Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Nov 18, 2009, 3:54 am
Here's a new rewritten, translated, illustrated and a little bit dizzied excerpt from my book: Image copyright: SoftOption Images 2002 They talked for a while in the shaded garden. They did not a...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Nov 12, 2009, 2:50 am
Image source: Yuken Teruya Studio. Before I started to rewrite my novella I sent it to a contest and it happened to be the runner up. The members of the jury stated: "we have also rated very positive...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Nov 8, 2009, 12:02 pm
I must apologize for a lot of spam messages that someone sent through my Twitter account a few hours ago. That was really annoying. I've already changed my password and I hope it won't happen ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Nov 1, 2009, 2:10 am
November 1st: for me it makes sense to post a carnal poem by Maria-Mercè Marçal (1952-1998) on a day like this. Maria-Mercè Marçal Flesh, without words, in front of me and in me. Me, who had rea...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 26, 2009, 4:03 am
I've just found this funny tool developed by the Department of Design and Image of the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Fine Arts, that allows you to type short texts with live links to Google...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 20, 2009, 2:20 am
OK, what happens when 1. your family is at a wedding in Sweden, 2. the only thing they ask you to do during their absence is take care of a little farm, and 3. they forgot the camera at home? It happ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 14, 2009, 2:57 am
His family ran a grocery store for many years. It was the most advanced and popular store in the city and they used to sell the products you didn’t find anywhere else. For instance, they provided co...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 9, 2009, 3:50 am
Irma Gruenholz Noons of dryness find you fed by the involuntary powers, nights of insult let you pass watched by every human love. W. H. AUDEN, "Lullaby" (excerpt)
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Oct 5, 2009, 3:44 am
If you ask me, typography is the best design ever. Given that I work in a publishing house I should focus on the typographical elements of my blog, but Blogger only allows us to use six different font...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 30, 2009, 2:19 am
I keep translating some excerpts from my novel. It helps me to focus on my writings somehow, for this novel is only a draft and this is just another way to edit. Let's see how it looks: image by:...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 27, 2009, 5:36 am
I'm really glad to share the following link today — to be honest, I'm bursting with pride. Here you have the latest issue of World Literature Today, the magazine about Literature, Culture an...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 22, 2009, 3:58 am
One of my classmates is so interested in the origins of writing that I got stuck into this subject at the very beginning of the course, when she started to share her thoughts on it. I've made some...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 15, 2009, 4:05 am
It is not just the rain and my studies which I’m about to meet again now that fall approaches, but some inner feelings. I wish I knew if everyone feels something similar; for me, it’s likely some ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 8, 2009, 3:32 am
This winter I’ll be studying at my online University only two subjects, the both of them dealing with sociolinguistics. This week the students have received the materials by mail so that we can chec...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Sep 5, 2009, 3:25 am
The last book I’ve read is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, and after this first glimpse into such a personal world I’ve happened to become an unconditional fan of this Japanese author. Meanwhil...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 30, 2009, 4:05 am
Let me tell you now the story of this blog and the circumstances by which every day I find a new reason for feeling thankful, among some other unexpected incidents that will surely thrill you, unless ...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 24, 2009, 9:22 am
One of this week’s blogs of note in Blogger is an odd site named Forgotten Bookmarks. It’s written by a bookseller who buys used books from people every day and posts on the net the weird things h...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 19, 2009, 7:48 am
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym My reading preferences have a wide range but I am drawn to long, everlasting novels from nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and I also have a thing with Angl...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 14, 2009, 9:21 am
Today is Art Day. To be honest I’m not sure if it’s a real worldwide day included in the calendar, but that’s the least of it. There’s not an unsuitable date to celebrate art, so we can say th...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 9, 2009, 5:09 am
With this post I participate in one of the writing exercises proposed by A Thousand Words that consist in writing something inspired in one photo and then link it to their site. Image source The lig...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Aug 3, 2009, 4:05 am
The poetae noui, a generation of Latin poets of the first century BC, got inspired, among others, by the ancient Greeks, whose writing was erudite, elitist and true to the frame. Callimacus and the Al...
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Secret forest posted an article on Secret forest - Jul 29, 2009, 3:21 am
I'll try to post something refreshing today, just a short tale I wrote to ease this summer heat: Image source ZEN TALE The disciple threw stones in the water all day long. The next day, the mas...
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