Poetic Tuesday

[salinea]

Flatter un créditeur, pour son terme allonger,
Courtiser un banquier, donner bonne espérance,
Ne suivre en son parler la liberté de France,
Et pour répondre un mot, un quart d'heure y songer :

Ne gâter sa santé par trop boire et manger,
Ne faire sans propos une folle dépense,
Ne dire à tous venants tout cela que l'on pense,
Et d'un maigre discours gouverner l'étranger :

Connaître les humeurs, connaître qui demande,
Et d'autant que l'on a la liberté plus grande,
D'autant plus se garder que l'on ne soit repris :

Vivre avecques chacun, de chacun faire compte :
Voilà, mon cher Morel (dont je rougis de honte),
Tout le bien qu'en trois ans à Rome j'ai appris.

Du Bellay

With dedication to DylanFanatic and the receding standarts of education, language and the commecialisation of art.

Comments

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Yes, after DF's posts I am already mourning the death of all culture everywhere in the world. To avoid this fate I am already learning how to read 400 pages an hour in Spanish - with comprehension - and sniffing very loudly whenever anyone talks about epic fantasy :-D

Btw, finished Season 2 of Avatar. I wasn't expecting that ending. What a downer :-(

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

but did you like it?

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was great! Review on the way, tomorrow probably (I'll avoid the whole Oriental/Asian thing this time around though ;-) ). Just a surprise. Avatar has had downer endings before (Appa's capture) but I wasn't expecting the season to end like that. And Zuko getting dragged back into his family's clutches was great (Fire Nation family = Lannisters = the Mafia, to some extent).

Toph was very cool as well. Avatar has this habit of providing an answer every time I go, "Hang on..." In this case it was, "Dont' metals come from the earth? Doesn't that mean that Earthbenders should be able to bust out of steel cages?" This show gives more credit to its audience's intelligence than most :-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

can't wait for the review :)

but I wasn't expecting the season to end like that.
It's the Empire Strikes Back of the show :) structurally sound, but the fact we didn't expect it made it great IMO (although Azula overplotting Long Feng was a bit too easy yet awesome!)

I love the Fire Nation family, they totally hit my screwed up family dynamic, as you say :) Lannisters or Blacks or Amber... just love those dynamics. And I adore that the show had the guts to do that with Zuko. He can be quite the idiot, doesn't he?

This show gives more credit to its audience's intelligence than most
They think about the implications of the powers in a way I found typical of roleplayers :)

[werthead.livejournal.com]

No more Mako though :-( Is his replacement any good? Probably won't get to S3 until later in the week.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I think he's alright, but... well you'll see.

The other day I was watching this hilariously bad movie called Rise with Lucy Liu and I was surprised to see Mako was in it :)

[scriva.livejournal.com]

Nice poem. I'm not so familiar with the poet. When did he live? It also shows that nothing is new in the world, not even the commcerialisation of everything. LOL. Reminds me of university politics.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Du Bellay is from the 16th century. Par of that group of poets& philosophers called la Pleiade along with Ronsart and La Boetie who formalised a lot of the French language (there were no fixed orthography at the time). He wasn't actually in Rome for his art IIRC he was there as a secretary of some sort. But still :)

[scriva.livejournal.com]

I was almost on the right way. In the 16th century, Rome and especially the Papal Court were something like the capital of burecearacy, and I'm sure for many favours or for access to higher ranked persons money was a necessity. LOL.

Oh, and which post of DF did you refer to?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Thread starts here. Enjoy :)

[scriva.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and btw. I wanted to write "bureaucracy". LOL

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I guessed as much.