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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4122149 | O turista se leva para passear; para isso ha que ter, no minimo, ilusoes. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 841b78b | que lleguemos a Venezuela; a otra Venezuela, porque para mi tu eres, Patria, los senores del gobierno, las milicias con uniforme de alquiler y mortal punteria, la persecucion unanime en la autopista a La Guaira, en los tuneles, en la fabrica de papel de Maracay... | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 28dfaf1 | y que dijo con musica memorable Dante Gabriel Rossetti: I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell [...] | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| c4a0cea | La vi: el panuelo de colores, las manos cruzadas sobre una rodilla, su mirada, aumentando el mundo. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| ab586f2 | La histeria me da histeria. Adios. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| ed8a8f3 | Paso las otras noches a lo largo de la cama de Faustine, en el suelo, sobre una estera, y me conmuevo mirandola descansar tan ajena de la costumbre de dormir juntos que vamos teniendo. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 52c9fef | Me parecia imposible seguir viviendo esa tarde. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| bd345a9 | Villafane fue un hombre de vastas aunque indisciplinadas lecturas, de insaciable curiosidad intelectual; disponia, ademas, de ese modesto y util sustituto del conocimiento del griego y del latin que es el conocimiento del frances y del ingles. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 3ce2d2c | La razon de esta necesidad de escribir ha de estar en los nervios. El pretexto es que ahora mis actos me llevan a uno de mis tres porvenires: la compania de la mujer, la soledad (o sea la muerte en que pase los ultimos anos, imposible despues de haber contemplado a la mujer), la horrorosa justicia. ?A cual? Saberlo con tiempo es dificil. Sin embargo, la redaccion y la lectura de estas memorias pueden ayudarme a esa prevision tan util; quiza.. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| f6f8c43 | Bordeo los acantilados para encontrar una playa un poco apartada. La exploracion fue breve, pues en aquel paraje ni la soledad ni la lejania misma estaban lejos. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 49f4fcd | Crei haber hecho este descubrimiento: en nuestras actitudes ha de haber inesperadas, constantes repeticiones. La ocasion favorable me ha permitido notarlo. Ser testigo clandestino de varias entrevistas de las mismas personas no es frecuente. Como en el teatro, las escenas se repiten. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| d59325a | Modestia, falsa modestia, orgullo, siempre estamos en lo mismo. La enfermedad del argentino. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 9e10201 | Como seguire en la tortura de vivir con Faustine y de tenerla tan lejos? | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 8bbb117 | Sublime, close at hand but mysterious With the living silence of the rose. | passion subtlety | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 20f1ba2 | Progresivamente me aficione a las peliculas, me converti en espectador asiduo y ahora pienso que la sala de un cinematografo es el lugar que yo elegiria para esperar el fin del mundo. Me enamore, simultanea o sucesivamente, de las actrices de cine Louise Brooks, Marie Prevost, Dorothy Mackay, Marion Davis, Evelyn Brent y Anna May Wong. De estos amores imposibles, el que tuve por Louise Brooks fue el mas v ivo, el mas desdichado. !Me disgust.. | memoirs | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| bf38407 | Acostumbrado a ver una vida que se repite, encuentro la mia irreparablemente casual. Los propositos de enmienda son vanos: yo no tengo proxima vez, cada momento es unico, distinto, y muchos se pierden en los descuidos. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| e0b3a4b | Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| af59775 | But in 1972 Dutch palaeontologists Bert Boekschoten and Paul Sondaar announced that the bones came from an unusual, tiny hippo, which they named Phanourios minor--'small manifested saint'; the cave had been visited for centuries by villagers seeking the fossilised bones of their 'saint', who they believed could cure various maladies.1 | Tim Flannery | ||
| 975bc68 | Malta has a rich and varied faunal history, including dwarf elephants and hippos, and a giant, flightless swan that stood taller than the island's pachyderms. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 9b6d118 | We are often appalled at the tragic prevalence of wildlife poaching in Africa, where only a resolute if underfunded band of park guards works to prevent the total elimination of rhino and elephant.* But 70 years ago things were even more desperate in Europe, for Europe had lost its megafauna, and even its wisent had been driven into extinction in the wild. Its largest surviving wild creatures were antelope-sized, and even some of them were .. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 0120a65 | There are parallels, I think, between the impact of Europeans on brown bears, and the effects of domestication, particularly on dogs. Both sets of selective pressure have altered the behaviour and diet of the beasts in question. Admittedly, Europe's bears still live in the wild, but an argument can be made that the Europeans have domesticated wild Europe itself. It would be well worthwhile assaying the behaviours, diets and reproductive pat.. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 43c24a7 | While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction -in the long term- of our kind. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 89dbc3c | The Moors, who settled many parts of southern Europe in the eighth century, proved to be enthusiastic naturalisers. They are strongly suspected of, or were clearly responsible for, the introduction of at least four important mammal species into Europe: the Barbary macaque, porcupine, genet and mongoose. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 375516b | I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose--Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet (and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman)--but, | Bill Bryson | ||
