische für einen Augenblick allgemein."</p>
<p>"Ein Bischof sagt als Achtzigjähriger noch genau dasselbe, das ihm eingeflößt wurde, als er achtzehn war."</p>
<p>"Eine Frau heiratet erneut, weil sie ihres ersten Mannes überdrüssig war. Ein Mann heiratet erneut, weil er seine erste Frau angebetet hat. Frauen versuchen ihr Glück, Männer riskieren ihres."</p>
<p>"Eine Zigarette ist das vollständige Urbild des Genusses: Sie ist köstlich und lässt uns unbefriedigt."</p>
<p>"Erfahrung hat keinen moralischen Wert. Sie ist nichts als der Name, den die Menschen ihren Irrwegen geben."</p>
<p>"Er kam prinzipiell zu spät, da sein Grundsatz lautete, Pünktlichkeit stehle einem die Zeit."</p>
<p>"Es gibt kein unmoralisches Buch. Bücher sind gut geschrieben oder schlecht geschrieben. Das ist alles."</p>
<p>"Es gibt viele Dinge, die wir am liebsten wegwerfen wollten, fürchteten wir nicht, dass andere sie aufheben."</p>
<p>"Frauen lieben uns wegen unserer Fehler. Wenn wir genügend davon haben, vergeben sie uns alles, sogar unseren Verstand."</p>
<p>"Genie hält länger als Schönheit. Das erklärt, warum wir soviel Mühe auf uns nehmen, uns zu überbilden"</p>
<p>"Gewissen und Feigheit sind im Grunde dasselbe. Gewissen ist der Handelsname der Firma. Das ist alles."</p>
<p>"Gute Vorsätze sind nichts anderes als Schecks, auf eine Bank ausgestellt, bei der man kein Konto hat."</p>
<p>"Hässlichkeit ist eine der sieben Todtugenden."</p>
<p>"Heutzutage hat jeder vor sich selber Angst."</p>
<p>"Ich frage mich, wer den Menschen als vernunftbegabtes Lebewesen definiert hat. Das war die voreiligste Definition, die es je gegeben hat."</p>
<p>"Ich kann mit allem Mitleid haben außer mit dem Leid."</p>
<p>"Ich mache mir mehr aus Menschen als aus Prinzipien, und nichts liebe ich mehr als Menschen ohne Prinzipien."</p>
<p>"Ich verabscheue meine Verwandtschaft. Das kommt vermutlich daher, dass unsereins es nicht ausstehen kann, wenn andere Leute dieselben Fehler haben wie wir."</p>
<p>"Ich wähle meine Freunde nach ihrem guten Aussehen, meine Bekannten nach ihrem Charakter und meine Feinde nach ihrem Verstand."</p>
<p>"Ich würde alles auf der Welt tun, um meine Jugend wiederzuerlangen, außer Sport treiben, früh aufstehen oder ehrbar werden."</p>
<p>"In der gemeinen Welt der Tatsachen wurden die Bösen nicht bestraft und die Guten nicht belohnt. Der Erfolg gehörte den Starken, die Schwachen mussten unterliegen, und weiter geschah nichts."</p>
<p>"Jede Kunst ist ganz und gar nutzlos."</p>
<p>"Jede Kunst ist zugleich Oberfläche und Symbol."</p>
<p>"Jeder Erfolg, den man hat, verschafft einem einen Feind. Um beliebt zu sein, muss man ein Durchschnittsmensch sein."</p>
<p>"Jedes Mal, wenn man liebt, ist es das einzige Mal, je geliebt zu haben. Der Unterschied im Objekt ändert nichts an der Einzigartigkeit der Leidenschaft"</p>
<p>"Lachen ist nicht der schlechteste Anfang einer Freundschaft und bei weitem das beste Ende."</p>
<p>"[Langeweile] ist die einzige Sünde, für die es keine Vergebung gibt."</p>
<p>"Man kann heutzutage alles überleben außer den Tod."</p>
<p>"Männer heiraten, weil sie müde sind; Frauen, weil sie neugierig sind; beide werden enttäuscht."</p>
<p>"Mit fein und zart gebauten Naturen ist es immer so. Ihre starken Leidenschaften müssen entweder andere verletzen oder selbst verletzt werden; sie bringen den Menschen entweder um oder sterben selbst. Oberflächliche Schmerzen und oberflächliche Liebesgefühle leben weiter. Die Liebesgefühle und Schmerzen, die stark und tief sind, gehen an ihrer eigenen Heftigkeit zugrunde."</p>
<p>"Nichts kann die Seele heilen als die Sinne, so wie nichts die Sinne heilen kann als die Seele."</p>
<p>"Nichts schmeichelt so sehr, als wenn man gesagt bekommt, daß man ein Sünder ist."</p>
<p>"Nur Leute, die ihre Rechnungen bezahlen, brauchen Geld, und ich bezahle meine nie."</p>
<p>"Nur oberflächliche Menschen urteilen nicht nach Äußerlichkeiten. Das wahre Geheimnis der Welt liegt im Sichtbaren, nicht im Unsichtbaren."</p>
<p>"Persönlichkeiten, nicht Prinzipien bewegen die Welt."</p>
<p>"Prüfungen sind von Anfang bis Ende Unsinn. Wenn jemand ein Gentleman ist, weiß er genug, und ist er keiner, so ist alles, was er weiß, schlecht für ihn."</p>
<p>"Religion? Der moderne Ersatz für Glauben."</p>
<p>"Schönheit ist eine Form der Genialität – höher sogar, da sie keine Erklärung braucht."</p>
<p>"Skeptizismus ist der Anfang des Glaubens."</p>
<p>"Solange eine Frau zehn Jahre jünger aussehen kann als ihre eigene Tochter, ist sie völlig zufrieden."</p>
<p>"Treue ist in der Welt des Gefühls dasselbe wie Konsequenz in der Welt des Verstandes – schlicht das Eingeständnis des Scheiterns."</p>
<p>"Wer das Symbol deutet, tut es auf eigene Gefahr."</p>
<p>"Wer in schönen Dingen einen schönen Sinn entdeckt, hat Kultur. Für ihn besteht noch Hoffnung."</p>
<p>"Wer treu ist, kennt nur die triviale Seite der Liebe. Nur die Treulosen kennen ihre Tragödien."</p>
<p>"Wie gern Frauen doch gefährliche Dinge tun. Das ist eine ihrer Eigenschaften, die ich am meisten bewundere. Eine Frau wird mit jedem in der Welt flirten, solange andere Menschen zusehen."</p>
<p>"Ziel des Lebens ist Selbstverwirklichung. Das eigene Wesen völlig zur Entfaltung zu bringen, das ist unsere Bestimmung."</p></blockquote>
<p>Das Werk ist online zu lesen, bei: <a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&#38;xid=3119&#38;kapitel=1#gb_found">http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&#38;xid=3119&#38;kapitel=1#gb_found</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Copa do mundo com goleada no futsal]]></title>
<link>http://leoruivo.wordpress.com/?p=224</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Leonardo Ferreira</dc:creator>
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Japão é derrotado por 12 a 1
A copa do mundo começou bem para o Brasil. Em busca do título da C]]></description>
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<p>Japão é derrotado por 12 a 1</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A copa do mundo começou bem para o Brasil. Em busca do título da Copa do Mundo, a seleção brasileira de futsal jogou hoje na capital federal contra o time do Japão, derrotando por <em>12x1</em>. Os gols foram de <em>Lenísio</em> (2), <em>Marquinho</em>, <em>Falcão</em> (2), <em>Wilde</em>, <em>Ary </em>(2), <em>Schumacher</em> (3) e <em>Betão</em>. Para não perder de zero, o oriental Noboya Osodo descontou para o time.<!--more--></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O próximo jogo da seleção será no ginásio Nilson Nelson, em Brasília, na próxima quinta-feira às 10h30. A seleção adversária é a <em>Ilhas do Salomão</em>. Confira abaixo os próximos jogos da seleção brasileira.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">04/10 - 10h30m - <strong>Brasil</strong> x Rússia (Brasília)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">08/10 - 10h30m - <strong>Brasil</strong> x Cuba (Brasília)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Caso alguém anime, me convide.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Decadent Generation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sabrina</dc:creator>
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<p align="justify">The Decadent generation refers to a group of writers from the second half of the 19th century who initiated the Symbolist movement in literature and the arts. This group was loosely tied but shared a similar spirit and philosophy that combined pessimism, elitism, idealism and dandyism. Although Symbolist writers were found all around Europe, France and Belgium soon became their meeting spots.</p>
<p align="justify">The decadent spirit was marked by pessimism and mysticism, and the development of elitist groups often lead by a generation of<em>dandies</em>. The Decadents, whether writers and painters (the boundary was often erased), all made Art a religion, with the birth of the famous theory "Art for Art's Sake." An Idealistic spirit, Decadence rejected and fought against the Naturalism of Emile Zola and Gustave Courbet, and the philosophical concept of Positivism.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Baudelaire, the initiator</strong></p>
<p align="justify">French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is unanimously considered the initiator of the decadent spirit; his influence on the following decadent generations was undeniable. His style ranked him among the Romantics although the suggestive power of his verses already announced Symbolism. His masterpiece,<span> </span><em>The Flowers of Evil</em>(1857) is part of the decadent spirit for it approaches the themes of death, religion, pessimism and suggestive eroticism. Its publication was a scandal at the time, and Baudelaire was even sued for immorality. In fact,<span> </span><em>The Flowers of Evil</em><span> </span>reflect the hesitation of the author to choose between God and Satan, and his profound malaise; Baudelaire turns pain into pleasure and, from an Existential point, uses this pain to become aware of his existence and solitude.</p>
<p align="justify">Baudelaire's admiration for American writer Edgar Allan Poe (another powerful model for the Decadents) also reveals his connections with the group; Baudelaire even translated Poe's<span> </span><em>Tales</em><span> </span>into French. In fact, one could sustain that Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a decadent himself, even if he was never officially part of the group for geographical reasons. In spirit, however, Poe shared a lot with his European fellow writers; tormented and brilliant, Poe expressed his genius in various genres such as literary critiques, poems, novels and, of course, his famous<span> </span><em>Tales</em><span> </span>(1840). An alcoholic, his turbulent life brutally ended in 1849, at the raw beginning of the European symbolist era.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Philosophical and social context</strong></p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents found their inspiration not only in Baudelaire's work but also in philosophy. The first philosopher to influence them was German Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), who elaborated the philosophical concept of Pessimism. Schopenhauer attributed man's unhappiness and unsatisfaction to their will and proposed to abandon one's desires to find happiness in the contemplation of aesthetics and arts. The valorization of art and creativity was also found in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), who saw in artistic creativity the ultimate goal of each individual and the only activity that truly allows them to create their own standards.</p>
