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Wednesday, 24 July 2013

The Buendía family in Macondo

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"100 years of solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.  A 7-generation family tree of the Buendías, drawn by me: 

Chế ảnh

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(Nguồn:  http://forum.vietdesigner.net/threads/cac-thanh-che-giup-em-sao-cho-tam-anh-nay-ngau-nhat-nhe-thank-cac-bac.30277/ ) Hình gốc:  ...
Sunday, 21 July 2013

Nabokov the master Nabokov the monster

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Decide to stop reading "The gift". The fact that it was originally written in Russian may have been a factor making it almost uni...
Friday, 19 July 2013

Your movies suck* (with some notes on Jane Austen)

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Some bad films I've watched lately:  1/ Fröken Julie/ Miss Julie (1951):  Based on a play by August Strindberg, which came out a coupl...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013

2 quotes from "Of human bondage"

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I have not read this novel. Neither have I read anything by W. Somerset Maugham.  But these 2 quotes attract my attention, which say exact...

In Macondo

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"... No one knew exactly when she had begun to lose her sight. [...] She did not tell anyone about it because it would have been a publ...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Vladimir Nabokov on synaesthesia

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Details of synaesthesia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia Here , Vladimir Nabokov, 1 of the most famous synaesthetes, described h...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

Mưa nguồn (Bùi Giáng)

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Thơ Bùi Giáng   Chào Nguyên Xuân  Xin chào nhau giữa con đường Mùa xuân phía trước miên trường phía sau Tóc xanh dù có phai màu Thì c...