Friday, December 31, 2010

Pink U And Ur Hand Red Hair Images




E No browsing the net looking for editions of Treasure Island of Robert Louis Stevenson , I was able to account for the diversity of coverage chosen for this novel, over more than 120 years of publication of this novel. I found, for now, a hundred different covers for editions in French and English (I have not searched the net for editions in other languages, but my curiosity could me grow there!).

Here a bunch of some blankets, among those I found a bouquet trying to sweep the diversity of styles, from stripped bearing only the name of the author's very classic with its pirate image with a wooden leg, through the choices a bit more adventurous but do not go completely off the beaten path.












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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Why Is Akiba-online Down

All good adventures removed


The novel Kidnapped! of Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) is widely known that less Treasure Island Catriona (1883), which overshadows almost everything else in the literary production of Stevenson. Yet this novel, which reveals its character David Balfour, found in the novel (1893) published published as David Balfour, deserves the benefit of fans of the eighteenth century.
The full title of the novel is one to tell you almost all! Jugez-en vous-même :

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Enlevé : les mémoires des aventures des David Balfour en l’an 1751 : comment il a été enlevé et rejeté ; his suffering on a desert island, his trip to the Highlands wild his meeting with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with everything he has endured at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Blafour of Shaws , falsely so called: written by himself and now presented by Robert Louis Stevenson.



If some of the adventures of David Balfour has on the seas, aboard a ship that took him to the Carolinas, where U.S. It is intended to be sold, Kidnapped! and Catriona primarily interested in the Highlands, the Highlands of Scotland, home of Jacobite uprising of the 1740s, largely crushed at the Battle of Culloden April 16, 1746. The way of these "memories" of David Balfour, Stevenson gives us a portrait of the Highlands and the lives of its inhabitants, a theme which he had wanted to devote part of his work as a historian. Difficult to prejudge what might have been this book on the history of Highlands, but I bet my shirt that would most likely been less alive than these two novels there. Analysts
adventures of David Balfour pointed texts that appear to have been the major inspiration for Stevenson's two novels. The life of James Annesley had provided the backbone of Kidnapped! , an Irishman who had gone through many trials being sold as a slave on a plantation in Delaware, stripped of his possessions and his title of count by a greedy uncle, but succeeding in the end to return to Ireland and to assert rights over her property, but not on its title. An incredible but true life, which Stevenson made a false life but credible David Balfour.
As for the "Appin Murder", an incident that occurred in north-west of Scotland in 1752, he brings on both Kidnapped! Catriona that, as David Balfour, who witnessed the deadly ambush, trying to support a man accused of killing.
Stevenson also tapped into various works of historians of the early nineteenth century that depicted, more or less bias Jacobite, life and events in the Highlands in those troubled years 1750 and those that followed.

Highlands and the Highlanders call you. Will you remain deaf to their invitation to adventure?

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Skin Indentations From Clothing

An island in the archipelago of more


E nce. Yup, another edition of the comic adaptation by Hugo Pratt the novel The Mysterious Island of Robert Louis Stevenson . Since the original first edition of Argentina in 1966, a dozen others have followed, according to published census page on the site, generally very well informed, of " archivespratt .

A more among booksellers, and one more in my personal library. I did not even try to resist compulsive buyer I can be when it comes to books signed Pratt. This edition will have three characteristics that made me flinch quickly to purchase:
- it actually contains two stories Stevense, Treasure Island (Treasure Island ) And Kidnapped! ( Kidnapped )
- it includes a foreword by Hugo Pratt, illustrated with some watercolors (superb, of course), and an afterword by Marco Steiner;
- and, contrary to what may suggest packaging, it is presented in landscape format rather than the French.

Although I know about the plot by heart, I always take pleasure in rereading the novel Treasure Island , and adaptation by Pratt. I'm not going to insult you here to talk in detail about this novel that concentrates all the popular image of piracy, the treasure chest to the parrot on the shoulder, eyepatch wooden leg , flag black barrel of rum, pirate's vengeful survivor became almost crazy.
An excerpt from Treasure Island
Kidnapped! , however, is somewhat less known, even if the name of David Balfour will perhaps tilt in a corner of the memory of those who in their youth and devoured "adventure novels for teens." That novel deserves better than this name a bit cramped, I devote very next post. This
this comic adaptation, in this edition here, a set of colors in gentle tones.
An extract Kidnapped!