<p align="justify">Pessimism and the protest against the idea of progress are concepts that found an echo in the Decadent philosophy, which rejected the freshly industrialized society. Disappointed with the world around them, the Decadents made art the ultimate goal of one's achievement and existence, and dreams became their shelter. The Decadents refused reality and the society surrounding them, and set their priority on imagination, following their Platonic Theory of Ideas which saw in real, existing things a mere inferior copy of the perfect (but intangible) ideal. Idealistic and, paradoxically, disillusioned, the Decadents refused the mediocrity around them to recreate, through art, their very own world. As such, they rejected the concept of Positivism (developed by Auguste Comte), which was particularly popular at the time and which discredited the importance of dreams to concentrate on Rationalism and the faith in the evolution of man.</p>
<p align="justify">French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), a friend of Baudelaire's (<em>The Flowers of Evil</em><span> </span>was dedicated to him), was one of the first authors to defend the motto "Art for Art's Sake" in the foreword of his first novel,<span> </span><em>Mademoiselle de Maupin</em><span> </span>(1835). Gautier further developed this theory in his poetic masterpiece<span> </span><em>Emaux et Camées</em>(1852).</p>
<p align="justify">The influence of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889) was also undeniable. Throughout the 19th century, the French writer published novels (<em>Le Chevalier des Touches</em>, 1864), short stories (<em>Les Diaboliques</em>, 1874), and literary studies that were part of the decadent trend. A Catholic aristocrat, Barbey d'Aurevilly was also a polemicist and a dandy fascinated with the strange and the satanic.</p>
<p align="justify">Traditionally, two generations of writers actually formed the decadent era, the first one gathering authors born around the 1840s. The eldest of them was Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), a French count and writer who despised progress, sciences and money. A ruined aristocrat, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam exerted a powerful influence on the young writers of his time period. Idealistic and ferociously ironic, his work (<em>Axël</em>,<span> </span><em>L'Eve Future</em>) revealed his interest in esoterism, and his mysticism already announced Symbolism. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was friends with Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). His first poems, highly influenced by Baudelaire, already related to the decadent spirit for they escaped reality to find a shelter in the ideal world of Art. Mallarmé has been one of the most influential writers in the evolution of literature. First an English teacher, Mallarmé wrote in 1897 one of his most powerful works,<span> </span><em>Un Coup de Dés</em>, a twenty page long prose poem the topography of which was considered revolutionary.</p>
<p align="justify">Baudelaire also greatly influenced poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), a member of the Parnasse - the group that officially gathered the poets who rejected Romanticism and adopted the theory of "Art for Art's Sake." Verlaine's most famous work remains<span> </span><em>Poèmes Saturniens</em>(1866) and in 1883, he published<span> </span><em>Les Poètes Maudits</em>, where the talent of Mallarmé and Rimbaud was revealed. Verlaine rejected the use of free verse to create instead his own versification that would obey his own precise standards. After being named the new "prince of the poets" in 1894, he finished his life in poverty.</p>
<p align="justify">The fourth major figure of the first decadent generation was Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), who turned to the decadent ideal in 1884 with the famous<span> </span><em>A Rebours</em><span> </span>(known in English as<span> </span><em>Against the Grain</em><span> </span>or<em>Against Nature</em>). A reference for his fellow writers, Huysmans tells in<em>A Rebours</em><span> </span>the story of Des Esseintes - a character based on existing Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) - a dandy who voluntarily secluded himself to escape reality and live an artificial life that combined illusion, sadism, neurosis and elitism. Later on, Huysmans converted to Catholicism, like many other Decadents.</p>
<p align="justify">The second decadent generation, very influenced by its predecessor, started with authors born in the 1850s. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was part of this generation. The lover of Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud wanted to translate the unsconscious vacillation of mental life in his poems. The author of<span> </span><em>Une Saison en Enfer</em><span> </span>(1873) and<span> </span><em>Illuminations</em>(1886), he also wrote a famous sonnet,<span> </span><em>Voyelles</em>, in which he freed words from their meaning to use them in a strict combination based on structure and sonority.</p>
<p align="justify">In Belgium, poet Emil Verhaeren (1855-1916), a reader of Nietzsche, studied law before co-founding the publication<span> </span><em>L'Art Moderne</em>. Verhaeren published works such as<span> </span><em>Les Moines</em><span> </span>(1886),<span> </span><em>Les Soirs</em>(1887),<span> </span><em>Les Débâcles</em><span> </span>(1888) and<span> </span><em>Les Flambeaux Noirs</em><span> </span>(1891), where he combined Symbolism and mysticism. He was also an art critic, defending Symbolist painters such as Khnopff and Ensor. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), another Belgian poet installed in France, contributed to the movement with many poems (<em>Serres Chaudes</em>, 1889), several philosophical essays and eight plays (among them<em>Pelléas et Mélisande</em>, for which Claude Debussy composed a musical piece). His work was marked by existential pessimism and mystery, and Maeterlinck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.</p>
<p align="justify">Belgium was also represented by poet and novelist Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898), as well as Charles van Lerberghe (1861-1907) and Max Elskamp (1862-1931). In France, Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) wrote in 1900<span> </span><em>Monsieur de Phocas</em>, a novel particularly pernicious and faithful to the decadent spirit. French-Greek poet Jean Moréas (1856-1910) officially announced the birth of Symbolism with the publication of a manifesto in French newspaper<span> </span><em>Le Figaro</em>, in 1886.</p>
<p align="justify">Outside of France and Belgium, Polish painter and playwright Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) and Norwegian Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) also contributed to the literary Symbolist movement.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Oscar Wilde, a Decadent Genius</strong></p>
<p align="justify">One cannot approach the decadent generation without mentioning Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), the most representative author of the tendency and theoretician of "Art for Art's Sake." Wilde was a decadent for his amoralism, his dandy attitude and even for his final downfall - let's not forget that the word<span> </span><em>decadence</em><span> </span>comes from Latin<em>cadere</em>, to fall. An aesthete, pushing his mannerism to the limits of caricature, Oscar Wilde played with ambiguity, denouncing the hypocrisy and elitism of the upper society, which he took pleasure in frequenting. In his novel<span> </span><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em><span> </span>(1891), Wilde sharpened his pen to express his disillusion with and sarcastic vision of the aristocracy. Later, Wilde published<span> </span><em>Salomé</em>, a play he originally wrote in French and which retells one of the Decadents' favourite subjects. First celebrated by the aristocracy, Oscar Wilde lost its support by trifling with extremes and provocations, and by openly displaying his bisexuality. Abandoned by his lover, Bosie Douglas, Wilde was sent to jail in 1895 for libel and died, sick and lonely in Paris five years later.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>The Supporters of Decadence</strong></p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents found much support in the many - even if often ephemeral - publications that flourished with the birth of Symbolism, especially in Paris, cradle of the movement where so many artists from around Europe gathered. Those publications offered many benefits: they helped discover young talents and promote unrecognized poets such as Rimbaud, and published manifestos as well as translations of foreign texts. Some of the most famous publications were<span> </span><em>La Revue Wagnérienne</em><span> </span>(1885-1888), which concentrated on the different aspects of Richard Wagner's work,<em>Mercure de France</em><span> </span>(1889), which published translations of Nietzsche's works,<span> </span><em>Le Décadent</em><span> </span>and<span> </span><em>La Revue Blanche</em><span> </span>(1889-1903), an anarchist publication that received the contributions of Mallarmé, André Gide, Marcel Proust and Claude Debussy.</p>
<p align="justify">Georges-Albert Aurier (1865-1892) was one of the greatest supporters of Decadence and the Symbolist movement. After collaborating with<span> </span><em>Le Décadent</em>, he was at the head of<span> </span><em>Le Moderniste</em>(1889) and co-founded<span> </span><em>Mercure de France</em>, for which he became the art critic.</p>
<p align="justify">In Belgium, we can note the publication of<span> </span><em>L'Art Moderne</em>. In Austria,<em>Ver Sacrum</em><span> </span>(1898-1903) supported the Wiener Sezession. In Russia, a group of young artists lead by Sergei Diaghilev (the creator of the<em>Ballets Russes</em>) founded in 1899<span> </span><em>Mir Iskusstva</em><span> </span>(<em>World of Art</em>), while some translations of Verhaeren and Verlaine where published in<span> </span><em>Vesy</em>(<em>Libra</em>, 1904-1909).</p>
<p align="justify">After having published novels (<em>La Décadence Latine</em>), plays and art critics, Joseph Péladan (1859-1918) founded, in 1892, the Salons de la Rose+Croix. An eccentric character, Péladan (also known as Sâr Péladan) was initiated into esoteric doctrines and oriental religions, and he turned his Salons into a "temple dedicated to the god Art," where the artworks were dogmas and the artists were saints. Symbolist artists such as Hodler, Schwabe, Toorop and Khnopff exhibited their work there, and it is important to note that all participants were rigorously selected, depending on the subject of their work (historical, patriotic and military subjects were rejected while mythological, oneiric and allegoric subjects were welcome). In spite of a successful inauguration, the Salons stopped after six annual exhibitions, in 1897.</p>
