Gothic Japanese Model

Mirage Spring

Spring?

Yes, I know, we announce the return of hard frosts, yes, I see, it is barely half past five ET the sun has already fallen behind the neighbor's roof and the sky was invaded darkness ...

I know, I see it, but notwithstanding the last two days, I sniffed the sweetness of the air and the smell of damp earth smell a little spring ...

Then suddenly lava bridge , water buckets, a broom, "rice straw", I swept, brushed, washed the decks, and tables and garden chairs. As if we were to dine there in the sun soon ...

And I saw that by scraping under the fallen leaves, dried, rotten through the winter, the tips pointed green crocus, hellebores preparing the their buttons. Besides primroses venture a few flowers in the corners of the garden, I saw a bunch of purple flowers away from the wall of the house ...

My fury of the household has been away a while chickadees in attending permanent fat balls installed in our plum ...

With Camille, who since she has seen and reviewed three times Three Men and a Cradle understood that happiness Baby playing is not fun for girls and rediscovers his old infants with enthusiasm, moving away for a time the mechanics, legos, games and other more "boy" (failed!) Santa Claus, with Camille so we decided to take the children to make them the air ....

Older Woman In Gridle

Banana Halloween

Another student question:

- How do you say "banana" in Latin?

- But see, the Romans did not know bananas!

That said, I do not leave completely plan my student because I remember rightly viewed with some amazement that word in a Latin American textbooks that I order some on the site "Amazon." The Americans teach Latin as a living language. They are less savvy than us on the cultural context necessary to an understanding of texts by authors, however, they handle the language with much more ease than us and therefore fall much more easily in these authors' texts; nothing is perfect! If I sometimes walked among my textbooks from overseas, not to violate official instructions Program of the French National Education, just to draw ideas from small ad hoc dialogues easy to relieve students by giving them the feeling that even a whole text without toil.

short! Back home, I immersed myself in the manual in question, and easily found my fanny, "Arian! This is surprising because one would have expected "banana", but where does this "Arian specific, which means" banana "in any modern language, to describe a reality unknown to the Romans?

I jump on Gaffiot which, "Arian refers me to" ariera "and learn that it is the fruit of the jackfruit tree, I had the good fortune not to know. There is a reference: Pliny, XII 24. This is the chapter on exotic trees in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. I begin to understand: it is possible that the Romans had not experienced the banana, but one author has described from stories of travelers.

Good. I try to find the text of Pliny in question, Latin, and if possible in French translation, which, despite the magic of the Internet, is not so easy, as Pliny wrote that kind of money that few translators who dared to translate it entirely (apparently there are only translations of the nineteenth century (needless to say we no longer found at Fnac!)) and that few users of today who have finished the scan entirely in Latin! On the other hand, it appears that "XII 24" is sometimes referred to "XII 12", there must have chapters and subsections that overlap ...

short, I finally found, and I submit the text in the translation of Littre slightly modified:

"Another fruit tree, the largest, won by the size and flavor of its fruit, which the sages of India feed. The leaf is shaped like a bird's wing and is three cubits long and two wide. The fruit comes out of the bark it is admirable for the sweetness of its juice, one is enough to satisfy four people. The tree is named pala , the fruit Ariena . It is most abundant in the country Sydraques, terms of Alexander's expedition. "

other hand, looking a bit again on the internet, I realized that it was sometimes thought that Pliny described in this text bananas, before discovering that it was rather the fruit of the jackfruit.

So, although this interpretation has been disproved, it was tempting to suggest that Latin word to translate our existing banana so common, and I do not think it would be good Pliny offended ...

Fry's Electronics Layaway

Anouar Brahem and Richard Galliano

to the hazards of night ...
By visiting my blog-friend-on-blog-and-facebook Eric Bernardin, in order to use his power to prepare advice rich meal on December 24th, I am distracted from my reading of its page the beautiful music of Anouar Brahem The pitch of the black cat .

Michel, I know, had bought, and I rush to find him (the CD) to listen ...

He told me (Michael):

- With Matinier. It was also the one with Richard ..

