Autor: Merriam A. Grain
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La muerte del poeta [Guillaume Apollinaire] es una metáfora del olvido colectivo de la mayor matanza del siglo XX . La gripe española […] mató a entre 50 y 100 millones de personas, […] superó a la primera guerra mundial (17 millones de muertos), a la segunda guerra mundial (60 millones de muertos) y posiblemente…
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Just a collection used to built on
Thompson’s Motif-Index is one of the most important works in folklorestudies produced in the twentieth century. Some may view it merely as a taxonomic endeavor, but as Thompson stated, “Before it can become an object of serious and well-considered study, every branch of knowledge needs to be classified. There was a time when geology and…
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Cisma y abandono
La carga de datos no alcanzaba.Entonces sobrevino la desgracia.Y la app se quedó ahí.Sin que quisieran borrarla.Tampoco usarla.
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El líder lee por nosotros
Para muchos, los aparatos electrónicos son lo opuesto a los libros y […] A estas personas les asusta que «la muerte del libro» […] esté pavimentando el camino hacia una distopía sin libros donde las masas analfabetas dependerán de sus líderes para que lean por ellos (lo que, por cierto, se parece bastante a cómo…
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As usual
Although she had long looked forward to it, as the story unfolded, she realized she didn’t find it funny at all. The lyrics were racist, the actors were white, and it was blatantly obvious that the female lead was going to be blamed for everyone else’s misdeeds. The whole thing reminded her of work. Lessons…
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A placid lake,A half empty bottle and I take,I can come back to dwell down there.Where the sunset is reflected to mistake.To your calm, short letter back.To your sensible solutions about Italian not spoken great.A nerf shot in disarray.Reaching target without pain.My friend, kilometres away.You understand what’s like.
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El tazón estaba sucio vs el genocidio de gérmenes inocentes
— Lo he lavado especialmente -dijo tratando de esquivar la mirada de Bethan. Rincewind miró el líquido del tazón. Probablemente había sido transparente antes de ser vertido en el recipiente, ahora beberlo significaría el genocidio para miles de gérmenes inocentes. Lo dejó a un lado con cautela. La luz fantástica. Terry Pratchett. En ocasiones, una…
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A more poetic science?!
Although metaphor and analogy areunconventional in scientific circles, I am firmly convinced that a more nonlinear kind of thought will eventually supplant much of the logical reasoning we use today. Chris Langton, one of the primary researchers in the field of complexity theory, has speculated that in the future science will become more poetic. Our…