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EL HUMOR VÍTREO
Humor vítreo1839. Daguerre inventa la fotografía. A partir de entonces la imagen, que ya había alcanzado uno de sus apogeos en el renacimiento, impera en el mundo. Los objetos nos llegan cada vez más a...
View ArticleA FRENCH ROMANTIC'S VIEW OF OTHELLO
Quand paraît sur la scène la douce et pure Desdemona, quand Othello échange avec elle les transports d’une confiante tendresse, quand ce serpent d’Iago rampe autour de ces deux créatures si heureuses,...
View ArticleTHE FATAL FIRST GLASS
The most common narrative in temperance fiction begins with a young male who, in longing to exercise the privileges of adulthood and yearning for excitement, allows himself to be lured, usually by a...
View ArticleKUDOS FOR "REVELS AND RETALIATION"
DAVID’s reviewDSSubmitted byDAVID STEADIs the analysis focused on the reflection topic proposed for the assignment (comparing two of the three stories we read this week: “Tuesday Siesta”, “One of These...
View ArticleRITUALES CORPORALES DE LOS SOEPORUE
RITUALES CORPORALES DE LOS SOEPORUETraducido y adaptado por Sandra Dermark del inglés original, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema."Febrero de MMXVIILa mayoría de culturas muestran una configuración...
View ArticlePROMETHEUS À LA MONTY PYTHON
If you are fond of Monty Python and/or edutainment, feel free to take a peek at this episode of Hercules (the animated series): it opens with Eric Idle telling the Prometheus story in an upbeat patter...
View ArticlePYNCHON'S IDIOSYNCHRASIES
Pynchon's Indicative Naming: Onomatophobia? Onomatomania? Or None of the Above?In June 1953, when Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. graduated from Oyster Bay High School, the yearbook editor noted Pynchon had...
View ArticleBEVINGADE ORD: KALLE ANKA OCH HANS VÄNNER
VARJE JULAFTON KLOCKAN TRE......har Disneys julspecialare From All of Us to All of You, mer känd i Norden som Kalle Anka och hans Vänner (Kalle har huvudroll i Amazonas-djungeln, delad huvudroll i...
View ArticleTHE IRON BEDSTEAD OF KING OG
Eglon was not the only enemy ruler with an inherently funny name in the Bible. Deuteronomy gives us the far shorter and easier to spell Og (pronounced as in Mike, Lu, & Og). The only thing Og is...
View ArticleMARY'S ROOM; AND/OR LEXICAL MISMATCH
According to John Locke (1690, adapted to make the word "child" gender-neutral) “If a child were kept in a place where they never saw any other (colour) but black and white till they came of age, they...
View ArticleHAND IN HAND WITH GWENDOLINE
Oh, hand in hand with Gwendoline,while yet our locks are gold,he'll fare among the forests green,and through the gardens old;And when, like leaves that lose their green,our gold has turned to...
View ArticlePOEMAS 25 ANIVERSARIO UJI
Estos poemas son obra de Rosa Agost, Decana de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales de la Universidad Jaime I, y fueron escritos para conmemorar el 25 aniversario de dicha Universidad.Aquests...
View ArticleMORGENROT, MORGENROT...
Morgenrot, Morgenrotleuchtest mir zum frühen TodBald wird die Trompete blasen,dann muß ich mein Leben lassenich und mancher Kamerad!Kaum gedacht, kaum gedachtwird der Lust ein End gemacht!Gestern noch...
View ArticleDREAM A LITTLE HARDER
This is a satirical musical number from a Disney parody... it's catchy, I <3 the tune, I <3 the lyrics, I listen to it when I do tae-bo on my own...Though we're upset, we shouldn't fret!We...
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FUTURA - THAT CHARMING TYPEFACE
FUTURA IN SPAIN: or how I first met Futura as a childIt was the word Caja as it's written here, with a straight j and as that do not look like usual printed A:s.I knew Futura would have to do with my...
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KIRAKIRA PRECURE À LA MODE 1ST IMPRESSIONS
Somehow I stopped reviewing Mahou Tsukai Precure due to oodles of things that came in between. It was actually a series I had a pair of gripes with, a pair of serious gripes... but thankfully this...
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NEXT MONTH ON DESPERTA FERRO
Well, in the second fortnight of this month we've got the local fête here in Castellón and that all-star cast live action musical Beauty and the Beast (with my Obi-Ewan as Lumière and many other...
View ArticleCHANGELINGS IN MACONDO
Why, why... can we never be sure till we die or have killed for an answer? Why, why... do we suffer each race to believe that no race has been grander? It seems because through time and space, though...
View ArticlePRAISE FOR "CHANGELINGS IN MACONDO"
DAVID’s reviewDSSubmitted byDAVID STEADIs the analysis focused on the topic proposed for the assignment (the comparison of two characters in a novel where history repeats itself)? Yes. The two who are...
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