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If you read this, is that I managed to post the chapter 9 of Distinction and saw my current job time is a feat. In addition, I put the rab and explain where I leave my Sirénéens ... well, anyway, it was planned, we will not ask for medals but still ... nevertheless, a small comm will be helpful in encouraging the people! The
Sirénéens so. It all started in Greece this summer - I have already said, I have not Gamberg at all in Greece this summer, but particularly Sirénéens ... At Delphi, to be precise, by visiting the archaeological museum .... Must say that I came across some unexpected stuff like this:
And the signs: "mermaids primitives inspired by Babylonian representations "were sufficiently intriguing ... Especially because I was keen on mythology, Fénicina beside me who was less than intrigued me. I ask therefore speaking guide (a number that deserves a post by itself, but I digress) who says she knows nothing about art too Babylonian but, yes, the Sirens have long wings, and that there were originally as many men than women-fish-fish ... The imagination of Fenice by herself after ... especially that it has continued his holiday in the Cyclades, is beside the sea, so she could not remember the sirens ... I did not mean the flow of things. I came back knowing that Harry had to meet in Venice, it would have cost ... but right now, you have to make LaPaumée, super great merit of having suggested that Harry should do practical work on the creatures for the rest of the story is born !!
So Fenice has more or less the idea of Sirens winged head. She also mentioned this intriguing Oannes, Babylonian god who created the world and inspired the sirens - oh my! She returned, she seeks, she checks and it is clear: Sir Oannesi were born!
Probably because the reading of Peter Pan Loisel, where the sirens are just nice people, but hardly better in mythology Greek, then I have imagined pirates, so rich, so financial ... fallen, just so it fits in the barrel ... Scourge Fairy, my deposit history, has validated my parallel between the story of my magical world and the Muggle world and medieval Venice. Quite logically then, the magic of Sirénéens could only depend on the gold ... Their ability to create sounds and important could be ... and legends about them, great. As for their organization, I imagined a very archaic-T-Kabi Oan having any power over his subjects ... you taught me not to create personal too nice, you adopt them too fast!
I put a lot of image in this post, because if I write, I am someone very visual. I need to imagine things to give them a life ... and it happens that I found a medieval image that resembles them enough in my opinion - except maybe the eyes ...
Good if you have further questions, you know where to write right?
Good is the total mess on this blog, I promise I make notes, and more ...
I do not even apologize? No.
Good short, while you are still waiting on my final opinion Sacred Dennis Lehanne - and I think I'll read it first ... I'm a little note on Neighborhood Far, not even announced, so it is.
First Quarter Faraway is a comic book - they say manga when it's Japanese! - Jiro Taniguchi. A trick in three volumes, completely awesome ... something that would leave the island if necessary, say it! This discovery I owe to Alixe (ah, the list is long). One day I was sleeping at home, she advised me. I closed my eyes before he finished the three volumes ... if it is not unhappy and I who come to Paris to TRA-VAIL-LER, huh?! Brief.
is a story of father and son - yes, I know, I have to think psychoanalyze me ... This is the story of a son who is not sure what he did with his life ... by chance he returns to his hometown, will see the grave is his mother, he is drunk, he fell asleep. He wakes up, he was fifteen and his father has not left his mother ... It will put all his energy to this destructive event founder and does not take place ... and I'm not the end ...
For the record, I offered the following three volumes and I lent. It took me two years to recover ... a month ago, I, I see a sign!
Quarter distant is also a movie ... a Belgian film, shot in France ... a beautiful film for that matter - the images are gorgeous! A beautiful adaptation so that took a lot of interesting and freedoms of others that annoyed me ...
I liked the choice of the Alps, the walled garden, a pretty mama, what does the transposition of a comic book hero who created his favorite character from his first love ... I loved the movie - I would even go see him if anyone wants - and I say before I say what I did not like.
