JOHN FANTE Fante, inlassablement, à travers tous ses livres qui constituent une oeuvre attachante et forte, raconte la même histoire : la sienne, où il mêle vérité et mensonge. Dans ses romans le personnage principal Arturo Bandini est toujours le reflet, le double de l'écrivain. Comme son personnage, Fante est un fils d'immigrés italiens d'origine très modeste. Son obsession est de ne plus être, dans l'Amérique fière et conquérante, le "sale petit rital" catholique immigré, mais un véritable Amerloque admis et respecté. Toute l'oeuvre de John Fante raconte avec simplicité et humour, l'itinéraire de Bandini, gamin, râleur, révolté, désolé d'être le fils d'une mère bigote et soumise, et d'un pére maçon, violent et cavaleur. Après les années d'enfance, viendra la jeunesse bohême (Demande à la poussière) passée entre les petits boulots et les amours impossibles... A force d'obstination, Arturo Bandini pourra vivre de sa plume.
The Harry Potter Lexicon Charles Bukowski "Hank Chinaski" - An introduction to Los Angeles' Grittiest, Greatest Writer Ebooks libres et gratuits Bibliothèque électronique du QuébecJean-Yves, qui a créé cette bibliothèque en 1998, à une époque où personne ne pensait à proposer des livres électroniques qui soient aussi agréables à lire que les livres papier (le format texte régnait alors en maître...), nous propose plus de 1000 livres aux formats ePub et PDF. Il travaille également, au moment où j'écris ces lignes (novembre 2009) à proposer, en plus des versions au format PDF classiques, des versions spécialement adaptées aux liseuses. Son site est maintenant hébergé par notre groupe. Cette bibliothèque nous propose des livres de grande qualité, et j'avoue que je n'ai jamais compris comment un seul homme avait réussi à faire tout ça. Chapeau bas...Bibliothèque numérique romandeNous aimons beaucoup ce site de nos amis suisses romands, que nous considérons un peu comme notre petit frère.
From The Hundred Acre Wood To Midtown To see one of the most important exhibits at the New York Public Library, skip the main entrance… …and take the far-less trafficked 42nd Street door: Once past the metal detector, hang a right down the first corridor… …and continue on into the Children’s Center. See that wooden partition in the center of the center of the room? …and you’ll find the New York home of Winnie the Pooh (yes, the actual Winnie the Pooh!) I first wrote about the Winnie the Pooh exhibit in 2009, shortly after the beloved stuffed animals had been moved from their former home at the Donnell Library Center to the main branch of the NYPL. I’d completely forgotten about the post until a month when, out of the blue, author Neil Gaiman linked to it on his Twitter asking “Is the Winnie the Pooh room at the library still this sad?” So in the interest of setting the record straight, I wanted to revisit Pooh’s home in New York City. The star of the show is of course, Winnie The Pooh… In the mid-1920′s, A. …Tigger! …and Kanga!
team alexandriz Page 2 Thinking the Way Animals Do By Temple Grandin, Ph.D. Department of Animal Science Colorado State University Western Horseman, Nov. 1997, pp.140-145 (Updated January 2015) Temple Grandin is an assistant professor of animal science at Colorado State University. As a person with autism, it is easy for me to understand how animals think because my thinking processes are like an animal's. I have no language-based thoughts at all. Most people use a combination of both verbal and visual skills. A radio station person I talked to once said that she had no pictures at all in her mind. Associative Thinking A horse trainer once said to me, "Animals don't think, they just make associations." Animals also tend to make place-specific associations. Years ago a scientist named N. Fear Is the Main Emotion Fear is the main emotion in autism and it is also the main emotion in prey animals such as horses and cattle. Both animals and people with autism are also fearful of high-pitched noises. Fear-based behaviors are complex. References
Jabberwocky "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Yasmine Galenorn and Galenorn En/Visions