<p align="justify">Last, Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), a French art and literary critic, defended the Symbolists and the Pointillists. He founded, in 1883, the publication<span> </span><em>La Revue Indépendante</em>.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Decadent Lifestyle and Themes</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Not all Decadents shared the same lifestyle, but they shared (including with Symbolist artists) similar themes that were all part of the same universe. The Decadents were ferociously anti-Naturalism (the other important tendency of the time period) and rejected authors such as Emile Zola and painters such as Gustave Courbet. They attached more importance to suggestive power and dreams than realistic depictions of the surrounding world. Baudelaire and Huysmans both re-used Poe's expression "Anywhere out of the world," which perfectly described their spirit and their rejection of the world around them.</p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents had no interest for the real world and for the industrialization of society, which they considered pointless and the cause of man's unhappiness. Arts and dreams, on the other hand, were their unique sources of inspiration and, in the end, their lives. They loathed materialism and positivism, prefering instead the rejection of established norms, as well as the concept of Idealism and anarchy (or apolitism). While the present and the future were sources of pessimism, the Decadents exalted the past, thus explaining the many legendary and mythological subjects of their works. The freshly-born psychoanalysis also inspired the Decadents who gave a lot into introspection and the exploration of unconsciousness.</p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents' lifestyle often implied seclusion and the creation of clubs and brotherhoods, such as the one founded by the Pre-Raphaelites. While not all Decadents were dandies, they all shared the same feeling of belonging to an elite and they often spent time together. Pushing this feeling of elitism to an extreme, the dandies took great care of their appearance and manners. Aesthetes, they wanted to be distinguished from the rest of society and made art sacred.</p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents also refused the hypocritical, pseudo-virtuous society of the 19th century and played a lot with ambiguity and androgyny. The use of drugs, such as opium and hashish, was also common among the Decadents, like Baudelaire (who wrote in 1851<span> </span><em>Les Paradis Artificiels</em>). Questioning religious issues, the Decadents were particularly fascinated with mysticism and esoterism, as well as Satanism, even if, paradoxically, many of them converted to Catholicism and attached a lot of importance to religion.</p>
<p align="justify">The subjects of decadent work often reflect this lifestyle, combining themes such as death, existential malaise, sadism, fetishism and eroticism, without always avoiding a certain bad taste. The Decadents united beauty, death and pleasure altogether, thus revealing their ambiguity; some poems by Baudelaire, for instance, even revealed a certain necrophilia. This morbid eroticism combined with a search for refinement was also very typical of the Symbolists painters. This ambiguity, sometimes symbolized by the representation of a sphinx, was also found in the image of woman. The mysogyny of Schopenhauer influenced the Decadents and the Symbolists, who often depicted women as vampires, prostitutes and witches (see the works of painters Edvard Munch and Félicien Rops, for instance). Many Decadents were fascinated by the Biblical figures of Judith and Salomé, two women whose seductiveness led to the deaths of men. On the other hand, for certain artists, women became a mystical figure. The concept of love also needed to be "re-invented" (as Arthur Rimbaud advocated), and it could also take different paths. While some artists (such as Mallarmé) defended love as a pure sensual delight, other artists prefered to experience love through their imagination and defended chastity. The myth of Orpheus was also particularly influential to the Decadents, as well as the principles of Orphism. Orphism was a theological and philosophical trend from the Greek Antiquity, the doctrines of which questioned the origins of the world and its end. It also believed in the immortality of the soul and in reincarnation, and involved mystical rituals. All these reflections and themes very much appealed to the Decadents and enriched their own philosophy. Last, the night was also an important source of inspiration for its mystery and anguish, as well as its suggestive power.</p>
<p align="justify">Beyond the themes, the structure of literary compositions itself refused any established convention. The writing style of the Decadents was often very affected, relying on the use of rare words, complicated syntaxes, neologisms and complex metaphors. In poetry, French writer Gustave Kahn (1859-1936) was the theoritician of free verse (he wrote<span> </span><em>Vers Libre</em><span> </span>in 1912) and one of the first poets to use it, along with Symbolist poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887). The trend, which rejected the traditional syllabic system to rely exclusively on harmony, was soon followed by Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Mallarmé. In theater, the suggestive power of a play was found to be more intense when read than performed, leading to a new and revolutionary conception of drama.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Art for Art's Sake</strong></p>
<p align="justify">The Decadents had their motto: "Art for Art's Sake" (<em>L'Art pour l'Art</em>). Behind the famous expression lied the intense desire of making art an end in itself and justifying the role of the artist. More than a simple creed, "Art for Art's Sake" defined the decadent philosophy and approached Existential issues. In the foreword of his novel<em>Mademoiselle de Maupin</em>, Théophile Gautier did not deny the uselessness of art, but also questioned the usefulness of all things. What is usefulness? Is existence itself useful? Gautier believed that usefulness was always relative to each individual's interests and needs. He also believed in the divine will that gave us all senses with which to experience the beauty of the world surrounding us, while beauty itself could be considered useless. Like many other Decadents, Théophile Gautier rejected usefulness as a measurement of the value of art and its right to exist. Interestingly enough, he also proved the utility of novels from a material and a spiritual point of view. First, from a material point of view, the publication of a novel brings money to its author, the publisher, the book seller, the printer, etc. Secondly, from a spiritual point of view, Gautier argued that reading a novel, in effect, distracted the reader away from useful, virtuous and progressive newspapers, and educated them.</p>
<p align="justify">In the same spirit, Oscar Wilde explained, in the foreword of his novel<span> </span><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, that art's only utility was its contemplation and its ultimate goal to reveal art and conceal the artist. He also concluded: "All art is quite useless."</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Decadence and Symbolism</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Decadence had many connections with Symbolism, a movement it initiated and merged with. While Symbolism in literature preceded Symbolism in visual arts, the Decadents worked with passion towards a complete unity between art forms. This ideal interaction was already present in the work of composer Richard Wagner. Thus, many painters illustrated literary works or used their subjects as a source of inspiration (such as Félicien Rops, who illustrated works by Mallarmé, Verlaine and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam), and writers often refered to Symbolist paintings in their literary works. Symbolist painters such as Paul Gauguin and James Ensor painted portraits of authors such as Mallarmé and Verhaeren.</p>
<p align="justify">Symbolist painters and writers also had connections with musicians such as French Erik Satie (1866-1925), Finnish Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and particularly French Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Debussy was close to the Symbolists and had many friends among the Decadents, such as Mallarmé. He composed musical pieces for the poems of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The power of Debussy's work resides in its suggestive, mysterious atmosphere that relies on silences and echoes, reducing the limits between reality and the oneiric world. From 1898 to 1902, he composed<span> </span><em>Pelléas et Mélisande</em>, a piece based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play. Considered a major Symbolist work,<em>Pelléas et Mélisande</em><span> </span>also provoked a scandal at the time.</p>
<p align="justify">The influence of German Richard Wagner (1813-1883), as mentioned earlier, was also very important. The mystery, violence and eroticism suggested in his musical pieces inspired both Symbolist painters and writers, who even founded the publication<span> </span><em>La Revue Wagnérienne</em>(1885-1888) and explored the many aspects of his work.</p>
<p align="justify">While Decadence often brings images of stereotyped dandies, it is important to take a fresh look at this literary trend, the roots and philosophy of which were much more profound and elaborate than they often appear. Decadence was an essential transition that influenced all of the 19th century as well as the first half of the 20th century, giving birth to the Symbolists and even inspiring the Surrealists.</p>
<p align="justify">Rejecting standards, hypocrisy and conservatism, the Decadents expressed their revolt through the most civilized, most efficient and most respectable means, that is to say Art.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finally! The medical side of House is back. Although the problem between Wilson and House is still there, the episode gave more emphasis on the patient (but of course not completely). The usual investigative approach of House like going to patient's house or workplace and interviewing the relatives of the patient is still absent. But I like the fact that attention to the medical side was given. I didn't know about CSC before, so it's actually very enlightening to me. Though the show didn't gave me much information about CSC, it gave way for me to check what CSCs are.</p>
<p>However, there are still downers. The downer back in season 4 is still there. The appearance of Cameron and Chase are always like one scene each. PAGING! GIVE MORE SCENES FOR CHASE AND CAMERON!!! The former always found inside the surgery room and the latter at the emergency room. Also, as I mentioned, the investigative approach (what I like most) is nowhere to be found.</p>
