Archive for the 'Literature' Category
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
It’s interesting to see an Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s poem translated into English. No wonder that Wikipedia makes such an effort.
I have already translated the same poem into English and French one year and half ago, but I don’t have the skill of writing in poetic English.
In the poem “To the Unfair Tyrant”, the Tunisian young […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
لا تسقني كأس الحياة بذلة بل فاسقني بالعز كأس الحنظل كأس الحياة بذلة كجهنم و جهنم بالعز أطيب منزل
عنترة بن شداد
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Actually reading: The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli.
Some quotes I liked:
The Romans, therefore, foreseeing evils while they were yet far off, always provided against them, and never suffered them to take their course for the sake of avoiding war; since they knew that war is not so to be avoided, but is only postponed to […]
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals…. - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
The project aims to digitalize the European libraries books, but also to prevent Google […]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
“اعتبر اللبنانيون جبران رمزا لإشعاعهم في العالم وهو إشعاع متواصل في نظرهم منذ أيام قدموس الفينيقي إلى اليوم”
أدهشني ما كتبه جهاد فاضل في مجلة العربي الكويتية سبتمبر (أيلول) 2006 حيث كشف شخصية جبران خليل جبران المختلفة عما يمكن تصوره من خلال كتاباته الرومانسية والفلسفية والروحانية ونظرا لقلة مراجعي فلا يمكنني نفي أو اقرار مقال فاضل
لم […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
وما الدهر إلا من رواة قصائدي إذا قلت شعرا أصبح الدهر منشدا
فسار به من لا يسير مشمرا وغنى به من لايغني مغردا
فدع كل صوت غير صوتي فإنني أنا الطائر المحكي والآخر صدى
أبو الطيب المتنبي
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
عانق الكون الخشوع
في سكون الليل لما
خلف آفاق الهجوع
واختفى صوت الأماني
رددته الكائنات
رتل الرعد نشيدا
ح بأعماق الحياة
مثل صوت الحق إن صا
في خلايا الأودية
يتهادى بضجيج
بأقصى الهاوية
مثل جبار بني الجن
فسألت الليل والليل كئيب ورهيب
شاخصا بالليل والليل جميل وغريب
أتُرى أنشودة الرعد أنين وحنين
مهجة الكون الحزين؟
رنمتها بخشوع
باعتساف واصطخاب
أم هي القوة تسعى
صوتها روح العذاب
يترآى […]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
I’m not really sure whether I am allowed to redistribute my electronic copies of O’Reilly books, however, I’m not sure if it’s forbidden!
According to the license that I find in most of O’Reilly books, there’s no line that prohibits the redistribution of the book, and there’s no legal threat, the only “serious” notice is
Copyright […]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Jeremy is a writer working at a publishing house in London; in order to make a best-seller, his boss gave him a mission which consists of convincing Weldon Parish to write again after 20 years of retirement. Weldon lives in an Italian village since his retirement; however, Weldon with his very unsociable and aggressive […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Cuando llegue la luna llena
Iré a Santiago de Cuba
Iré a Santiago,
En un coche de agua negra
Iré a Santiago.
Cantarán los techos de palmera
Iré a Santiago
Y cuando quiere ser medusa el plátano
Iré a Santiago.
Iré a Santiago
Con la rubia cabeza de Fonseca
Iré a Santiago
Y con el rosa de Romeo y Julieta
Iré a Santiago
Mar de papel y plata de monedas
Iré […]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
صرخت بالناس قائلا : أود لو تصلبوني
فقالوا : ولماذا يكون دمك على رؤوسنا؟
فقلت لهم : وكيف لا تفاخرون بأنفسكم إن لم تصلبوا المجانين؟
فقبلوا قولي وصلبوني وهدأ الصلب ثورة نفسي. وعندما كنت معلقا بين الأرض والسماء رفعوا رؤوسهم وحدقوا بي وهم يتمايلون عجبا لأن رؤوسهم لم ترتفع قبل إلى ما فوق أقدامهم
وفيما هم مجتمعون حول الصليب […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Found an interesting free e-book that you can download from Cypher Press website (216 KB).
The book is a collection of limericks, short funny poems with particular structure. There are also analysis of the poems with possible variants. Be careful of offensive and “dirty” words and meanings.
There was a young Royal Marine,
Who tried to fart […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Mi niña se fue a la mar,
a contar olas y chinas,
pero se encontró, de pronto,
con el río de Sevilla.
Entre adelfas y campanas
cinco barcos se mecían,
con los remos en el agua
y las velas en la brisa.
¿Quién mira dentro la torre
enjaezada, de Sevilla?
Cinco voces contestaban
redondas como sortijas.
El cielo monta gallardo
al río, de orilla a orilla.
En el […]
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Tom Hanks: n.
Someone who never mess a movie up.
Great actor.
Mythic personality
Swobodin’s Cinematic Encyclopedia
The Ladykillers is not an exception, when you first learn that Tom Hanks casts in a funny movie, you probably would say: “That’s his first failure, now he starts destroying his career”, however, it’s another chef-d’œuvre that emphasize the legendary actor.
Professor G. […]
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Wikibooks is one of my favorite portals, where I can get different kind of information for free! No matters of the topic, they are almost all included: Computing,
arts, languages (human), jokes, culture, literature, …
I recently got interested by the book of the month, European History, a comprehensive text that introduces readers to the political, […]
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