These two stories are obviously the graphic style of Pratt in its infancy, a sketch with shading sometimes too present for my taste, yet the line saving even stripped it acquires over time. But this edition is nonetheless a very fine book that will appeal to fans eighteenth, to comic book fans and lovers of adventure, simply.
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Mizuno Youth Volleyball Shoes

Much more than simply cloth

A consumers of plastic dolls poor quality polyester dress and glittering badly cut, go your way. At the Historical Figure Foundation (Foundation of historic figures), the goal is education in art and history through figures and monologues created by George S. Stuart . Do not think I'm the evil by saying that, I'm just translating on the fly a little bit of the published presentation at the bottom of the homepage of the site.
Polastron Yolande, duchesse de Polignac

The collection includes more than 400 figurines - perhaps I should write "dummies" - evoking different eras and different countries. It would have been unlikely that there would not (little nod to a president who prides himself imperfect subjunctive people to avoid thinking that is ignorant) of models corresponding to our ten eighth century.
Samuel Adams, one of the fathers of independence
U.S.

Several groups of these models include figures that may attract our attention. For example:
- one on the personalities of our "ancien regime" French, under the Bourbons ;
- one on the personalities of the "American Revolution" ;
- one on Russia Romanov .

That said, do not feel especially forbidden to visit all the pages of the collection!

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Illustration:
Polastron Yolande, duchesse de Polignac
Samuel Adams, one of the fathers of the independence of the United States

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Facial Explosion Compil

essential


lovers eighteenth century and French style, so walk to the blog Essence of Frenchness , the essence of French style interior. To recognize the blog author's personal taste and the taste of others inside or outside which he guides our gaze to survey both the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris that the island of Ré, private collections and those museums. Recognize him as he can leave the paths of Frenchness for trips across the Atlantic or in calle of Venice. A man of taste, I tell you.



Is it necessary that I clarify that this post is not a note of "cronyism"? Certainly it is a "member" of the fairs of Mr. C., and the least things is that I walk through the blog of frequent visitors to these fairs. But my advice to visit is completely true, and I receive no commission on visitors who arrive in the blog Essence of Frenchness arriving from here!

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Monday, December 27, 2010

When Is The New Tahoe Body Style

Twilight interrupted

A ith a rate which is usually released one volume per year A series of comics can hold his reader in suspense over a long period. And when some volumes are expected more than reason, impatience which usually stand the wait becomes weariness, groans, or disdain.
That is, then, if the result never comes? Should we rail against the author lazy? Against the publisher who is afraid to take risks? Against those who have not purchased the first volumes published so that the result was not profitable for the publisher? Harass the illustrator or writer tells us that for at least the end of the story, even as a telegraphic text, scribbled a script? Subsequently, shit, THEN!

Hmm ...
breathe slowly and drink fresh.
That is already better.

But still ... Damn!

After all, nothing forces me to pretend to appreciate the frustration. Popes tout the merits of coitus interruptus , but not a Papist, I give myself the right to find no pleasure there, not even when the case was committed between talent and good company. In this case, it S TEPHEN Desberg (screenplay) and Henry fell (drawing), which frustrated me to two thirds of the trilogy Twilight Angels (Casterman, 2 volumes, 1998 and 1999). You agree that a trilogy which is published only two volumes, it is the false promise of the unfortunate interruption. It may even come to realize that it would have been better not to read any of the first two volumes, rather than being left open and fun. Desberg and setbacks, a duet of "papists igniters? Ah, the frustration digress, I fall into personal attacks.

must say I enjoyed the first two volumes, Poppa (1998, ISBN 2-203-38917-6) and The Maestro (1999, ISBN 2-203-38923-0). I love the delicacy of line back, put her in dark colors in shadows and warm lights in the variety of shots and angles. As for the story woven Desberg, it contains the right amount of strong human emotions, hope and despair, jealousy, envy, strength and weakness so that it attaches to the story as the characters.

I'm tied to the history Poppa, a young singer who dreams that he be given a lead role in one of the operas of Mozart, as Don Giovanni triumph in theaters. Is it too dreamy, not quite equipped to face the cruelty of the theater world, the carnal appetites of men and violent? Will she find, back in his native Tuscany, near his father's advice and domestic resources that will make her an opera singer can inhabit roles? And what is this dark family secret that ...?
Who what?
Well, you do not know.
Not that I want to keep this secret to me. But because in the foreseeing, you will soon know more. And then there are none. Damn third book ever published!


