Archive for January, 2007
beauty
“Ugliness: the poetic capriciousness of coincidence… Beauty: the unpoetic average” – Milan Kundera, Immortality
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pandaemonium
Capital of Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton, from Greek pan-, pan- + Late Latin daemonium, demon (from Greek daimonion, from daimōn, lesser god, demon).
Related to pandemonium:
1. A very noisy place
2. Wild uproar or noise.
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unreal dolls of alien dimensions
Spain is to overhaul its clothing sizes for women as part of a government drive to ease pressure on young girls over their body size. The move follows Spain’s ban of ultra-thin models on the catwalk during Madrid fashion week last September. Among the range of measures being introduced in Spain to address the body [...]
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anyhow, anywhen and anywhere
“What we need to look at is not the message once grasped but the actual grasping of the message at the elementary level: at what happens when we read, when the eyes settle on the lines and travel along them, and all that goes with this perusal. Which is to bring reading back to what [...]
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