Mademoiselle Will Decide Wait a minute now The girl is thinking Well, well will she wear that hat Before she goes outside Will she do this or that And be satisfied Who can tell Mademoiselle will decide Come on down the midway Baby do you want to ride Is it gonna be the roller… Read More A song: “Mademoiselle Will Decide”
The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, 13 September 2018, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Here are some of them: 🥇 CHEMISTRY The Chemistry Prize went to Portuguese researchers who measured the degree to which human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty… Read More 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes🏆🥇
The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize and it is awarded to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. It was created to “honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Ig Nobel is a pun on the word “ignoble”, meaning not honourable, of… Read More 🏆🥇Ig Nobel Prizes
Foglia dopo foglia la pianta, languida, si spoglia. Portava un giovane vestito lucente punteggiato da “bei vermigli fior”. Poi bijoux piĂą maturi, rossastri, cinti con la corona dei re. Quindi una veste “che par tinta di sole” come l’aureola dei santi. Lenta la sta ora deponendo ai suoi piedi. Innamorata discinta davanti a occhi… Read More 🍂 Il melograno 🍂
Ieri sera è ricominciato il cineforum, presso il cinema- teatro San Rocco di Seregno (MB), con un film che ho apprezzato molto. Si tratta di “Wonder” (2017), la storia di un bambino di dieci anni, Auggie, con una malformazione cranio-facciale che tenta di nascondere sotto un casco da cosmonauta. Dovendo frequentare la scuola, deve… Read More 🎥 CINEFORUM: “Wonder”
REGRET is feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over something done or left undone. It comes from Old French regreter and Modern French regretter from re-, intensive prefix + –greter, possibly from some Germanic source (Old English grætan “to weep;”) REMORSE is a deep feeling of regret for an action deemed to be shameful, hurtful,… Read More Regrets & Remorse
744 Remorse—is Memory—awake— Her Parties all astir— A Presence of Departed Acts— At window—and at Door— Remorse is an essential part of our memory, it is that painful part that is always “awake”, vigilant, persistent, unforgiving. Everything in it is in constant motion, a continuous presence of deeds which are everywhere, crowding our windows and… Read More “Remorse”: analysis
744 Remorse—is Memory—awake— Her Parties all astir— A Presence of Departed Acts— At window—and at Door— It’s Past—set down before the Soul And lighted with a Match— Perusal—to facilitate— And help Belief to stretch— Remorse is cureless—the Disease Not even God—can heal— For ’tis His institution—and The Adequate of Hell— (Emily Dickinson ) In this… Read More “Remorse” by E. Dickinson
“Yesterday” is a melancholy ballad in which the singer expresses his regrets about his past. It is a feeling we all experience, when we look back to the times when everything was fine and we had nothing to be worried about. Then we realize we have made mistakes and lost something, and we wish we… Read More “Yesterday”: the backstory
The Beatles – Yesterday (1965) Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they’re here to stay oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be There’s a shadow hanging * over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly. Why she had to go I… Read More A song: “Yesterday”
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