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I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books that I have read or will read at some point. The books are non fiction , history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
My new setup at home! Absolutely love it!
In this photo:
15" MacBook Pro High Res Screen, Core i5 2,53GHz, 4GB RAM.
MyBook Studio 1TB
MyBook Essentials 1TB
MyBook Essentials 750GB.
Magic Mouse
iPhone 3Gs 32GB
Apple Pro Training Series:
Final Cut Pro 7
Color Correction in Final Cut Studio
Motion 4
Memory cards + reader
B&W Speakers
Logitech Speakers
Gentleman:
A Timeless Fashion , Bernhard Roetzel
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
The latest book in a series of six great books on London transport trolleybuses, this one covers the East London section of LT's system. Published by LTPS.
Mircea ELIADE - memoirs "Les promesses de l'equinoxe"
Analyse de Marc Lefrançois Marc (Angers France):
Comme cette période de l'année où le jour se partage en une durée égale avec la nuit, Les promesses de l'équinoxe de Mircea Eliade portent en elle la même somme d'admiration étonnée et d'accablement résigné que ne peut manquer de ressentir le lecteur fasciné.
Mémoires autobiographiques de ce que furent les trente premières années du génial écrivain roumain, jamais livre n'a donné une image aussi saisissante, aussi frappante, de ce qu'ont pu être les années de formation du jeune Mircea Eliade. Dans la lignée d'un Demian, d'un Wilhelm Meister, ou d'un Martin Eden, on découvre les années d'apprentissage d'un jeune philosophe partagé entre son amour pour l'Inde, son travail universitaire et la rédaction de ses premières œuvres romanesques. En outre, constamment obsédé par ce désir qu'il porte en lui de réaliser toutes ses ambitions et ses nombreux projets, de s'épanouir spirituellement et intellectuellement, il sera en proie aux troubles puissants des premiers émois amoureux. Alors, comme le raconte merveilleusement bien Mircea Eliade, il n'aura de cesse, par l'exercice constant de la volonté et la pratique incessante d'exercices spirituels, de concilier les nécessités professionnelles d'une vie universitaire et littéraire déjà renommées avec ses aspirations personnelles et profondes, et d'harmoniser ses émotions amoureuses parfois tourmentées avec son désir absolu d'épanouissement spirituel.
Jamais, dans un style clair et érudit, on n'avait, depuis Marcel Proust, été saisi par cette furie d'échapper au temps qui passe irréductiblement et par cette pulsion morbide de féconder chaque instant par la création artistique, le travail intellectuel et l'expérience émotionnelle d'une spiritualité et d'une sensualité toujours en exercice.
Les promesses de l'équinoxe constitue le premier volume de ses mémoires dont Les moissons du solstice forment le deuxième et dernier volet dont la lecture devrait être aussi riche en enseignement sur le vie de l'écrivain le plus connu et le plus apprécié en France.
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Chicago illustrated edition (1988)
Synopsis
Eliade (1907-1986) grew up, was educated, and published many works in his native Romania between the wars. Rickett, former student, close friend and admirer (but not devotee) of the scholar of religion, and collaborator on the English translation of his autobiography, learned Romanian and traveled to Bucharest to research those early years.
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Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba spune:
Micşorarea realei aprecieri de care s-a bucurat Mircea Eliade în lumea academică occidentală a fost realizată prin anii 1984-1985 de Pleşu prin minciuni. Marin Niţescu observase că în comunism, minciuna este “deliberată, calculată, verificată şi tipizată, ca o necesitate interioară, ca un instrument indispensabil în dialectica puterii” (M. Niţescu, Sub zodia proletcultismului, Ed. Humanitas, 1995, p.353). Tactica micşorării importanţei culturale a istoricului religiilor se poate observa în toate prezentările lui Eliade făcute de Editura Humanitas. Aici sînt fără greş omise toate distincţiile academice primite de marele filosof al religiilor, iar mai nou tinerilor cumpărărori ai cărţilor lui Eliade nici nu li se mai arată cine a fost autorul. Pe volumele din 2008 şi 2009 Liiceanu, în lipsa oricărei prezentări biografice, îi trece lui Eliade două liste. Una cu “opera ştiinţifică şi filosofică”, alta cu “opera literară”, fără minima precizare că în ambele liste e vorba de o selectie de titluri (v. M.Eliade, Intoarcerea din rai, 2008; M.E., India. Biblioteca maharajahului.Santier, 2008; M.E., Huliganii, Ed. Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2009).
