Frenz age-N

e mannaggia il diavoletto

che ci ha fasso litiga'!

pace, pace,pace

e la guerra non sifa!

pace, pace, pace

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by request (and thanks to vinnie and yu)

How to write a Diary:

It is a common belief, and false, that constructing a diary, that is to say writing, by which I mean – writing, is an awkward activity, an art form not for the timorous but only the bravely self regarding and unselfconscious.

This fallacy of the multitude needs to be put to bath – and swiftly, it is for this reason that I have gladly accepted the request to provide some common sense advice to approaching the task. I am sure that the attentive reader will find these guidelines useful and, after rehearsing them at leisure, that they will therefore discover a new ease and pride in their own creation, and that the act of authoring a diary will become nothing less than that, by which I mean, an act of authoring, by which I mean writing.

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periclesiastical mystery tour - concluded

 This is for Eila and Betsy and Ana. Hope these fragments are worth the read!

Sorry for the delay with these! Thanks again to John, Aliasse and Julie 0.

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And so to retell and briefly, Pericles the brave Prince of Tyre has by tragedy been struck – losing both wife and daughter – one at childbirth in the heart of a great storm, and the other kidnapped from under Lord Creon’s nose by pirates and taken to the scabrous ports of Mytilene. Pericles thus has taken to the waves for good, it seems, content to mourn in silence whilst all about him the great fleet of Tyre travels in circles. His faithful servant Helicanus struggles to find remedy. But then, glad news! Pericles wife Thaisa has been restored to life by the care of healer and magician Cerimon. ( Read more... )