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Ambrose Pierce: Fourteen hundred and forty times a day
“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged fourteen hundred and forty times a day.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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The Devil’s Dictionary (5)
The Devil’s Dictionary (5) - the perils of exercise and eating, according to Ambrose Bierce
I have long run a mile from engaging in any form of exercise. In discussing dawn, a time of day I rarely see, Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) makes the following comments; “certain old men prefer to rise about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their…
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The Devil’s Dictionary (4)
The Devil’s Dictionary (4) - sources of comfort, conversation, commerce and straitened finances. A dip into Ambrose Bierce's dictionary.
Seeking comfort, defined by Ambrose in The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) as “a state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbour’s uneasiness”, or consolation, “the knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself”, you may be tempted to visit a clergyman. Such a man of the cloth, Bierce opines, is one “who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering…
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
- Ambrose Pierce
Listening to old-school ESCAPE! radio plays and there's one that's basically Vincent Price narrating a modern(ish) version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek and there's a bit where he's being marched to the gas chamber and he's like, ACTUALLY NO MY BEAUTIFUL BODY IS TOO BEAUTIFUL TO BE KILLED NOW I AM IMMUNE TO POISON GASES BECAUSE I'M JUST TOO HOT TO DIE, FUCK YOU, and then he uses yoga to become immortal and I'm like, this is stupid but also, I *wish* i had your confidence sir.
Vermeer, oltre “Ragazza con il turbante”: fotografia a pennelli di un’epoca
Vermeer, oltre “Ragazza con il turbante”: fotografia a pennelli di un’epoca
di Jenny Barbieri
Un ingrandimento del volto di “Ragazza con turbante”, Vermeer, 1665-1666 circa
Jan Vermeer, pittore olandese vissuto tra 1632 e 1676, ha raggiunto fama e popolarità grazie al meraviglioso dipinto “Ragazza col turbante”, oggi meglio conosciuto con il nome “La ragazza con l’orecchino di perla”. La giovane raffigurata nel ritratto compare, ormai, stampata su borse, tazze,…
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Ambrose Pierce est diablement drôle!
Ambrose Pierce est diablement drôle!
Amitié : bateau suffisamment grand pour transporter deux personnes en cas de beau temps, une seule en cas de tempête…. Le ton est lancé, Ambrose Bierce à peaufiné son “Dictionnaire du Diable” pendant vingt cinq ans, à coup de cynisme, humour noir et d’un terrible sens de l’observation du genre humain.
Bien sûr, ça ne date pas d’hier mais somme toute peu de choses ont changées et malgré les…
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