Desberg The duo fell and did not relinquish that Twilight Angels due to separation, in fact, these two accomplices were published subsequently, to other series The circle as e Sentinel (1998-2000) or Cassio (ongoing since 2007). But I fear that this trilogy eighteenth-century concerto remains forever unfinished.

For the record: Desberg put his talents at the service writers of another series of inspiration eighteenth, even if not directly "our" eighteenth century: the bestselling series The scorpion, with the very talented Marini. It was also at that Desberg Marini had first proposed his script Twilight of Angels (source: an interview for Desberg ActuaBD ).
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Chevalyé of St. George, mizisyen Enlightenment

T out that I am committed to our Republic, indivisible, and while I am respectful of our 1958 Constitution, in Article 2, stipulates that "the language of the Republic is French", I am equally committed the wealth brings diversity. Equal Republican motto is not for me the antonym for diversity, nor the mean uniformity. Thus, whatever the proponents of a Jacobin Republic who fear that the attraction will undermine the foundations of their giant one and indivisible, I am a strong supporter of defense, protection, education and development regional languages: the more they will be considered part of our collective heritage of yesterday, today and tomorrow, they will be less because of divisions, because they then the instrument will neither centralist nor communitarians.

I dare such a lead-in to take my hat off to a bilingual French-Creole, and yet, I would be very difficult to claim that I was lulled by the Creole. In terms of regional languages, my ear has been accustomed to rather or Basque Gascon. Caricaturing in trouble, I would say that Creole, except through Malavoi discs, television reports on Aimé Césaire, or emission Studio M on France Ô, I have not heard or listened to often.

Thanks to the Chevalier de St. George, who became a familiar force of my shows that I prompted (with or without his contentment, go figure!), I immersed myself in a Creole text: the book Chevalier de St. George, musician of the Enlightenment / Chevalyé of St. George, mizisyen Enlightenment, with French text Françoise Kérisel adapted Creole Henry Cadoré (Editions L'Harmattan, collection Youth, 2007, ISBN 978-2-296-02397-0).

A book of small format, 26 pages of written texts "big" and airy, Creole and French vis-à-vis, I had enough here to make my first step without risking overheating. First observation, from reading the title and back cover: to try to understand what I have here, I will read aloud. Because I do not know if Creole is written the way it sounds, but when I read "in my head, I hear nothing!

Nwel 1745
Lagwadeloup timanmay from the net. Manman'y the young
famm may cry Nanon, can sing mimiré small low tibébé'y LA. Déwò in young men can play aerosols. They can dance alantou'y.
At the same time, in Sacred beautiful twama larad can enter the dance, is Saint-Heorges. They can wait to marine-voice while losiyé is ready to ship the binding.

Noël 1745
is Guadeloupe, un enfant vient de was outside.
La Jeune Nanon, this Mom, chantonne doucement pour nouveau-ne sound. Dehors, un boys starred de flûte. On the dance autour de lui.
Sur la Mer, au moment permitted, un superbe Trois-Mats, the St. George, entered the harbor. We hear the cries of the sailors who will moor.

Far from eavesdroppers (and perhaps mocking), I started to mumble something that had little to do with the sound of Creole words, relying on the original French text, seeking sentence structure, then letting me go with the phonetic and a pleasure to move forward, lurched toward something that began to ring less true.
When I closed the book, I was far from pronouncing the Creole as well as St. George played the violin or the sword, but this bilingual short trip with him was a nice way to explore this character from a different angle. For the journey is complete, it should now be a Creole or read to me, to my ears lulled by the "real" music of this text.

Meanwhile, receive greetings from Misys C.!
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

English Futanari Doujin

Brunelleschi

M personal library has no shortage of issues of Memoirs of Casanova, entire editions or extracts from original texts or texts truncated or rewritten without that I am a compulsive buyer of everything that comes out or is released in the area. For the "serious", I stick to the published edition in the collection Mouthpieces Laffont. But, for fun and Casanova bibliophile, I also buy the editions for which I have a heart shot.



Thus j ' I acquired an edition of extracts from these memoirs (published Gibert Jeune, 1950). The justification of this numbered edition is as follows (have resumed in italics and capitals as in the book):


JUSTIFICATION OF DRAW
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This edition
MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de Seingalt
- Two Volumes -
(From 1734 to 1755. - 1755 to 1772, compiled by René Groos )
is illustrated by 32 Inserts, many in Text, landmarks and tail lamp
colors, drawn BRUNELLESCHIentièrement
on vellum Condat, its circulation was limited to three thousand copies
all numbered.
For the first hundred copies are added a series of black
Inserts and trials of two boards refused.