<p>But I like how the story is going. I Hope Wilson-House conflict would move to a higher problem. Hehe</p>
<p>But I like this episode better than the pilot episode of season 5. Out of 10, I say 7.5</p>
<p><strong>Quote from this episode: "...only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and the things you wish weren't important..."</strong></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This episode is very much anticipated. I've been waiting for it for a couple of weeks (months even) already. The episode has some good points, but it has also downers. Let's start with the good points. I like the fact that it ended pretty sadly. The story went exactly where I would've wanted it to go. I like the fact that House showed some vulnerability in there. I also like this episode because it's full of strong lines. Example is what Wilson said to House ("We are not anymore friends House. I'm not even sure if we ever were.") and what House said to Wilson ("Your friendship is more important than any patient"). Also, 13's Huntington's disease became a side conflict to the other characters. I think one of the future season's finales will be her suffering/death. Before I watched season 4's last episode, I thought the result of the Huntington's test would be negative. Then, the conflict would be between 13-Chase-Cameron love story. I was wrong. Hehe.</p>
<p>Now for the downer. I actually really enjoyed watching House not because of the characters or the story of the characters, but rather because of the theme. I like the fact that it is very medical in nature unlike Grey's Anatomy (apologies for the fans of Grey). Unfortunately, this episode lost it's medical side. Although not completely, the conflict between the characters overshadowed the medical theme of the show. I hope it'll only for the first few episodes coz I can understand that the conflict between House and Wilson must be given importance. But I really hope that the CSI-like approach would still remain.</p>
<p>On the scale of 1-10, 10 as the highest, I think it's 6.5.</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>"Look, I'm not a lesbian.  I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl - Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. And lately I've been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but ... oh boy."</strong></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:xx-small;">Megan Denise Fox (b.1986), American actress and model, as quoted in the October issue of GQ Magazine. </span></em></p></blockquote>
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Anul trecut, la festivalul de la Sighisoara. I-am zis pustiului: &#8220;hai, iti fac o poza?&#8221;]]></description>
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<p>Anul trecut, la festivalul de la Sighisoara. I-am zis pustiului: "hai, iti fac o poza?" Ca si cand as fi apasat un buton, copilul s-a apropiat si s-a uitat la mine, asteptand. "La cate poze mi s-au facut azi, mai merge inca una". Aerul plictisit al unei celebritati obosita de paparazzi.</p>
<p>Quote of the day: Ce inseamna o femeie pacatoasa? O femeie de care barbatii nu se plictisesc niciodata. (O. Wilde)</p>
<p>Intrebarea zilei: Care este raportul dintre gandire si viata? Raspunsul meu: Cu cat gandesti mai mult, cu atat traiesti mai putin.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tschango unter Wilden]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Über 40 Grad im Schatten, die Luft ist feucht und riecht nach Moder. Von dem dichten Geäst hängen]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Über 40 Grad im Schatten, die Luft ist feucht und riecht nach Moder. Von dem dichten Geäst hängen handtellergroße Vogelspinnen mit eklig behaarten Beinen und an der Haut saugen sich blutrünstige Moskitos fest. Im Boden, voll getränkt mit Matsch und Schlamm, räkeln sich giftige Schlangen und grobborstige Krokofanten - so eine Art Krokodil mit sehr ausgeprägten Plattfüßen. Kurzum: eine recht ungemütliche Gegend für Leute, die das Beseitigen eines Weberknechts schon als heroische Herausforderung empfinden.</strong></p>
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<p>Tschango, unser heldenhafter kleiner Drache gibt sich da viel cooler. Kein ihm bekanntes Ungetier könnte ihm je die Ruhe rauben und klimatisch ist er aus seiner Heimat Drachenschlund viel Schlimmeres gewöhnt. Allerdings quält ihn eine böse Drachengrippe. Ständig trieft die Nase und Feuer spucken klappt auch nur leidlich - lediglich ein paar Rauchfahnen beim Niesen steigen noch auf. Am meisten nervt ihn jedoch, dass er seit über zwei Stunden kopfüber in dieser hinterlistigen Seilschlinge gefangen ist und einfach nicht aus ihr rauskommt. In dieser Stellung brummt ihm zudem der Schädel, bestimmt färbt sich sein Gesicht schon ganz rot - und das als Drache. Und wieso hat er eigentlich so ein penetrantes Trommeln in den Ohren. Seit Minuten scheint es immer stärker zu werden.</p>
<p>Nun, die gute Nachricht ist, dass seine Lauscher absolut perfekt funktionieren. Das Trommeln findet nicht in seinem Kopf statt sondern ein paar hundert Meter entfernt von ihm - nur, es kommt halt immer näher. Unter diesem unheilversprechenden donnernden Rhythmus  mischt sich bald eigenartiges Stimmengewirr. Tschango beherrscht ungefähr 113 Sprachen plus ein paar ganz fiese Dialekte, aber den Slang kennt er kaum. <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Wo bin ich da nur hineingeraten</em>"</span> murmelt er vor sich hin, <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>ich wollte doch nur diese blöde Heilpflanze gegen meinen Schnupfen finden, und jetzt steck ich in so einem Schlamassel.</em>" </span>Als Mensch muss man wissen, das Erkältungen bei Drachen bis zu sieben Monaten und länger dauern, wenn sie nicht das geeignete Kraut dagegen einnehmen. Außerdem schmerzt Feuer speien ganz höllisch, meist geht's gar nicht mehr und somit ist ein Drache absolut wehrlos. Weil aber die Kräuterweiberl in seinem Heimatdorf schon seit sechs Wochen lieferunfähig waren, nahm er die Organisation des sogenannten Pfluftlkrauts selbst in die Hand. Wie wir ja bereits wissen, bislang mit eher mäßigem Erfolg.</p>
<p>Mittlerweile dröhnt der Lärm schier ohrenbetäubend und unzählige von finsteren Gestalten formieren sich um Tschango und seine Falle herum. Tschango versucht trotz seines verdrehten Blickwinkels, sich einen Eindruck dieser Sippe zu verschaffen. All diese Typen kleiden sich in zerfranstes stinkendes Fell, darunter blinkt die mit Blut beschmierte Haut hervor. Skurrile Skelettköpfe zieren die zu Leder gegerbten Häupter, so dass lediglich ihre stechenden Augen erkennbar sind. Bis zu den Zähnen reicht ihre Bewaffnung. Bei einem weiteren Lagecheck entdeckt Tschango Speere, Pfeil und Bogen, Äxte, Steinschleudern - und einen großen Löffel?! Da steht doch tatsächlich so ein fetter 2,5-Meter-Hyne, gehüllt in schreiendbuntem Federschmuck und in der Hand hält er einen großen hölzernen Löffel.</p>
<p>Pessimisten hätten Tschango's Situation vermutlich als suboptimal eingestuft. Doch unser grüner Freund gibt sich weiterhin betont lässig: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Gut das ihr mal vorbeischaut Freunde, könntet ihr mich bitte von diesem Seil hier befreien?</em>"</span> Der Federtyp mit dem Löffel maunzt aber nur wirsch zurück: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Uhhhlaggalagga wamumba di legado Krokofantus lackadi schmackofatz!</em>"</span> Wie gesagt, selbst ein multilinguales Genie wie Tschango staunt bei dem Slang erst mal Bauklötze. Aber sein Sprachverständnis schürt in ihm den Verdacht, dass die Wilden ihn für einen leicht verformten Krokofanten halten - und die stehen bei dem Völkchen wohl ganz oben auf der Speisekarte. Zu Tschango's Lässigkeit schleicht sich so ganz langsam doch auch ein wenig Nervosität, aber er bemüht sich weiter um Contenance: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Meine lieben Freunde, ich bin kein Krokofant sondern ein Drache, ich bin schwer zu beißen und schmecke bestenfalls nach ätzendem Schwefel.</em>"</span>  Tschango's Aufklärungsversuche stoßen leider auf keinerlei Gehör. Die Wilden verschnüren ihn als Päckchen, stecken ihn in einen Sack und ziehen ihn hinter sich her - immer dem Mann mit dem Löffel hinterher.</p>
<p>Dieser Marsch gleicht einer Tortur. Spitze Steine, knorrige Äste und drachenzahn-scharfe Splitter - Tschango's Hinterteil bekommt auf dieser Schleiftour wirklich alles zu spüren. Im Gegenzug tollt er in seinem Sack dermaßen wüst hin und her, dass zwölf Mann von Nöten sind, um seine Flucht zu vereiteln. Knapp zwei Stunden verfliegen für die nicht mal 1 Kilometer lange Strecke zum Dorf. Doch letztlich kann Tschango die Ankunft nicht verhindern. Im Dorf toben und grölen die daheim gebliebenen Eingeborenen, sie feiern ihre Jäger in der Aussicht auf ein königliches Festmahl. Schließlich lassen die Speerträger den Drachen aus dem Sack. Zwar sieht das vermeintliche Frischfleisch etwas unförmiger und zäher aus als sie es aus der Schulküche in Erinnerung haben. Andererseits gab's außer Spinnen und Maden schon wirklich lange keine Eiweißzufuhr mehr - ja, der Hunger treibt tatsächlich fast alles in die Futterluke rein.</p>
<p>Während das gemeine Volk gerade die Diskussion anheizt, wie man das Vieh an einen Materpfahl bindet, ohne seinen Schwanz abzuknicken, versucht Tschango weiterhin seine diplomatischen Beziehungen etwas aufzupolieren: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Liebe Leute schaut mich an - legt endlich euer Besteck beiseite und schaut mich genau an. Ich bin ein Drache! Drachen darf man nicht essen, und man kann sie auch gar nicht essen.</em>"</span> Plötzlich tritt aus dem Hintergrund eine noch üblere Gestalt zum Vorschein, als es die anderen ohnehin schon waren. Seine Halskette besteht aus menschlichen Schrumpfköpfen und als Krone trägt er einen Büffelkopf, verziert mit mächtigen Hörnern und Gefieder von Geiern. Aus seinen Mundwinkeln ragen fingergroße Haizähne und die Schultern umhüll ein Umhang aus echtem Krokofanten-Schuppen.</p>
<p> Mit tiefrauchiger Stimme stellt er sich unserem leinen Drachen vor: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Man nennt mich Drogba, den Allwissenden. Ich bin Medizinmann, ...und du bist kein Drache!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Aber natürlich bin ich ein Drache!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Das glaube ich dir nicht, und selbst wenn schon...!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Sieh mich an, ich bin grün - drachengrün.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Schon mal die Kochkünste unseres Kochs versucht? Danach wird jeder grün, dass versprech ich dir!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Aber Drachen stehen weltweit gesetzlich unter Naturschutz!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Hier bin ich das Gesetz und du stehst höchsten auf dem Speiseplan.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Wenn ihr mich nicht sofort frei lasst, werde ich mich bitterlich rächen.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Soooo? Wie denn?</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Ich kann Feuer speien!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Beweise es.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Na gut, ihr habt es so gewollt:</em> <em>Pffffft, pfffffffffft, hüstel hechel keuch.</em>" </span></p>
