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Lingua Latina per se illustrata is the legendary textbook that teaches Latin in Latin.
Some 10 years ago I started reading it for the first time, enjoyed going through about a third of it but got distracted by other equally impractical projects and ne ...more "
Some 10 years ago I started reading it for the first time, enjoyed going through about a third of it but got distracted by other equally impractical projects and ne ...more "
Without a belief in a certain mysterious wisdom hidden within the hieroglyphics, a work of art like Mozart’s Magic Flute would be inconceivable.
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“Era un giorno d'autunno dal colore bluastro, in compagnia di Boris Spasskij. Stavano analizzando la partita appena giocata e Miša muoveva i pezzi avanti e indietro soltanto per cercare di sacrificarli: a ogni variante proposta da Boris replicava immolando un pedone o un cavallo, per scoprire puntualmente che le combinazioni non funzionavano, la catena di mosse si spezzava in qualche anello. Eppure una via doveva esserci; doveva pur esistere il modo di presentare una nuova offerta all'altare.
Si accaniva con foga, incapace di arrendersi all'evidenza, e l'amico a un certo punto gli diceva: "Senti, lo sai che non funziona cosi, vero? Che non e' possibile trovare sempre un sacrificio ?".
"Si, si, lo so", rispondeva Miša sbuffando. E poi una risata: "Ma vorrei tantissimo che lo fosse! ".”
― Il Mago di Riga
Si accaniva con foga, incapace di arrendersi all'evidenza, e l'amico a un certo punto gli diceva: "Senti, lo sai che non funziona cosi, vero? Che non e' possibile trovare sempre un sacrificio ?".
"Si, si, lo so", rispondeva Miša sbuffando. E poi una risata: "Ma vorrei tantissimo che lo fosse! ".”
― Il Mago di Riga
“And as a fruit gradually ripening, your time will ripen, and by a natural process your interior and exterior will finally become smoothed out into one whole sheet.”
― The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism
― The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism
“lettuce he’d bought in a moment of ill-advised optimism. A bit of cheese so mouldy it was a short evolutionary jump away from developing lungs.”
― Cut Short
― Cut Short
“The Phoenician system was a much easier consonantal system made up of only a few graphemes (letters). These “letters” did not stand for things, but for the sounds that made up words.”
― The Cities That Built the Bible
― The Cities That Built the Bible
“Botvinnik affermava sempre, e con orgoglio, di non giocare mai per puro piacere. Miša restava senza parole: il piacere era la ragione principale per cui lui giocava.”
― Il Mago di Riga
― Il Mago di Riga
¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
Discovering Russian Literature
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Whether you are a newbie or an expert or simply love Russian literature... Welcome! This is a friendly group where you can share your thoughts an ...more
Whether you are a newbie or an expert or simply love Russian literature... Welcome! This is a friendly group where you can share your thoughts an ...more
Polyglots & Linguaphiles
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Browsing books on the languages of the world.
Browsing books on the languages of the world.
Michel de Montaigne's Essays
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We will be reading the Complete Essays by Montaigne, using both the original text (albeit in a modern French version) and the Penguin Classics edition ...more
We will be reading the Complete Essays by Montaigne, using both the original text (albeit in a modern French version) and the Penguin Classics edition ...more
Language & Grammar
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This group is for word lovers and has topics both serious (grammatical questions and concerns) and not so serious (word play and word games of all sor ...more
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