diumenge, 29 d’agost del 2010

THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE by orwell

Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.

The sort of things that are working against him are the concentration of the press in the hands of a few rich men, the grip of monopoly on radio and the films, the unwillingness of the public to spend money on books, making it necessary for nearly every writer to earn part of his living by hackwork, the encroachment of official bodies like the M.O.I. and the British Council, which help the writer to keep alive but also waste his time and dictate his opinions, and the continuous war atmosphere of the past ten years, whose distorting effects no one has been able to escape.

Everything in our age conspires to turn the writer, and every other kind of artist as well, into a minor official, working on themes handed down from above and never telling what seems to him the whole of the truth.


But in struggling against this fate he gets no help from his own side; that is, there is no large body of opinion which will assure him that he's in the right. In the past, at any rate throughout the Protestant centuries, the idea of rebellion and the idea of intellectual integrity were mixed up. A heretic — political, moral, religious, or aesthetic — was one who refused to outrage his own conscience. His outlook was summed up in the words of the Revivalist hymn:
Dare to be a Daniel
Dare to stand alone
Dare to have a purpose firm
Dare to make it known

dimecres, 25 d’agost del 2010

.UMA PERDA GIGANTESCA DE TEMPO ... MAS O TEMPO PERDE-SE SEMPRE QUAL É O OBJECTIVO DE FAZER ISTO? É COMO O OBJECTIVO DE JOGAR TETRIS É UM PASSATEMPO É SIMPLES ENERGETICAMENTE DISPENDIOSO E EM EUROS OU DÓLARES OU NOUTRA MOEDA VIRTUAL TAMBÉM NÃO FICa baratokamadas gang uma perda gigantesca para a língua, ou uma língua gigantesca para a perda, perda escreve-se com m?

kamadas gang uma perda gigantesca para a língua, salvem as camadas (de...., acho que são disso mas não posso dizer para evitar processos) da extinção....UMA PERDA GIGANTESCA DE TEMPO ...
MAS O TEMPO PERDE-SE SEMPRE
QUAL É O OBJECTIVO DE FAZER ISTO?
É COMO O OBJECTIVO DE JOGAR TETRIS

É UM PASSATEMPO

É SIMPLES

ENERGETICAMENTE DISPENDIOSO

E EM EUROS OU DÓLARES OU NOUTRA MOEDA VIRTUAL

TAMBÉM NÃO FICa barato

dijous, 12 d’agost del 2010

MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS- MARK TWAIN

a NUMBER OF THESE SHEETS ARE BOUND TOGETHER AND CALLED
A MENTAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

NOTHING COULD INDUCE ME TO FILL THOSE BLANKS
BUT THE ASSEVERATION OF MY PASTOR THAT IT WILL BENEFIT MY RACE...
THIS OVERCOMES MY SCRUPLES
I HAVE FILLED THE BLANKS

COLOUR? ANY THING BUT DUN
FLOWER? THE NIGHT-BLOOMING SIRIUS
TREE? ANY THAT BEARS THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
OBJECT IN NATURE? A DUMB BELLE
HOUR IN THE DAY? THE LEISURE HOUR

PERFUME? CENT. PER CENT.
GEM? THE JACK OF DIAMONDS WHEN IS IT TRUMP
HERE YOU LIKE TO LIVE? MOON, BECAUSE THERE NO WATER THERE
NAMES ? M'AIMEZ (MAIMIE AND TACUS SND MARIUS
CHARACTERS IN ROMANCE? THE NAPOLEON FAMILY
IN HISTORY? KING HEROD
FAVOURITE AMUSEMENT? HUNTING THE TIGER OR SAME KINDRED GAME
WHAT TRAIT OF CHARACTER? THE NOBLEST FORM OF CANNIBALISM
LOVE FOR HIS FELLOW-MAN
IF NOT YOURSELF? THE WANDERING JEW, WITH A NICE ANNUITY
WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF HAPINESS? FINDING ALL BUTTONS ALL ON
WHAT IS YOUR BÊTE-NOIR? WHAT IS MY WHICH?

WHAT ARE THE SWEETEST WORDS IN THE WORLD? NOT GUILTY
SADDEST? DUST UNTO DUST
YOUR AIM IN LIFE? TO ENDEAVOUR TO BE ABSENT WHEN MY TIME COMES
YOUR MOTTO? BE VIRTUOS AND YOU WILL BE ECCENTRIC

AND YOU I HAVE ALREADY FILLED THE BLANKS