www.geocities.com/isabelavs/Articole/Plesu_Eliade4.htm
Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba spune:
Spre deosebire de perseverenta micşorare a lui Eliade la fosta Editură Politică, - unde Liiceanu i-a tot publicat o serie de cărţi, fără a ajunge nici în 20 de ani la tipărirea integrală a operei eliadeşti -, în bio-bibliografia din volumul lui Andrei Pleşu, Despre îngeri, (Ed. Humanitas, Bucureşti, 2003, p.2), găsim înşirată întreaga recoltă de onoruri şi premii obţinute de scriitor fie ca ministru al culturii, fie ca ministru de externe, fie ca rector la Colegiul Noua Europă care “funcţionează cu fonduri din străinătate” (apud. Pleşu, rev. “22”, nr.959), Institut privat care o are drept directoare pe fata acelui Leonte Răutu din garda veche a Anei Pauker, din care mai făceau parte Crohmălniceanu, I. Vitner şi N. Moraru. In pagina a doua a volumului Despre îngeri mai găsim prezentarea lui Pleşu ca “filosof al religiilor”, precum şi informaţia după care, prin faptul că a ţinut cursuri despre îngeri la Facultatea de Filozofie, Andrei Pleşu ar fi predat acolo “istoria religiilor”
My mother-in-law has printed every single blog entry so I had to take a picture. A year ago I would never have believed I could write that much.
One of a series of fine books on London trolleybuses by the LTPS, six books in the series covering the various areas of the Capital.
"Once upon a time"
by Jessica Douglas-Home.
Michael Russell Publishers, Norwich, 2000,
hardback, 231 pages
ISBN 0 85955 259 4
Memoirs of Ceausescu's Romania of the 1980s
www.romanianstudies.org/content/2010/04/book-review-once-...
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Quotation from page 169-170;
"the Arbuthnots (British Ambassador to Romania, - LC note) second party took place that evening - a lavish buffet for twenty. As with the first one, people sat in huddles whispering on the stairs and in corners. A gaunt professor of architecture entered and for a time seemed frozen by the sight of the two tables piled high with unheard of delicacies. A waiter broke the spell by handing him a glass of wine from a silver tray whereupon he fell on the food like a starving man (LC note- Romanians had next to nothing to eat under Ceausescu in the 1980s, except chicken claws, pork knuckles and soya salami). I have a picture of Plesu and Liicianu stretching their legs out from the deep velvet sofa, arms clasped behind their necks, their eyes glinting amusedly at me, relaxed and at peace with themselves".
COMMENTS:
* it speaks volumes for the bad manners of Plesu and Liiceanu to "stretch their legs out of the deep sofa", "with their arms behind their necks" - at best a posture of ill-bred rugger muffins, completely out of place for the occasion, although acceptable at Communist Party rallies
* "looking amusedly" and "completely relaxed with themselves' as opposed to the rest of the guests who were "whispering on the stairs and in corners", "huddled together" ... this is a body language which again speaks volumes about the two "philosophers", who after 1989 were going to enhance their privileged position. But what cries out loud is HOW WAS IT POSSIBLE for Plesu and Liiceanu to frequent the British Embassy during the harshest period of communist terrorism in Romania AND feel so relaxed???
clearly they knew what they were doing! Well done Comrades!
How #LarryEllison and a #CarMechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing’s #GreatestRace, #AmericasCup , #Twice
Another shot of the new Haynes Routemaster Bus Manual for Enthusiasts' This is actauly a scan , the last posting is a photo.
Had it two lousy weeks. At least no harm is done and they are sending
a replacement drive that will auto-rebuild. A good thing since a small
fortune's worth of video and audio resides on it.
Sent via iPhone
No. 1, is a lady in full dress;
No. 2, the ordinary dress of the women of all ranks;
No. 3, a lady in a riding dress;
No. 4, an Icelander in his best clothes. The jackets of the men are frequently made of black wadmal.
No. 5, is the figure of the Reikiavik pilot in his sheep-skin dress, as he came on board the Elbe.
The names of the different parts of the dress are,— faldur,
the head-dress, of which the upper part is called, skoit;
upphlutur, the waist of the petticoat; fat, the petticoat; nœrpills,
these when joined together; svinta, the apron ; trojé, the
jacket; hempa, the cloak; skirta, the shift; hals-festi, the neckchain
; kragé, the collar; herda-festi, the shoulder-chain ; mil-
nur, the ornamented loop-holes of the waist; lindé, the girdle;
sockar, stockings; socha-bond, garters ; shior, shoes.