But let y. I little thought to the universe 60s completely redone - like all vintage, banana boxes to skim milk, furniture design time in a village house ... it made me laugh a little - it was like one of these blogs that Deco bobo I like to visit ... I have even less thought to the Parisian who makes a mistake and thinks that B may be the train to Paris .... Frankly that, it may lie in Belgium, we will say! I do not believe either the continuation in the bike - looks like Fenicino, drawn by his beloved mother at the meeting, "but it's a ball, Father, it is followed by the same bike on deserted mountain roads for days and he does not notice? " (Well, you must know that everyone is an albatross: the English teacher who claims he learned his lessons, the cat who claims to eat, when he himself "Fenicino Forgot your keys - nothing personal but the substance remains so ...)
But what really left me on my end, it is the choice of adapter to the father character so moon, sad and depressed that his flight (Tailor) is sewn with white thread .... The manga was a character far more complex who spoke to his son, not refusing the discussion ... (Incidentally, the grandfather of Fenicino - I dragged everyone to this set - has recognized the lake Piglet in this false scene pe che ...) I think we lose much of what made me addicted to the book namely the idea that if we change the past, we change ourselves first and foremost - an idea that can reverse: change you and change the rest ... in short, something that likes Fenice repeat.
The following summer my father read Poet, Connelly the best known, and I told him dive on the beach. Shivering despite the sun. But my real encounter with Connelly is an encounter with his hero Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, a cop incorruptible, unmanageable, full of suffering and intimate jazz lovers ... and absent Blood Work or Poet. I flashed on the total personal - as said - and I read everything, everything, everything, everything, in French English to have an opinion on the two translators sharing the transcript of Connelly's work in French. To be polite, I recommend the books translated by Jean Esch. When I discovered
Connelly, it was already known of course, but it was not yet become a multinational. Since he does not hide it, I do not see why I would not say it, but Connelly writes longer alone: it has a team of "writers" with him, which explains why it so a book every six months or so. And frankly, some of the latter include The Scarecrow or Closers example, despite the use of Harry Bosch, "left me hungry. It lacks that key psychological loved so much time given to describe this Los Angeles night, jazz music, the symbolism of the crimes or medieval painting ... In short, I had the feeling of reading a synopsis of the book and not a book successful.
Just so cool, I resisted nearly THREE MONTHS purchasing Nine Dragons. .. Just reading the 4th cover: "Repaying year old debt" could cost HIM Everything ... "I was betting that her daughter Maddy was being abducted ... I felt while know and I forbade myself the compulsive buying ... I broke down one night when I returned from Paris where I had an almost desperate need to do anything other than work on the train. I read straight through half the book .... I made it despite all my prejudices ...
So what which means that I allow myself to be? It is the rhythm. There is the relevance with which he describes the female psyche. There is his sense of turnaround. There is also everything that annoys me, huh, valuing justice done alone, the U.S. tropism to the world, etc. ... but hey there, look the question fairly in the face and I am totally left to take. When I finished I did not want to leave his world and so I reread Void Moon - a story without Harry Bosh yet! A woman after 5 years in prison looking for his daughter she abandoned at birth. Realizing that her daughter's adoptive parents want to leave the country, she decides to find a lot of money off her daughter ... except that the job offered to her is part of a very large plot - so big in fact that I would not venture to summarize!
So in both, there are children abducted (girls, Connelly likes its heroes have girls) ... and there the son with no father ... There are heroes seeking redemption ... Here, I think it's there my fascination Connelly, his obsession for the redemption ...
On my bedside table right now, and therefore likely to generate posts a day when the other: Sacred Dennis Lehanne, The last coyote Connelly , of Gypsies January and yoor The laws of economics Tancred car (and it is a novel) ... to see who inspire me first!
cities | girlfriends | |
sept-Dec. 1998 | Paris | Dawn |
January-June 1999 | Osaka (Japan) | ? |
sept-Dec. 1999 | Heidelberg (Germany) | Dawn |
January-June 2000 | Abomey (Benin) | Valentine? |
sept-Dec. 2000 | Providence (USA) | Mirna |
January-June 2001 | Venice | Aradia Tulati then Brunissande |
I. Harry. Wizards and Muggle
II. Cyrus. Of innocence and potions
III. Harry. The repetition of things
IV. Cyrus. Something to prove
V. Harry. Daily victories and kill things
VI. Cyrus. Antidotes and compromises
VII. Harry. Improvisation and old prejudices
VIII. Cyrus. The law sets and the sense of family
«Credo that the first thing to do is to provide a grammar. His way of expressing ...», was going to say 'it's scary, "but he corrected himself and concluded," is not very fair. "
Martin blushed and began to sweat.
