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[zeehasablog]

Le maschere della commedia dell’arte

IL MEDICO DELLA PESTE Le epidemie di peste, nelle tragiche e più o meno frequenti ricorrenze, mietevano vittime a migliaia. Questo curioso abbigliamento, prima ancora che maschera, era considerato dai medici un’indispensabile precauzione. Durante il dissacrante e cinico carnevale veneziano finiva per avere la funzione di esorcizzare, con il riso, dolore e morte. 

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The masks of the commedia dell’arte

THE PLAGUE DOCTOR

The plague epidemic, in the tragic and more or less frequent recurrences, claimed victims by the thousands. This curious clothing, even before it was a mask, was considered by doctors to be an indispensable precaution. During the irreverent and cynical Venetian carnival, it ended up having the function of exorcising pain and death with laughter.

[beachypeasysandy]

It never occured to me to ask who was going to be there. He’d said his “closest friends” and for some reason I assumed that I would know everyone. But Trev was almost always up to something, and if I hadn’t been so eager to see him, I might’ve remembered who I was dealing with.

He was by far the loudest, most gregarious, smartass, medling, do it his own way guy I knew. If he wasn’t getting into trouble for being one of those things, he was most definitely for another.  But there was a guy that hid underneath all of that that few were fortunate enough to see, I was thankful that I was one of them.

I started catching glimpses of his carefully hidden generosity when he took me under his wing after I was drafted by the Bridgeport Bucks. We seemed an unlikely pair; the starting quarterback and the backup learning the ropes. Most of the media hadn’t believed it was possible for two guys vying for the same job to be good friends, but that’s exactly what we’d become in the three years we’d worked together.

Maybe it was our shared experiences of playing football for the same college and pro teams or the fact that we both knew the pressure the other felt to be the best. 

Whatever the reason, we’d become friends my first year at Bridgeport and gotten closer the second and third when he’d struggled to beat his alcohol addiction. When I’d been able to payback his support of me, by being there for him.

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A quiet disappointment followed all of us as we filed into the locker room, but I was glad for it. It sucked that we ended up losing by one touchdown, but the fact that everyone was upset and even angry about it was better than not caring.

I listened to the frustrated sighs as I walked towards my locker but the noise of someone swearing stopped me. "Dammit! If I hadn't thrown those interceptions. . .we might’ve actually won!" An uncomfortable silence fell over the locker room as no one made any move to agree or disagree with Ryan, and even though I understood his and other’s frustrations, it seemed to me that we had lost sight of the bigger picture.

"We just lost to a team that everyone expects to go to the Super Bowl this year."

"Is that supposed to make us feel better Davila?" Brewster huffed.

"Hell yeah!" I cheered. "We lost by a touchdown. One fucking touchdown!  How many did they expect us to lose by?"

There were several murmurs before Tiny spoke up. "Four."

"Four. . ." I said and nodded as I looked around the room at all the tired and upset faces. "They expected us to lose by 28 points, expected them to run over us. . .Hell! They expected us to lie down and just hand them the game!!"

"It's not like it mattered. It was just a preseason game. If this had been a real one we all know we would have lost by more." Brewster mumbled the last part as he threw a towel into his locker.

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[arbre-leaves]

Welcome, April!

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Or Agitha? Or King of Red Lions?

Agitha is pretty close, for multiple reasons. I do love her

but no it's not talkboat

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Mumbo Jumbo

ooh very close!

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My hands cramped typing that mister so you better just ignore the cheating bit if I guessed one *angry face*

yes one of the characters is in that list. but you gotta think about it and figure out which one

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Fuck it. Tingle, Ganon(dorf), Agahnim, Dark Link, Kotake and Koume, Demise, Ghirahim, Zant, Vaati, fuck this is the villain's section of the Characters in The Legend of Zelda wikipedia article, Yuga, Majora's Mask, the fucking Moon, Epona, Fi, Din, Nayru, Farore, Hylia, Great Deku Tree, Happy Mask Salesman, Impa, Kaepora Gaebora, King Daphnes, Linebeck, Midna, Navi, Rauru, Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Nabooru, Agitha, Anju, Beedle, Biggoron, Dampé, Great Fairy, Guru-Guru, Malon, Maple, Mutoh

(Mutoh is the carpenter boss apparently), Postman, Skull Kid, Syrup, Talon, and Ingo. And Telma because reasons.

well that's just cheating