<p>Außer einem Schwefelwölkchen will Tschango einfach nichts gelingen, sein Schnupfen hemmt ihn zu sehr. Unter dem schallenden Gelächter seiner Landsleute wendet sich der Medizinmann von Tschango kopfschüttelnd ab: „<em>was für eine jämmerliche Vorstellung; los, heizt endlich den Kessel an.</em>"</p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Drachen lassen sich nicht kochen, sie sind resistent gegen Feuer und Hitze.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Etwa so wie sie Feuer spucken? Das einzige was an dir Angst und Schrecken verbreitet ist dein Mundgeruch.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Grrrrr, das ist Schwefel - heißer, ätzender,  feuriger Schwefel!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Drogba: <span style="color:#ff0000;">„<em>Erspare uns bitte deine fantasievollen Gedanken, wenn du Feuer willst, spring in den Topf; los hievt ihn rein.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Bis Tschango die Lage richtig begreift, findet er sich auch schon in einem Kupferkessel voll Wasser wieder. Und so langsam wird das Wasser heißer und heißer. Glücklicher Weise macht Drachen große Hitze tatsächlich rein gar nix aus. Nur könnte er sich eben etwas Bequemeres vorstellen, als gefesselt in diesem viel zu engen Kochgefäß festzusitzen.</p>
<p>Doch mit einem Schlag kommt Tschango eine geniale Idee: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Mit was gedenkt ihr mich denn eigentlich zu würzen?</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch mit großem Holzlöffel: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Keine Angst, wir schmecken dich mit den edelsten Zutaten ab, Pfeffer, Paprika, Lorbeer, Thymian, Rosmarin...</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Hah, lächerlich ... typischer Anfängerfehler!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Was maulst du da rum?</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Mit Rosmarin und dem ganzen Zeug kriegst du einen Drachen nie gar.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Du bist ein Krokofant - und kein Drache!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango (wütend brüllend): <span style="color:#008000;">„<strong><em>Ich bin ein Drache!!!</em></strong>" „<em>Aber gut, wenn ihr euch vor eurem ganzen Volk bis auf die Knochen blamieren wollt, dann ist das eure Sache.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Na gut, na gut - was meinst du muss ich also tun?</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Pfluftlkraut - du brauchst ein fettes Sträußchen Pfluftlkraut!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Pfluftlkraut findet man nur ganz selten, wo soll ich das so schnell herbekommen?</em>"</span></p>
<p>Tschango: <span style="color:#008000;">„<em>Ich weiß, dass Du keines findest, sonst würde ich es dir ja kaum verraten - aber du bist ja eh viel zu doof dafür.</em>"</span></p>
<p>Koch: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>Na warte, dir werde ich zeigen, wo der Löffel hängt...!</em>"</span></p>
<p>Der Koch schnappt sich drei der besten Jäger und zieht in den Wald um Pfluftlkraut zu finden.</p>
<p>Im Dorf kreisen währenddessen die Wilden gierig um den Kessel herum und teilen schon mal die feinsten Stücke untereinander auf. Langsam versteckt sich die Sonne hinter den bewaldeten Hügeln. Kurz darauf kehrt der Koch mit seinem Gefolge zurück, rechter Hand den Kochlöffel schwingend und links ein Büschel Pfluftlkraut tragend: <span style="color:#0000ff;">„<em>So mein grüner Freund, jetzt geht's dir an die Eingeweide.</em>" </span>Siegessicher verteilt er das edle Gewächs rund um Tschango und heizt das Feuer noch mal kräftig auf. Doch Tschango hat sein Ziel endlich erreicht. Er rollt seine lange Zunge aus, nascht fleißig von dem Pfluftlkraut und holte kräftig Luft. Bereits nach wenigen Sekunden spürt Tschango, wie das Kraut in ihm zu arbeiten beginnt - genauer gesagt drücken ihm vor allem die Nebenwirkungen. Pfluftlkraut trägt seinen Namen nämlich nicht von ungefähr. Neben den heilsamen Balsam gegen Drachenschnupfen wirkt es vor allem in Verbindung mit Schwefel hoch explosiv. Und schwefeln tut's in so einen Drachen wie bei Teufel höchstpersönlich.</p>
<p>Sekunde für Sekunde brodelt es mehr in ihm, bis er schließlich so einen gewaltigen Pups sausen lassen muss, dass er wie eine Rakete aus dem Kessel in Richtung Himmel schießt. Der Donner-Pups lässt den Drachen über 2.000 Meter hoch steigen, bis die gaffende Menge nur noch einen kleinen Punkt von ihm am Himmel wahrnimmt. In der Luft gewinnt Tschango zum Glück seine Feuerkraft wieder zurück und so befreit er sich rasch aus den Fesseln. Endlich entfesselt breitet Tschango seine Flügel aus und peilt im Sturzflug das Dorf der Wilden an: <span style="color:#008000;">„ <em>seht alle her, ich bin ein Drache und ich speie Feuer - aaaaaargh!</em>" </span>Mannsgroße Flammen lodern aus seinem Drachenmaul und stecken gleich mal die Materpfahle in Brand. Nach einem weiteren Anflug entflammt er noch vom Medizinmann die Büffelkrone samt des Geierschmucks und den krummen Hörnern. Das Beste aber hebt sich Tschango bis zum Schluss auf. Mit Vollkaracho düst er auf den Koch zu, schnappte sich seinen Holzlöffel und steckt ihn kurz darauf als brennende Fackel ins gefiederte Hinterteil des Kochs; der kann sich nur noch durch einen beherzten Sprung in den eigenen Kochkessel löschen und wird dort nun ordentlich durchgerührt.</p>
<p>Endlich darf Tschango in seine Heimat nach Drachenschlund fliegen - absolut gesund und um etliche Erfahrungen weiser. Apropos weise: die Wilden in dem Dorf werden nie mehr die Existenz von Drachen anzweifeln - und ihre nächste Beute dürften sie sich vorher wohl ganz genau ansehen. Tschango träumt unterdessen schon wieder von neuen Abenteuern - und wer weiß, vielleicht bist Du ja wieder mit dabei.</p>
<p>© Andy Ilmberger, geschrieben am 15. August 2006, aktualisiert am 14. September 2008</p>
<p>Tschango will return in „Tschango im Wilden Westen"</p>
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<link>http://entonces27.wordpress.com/?p=35</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For the love of money is a root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the love of <span class="criteria">money</span> is a <span class="criteria">root</span> of all <span class="criteria">evil</span>: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.  I Timothy 6:10</p>
<p><strong>3546.</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">nomisma</span> <em>nom'-is-mah</em> from 3543; what is reckoned as of value (after the Latin numisma), i.e. current coin:--money. <strong>4149.</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">ploutos</span> <em>ploo'-tos</em> from the base of 4130; wealth (as fulness), i.e. (literally) money, possessions, or (figuratively) abundance, richness, (specially), valuable bestowment:--riches. <strong>4200.</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">porismos</span> <em>por-is-mos'</em> from a derivative of poros (a way, i.e. means); furnishing (procuring), i.e. (by implication) money-getting (acquisition):--gain. <strong>5536.</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">chrema</span> <em>khray'-mah</em> something useful or needed, i.e. wealth, price:--money, riches. <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=greeklexicon&#38;isindex=money">http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=greeklexicon&#38;isindex=money</a></p>
<p>From the preceding etymology of money in Greek reference, we can say that the love of money is also the love of any thing valuable, as wealth and possessions; love of money is also synonymous to love of gain or love of any thing which is useful and needed.</p>
<p>A  Christian needs to listen to the admonitions of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles in the Bible that to have food and raiment is enough in serving God. Sadly, many so-called christians are taught by deceiving preachers that one sign of God's blessings is material prosperity. We'll if you are an avid reader of the Bible, especially in the acts of early christians, nowhere could you find that christians retained their possessions. There was even a sympathizer of Christ, a bachelor who was unfortunate to have not followed Christ's path in that he couldn't give his wealth to the poor.</p>
<p>It is just correct to read the preceding verses of I Timothy 6:10 and to finish reading the following verses to avoid empty conclusions. Remember that the original Scriptures were not divided into Chapters and verses. So, we should be careful to make generalizations. The Bible cited that we cannot serve two masters at the same time. We may love the first and hate the other. In this case was the love of money tied to being a root of all evil. Take note that some believers in the first century never accomplished God's plans for them because of their love of money.</p>
<p>Now, we try to apply that verse in today's dispensation. Does love of money affect a Christian's service to God? The answer is: certainly. In fact, many known congregations now entice members through material prosperity. Some congregations offer jobs to their members but what happens next? Tithing is being enforced - a Mosaic law which is not christianly.  Is this the only means that greedy preachers rob of their members' possessions? Not only so. Many others gain through selling published Church's books and magazines containing commentaries of the verses in the Bible. And some others publicly sell their Church music recordings. See, how these techniques aptly described in the Bible happen nowadays!</p>
<p>Money is per se not evil; it's your misuse of it that makes you doing evil. There are many advantages that money can do. It's pretty much declared in the Old Testament of the Bible. "Money answereth all things," as quoted. To enumerate: all your basic necessities are answered by money, even luxuries. Governments are basically founded through money - road constructions, educating the people, supplying the health needs of the poor etc. Nonetheless, money is also the intention of the corrupt politicians, government employees, swindlers, hold-up gangs, and false reporting(media and journalism). Furthermore, money can answer the need to spread the words of God throughout the world or it can be used to make superpower arms and ammunitions for world war.</p>