- Galliano?

divine surprise, I propose to share ... In particular

Wave ...

http://www.deezer.com/listen-1149521

Anouar Brahem

Khomsi

Richard Galliano
François Couturier Jean Marc

Larché

Bechir Selmi

Palle Danielsson Jon Christensen

Sniffing Womans Shoes Stories

Snow

Small text circumstance ...
Small text without consequence ...
Small text of an inconsistent

The white snow
Angels angels in heaven
One is dressed as an officer
One is dressed as a chef
And others sing


Bel officer sky color
The sweet spring long after Christmas
Te medal bright sunshine
A beautiful sun


The cook geese feather
Ah! Snow falls
Tomb and what have I
My beloved in my arms

Guillaume Apollinaire (Spirits)


Yes, it snows, snow, snow
On trains
On the beautiful highways,
on trucks, planes
And .... Snowing in Paris

Snowing Snowing Nancy
our friends

But here no snow at all
Just a very mild
To gather the mistletoe and holly ...
I regret very much !!!!!!

With us it will snow on
spring flowers, camellia garden,

In our winter is crazy ...!

was March 8 2010 .... 16h 45

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Straight Weave With Bang

Agatha Christie, Creams and punishment ...

As I already wrote in my blog , I've always loved Agatha Christie, in any case since I was 18 or 19 years at the time of my license letters, when she was hardly blameless among the students of literature. It was part of my marginality, as Camus that was then fashionable to look like a nice "humanist" rather than as a philosopher - that he should prefer-Sartre, and as Voltaire, far from the visionary thinking of Rousseau!, was guilty of extra sympathy bourgeois, capitalist and slave trade, owner shares sugar etc. .. etc. ... well ... I delighted, but the admitting without admitting it, the Plague, Candide, and ... Agatha.

Yesterday Michel income is the Cultural Centre forecourt (Leclerc..) With a small gift:

cream and punishment

délicieuseset Recipes criminal

Agatha Christie

Anna Martinelli and Francis River Asset photos of Philip, ed JCLattès Mask

I'm never really works in context I like to read. To me they were running in-itself within their system of texts, themes or characters, that's where the contrasts are formed, reconciliations, and prospects, which is built for me the meaning ...

so I do not know if I would have bought this book myself, I had been wrong not to do it, because I found great pleasure to read ... thank you Michael!

By collecting over the novels of revenue or gourmet delights, is the image of a woman whom they briefly in the background: gourmet teas and muffins, huge picnics, to double cream, English breakfasts, but also sea bathing, walking, travel, life in a word or even freedom and love ... a woman who is not unlike her contemporary Colette, including Willie, his neurotic husband, told with a touch of weariness: "She loves everything! "Coco Chanel ... or

I realize while reading that food tastes are not harmless and they help build systems of characters

A Hercule Poirot, Belgian gourmet" continental "great hater of British cooking, sweet super sweet almost nauseating, Miss Marple refinement of real muffins and scones, good cup of hot tea well sweetened offered as a remedy to the anguish of the victims, Ariadne Oliver bulimia fruit fresh apples in particular, whose stalks trimmed to hang around ... Chimney aristocrats, the substantial breakfasts, meals Christmas forcefully game and poultry ...

In fact the mention of food contributes to building a fictional world by giving it a tangible reality, these small details which readers are told "you could not invent *". Realistic and certainly both totally fictitious and exotic for us as these details mark the world as belonging to another time, another country, another social class. A bit like in the movies or some of Hitchcock films F. Ozon, or adaptations of Agatha Christie P. Thomas ....

Both giving presence and scenery ... the illusion of reality, but a real and invented abroad ...

added finally, as evidenced by the title that all this food often serves delicious "Device" ** to poisons sophisticated or violent, that in all these delights may or may not , and this is the ambiguity of Agatha Christie, housing the threat of death ...

"Beware of the sweetness of things," beware of the delights of life ...

But do not forget to enjoy ....

* the secret of realism according to Diderot

** within the meaning of the word processor of course ..