ellauri097.html on line 167: His later work consisted of humorous, anecdotal, and nostalgic essays that were first published in The New Yorker and then collected in the books Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days. Mencken was preoccupied with his legacy and kept his papers, letters, newspaper clippings, columns, and even grade school report cards. After his death, those materials were made available to scholars in stages in 1971, 1981, and 1991 and include hundreds of thousands of letters sent and received. The only omissions were strictly personal letters received from women.
ellauri106.html on line 520: In Roth’s nostalgic past, the practical influence of the New Left — the impact of the anti-war movement on ending the Vietnam war, for instance — is as easily dismissed as was the old left’s voice in the New Deal and postwar industrialization.
ellauri153.html on line 260: Bustan is entirely in verse (epic metre). It consists of stories aptly illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims (justice, liberality, modesty, contentment) and nostalgic reflections on the behavior of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly in prose and contains stories and personal anecdotes. The text is interspersed with a variety of short poems which contain aphorisms, advice, and humorous reflections, demonstrating Saadi's profound awareness of the absurdity of human existence. The fate of those who depend on the changeable moods of kings like Atabak Abubakr is contrasted with the 4 degrees of freedom of the dervishes.
ellauri182.html on line 139: The alternative is of course the sexless intimacy of the fag hag and her chosen friends. The heroines of Yoshimoto’s fiction are not exactly fag hags, nor are they innocent. Mikage and Satsuki are young women. But grown-up sexual relationships are still beyond their grasp. Instead, in the security of their private kitchens, they dream nostalgic dreams, and shed melancholy tears about the passing of time. This is the stuff of great Japanese poetry, and absolute kitsch. Yoshimoto Banana is not yet a mistress of poetry, but she is a past master of kitsch.
ellauri471.html on line 342: VERY little attempt is made at characterization, and in this sort of book it doesn't much matter. All the characters are fairly unpleasant anyway, with the exception of the C.I.A. man Blackford Oakes, who, for a protagonist and series hero, is curiously absent from on stage. In his acknowledgments Mr. Buckley naively says that readers have called his Blacky ''not interesting enough.'' He, on the other hand, finds him fascinating. I would not go as far as that, for Oakes is no Harry Palmer and no James Bond. I did long nostalgically for Ian Fleming and his vivacious, sexy, sensational stuff (written at this period, of this period), especially when Sir Alistair, Bart. or non-Bart., takes his mini-Zirca behind the Iron Curtain via Stockholm, scene of many a white night with Caroline sorry Alice of the electronic chest. Who could help being reminded of the Spektor coding machine brought to Bond from Russia with love?
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 188: "He was the philosopher of my generation, which didn't succeed in realizing itself spiritually, but remained nostalgic about such a realization. Shestov [...] has played an important role in my life. [...] He thought rightly that the true problems escape the philosophers. What else do they do but obscuring the real torments of life?" (Emil Cioran: Oeuvres, Gallimard, Paris 1995, p. 1740, my translation (kuka oon tää 'mä?')]
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 462: Kepulin #metoo duon seinillä on Haruki Murukamin maalauxia. LOL se on Murakami, eikä se osaa maalata edes latoa. Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national recognition in 1987 with the publication of Norwegian Wood, a nostalgic story of loss of sexuality. It sold millions of copies among young Japanese who are busy becoming greysexual. Clarisselle sattui pieni vahinko hauskanpidon jälkeen. Ei Reille, Michael laittoi 3 kondomia päällekkäin. Miesten avustamana valizin hääputiikista pitkän kermanvaalean vinoon leikatun sillkipuvun, jonka helmassa oli vähän keltaista ja takapuolella ruskeaa. Näytät temppelihuoralta, Josh-setä kehaisi. Koko osavaltio on upea. Vanha verenimijä vielä lahjoittaa Reille unelmakodin ja työn ihan pikkurahalla! Tämä nide oli mahtava, yhtä täydellinen helmi kuin sarjan edelliset 14 osaa ja 1 seuraava!
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