<p>The ultimate thing to do is to love God above all and using your money for the good of mankind.</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>Enton</p>
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<link>http://rotarynuevomilenio.wordpress.com/?p=1113</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pablo Fernando Sanchez</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rotarynuevomilenio.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/argentina-importante-donacion-del-rotary-local/</guid>
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Diario La Ciudad de Avellaneda - Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Arg]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.laciudadavellaneda.com.ar/noticias/wmview.php?ArtID=16236" target="_blank">Importante Donación del <strong>Rotary</strong> Local</a><br />
<span style="color:#666666;">Diario La Ciudad de Avellaneda - Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina</span></p>
<p>Mitre 787, de nuestra ciudad, la Rueda Femenina del <strong>Rotary</strong> Club de Avellaneda, llevó a cabo una importante donación de elementos para botiquines de Primeros <strong>...</strong></p>
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<link>http://joniew.wordpress.com/?p=203</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jonie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://joniew.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/gratitude/</guid>
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We are all in the gutter,
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Oscar Wilde

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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#666699;"><strong><span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%;">We are all in the gutter,<br />
but some of us are looking at the stars.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color:#0000ff;"><!--/coloro-->Oscar Wilde<!--colorc--></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#666699;"><strong><!--coloro:#4169E1--><span><!--/coloro--><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%;"><!--/sizeo-->At times our own light goes out and<br />
is rekindled by a spark from another person.<br />
Each of us has cause to think<br />
with deep gratitude of those<br />
who have lighted the flame within us.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color:#0000ff;"><!--/coloro-->Albert Schweitzer</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#666699;"><span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%;">Enya - <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww8wqEgFIA8&#38;feature=related" target="_blank">May it be</a></span><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--colorc--></span></span></p>
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<link>http://elcontragolpe.wordpress.com/?p=669</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>murciasport</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elcontragolpe.com/2008/09/13/elpozo-lider-hasta-octubre/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Los murcianos vencen al Fisiomedia Manacor y se aseguran el primer puesto antes del parón por el Mu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Los murcianos vencen al Fisiomedia Manacor y se aseguran el primer puesto antes del parón por el Mundial de Brasil</strong></p>
<p><em>por Adrián Bonache Ibáñez</em></p>
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<p>ElPozo Murcia Turística cumplió los pronósticos y se impuso sin dificultad al recién ascendido Fisiomedia Manacor, por un resultado de siete goles a uno. De esta manera, los murcianos siguen contando sus partidos por victorias, y se mantendrán al frente de la tabla como mínimo hasta finales de octubre. Esto se debe, simple y llanamente, a que <strong>ahora lo que toca es aparcar la liga y disfrutar de la 'Roja' en versión sala, en un Mundial donde los nuestros buscarán sumar su tercer entorchado consecutivo</strong>, con el permiso del anfitrión, Brasil, entre cuyos seleccionados habrá nada menos que ocho jugadores de nuestra liga -tres de ElPozo: Ciço, Vinicius y Wilde-.</p>
<p>El encuentro de la pasada noche no tuvo, ciertamente, apenas emoción. Y es que, <strong>ya en el primer minuto, los murcianos comenzaban a mandar en el marcador, con un gol de Ciço</strong>. Después llegó el 'baño' de tantos, <strong>llegándose al descanso sin nada por decidir, con 5-0 para ElPozo</strong>, tras los goles de Wilde, Vinicius y de nuevo Wilde por dos veces. A la reanudación, aumentaba la renta local, con el sexto por parte de Mauricio, en el minuto 24, quien también conseguía el 7-0 a falta de cinco minutos para el final.</p>
<p>Con este panorama, los manacorís al menos lograron salvar el honor, con un único gol logrado por Paulinho en el 36. A esas alturas, uno y otro equipo deseaban más que nada terminar el partido, a fin de no prolongar la agonía visitante. No se movió más el electrónico, el cual no volverá a albergar un partido de división de honor hasta dentro de mes y medio, el próximo 1 de noviembre, con la visita del Azkar Lugo.</p>
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<link>http://trickylittleimp.wordpress.com/?p=517</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>trickylittleimp</dc:creator>
<guid>http://trickylittleimp.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/wild-unfettered-weekend/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. ...I guess I could be really pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.</em></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Those are the last words in <em>American Beauty</em>, spoken by Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey. If you've not seen it, I thoroughly recommend it (screenplay by Alan Ball - he of <em>Six Feet Under </em>- and a truly fantastic score by Thomas Newman).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I'm holding up these lines for a couple of reasons. This is one of my favourite films, and by being on telly last night, it reminded me how great I think it is. But it particularly chimes deep for me in the context of this blog, where we've spoken a lot about time, about flow, about life's transitory nature.</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><em>And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This is repetition for any regular readers, but Walter Pater (who taught Oscar WIlde at Oxford) urged us to live life as though we "burn with a hard, gem-like flame". He was advocating a zen approach; to live in the moment, not the future or past. He lost his reputation as a result; it ruined his life because his enemies chose to read his words as an unholy encouragement to the aesthetes, the hedonists (Wilde's <em>The Portrait of Dorian Gray</em> demonstrates the Victorian fear of  that kind of hedonism). Burnham - after death - talks about perceiving the world just like that. And in a related imping theme, of being greatful for "every single moment" of his life - stupid and little though he says it is.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">'Cos we are just the sum of our moments, those split-second choices, and each is equally valuable (we do not have to be linear!). Sartre and that lot, especially Kierkegaard (the existentialist posse) said that man (I suspect they mean women, too) can only be known  / defined by his actions - not his thoughts. That to be of merit, you have to act, deliver impact, turn the thought into deed. I'm not sure I always agree: to be defined solely by externalities?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Anyway, on that wee note of deliberation, please go and have a wild, action or thought-filled weekend, whichever takes your fancy. And enjoy every moment.</p>
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<link>http://minusvalismo.wordpress.com/?p=4</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>624</dc:creator>
<guid>http://minusvalismo.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/el-poema-de-mi-mujer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[tengo que recitaros un poema que escribió mi mujer
se llama españa
no tiene rima y no hay mayúscu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tengo que recitaros un poema que escribió mi mujer</p>
<p>se llama españa</p>
<p>no tiene rima y no hay mayúsculas<br />
ni siquiera cuando dice españa,<br />
lo hizo rápido después de la siesta</p>
<p>y me dio un beso con sangrado estándar<br />
para no enfurecer ni a las ninfas ni a la policía</p>
<p>ella es una mujer bella ante mis ojos<br />
nada más<br />
y yo estoy contento de que no hable mucho</p>
<p>pero escribe poemas, yo tengo que decirle<br />
si son buenos, si me gustan, ella sabe<br />
que yo leí a Lorca muy joven, a Machado,<br />
luego a Baudelaire y a Beckett<br />
novelistas como Joyce, Wilde,<br />
Julio Cortázar</p>
<p>en este sentido confía en mi criterio</p>
<p>y yo tengo que inventarme cosas como<br />
has de encontrar tu estilo propio<br />
intenta utilizar recursos literarios<br />
la rima a veces estriñe el alma<br />
de lo que dices</p>
<p>hay que leer mucho para escribir algo<br />
ya sabéis todo eso</p>
<p>es basura</p>
<p>y lo que importa en la poesía no es nada que sepáis<br />
sólo que hombre deforme se levante<br />
como una jirafa o un helicóptero</p>
<p>pero mi mujer no entiende todo esto<br />
y dice:</p>
<p><em>“tierra de gloria pretérita e ingenta<br />
gusta de altivos aires de casta<br />
ver en sus gentes, mientras intenta<br />
dar igual cetro de fe a su dinasta” </em></p>
<p>yo digo<br />
cariño, el principio es algo típico, pero<br />
la métrica es buena, controlas<br />
bastante bien la sintaxis,<br />
es una buena descripción y<br />
el vocabulario, nena,<br />
¿tengo a una filóloga en casa?</p>
<p>te acercas a tu propio estilo, guapa,<br />
he visto algún recurso literario<br />
y la rima, ¿sabes?</p>
<p>espero que no te haya estreñido el alma</p>
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<title><![CDATA[On Growing Up]]></title>
<link>http://fessicsfavorites.wordpress.com/?p=2077</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fessic</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fessicsfavorites.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/on-growing-up/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they fo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><em>"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them"</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Oscar Wilde</p>