Hand-coloured aquatint from: Travels in the island of Iceland during the summer of the year MDCCCX (1810)
Things in the picture:
Ikea Fredrick Desk
iTower Omega (on the right, not fully in view)
diNovo Edge
Logitech MX Revolution
iMac 24" 2.8ghz 4gb 320gb Leopard
Ikea 9$ lamp (one of the best deals ever)
Leather chair from Office Max
Mounted under the Table:
Motorola Cable Modem
Linksys WRT54GS Router
Griffin Powermate (very easy access when mounted right under by the edge).
Western Digital 500gb Mybook
7port USB Hub
EyeTV Hybrid
On top of Speakers:
Pencil holder
tape dispenser
remote
Media Station:
Comfy Wingback chair
diNovo charger
revolution charger
eyeTV remote
Apple Remote
We do...QVC has started its annual Christmas in July airings early this year, and we've already taken advantage of it to get some of our Christmas shopping done and out of the way.
My books make great gifts for the readers in your life. Buy now as Christmas in July gifts, or put them away for gift giving in December and you'll have a portion of your Christmas shopping taken care of too!
Also my books are great gifts for birthday presents, anniversaries, graduations...or just because.
Available at all booksellers online.
Edited by Peter Davison, Publ: Harvil Secker
ISBN 9781846553295
1931- 1949 (sourced from ten original diary notebooks)
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I bought Orwell's Diaries thinking that I could glean more information about his philosophical conversion from Spanish Republicanism to what had become later a lucid critic of left-wing dictatorship. It appears, sadly that two notebooks of diaries covering the Spanish Civil War have made their way into the archives of the NKVD (The Soviet Secret police) and are under lock and key to this day.
Clearly even after his demise Orwell's writings are considered by some still seditious.
I came across the works of Orwell, oddly enough behind the Iron Curtain in Romania, as a teenager enduring the harsh neo-Stalinist dictatorship of Gheorghiu-Dej, the national-communist predecessor of Nicolae Ceausescu.
This was no mean feat and a curious one at that: The classic '1984" Novel was translated in French and serialised in the popular French weekly "Paris Match" which was embargoed in Romania, under severe censorship restrictions. However, by a miracle, my private French teacher in Bucharest had a former servant who was a cleaner.maid at the French Embassy in Bucharest and without doubt a secret service agent. This woman who was barely literate spoke no french and brought home these magazines merely because she found the illustrations attractive. My French teacher, a cultivated lady from the former Romanian aristocracy, who was educated in Switzerland and fell on hard times after being expropriated, borrowed these magazines and transcribed by hand the whole of Orwell's 1984 novel. I had the privilege of being lent these notebooks and found the reading fascinating, more so as I identified myself perfectly with the character in this book and the whole atmosphere described by the author as one which we were experiencing in Romania under a communist dictatorship.
My father upon discovering my illicit reading begged of me to return the manuscript forthwith because if we were denounced and found out, or if for any reason our house was searched we would be put in prison for reading Orwell.
In retrospect I still think that hardly any Western author and more so after the WWII had had the clear vision comparable to that of George Orwell, especially when one would think of those fellow-travelers and assorted "useful idiots" who were eulogising the Soviet dictatorship, in spite of irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
This edition of the diaries shed a fresh light on George Orwell , on his private life as much as on his national and international political observations. They are replete with
useful details for the historian, political analyst or academic, but not only - as it offers a fresh angle on the troubled history of Europe for nearly two decades of the 1930s and 1940s. There are nuggets of information which explain better the rationale behind our fathers and grandfathers political options, than what we were conditioned to believe from school books or politically correct textbooks.
All in all a riveting read which I recommend.
Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art
by Oskar Seyffert
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
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Traditional Transylvanian jugs (18th to 20th centuries) are seen on the top shelves (left and centre). Among these I sneaked in a Spanish jug (the smallest) whose shape and decoration are strikingly similar to the Romanian ceramics, except that the quality of the glaze and pigments which sets it apart.
The masks are Venitian.
The red geese carved in wood are from Indonesia.
Southern end of the Kingsway tramway subway when initialy constructed for single deck tram use only. Scan from Wonderful London VOL 2.
Gabriel BADEA-PÄUN est docteur en histoire de l’art à Paris IV Sorbonne (2005).