"I know that I take out a lot of slang words that you do not understand, but they are the only words I know, or at least I know well. I can think of others, which I caught in the books, but I'm not sure know how to say about this and so do not use them. "
"It's not so much what she says, because the way he says . Forgive me if I am sincere? I do not want to hurt his feeling. "
"No, no," he exclaimed, deeply moved by the kindness you showed him. "Shoot away. I need to know, and I prefer me to tell her than anyone else. "
"Here, for example, she says, "less than" instead of "minor" and "I have no one to ask" instead of "I have no one to ask." Then use pronouns incorrectly ... "
" What are the pronouns? "asked Martin, and said humbly:" You see, I do not understand his explanations. "
"Actually Did not I explained," the girl said with a smile. "For example, recently used the phrase" I told her. " It was not to add "to her" because "means precisely" to her "and then he had used the right pronoun. The second pronoun is a repetition of grammatically incorrect. "
"Now I understand," said Martin. "I never thought of. If I say "the" is like if I say "her" and then it is useless to say "her" again. It had never occurred to me that was wrong and I will not say more. "
Ruth was surprised by the readiness of him grasping those concepts. Had the suggestion had not only understood but was also able to give an explanation, better than her.
"You will find everything in the grammar," he continued. "There are other things I noticed in her speech. Sometimes I use "we" instead of "le". It is not correct to use "us" to replace "her." "There is a variant of another personal pronoun. Did you know? ".
He thought for a moment, then replied: "Do you mean" us " `.
The girl nodded in approval with her head and continued: "And then she does not use the subjunctive."
Martin took on a puzzled expression. It was something that could not grasp.
"I give an example. "
"Well ...», Ruth frowned thinking about what he had to say, while he continued to stare, came to the conclusion that expression was adorable. "" I think it's weird. " Do not you think a wrong form? ".
He began to think mentally repeating those words.
"You do not sound bad?".
"I do not think," replied Martin careful to express himself properly.
"Why did not say" I do not believe me? ".
"Because it's wrong. But for the other - well, I do not know what to say. Maybe my ear is not used to like her. "
"should say" I think it's strange, "exclaimed the girl.
Martin blushed again.
"And then the pronunciation," continued Ruth. "Do not talk about" or "and" and "who speak out when they should be closed and vice versa. But it should at least correct his "z", which is frightening. "
"In what sense?" Said Martin, leaning toward her so full of gratitude that would be kneeling at the feet.
"You are wrong pronunciation of this sound. She says, "Stans" instead of "room" and "mars" instead of "March." It must also be careful to sound the "g". Sometimes I just preliminary and some other they are wrong. He says, "campania" instead of "campaign" and "I have spoken" instead of "I spoke to him." But it is useless to continue. What she needs is a good grammar. I'll get him one and I'll show you where to start. "
As Ruth got up he remembered in a flash he had read in a rule books on manners and pulled up awkwardly, not knowing if it was just what he had to do with the risk, moreover, that the girl who interpreted it as a sign that he was wanted to leave.
"By Mr. Eden," he said when he turned to the door. "What does" filter? ". It is a word he used repeatedly. "
"Ah, filter," Martin laughed. "It's slang. It means to make whiskey and beer - in short, everything you drink when you want to get drunk. "
"And another thing," laughed the girl in turn. "I do not uses the pronoun "you" when he wants to describe actions impersonal. "You" is very personal and now she did not use it in this way. "
I do not understand. "
"You just told me, 'whiskey and beer - in short, everything you drink when you want to get drunk" - now, I do not want to get drunk, do you understand now? ".
"But if you want to get drunk you have to drink it."
«Sì, naturalmente», disse lei sorridendo. «Ma sarebbe meglio che lei non mi coinvolgesse personalmente. Usi "si" al posto di "tu" - "quello che si beve quando ci si vuole ubriacare" - suona anche molto meglio».