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<link>http://majklo.wordpress.com/?p=46</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>majklo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://majklo.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/dekadencna-stran/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ker je to Dekadenčna stran, je zelo dekadenčno, da na njej niso dovoljeni komentarji &#8230;
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<title><![CDATA[Wilde Thoughts]]></title>
<link>http://ysoserious.wordpress.com/?p=97</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ysoserious</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ysoserious.pl.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/wilde-thoughts/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here are some quotes by Oscar Wilde, one of my favourite authors. Inspiring, revealing, or just a pl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<address><em><span style="color:#808000;">Here are some quotes by Oscar Wilde, one of my favourite authors. Inspiring, revealing, or just a pleasat way to pass the time ... a good read nonetheless. Enjoy!</span></em></address>
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<h4>Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. <img class="alignright" src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/QUOMAG/M85~Life-Oscar-Wilde-Posters.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="404" /></h4>
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<h4>Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.</h4>
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<h4>Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.</h4>
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<h4>Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.</h4>
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<h4>Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.</h4>
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<h4>I am not young enough to know everything.</h4>
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<h4>I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.</h4>
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<h4>Illusion is the first of all pleasures.</h4>
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<h4>Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.</h4>
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<h4>Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.</h4>
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<h4>Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. <em>(point made </em>:D<em>)</em></h4>
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<h4>Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.</h4>
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<h4>Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.</h4>
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<h4>The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for</h4>
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<h4>The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.</h4>
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<h4>There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.</h4>
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<h4>We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.</h4>
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<h4>We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.</h4>
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<h4>Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.</h4>
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<h4>Why was I born with such contemporaries?</h4>
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<h4>Wisdom comes with winters.</h4>
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<h4>One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.</h4>
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<h4>The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.</h4>
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<h4>When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.</h4>
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<h4>Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.</h4>
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<h4>Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.</h4>
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<h4>I can resist anything but temptation.</h4>
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<h4>It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.</h4>
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<h4>Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.</h4>
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<h4>We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.</h4>
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<h4>What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.</h4>
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<h4>Only the shallow know themselves.</h4>
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<h4>The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (again point made ... unfortunately)</h4>
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<h4>One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.</h4>
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<h4>The truth is rarely pure and never simple.</h4>
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<h4>Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.</h4>
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<h4>I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.</h4>
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<h4>One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.</h4>
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<h4>The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.</h4>
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<h4>There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.</h4>
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<h4>There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.</h4>
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<h4>Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.</h4>
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<h4>Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.</h4>
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<h4>Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.</h4>
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<link>http://comcategoria.wordpress.com/?p=91</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://comcategoria.pl.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/pensamentos-de-oscar-wilde/</guid>
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<p><em><span style="font-family:verdana;">“A verdade não é complexa, nós é que somos.”</span></em></p>
<p>“Sou contra os noivados muito prolongados. Dão tempo às pessoas se conhecerem melhor, o que não me parece aconselhável antes do casamento”.</p>
<p>“Meu papel de parede e eu estamos travando um duelo mortal. Um de nós terá que partir.”</p>
<p>“Se alguém diz a verdade, pode estar certo de que será descoberto, mais cedo ou mais tarde.”</p>
<p>“O homem tem a idade da mulher que ele ama”.</p>
<p>“O mundo pode ser um palco, mas o elenco é um horror.”</p>
<p>“O acordo é o último recurso dos que não têm imaginação.”</p>
<p>“Tempo é desperdício de dinheiro.”</p>
<p>“Os bons terminam felizes; os maus, infelizes. Isso é o que se chama ficção.”</p>
<p>“Experiência é o nome que nós damos aos nossos próprios erros.”</p>
<p>“Para ser popular é necessário ser uma mediocridade.”</p>
<p>“Quando eu era jovem, pensava que o dinheiro era a coisa mais importante do mundo. Hoje, tenho certeza.”</p>
<p>“Uma coisa não é necessariamente verdadeira só porque um homem dá a vida por ela.”</p>
<p>“Meus gostos são simples: prefiro o melhor de tudo.”</p>
<p>“O dever é o que esperamos do comportamento dos outros.”</p>
<p>“O caminho dos paradoxos é o caminho da verdade.”</p>
<p>“A diferença entre a empolgação e o amor eterno é que a empolgação dura mais.”</p>
<p>“Uma idéia que não é perigosa não merece ser chamada de idéia.”</p>
<p>“Não se pode haver amizade entre homem e mulher. Pode haver paixão, hostilidade, adoração, amor, mas não amizade.”</p>
<p>“Desconfiem de mulher que confessa a sua verdadeira idade. Uma mulher que a diz, poderá dizer qualquer coisa.”</p>
<p>“Certas criaturas têm a mania de dar bons conselhos precisando tanto deles para si… É o que chamo de cúmulo da generosidade.”</p>
<p>“A verdade jamais é pura e raramente é simples.”</p>
<p>“Viver é a coisa mais rara do mundo. A maioria das pessoas não faz mais do que existir.”</p>
<p>“Não há pecado, exceto a estupidez.”</p>
<p>“Viva depressa, morra jovem e seja um cadáver atraente.”</p>
<p>“Todas as grandes idéias são perigosas.”</p>
<p>“Apenas as pessoas que já perderam totalmente a memória publicam suas memórias.”</p>
<p>“Dê uma máscara ao homem e ele dirá a verdade.”</p>
<p>“Um homem deve dar toda importância a escolha de seus inimigos: eu não tenho um só que não seja idiota”.</p>
<p>“A melhor maneira de ter bons filhos é fazê-los felizes.”</p>
<p>“A caridade cria uma multidão de pecados.”</p>
<p>“Os homens casam porque estão cansados. As mulheres, por curiosidade. Ambos são logrados.”</p>
<p>“Quando uma mulher se casa pela segunda vez, é sinal de que detestava o primeiro marido. O homem, ao contrário só torna a casar se adorou sua primeira mulher.”</p>
<p>“O cérebro de um erudito é uma coisa terrível. É como uma casa de Belchior em que se encontram as mais disparatadas inutilidades, quase todas cobertas de pó e com o preço marcado muito acima de seu valor.”</p>
<p>“É justamente porque a humanidade não sabia por onde ia que conseguiu encontrar o seu caminho.”</p>
<p>“Devemos ser modestos e lembrar-nos de que os outros são inferiores a nós.”</p>
<p>“Posso resistir a tudo, menos às tentações.”</p>
<p>“Não sou jovem o suficiente para saber tudo.”</p>
<p>“Trabalho é o refúgio dos que não têm nada para fazer.”</p>
<p>“Cinismo consiste em ver as coisas como elas são, não como deveriam ser.”</p>
<p>“As vitórias de ontem são menos importantes que os planos de amanhã.”</p>
<p>“O segredo da vida está na arte.”</p>
<p>“Se um homem encara a vida de um ponto de vista artístico, seu cérebro passa a ser seu coração.”</p>
<p>“Estamos todos na sarjeta, mas alguns de nós olham para as estrelas.”</p>
<p>“O velho acredita em tudo; o homem maduro duvida de tudo e o jovem sabe tudo.”</p>
<p>“A verdade em assuntos de religião é simplesmente a opinião que sobreviveu.”</p>
<p>“Nunca deixe de perdoar seus inimigos, nada os aborrece tanto.”</p>
<p>“Os jovens querem ser fiéis e não podem. Os velhos querem ser infiéis e não podem.”</p>
<p>“A vida imita a arte muito mais do que a arte imita a vida..”</p>
<p>“Quando as pessoas concordam comigo eu sempre sinto que devo estar errado.”</p>
<p>“Enviei minha alma através do invisivel para soletrar alguma carta deste pós vida, mas de repente ela voltou para mim e respondeu: eu mesma sou o céu eo inferno.”</p>