Il a publié plusieurs livres, dont Portraits de Société XIX-XXe siècle, préfacé par Richard Ormond, publié en 2007 en version française par Citadelles et Mazenod, (Paris) et en version anglaise sous le titre The Society Portrait from David to Warhol, par Thames & Hudson, (Londres) et Vendome Press, (New York), a été couronné par le Prix du Cercle Montherlant-Académie des Beaux-Arts (2008) ; Le Style Second Empire, Architecture, décors et art de vivre, Citadelles et Mazenod (2009) Prix Second Empire de la Fondation Napoléon (2010) ; Mecena si Comanditari. Arta si mesaj politic, Bucarest, Noi Media Print (2009), Prix Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas-Fundatia Magazin Istoric (2010), ouvrage pour lequel Sa Majesté le Roi Michel l’a décoré avec le Médaille pour la Loyauté – Roi Michel Ier le 31 mai 2010.
Sa biographie de Carmen Sylva, Reine Elisabeth de Roumanie est paru en roumain à Bucarest, Humanitas, 2003 ; seconde édition 2007 ; troisième édition en 2008 et a été lancée à l’Institut Français de Bucarest en présence de LL. MM. le Roi Michel et la Reine Anne. Le livre a connu cette année une version française sous le titre, Carmen Sylva, reine Elisabeth de Roumanie (1843-1916), Versailles, Via Romana et allemande sous le titre Carmen Sylva. Königin Elisabeth von Rumänien-eine rheinische Prinzessin auf Rumäniens Thron ; avec une préface de S.A.S. le Prince Carl zu Wied, traduit en allemand et avec une postface de Silvia Irina Zimmermann, Stuttgart, Ibidem Verlag, 2011.
My 4th hard drive attached to my working iMac! This size of storage was a dream only a few years back, but with the size of files produced by cameras like my D810s, storage is consumed at a massive rate.
After organizing my families stuff in our storage unit recently, I came across boxes & boxes of my childhood books that my mother had saved. While I was growing up reading was really encouraged and for holidays and birthdays I often got books from my parents as gifts.
A bunch of random books I pulled out of the boxes with great covers. I plan on doing a lot of scanning in the coming months!
Bruce Benderson - an American Author's impressions on Romania during the first decade after the fall of Ceausescu.
Benderson is a winner of the prestigious French literary Prize "Le Prix de Flore", whose name is given after the famous Literary Cafe on Boulevard St Germain, Paris 6e. He is a fifty-something New Yorker, known in France for his English translations of French literature.
This book, as suggested by the title is about a particular young Romanian whom the author meets accidentally in the streets of Budapest (Hungary) and with whom he strikes a close friendship. They travel together to Transylvania (Sibiu, Maramures), Bucharest and Constanta. This allows the reader a glimpse of Romanian society and mentality during the first decade of the 21st century.
The narrative is interspersed with historical and literary references of interwar Romania of King Carol and Madame Lupescu but also of characters in the books of Panait Istrati,and also with the occasional domestic family life in New York.
Not all Romanian readers will enjoy this book which grates by its candid and often opinionated outsider's perspective, but it is certainly an eye-opener on recent history of a society in turmoil which finds it hard to adapt after 40 years of communist dictatorship: who would not?
There are also the occasional hilarious interludes such as the one at the Romanian Cultural Centre in New York, whose Director, Carmen Firan, a protege of ex-President Ion Iliescu, is described as "an intellectual" and also about her choice guest an ex-communist sycophant redefined as a "dissident' a certain Nina Cassian. Madame Cassian, (or shall one call her "Comrade Cassian"?) was a poet who enjoyed the spoils of the dictatorship, during which time she published all her forty volumes of poetry, singing the praise of the Dictator. Still, after she had it so good under Communism, in the mid 1980s she absconded to NY (being given a Romanian passport and an American grant), only to be hailed now as a linchpin of Romanian culture.... quite incredible but revealing about the hidden agenda of the Institutul Cultural Roman
A literary critic of "Le Monde" who is quoted on the front cover of the books states that: "what astonishes and intrigues is Benderson's way of recounting in the swetest possible voice, things which are considered shocking"... well, if the French are shocked, the Romanians would certainly be outraged, not by the lack of prudery as by the picture of the Romanian society of pimps, hustlers, prostitutes, bureaucrats, hangers-on, dogs, underdogs, desperate people and the whole gamut of poor destitute of all ages and ethnic origin, who in the end do not come out so well: tough!
Another in the series of six great books on London trolleybuses, this covers the west London section of LT's system. Published by LTPS.