| 283bd6e | Heck's attempted rewilding serves to reinforce a very important fact: Europeans are now the mind over their land. What they desire, the land will become. And if their desires are toxic and dangerous, then that will manifest itself in nature. Europeans cannot escape responsibility for shaping their environment; as even withdrawal from management will have profound consequences. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 194309e | beg them to compare the Oostvaardersplassen not with their dreamtime Europe of the classical age, but with a long-vanished continent where large mammals, rather than agricultural practices, shaped landscapes. | Tim Flannery | ||
| f44c2aa | Dear friends and enemies, Season's greetings! It's me, Serge! Don't you just hate these form letters people stuff in Christmas cards? Nothing screams "you're close to my heart" like a once-a-year Xerox. Plus, all the lame jazz that's going on in their lives. "Had a great time in Memphis." "Bobby lost his retainer down a storm drain." "I think the neighbors are dealing drugs." But this letter is different. You are special to me. I'm just for.. | Tim Dorsey | ||
| 49fda59 | But more than anything else, the species owes its spread to a strange phenomenon discovered in 1930 by the biologist Lancelot Hogben. Heavens knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs. Before chemical pregnancy test kits became available in the 1960s, African clawed frogs were kept in labs and hospitals worldwide for confirming.. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 4631770 | There are now more wolves in Europe than in the United States, including Alaska! | Tim Flannery | ||
| 74b17d6 | Goodstein demonstrated that in every case, when compared with the actual costs paid, the estimates were grossly inflated.6 His examples range from asbestos to vinyl, and in all instances but one the estimated cost flowing from regulatory change was at least double the actual cost paid, while in some cases estimates were even more exaggerated. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 3c9395b | In Australia and the Americas," says Tim Flannery, "the animals probably didn't know enough to run away." | Bill Bryson | ||
| d7a6535 | Defining Europe is a slippery undertaking. Its diversity, evolutionary history and shifting borders make the place almost protean. Yet, paradoxically, Europe is immediately recognisable. With its distinctive human landscapes, once-great forests, Mediterranean coasts and Alpine vistas--we all know Europe when we see it. And the Europeans themselves, with their castles, towns and unmistakable music, are every bit as instantly recognisable. Mo.. | Tim Flannery | ||
| c65bec9 | When, in 1970, palaeontologist Lambert Beverley Halstead pointed out that Scrotum is a scientifically valid name and the first ever proposed for a dinosaur, a shudder went through the normally stolid taxonomic community. Things may not have been helped by the fact that Halstead seems to have been obsessed with dinosaur sex. His most memorable work is an illustrated compendium of dinosaurian copulatory positions--a sort of reptilian Kama Sut.. | Tim Flannery | ||
| 4b324f3 | I would rather be a poor man with honest friends than a rich man with none. | Kristiana Gregory | ||
| c8a8b80 | I also wonder about gold fever, why it make some men crazy and others wise. Such as Sam, my father, and Captain clinkingbeard They suffered heartbreak and loss just as Jesse Blue had, but they didn't become thieves or liars. Why? I asked papa. What makes the difference? His eyes were gentle when he looked at me. "It seems that true character of often isn't revealed until a person is faced with temptation"." | Kristiana Gregory | ||
| 6e9a162 | In fact, Britain had captured thousands of Enigma machines, and distributed them among its former colonies, who believed that the cipher was as secure as it had seemed to the Germans. The British did nothing to disabuse them of this belief, and routinely deciphered their secret communications in the years that followed. Meanwhile, | Simon Singh | ||
| 01f37c7 | Had the Arabs merely been familiar with the use of the mono-alphabetic substitution cipher, they would not warrant a significant mention in any history of cryptography. However, in addition to employing ciphers, the Arab scholars were also capable of destroying ciphers. They in fact invented cryptanalysis, the science of unscrambling a message without knowledge of the key. While the cryptographer develops new methods of secret writing, it i.. | Simon Singh | ||
| 9eb9c5d | Pascal was even convinced that he could use his theories to justify a belief in God. He stated that 'the excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win multiplied by the probability of winning it'. | Simon Singh | ||
| 055c51c | Cryptanalysis could not be invented until a civilization had reached a sufficiently sophisticated level of scholarship in several disciplines, including mathematics, statistics, and linguistics. The Muslim civilization provided an ideal cradle for cryptanalysis, because Islam demands justice in all spheres of human activity, and achieving this requires knowledge, or ilm. Every Muslim is obliged to pursue knowledge in all its forms, and the .. | Simon Singh | ||
| bfebd4d | At the same time as acquiring knowledge, the Islamic civilization was able to disperse it, because it had procured the art of paper-making from the Chinese. The manufacture of paper gave rise to the profession of warraqin, or 'those who handle paper,' human photocopying machines who copied manuscripts and supplied the burgeoning publishing industry. At its peak, tens of thousands of books were published every year, and in just one suburb of.. | Simon Singh | ||
| e642707 | impenetrability of the Navajo code was all down to the fact that Navajo belongs to the Na-Dene family of languages, which has no link with any Asian or European language. | Simon Singh | ||
| d01c41b | He took the messages to a local brewer, who wrapped them in a leather packet, which was then hidden inside a hollow bung used to seal a barrel of beer. The brewer would deliver the barrel to Chartley Hall, whereupon one of Mary's servants would open the bung and take the contents to the Queen of Scots. The process worked equally well for getting messages out of Chartley Hall. | Simon Singh | ||
| d502830 | No escribe uno acaso para entenderse mejor a si mismo y al mundo? | escritura writers | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| 2c65a90 | In addition to a greater understanding of secular subjects, the invention of cryptanalysis aslo depended on the growth of religious sholarship. Major theological schools were established in Basra, Kufa and Baghdad, where thelogians scrutinized the revelations of Muhammad as contained in the Koran. The theologians were interested in establishing the chronology of the revelations, which they did by counting the frequencies of words contained .. | Simon Singh |