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how are things in glocca morra?
Where is Yalta?, you may be wondering, if you just finished reading The Master and Margarita, and need to know just how unlikely it is for a person to be in Moscow one minute and Yalta the next, and your … Continue reading
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Tagged bulgakov, geography, Leningrad, musicals, sports night, toponyms, yalta
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wikipedia, iStream of consciousness
“What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?” (MacBeth, IV.i) crack of doom, day of judgment, doomsday, Bloomsday Ragnarök (Old Norse: “final destiny of the gods”)=death of Odin, Thor, Loki, Marvel comics; Ragnarökr or Ragnarökkr (“Twilight of … Continue reading
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Tagged berlin, death, god(s), i love wikipedia, joyce, letter writing, nietzsche, rilke, shakespeare, sports night, three dog night, wagner
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baseball facts
I finally watched Eight Men Out Kenesaw Mountain Landis served as a federal judge then the first commissioner of Major League Baseball; kept baseball from integrating Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson became the first African-American major league baseball player of the … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, delillo, dictionary, jets to brazil, sports night
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words/phrases in other languages
agelaste = a man who does not laugh (Rabelais) raison d’ętre = reason for being in-der-Welt-sein = being in the world (Heidegger) ad astra per aspera = from stars to dust sic transit gloria mundi = glory fades l’homme qui … Continue reading
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Tagged blur, derrida, heidegger, i love wikipedia, kierkegaard, kundera, phrases, rabelais, sports night, time, victor hugo, wilfred owen
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