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[thewalkingdead-imagines]

Happy 10th Anniversary!

[los17aurelianos]

“On our letters we stamp ‘Pray for Peace’, to prove that we’re a peace-loving nation. But let one miserable son-of-a-bitch do anything about peace, and they bust him over the head with clubs. What has happened? When those townspeople were in the quadrangle the other day they actually hated... they could have killed my roommate... because he wanted peace.” - James A. Michener, The Drifters

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Hawaii - La saga delle Isole Felici

Hawaii – La saga delle Isole Felici

Nel 1959 pubblicò quello che ritengo il suo capolavoro “HAWAII la saga delle isole felici”. E’ la storia delle Hawaii dalla loro emersione dall’oceano, milioni di anni fa, al 1960 anno in cui entrarono come 50^ stato degli USA. Il libro è “fantastico”, racconta, geologicamente, come sono sorte le isole, poi come si ritiene che siano state scoperte e abitate, nella preistoria, gli usi e i costumi…

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[didilosemymindordidifindit]

THE FIRST MAN TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE by JAMES A. MICHENER

So the discussion went , as it did day after day, but this time there was to be something different. By sheer accident an American professor visiting the tertuila dropped a bombshell by identifying a date as the year in which Magellan circumnavigated the globe.

"What did you say?" Dr Martinez Lopez of Texas snapped.

"I said it was when Magellan circumnavigated the globe"

"Margallanes!" One of the professors cried, using the Spanish version of the great explorer's name. "My God, man are you out of your mind?"

"In 1521. He circumnavigated the globe."

"My dear man! There are no reputable scholar in the world today who thinks Magallanes was the first to circumnavigate the globe."

"I do."

"Apparently. But no one else I've heard of in the last hundred years has had such an idea. Does anyone in this tertuila think for a moment that Margallanes was first around the world?"

With some temerity I raised my hand, and the spanaids turned to look at me with the compassion they would have directed to an idiot. "Have you never heard of Juan Sebastian Elcano[ in English del cano]? They asked.

"No."

"My God! He was the first around the world. And he was Spanish."

"Wait a minute!" the American professor cried."Margellan...."

"My good man" Dr Martinez Lopez said, "King Carlos himself gave Elcano a coat of arms showing a globe inscribed with the with those glorious, Primus circumdedistime(You were the first to circumnavigate me)."

The other spaniads confirmed this but the American was not overawed.

"Merely because a king made an error...."

"Carlos Quintos did not make errors."

And so the debate went on . On succeeding days the spaniads lugged books and citations to the tertuila, including an Italian encyclopedia, proving that whereas Magellan(in Portugese Magalhàes) had started the voyage around the world, he died in the Philippines, leaving it's completion to his Spanish assistant, Juan Sebastian Elcano. The evidence was impressive and I began to think that there was a corner of history about which I was uninformed, but then the American lugged in his evidence which was hard to ignore.

"If in your insularity" he said, "you wish to maintain that a man could circumnavigate the globe only if he started from Spain and ended in Spain, then Elcano is your man. But if going around the globe means going around the globe or effect, proving that the earth was a globe that could be gone around, then Magellan, who had already traveled to from Philippines by eastern route and then had returned to the point by the western route, was the first around."

"My good man" the Spaniads argued, "One day a group of ships set sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda and one of those ships, the Victoria, went in an unbroken journey around the world, and when it had completed it's journey Margellan was not aboard. Juan Sebastian Elcano was. What, in all decency, can you conclude from that?"

The American replied, "Merely that the Victoria was the first ship and Elcano the second man, to circumnavigate the globe"

The debate extended over a full week and by the time it ended, with no satisfactory resolution of the point, everyone participating understood the facts and their implications. No one in the tertuila would admit then that he had changed his mind, but I would suppose that in their subsequent writing and teaching they would at least allude to the position contrary to their own.

- IBERIA, James A. Michener

[abeautyfullmess]

Ballet highlights from last night’s holiday gathering #michener #ballet @abeautyfullmessphotography (at Michener Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B58OubppGeF/?igshid=1ql5dkewxu3hu

[crowdstories]

Brief

Shepherd, on his way to the casino zone to drop off the briefcase, started to ponder the origin of the briefcase. He slowed his pace and took the briefcase in both his hands. As he looked it over, he saw no identification markers on the briefcase to advertise who made it, nor did it have any identifiable features today's briefcases were riddled with. No pocket dimensions for all of the papers and tools for a common presentation. No projector on the face of the briefcase, in fact this briefcase seemed rather useless as it appeared to only be able to hold whatever the space of the interior of the briefcase allowed for and nothing else.

"Why would anyone even have this suitcase to begin with?" Shepherd thought to himself. "It seems so antiquated, out of style, and useless. Even my grandfather wouldn't be caught dead with this, and he only uses briefcases for his briefs!"

Just then, Shepherd felt a quick jolt of pain in his fingers as if the briefcase had pins and needles sticking from it suddenly. He dropped the briefcase and it made a soft thud as it hit the floor.

Shepherd examined his fingers for any damage. Looking them over it just seemed to be in his imagination because his fingers were fine and no longer hurt. He looks down at the briefcase and wondered if everything was all in his mind. He picked it back up, this time by the handle, and decided it was all in his head and continued his journey to lost and found.

[abeautyfullmess]

Waiting to head back to paint our plaster reliefs #michener #mykaikaibabyforever (at Michener Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0PYznMDx2K/?igshid=8mbxet9h882v

[peeterjoot]

"Space" by James Michener

“Space” by James Michener

I’d picked up the book “Space” by Michener at my local second hand book store, over on Markham Rd:

Google says the store is called “Alfsen House Books”, but I don’t remember ever seeing a sign.

I’m pretty sure I’ve read a few Michener books over the years, including (I think) Mexico, the Covenant, and the Source.  Of these, “the Source” I remember most.  All of these I probably read it in my…

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