"I should say the first thing of all would be to get a grammar. Your
grammar is--" She had intended saying "awful," but she amended it to "is
not particularly good."
He flushed and sweated.
"I know I must talk a lot of slang an' words you don't understand. But
then they're the only words I know--how to speak. I've got other words
in my mind, picked 'em up from books, but I can't pronounce 'em, so I
don't use 'em."
"It isn't what you say, so much as how you say it. You don't mind my
being frank, do you? I don't want to hurt you."
"No, no," he cried, while he secretly blessed her for her kindness. "Fire
away. I've got to know, an' I'd sooner know from you than anybody else."
"Well, then, you say, 'You was'; it should be, 'You were.' You say 'I
seen' for 'I saw.' You use the double negative--"
"What's the double negative?" he demanded; then added humbly, "You see, I
don't even understand your explanations."
"I'm afraid I didn't explain that," she smiled. "A double negative
is--let me see--well, you say, 'never helped nobody.' 'Never' is a
negative. 'Nobody' is another negative. It is a rule that two negatives
make a positive. 'Never helped nobody' means that, not helping nobody,
they must have helped somebody."
"That's pretty clear," he said. "I never thought of it before. But it
don't mean they _must_ have helped somebody, does it? Seems to me that
'never helped nobody' just naturally fails to say whether or not they
helped somebody. I never thought of it before, and I'll never say it
again."
She was pleased and surprised with the quickness and surety of his mind.
As soon as he had got the clew he not only understood but corrected her
error.
"You'll find it all in the grammar," she went on. "There's something
else I noticed in your speech. You say 'don't' when you shouldn't.
'Don't' is a contraction and stands for two words. Do you know them?"
He thought a moment, then answered, "'Do not.'"
She nodded her head, and said, "And you use 'don't' when you mean 'does
not.'"
He was puzzled over this, and did not get it so quickly.
"Give me an illustration," he asked.
"Well--" She puckered her brows and pursed up her mouth as she thought,
while he looked on and decided that her expression was most adorable.
"'It don't do to be hasty.' Change 'don't' to 'do not,' and it reads,
'It do not do to be hasty,' which is perfectly absurd."
He turned it over in his mind and considered.
"Doesn't it jar on your ear?" she suggested.
"Can't say that it does," he replied judicially.
"Why didn't you say, 'Can't say that it do'?" she queried.
"That sounds wrong," he said slowly. "As for the other I can't make up
my mind. I guess my ear ain't had the trainin' yours has."
"There is no such word as 'ain't,'" she said, prettily emphatic.
Martin flushed again.
"And you say 'ben' for 'been,'" she continued; "'come' for 'came'; and
the way you chop your endings is something dreadful."
"How do you mean?" He leaned forward, feeling that he ought to get down
on his knees before so marvellous a mind. "How do I chop?"
"You don't complete the endings. 'A-n-d' spells 'and.' You pronounce it
'an'.' 'I-n-g' spells 'ing.' Sometimes you pronounce it 'ing' and
sometimes you leave off the 'g.' And then you slur by dropping initial
letters and diphthongs. 'T-h-e-m' spells 'them.' You pronounce it--oh,
well, it is not necessary to go over all of them. What you need is the
grammar. I'll get one and show you how to begin."
As she arose, there shot through his mind something that he had read in
the etiquette books, and he stood up awkwardly, worrying as to whether he
was doing the right thing, and fearing that she might take it as a sign
that he was about to go.
"By the way, Mr. Eden," she called back, as she was leaving the room.
"What is _booze_? You used it several times, you know."
"Oh, booze," he laughed. "It's slang. It means whiskey an'
beer--anything that will make you drunk."
"And another thing," she laughed back. "Don't use 'you' when you are
impersonal. 'You' is very personal, and your use of it just now was not
precisely what you meant."
"I don't just see that."
"Why, you said just now, to me, 'whiskey and beer--anything that will
make you drunk'--make me drunk, don't you see?"
"Well, it would, wouldn't it?"
"Yes, of course," she smiled. "But it would be nicer not to bring me
into it. Substitute 'one' for 'you' and see how much better it sounds."