<p>“Ser natural é a mais dificil das poses.”</p>
<p>“Se você não demorar muito posso esperá-lo por toda a minha vida.”</p>
<p>“(…)a sociedade, por meio da maquinaria, fornecerá o que é útil; o que é belo será criado pelo individuo.”</p>
<p>“Hoje em dia conhecemos o preço de tudo e o valor de nada.”</p>
<p>“O mais terrível não é termos nosso coração partido (pois corações foram feitos para serem partidos), mas sim, transformar nossos corações em pedra.”</p>
<p>“Eu chorei todos os dias na mesma hora e por todos os tempos.”</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Un derby sin sobresaltos para comenzar la LNFS]]></title>
<link>http://elcontragolpe.wordpress.com/?p=544</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>murciasport</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elcontragolpe.com/2008/08/27/un-derby-sin-sobresaltos-para-comenzar-la-lnfs/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ ElPozo vence (5-2) a Peinsa en un partido que poco recuerda ya a los emocionantes e igualados encue]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]&#62;  Normal 0 21        MicrosoftInternetExplorer4  &#60;![endif]--> <strong>ElPozo vence (5-2) a Peinsa en un partido que poco recuerda ya a los emocionantes e igualados encuentros de hace unos años</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>por Adrián Bonache Ibáñez</em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Extraño inicio de esta temporada 2008/09 en la Liga Nacional de Fútbol Sala, principalmente debido a que se produce cuando aún nos encontramos en el mes vacacional por excelencia. Esta premura no tiene otra causa que el <strong>Mundial de Brasil</strong>, que comenzará a finales del próximo mes de septiembre, y en el que nuestra selección aspira a reeditar el triunfo cosechado hace cuatro años en China-Taipei, y hace ocho en Guatemala.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">El calendario deparó para el pistoletazo de salida un derby murciano entre dos conjuntos cuyo nivel, se dice, debe estar más parejo este año. Y es que la llegada de un nuevo patrocinador, Peinsa, al fútbol sala cartagenero, puede hacer factible que aspiren a volver, al menos, a colocarse entre los ocho primeros equipos de la tabla, adquiriendo así el pase a la Copa de España, y finalmente al play-off por el título de liga. Eso sí, tal y como está la situación, cumplir dicho objetivo bien podría considerarse un éxito, pues <strong>la plantilla que dirigirá David Marín, con el ex–pocero Miguel Ángel Cobeta como principal figura, aún está a años luz de ese conjunto galáctico que la empresa Polaris World fulminó de la misma forma que le dio vida</strong>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">En lo que respecta al equipo de la capital del Segura, quizá la principal noticia sea que <strong>finalmente se mantiene el nombre del equipo</strong>, y los intereses económicos de los hermanos Fuertes no han sido suficiente razón como para sustituir ElPozo por otra firma, siendo Profusa la que andaba mejor colocada. Si hablamos de fichajes, hay un nombre propio: <strong>Marcelo</strong>, enémigo acérrimo de los poceros durante tantos años, quien tras pasar por Industrias García, Marfil Santa Coloma, Polaris World Cartagena y Azkar Lugo, y con 34 años, ha decidido aliarse con esa afición a la que tanto enervaba en cada visita al Palacio de los Deportes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quizá por la fecha, quizá por el decaimiento del interés en este choque que sobrepasa las líneas meramente deportivas, lo cierto es que <strong>el Palacio mostró una grada bastante lastimera</strong>, que por momentos se confundía con el Wsell de Guimbarda de Cartagena, dados los cánticos, mayoritariamente despectivos para con los murcianos, por parte de los aficionados cartageneros desplazados a la capital. La afición pocera raramente respondía a las provocaciones, así como esperando que por ellos lo hiciera su equipo ahí donde hay que hacerlo, en el terreno de juego.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Los primeros minutos de partido dejaron prácticamente decidido el encuentro. <strong>Sólo habían transcurrido cuatro minutos, y los locales ya mandaban por 3-0, con tres tantos del brasileño Wilde</strong>. El juego de uno y otro equipo dejaba bien a las claras las diferencias latentes entre ambos, y apuntaba a un recital pocero. Sin embargo, fueron los cartageneros los siguientes en mover el marcador, allá por el minuto 9, gracias a Cobeta, que fue jaleado por su nueva afición, y respetado por la que lo fue varias temporadas atrás.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">La alegría visitante por acortar el resultado no tardó demasiado en disiparse, pues el brasileño<strong> Vinicius colocaría, tres minutos después, un 4-1 con el que se llegó al descanso</strong>. Tras éste, la película cambió completamente; Peinsa comenzó a coger moral, y cada vez llegaba más, y con más peligro, ante la escasez de ideas de los poceros. No obstante, al creciente dominio cartagenero le fallaba el acierto, y no conseguían rematar con éxito las acometidas a la meta de Juanjo. Dichos minutos de dominio sin gol se acabaron viendo traducidos -como suele ocurrir- en la respuesta por parte de ElPozo, que <strong>en el minuto 30 consiguió el 5-1</strong>, con otro tanto obra de Wilde, que le sitúa como primer pichichi de la liga regular.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No perdieron el ánimo los visitantes a pesar de lo abultado del marcador, pues <strong>instantes más tarde Cobeta marcaba su segundo gol, también de su equipo</strong>. Aún había tiempo para la heroica, pero no tanto dispositivos para ella. Así, el resultado no se volvería a mover, a pesar de que David Marín incluso dio salida a Jordi Gay como quinto hombre, lo cual estuvo más cerca de provocar el sexto de los locales que de otra cosa. Al final, 5-2, y ambos conjuntos que piensan ya en la 2ª jornada, a disputar el próximo viernes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>Presentación ElPozo Murcia Turística 2008/09</em></p>
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Die freie und parteiunabhängige Wählerinitiative &#8220;Wir in Borkwalde - WiB&#8221; nominiert d]]></description>
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<p>Die freie und parteiunabhängige Wählerinitiative "Wir in Borkwalde - WiB" nominiert den derzeitigen Amtsinhaber.</p>
<p>Hier die Themen der Wählerinitiative...<!--more--></p>
<p>* Die Wählerinitiative "Wir in Borkwalde" steht für eine bürgernahe Gemeindevertretung.</p>
<p>* Starke Vertretung der Interessen der Gemeinde Borkwalde im Amt Brück.</p>
<p>* Verbesserung der Infrastruktur.</p>
<p>* Förderung der Familienfreundlichkeit.</p>
<p>Wer sich sein eigenes Bild machen möchte, kann sich <a href="http://wir-in-borkwalde.org/B%C3%BCrgermeister.html" target="_blank">hier</a> die Infos anschauen...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Black women go WILDE]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are feisty women who have opinions and ain&#8217;t afraid of expressing them&#8221;, says ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"We are feisty women who have opinions and ain't afraid of expressing them", says ‘Culture', a woman of African descent with a wild overwhelming personality and a deep powerful voice that has kept her in the  West London poetry scene for over ten years.</p>
<p>Discover how <em>Culture</em> makes a difference by downloading "<a href="http://jsorribesportfolio.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/blackwomengowilde.pdf">Black women go WILDE</a>" in full in pdf.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[February Blues]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Computers are so predictable! I sent you the same Valentine card you sent to your mother. The only c]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Computers are so <strong>predictable</strong>! I sent you the same Valentine card you sent to your mother. The only consolation with these machines is that through e-mail we are geared to writing letters again, something almost démodé with the modern telecom technology. But think of the literature that correspondence has created since the ancient times! We have letters of Plato and Plutarch as well as of Saint Paul and many others, most of them enriching and some moving from our dead parents, etc. Letters remain in a drawer as a proof of life passed. <em>La vida breve</em>.</p>
<p>You see, the island is inspiring corny thoughts, but that is how it is. Rimbaud was not corny in his poetry, but he almost had a corny end in Arabia. Nobody is perfect. Oscar Wilde thought he was, and it is true, he wrote <em>Salomé</em>, for me a masterpiece--didn’t he write it in French? I’m sure you‘ll have no problem with old Oscar, you like him too much and rightly so, he was almost hundred years ahead of his time. And he had a sense of humour. I visited his tomb in Paris.</p>
<p>The island looks almost like an English landscape, all green with the blue sea around, but it is full of flowers already, yellow buttercups (or something like that) covering the fields everywhere. Also beautiful mauve ones. I don’t know the names, I’m hopeless. Rousseau, when he got older started getting interested in plants and flowers. Is it a sign of old age? I’m not that interested as yet. I remember I read Rousseau’s <em>Confessions</em> in a sunny hotel room in Casablanca, thirty years ago. From my window I could see a balcony opposite with a tortoise in it. I don’t know how these thirty years have passed. You must learn to <em>carpe diem</em>.</p>
<p>Today I bought a laurel to plant to remind me of the old house in Athens and to dry the leaves for cooking. I’m also planting two fig trees. The old ones died years ago and no Greek garden is conceivable without fig trees. One is supposed to produce white figs and the other, black ones. But the big event is the homage to Dionysos, by planting the vines. They will produce dark red wine (not to be confused with the wine dark sea of Homer.) Unfortunately I will not be here during the planting, because George the Albanian who is going to plant them has gone back to Albania to renew his visa for Greece. The prosaic reality destroys romanticism, although I have not yet visualised George as a Dionysos disciple with a vine crown on his head.</p>
<p>The same birds seem to be around as in the summer. They go about their daily affairs crowing unconvincingly. The nights are cold and there is going to be a full moon on Saturday, my last night here. They predict bad weather as from tomorrow but I hope it will be clear on Saturday. If it is, it will be a good omen. I’m going to build a fire in the fireplace anyway, to celebrate the passing of another winter. And so life flows. Amen.</p>
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