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we met at Florian’s. *
10 juin 2009 – 20:06
* I have made up my quarrel with Lord Byron. […] No englishman alive can equal his lordship for an insult. He arrived in Venice about a week ago and we met at Florian’s.
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell
Clouds, great divinities to idle men *
18 mars 2009 – 2:41
* Socrates : […] Clouds, great divinities
to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument,
and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and
ability to hoax, and comprehension.
The Clouds, Aristophanes ; translated by William James Hickie.
That mountain is evil.*
11 février 2009 – 19:56
« None who venture there ever return. That mountain is evil. »
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The edge of the fields at evening*
18 janvier 2009 – 16:13
* « The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. »
Willa Cather - One of ours
Go fly a kite *
3 décembre 2008 – 23:50
« Oh, oh, oh, let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Let’s go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, let’s go… fly a kite! »
Mr. Banks - Mary Poppins (1964)
Romeo & Juliet *
15 novembre 2008 – 18:01
* Chorus :
Now Romeo is belov’d, and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;
But to his foe suppos’d he must complain,
And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Prologue
What is that thing?*
10 novembre 2008 – 23:05
* - What is that thing?
- A dog, I think… But it was dead this morning!
- It was dead this morning?
- Well we thought it was dead; it was hit by a truck!
Lilo & Stitch (Disney, 2002)
Terribly, terribly addictive *
14 septembre 2008 – 2:27
* « Marge is right, sugar is not only fattening but it’s also terribly, terribly addictive… Uh, is my carton of Pixie Sticks in? »
Dr. Hibbert - The Simpsons
Every time something good happens to me… *
21 août 2008 – 16:58
* « Every time something good happens to me you say it’s some kind of madness. Or I’m drunk. Or I ate too much candy. Well I saw a real mermaid. And I wish for once my friends would have decency and kindness to believe me. »
Fry - Futurama
deeds of gren thrilling light *
25 juin 2008 – 17:55
- * with thinned
- newfragile yellows
- lurch and.press
- –in the woods
- which
- stutter
- and
- sing
- e.e. cummings
It’s a dangerous business going out your front door.*
1 juin 2008 – 16:33
* J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
- You know what that cloud reminds me of?*
25 mai 2008 – 16:44
* - What?
- A flower.
- SpongeBob, they all look like flowers. All the time.
- They sure do.