Thursday, February 25, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
lavenous. adj.
A word that can be used at any time in any situation for any meaning. (Created by Mike Super)
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016
Keiichiro Hirano
http://k-hirano.com/
Keiichiro Hirano is a Japanese novelist, born in Aichi prefecture in 1975
and raised in Kita-kyushu city. He graduated from the Law Department of
Kyoto University. He published his first novel, L’Ecripse (日蝕), on one of
the most authoritative literary magazine, Shinch? (新潮) , in 1999 and won
the 120th Akutagawa Prize. Since then, he has produced many works, the
translations of which are available in various languages, various countries.
He published novels, such as Funeral (葬送), Ripples the Dripping Clocks
Make (滴り落ちる時計達の波紋), Collapse (決壊), Dawn (ドーン), and The Only
Form of Love (かたちだけの愛), and also a book of essays, Monologue (モノローグ), and interviews, Dialogue (ディアローグ). His latest works are an
essay, What Is I?: From Individual to Dividual (私とは何か 「個人」から「分
人」へ), and a long novel, Fill in the blanks (空白を満たしなさい).
Keiichiro Hirano is a Japanese novelist, born in Aichi prefecture in 1975
and raised in Kita-kyushu city. He graduated from the Law Department of
Kyoto University. He published his first novel, L’Ecripse (日蝕), on one of
the most authoritative literary magazine, Shinch? (新潮) , in 1999 and won
the 120th Akutagawa Prize. Since then, he has produced many works, the
translations of which are available in various languages, various countries.
He published novels, such as Funeral (葬送), Ripples the Dripping Clocks
Make (滴り落ちる時計達の波紋), Collapse (決壊), Dawn (ドーン), and The Only
Form of Love (かたちだけの愛), and also a book of essays, Monologue (モノローグ), and interviews, Dialogue (ディアローグ). His latest works are an
essay, What Is I?: From Individual to Dividual (私とは何か 「個人」から「分
人」へ), and a long novel, Fill in the blanks (空白を満たしなさい).
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
William Empson - Let it Go
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can't
Tell or remember even what they were.
Friday, February 19, 2016
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Ioanid Gang
An armed group of six Jewish Romanian intellectuals and Romanian Communist Party cadres (Alexandru Ioanid, Paul Ioanid, Igor Sevianu, Monica Sevianu, Saşa Muşat and Haralambie Obedeanu) were alleged to have stolen 1,600,000 Romanian lei (about 250,000 United States dollars in 1959) from an armored car of the National Bank of Romania in 1959. The first five were alleged to have been in a getaway car, while Obedeanu was alleged to have been in a telephone cabin, keeping the bank's phone line busy.
The case was investigated by the Securitate (the Communist secret police), and the supposed perpetrators were arrested within two months. They were rounded up in night-time raids, tried behind closed doors, and all but one sentenced to death. The executions, also kept under secrecy (including for family members of the victims), were carried out in 1960.
Monica Sevianu, the only woman involved, had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment because she was a mother; in 1964, she was released through an amnesty for political crimes, and returned to Israel in 1970 (she had already made Aliyah once, in the 1940s).
In 1960, the government issued a propaganda film, Reconstituirea, to be viewed only by Communist Party members, which reconstructed the way in which the heist had allegedly been planned and carried out. Members of the Ioanid Gang acted out their own roles, possibly having been told that their death sentences would be commuted in return.
The case was investigated by the Securitate (the Communist secret police), and the supposed perpetrators were arrested within two months. They were rounded up in night-time raids, tried behind closed doors, and all but one sentenced to death. The executions, also kept under secrecy (including for family members of the victims), were carried out in 1960.
Monica Sevianu, the only woman involved, had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment because she was a mother; in 1964, she was released through an amnesty for political crimes, and returned to Israel in 1970 (she had already made Aliyah once, in the 1940s).
In 1960, the government issued a propaganda film, Reconstituirea, to be viewed only by Communist Party members, which reconstructed the way in which the heist had allegedly been planned and carried out. Members of the Ioanid Gang acted out their own roles, possibly having been told that their death sentences would be commuted in return.
