intertextus Vox 2006-10-31T07:24:23Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2252c9deef219/ Burning Patience tag:vox.com,2006-10-31:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff8b8aa06731 2006-10-31T06:57:38Z 2006-10-31T07:24:23Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Burning Patience (my old copy) Burning Patience (cover image not available on Amazon) Il Postino

[Think Il Postino, The Postman, Ardiente Paciencia, El Cartero De Neruda] Years ago I read an English translation of a little novel called "Burning Patience" by a Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta. It's about Mario, a young man in a small fishing ...

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]]> Vivaldi Borrows From Vivaldi tag:vox.com,2006-10-29:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff932bd9d756 2006-10-29T11:11:46Z 2006-10-29T11:25:51Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

L'Olimpiade Highlights L'Olimpiade (Highlights) Vivaldi Four Seasons Spring Chorus

Whether you listen to classical music or not, you will have heard Vivaldi's set of violin concertos The Four Seasons, or at least the Spring, with its well-known theme. Recently, while converting my old CD collection to digital format (a process ...

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]]> Twins Reunited, or just Parallel Stories? tag:vox.com,2006-10-28:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff98d6936ea5 2006-10-28T09:05:31Z 2006-10-31T04:40:03Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Long Lost Twins or Parallel Stories?

There was a textiles factory in Yangzhou in China. One day, a recently born baby girl was abandoned outside the gates of the factory. Lucky for her, she was picked up by an orphange. One week later, outside the same factory, another baby girl w...

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]]> Happy Valleys of the World tag:vox.com,2006-10-28:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff8a886b6731 2006-10-28T05:29:35Z 2007-09-17T00:00:52Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Hong Kong Jockey Club Backdrop Stadium The Odds Off the Blocks Winning Horse Giant Monitor After the Race Finish Line

Have you ever wondered why so many places in the world are called "Happy Valley"? Even limiting oneself to places whose names are of Anglo-American origin, there are at least 3 in Canada, 2 in Australia, 1 in Kenya, 1 in Hong Kong, and 3 in the S...

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]]> Funny Photographer tag:vox.com,2006-10-27:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff84944a985d 2006-10-27T07:16:14Z 2006-10-31T13:22:28Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Funny Photographer Funny Photographer Simple Cube Reflection Replicate

The more recent iMacs, MacBooks & MacBook Pros all come with a built-in iSight webcam. They also come with a program called PhotoBooth which takes snapshots with iSight with different effects, and many people find this one of the coolest things ...

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]]> Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ... tag:vox.com,2006-10-26:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff91e679d756 2006-10-26T06:13:29Z 2006-10-26T07:10:35Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Rákóczy March

... and the Rákóczy March 23 October marked the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, an uprising which started as a student demonstration and which was brutally crushed by the Soviet forces. The Rákóczy March is a well-known tune world-...

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]]> A pocket camera for Lulu tag:vox.com,2006-10-25:asset-6a00c2252c9deef21900ccff8978396731 2006-10-25T04:00:23Z 2006-10-25T09:44:57Z intertextus http://intertextus.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

850is 900ti Fx07 Fx50

I bought a pocket camera for a friend for her birthday in May earlier this year. Let's call her Lulu. I got her the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FX01. She promptly lost it on her recent trip to Europe. She was sitting on the steps outside the Sacré C...

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