Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

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Quotations from Great Men

A man in a jacket stands with his back to the viewer at a window, while a woman at a desk with a typewriter and papers rests her head in her hand.

Books · People

A note on the French writer Frédéric Dard

Two clever people with opposing ideas can say far more to one another than two idiots of the same party. The French writer Frédéric Dard

Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography

Saint Lucy of Syracuse, her iconography, her role in Dante and the dessert of 13 December

In Italy there is a famous festive dessert called Saint Lucy's eyes. The iconography of the early Christian patron saint of the blind characteristically shows eyes, which she holds in her hands or on a small dish. According to variants of the hagiographic legend, Saint Lucy, who lived

Coming Up · Art · Books · Observations

A selection of eight books on history and art from Alpina Non-Fiction and Garage

NonFic is approaching, so I want to share some of the books recently sent to me for review that are worth hunting out at the fair's stands. 1. "A Little History of the World" by Ernst Gombrich. For people of any age who would like to

Cinema · Books

And So She Entered

And so she entered. Throwing back her veil, She looked at me attentively. I say to her: "Was it you who dictated to Dante The pages of the Inferno?" She replies: "I did." Literal translation "The Muse", Anna Akhmatova, 1924 and Jennifer Coolidge, The

NB! · Books · Observations · Education · Humour

The American professor of classics Bernard Knox once remarked that a few rides in Athenian taxis had given him a fresh appreciation of the Homeric chariot races

Art · Books · Monarchies · Observations · Science

Pareidolia from Arcimboldo's portrait of Rudolf II to the divination of Natasha Rostova

I propose we recall Giuseppe Arcimboldo and his portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, on the occasion of my having taken a closer look at my grandmother's blanket. The phenomenon itself, in which people see the outlines of faces and creatures in the patterns, stains and details

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Faina Grimberg's poem about a book by Plato, a winter window and Diotima

The snowflakes fall half-asleep. In the small flat there is silence. I have settled down with a book of Plato By the big winter window. Outside the window there is such a womanly picture. Outside the window, the sweep of an arctic-fox fur coat. Outside the window, the

A book page with Francis Picabia’s text on Cubism and Dada.

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Francis Picabia’s manifesto on Cubism and Dada in the collection “100 Art Manifestos”

Francis Picabia, Who Knows Nothing, Nothing, Nothing. From the excellent book “100 Art Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists”, which brings together the manifestos of creators of every stripe over the last 100 years

Books · Observations · Humour

A note on the French writer Paul de Saint-Onge

The Conditional Mood: The Most Beautiful Grammatical Category in the World and, Naturally, the Most Convenient. The French writer Paul de Saint-Onge

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Tatyana Tolstaya and the Boiled Mushrooms

Art · Books · London · Mores

William Hogarth's engravings on the fate of a woman of loose morals in the 18th century

A Harlot's Progress. William Hogarth's series of engravings of 1731-1732 describes the typical path of a girl of free morals in the eighteenth century, from procuress to grave, and usually not a very long one at that: 1. Ensnared by the procuress 2. Quarrel with