COPY N ° 2205




It is unfortunate that the illustrations have in their vast majority, a leaning towards the salaciousness (without it falling into the vulgarity or pornography). But we must recognize that the line and put the color of Brunelleschi are fraught with finesse and delicacy. So, there, one edition very pleasant.


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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Homemade Coin Pusher Motor

Casanova & Weaver, yes, no? The Devil's Company

D avid Liss in a note from his blog says that in the short term it does not intend to write a fourth novel featuring Benjamin Weaver, after A Conspiracy of Paper (which I mentioned in this post then ) A Spectacle of Corruption (I have not read it yet) and The Devil's Company (which I recently published my criticism ).


one hand, because he did not want to retreat into writing a series, and secondly because that the two books in this series that followed A Conspiracy of Paper did not sell as well as the first, so that his publisher had "actively discouraged from publishing another sequel. "


Yet David Liss does not eliminate the prospect of continuing this series, if such was his pleasure. Readers wishing that David Liss continues to live Benjamin Weaver in new adventures have only to show their impatience directly from the author.


Note that, in the same post, David Lisse said that he had signed with the film production company Scott Free, brothers Ridley and Tony Scott, option contracts on his novel A Conspiracy of Paper. But he is realistic and knows that an option on the rights do not always materialize in the film, and that even if this happens, the delay between the signing of the option and the realization of a film can be very long.

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Skeleton Pymamas For Adults




G rand history buff on the one hand and the other novels I read a significant amount of "historical thrillers." In point of reaching a kind of weariness. Because many of these thrillers, the author feels obliged Assen, either through the mouth of a character, either in the narrative itself, a history lesson of the day. And because many of these thrillers based on intrigue rather weak, sometimes completely transparent to the point that we all below guessed from the first third of the book, and sometimes so complex artificially (to make "intelligent"? ) it becomes inedible.
It is rare that a "historical thriller" my bank to my reading, I am passionate about its plot and the universe in which it unfolds. A Conspiracy of Paper / A conspiracy of paper, the first novel by David Liss, made me this one, and I told the property in one of my tickets . Finding The Devil's Company , the same David Liss (Ballantine Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8129-7452-2; first edition: Randmon House, 2009), at a bookstore I haunt the shop, I hesitated a few seconds to buy it: I was a bit afraid of being disappointed by comparison with the other. But could I really miss an opportunity to get carried away in a plot involving the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), the British East India Company, whose name alone makes me travel?


I did well, because this "Devil's Company" has been rather involved. Especially because, although it may be regarded as "historic" because it takes place at a remote period of nearly three centuries of our daily readers, this novel nevertheless offers some very contemporary.
The plot is not limited, as is often seen in historical novels, a few rivalries palace corridors, or a few different families. Here, the decor and the stakes are higher. The Devil's Company we discover, through the tribulations of its main character, Benjamin Weaver, and his disputes with the East India Company and the various clans qu'ys'y entredéchirent, the voracity of capitalism 'modern' birth. The
HEIC portrayed by David Liss is a bit of "World Company" caricatured by Guignols de l'info : a global company, cynical, seeking government support when it 's suits but denying the constraints and controls the rest of the time. Penned by Mills are emerging rivalry and collusion between investors and legislators, among aristocrats and upper middle class, laborers of the Company to break the back of the unions, the struggle for influence between proponents of free trade at all costs and defenders of indigenous products, cotton wool against Indian English. In the background is the nagging question of whether free trade is really beneficial to all nations, as advocated mercantilist theorists, as Josiah Childs, who had been governor of the East India Company?

To weave the plot of The Devil's Company David Liss crosses this line is that this plot of intrigue cynical politicians and merchants, with the chain which gives a special flavor to the London of the early eighteenth century , antisemitic prejudices which Weaver is victim to the anthill stunning warehouse of the Company, through homes meeting "men who prefer men" or how fashions are made and unmade.
This fabric is complemented by characters whose portrait is the most delicate and complex, from there to say if these characters are all realistic, I do not cross the step, but at least I speculate that they are characters that seem plausible and are alive.

Yet I have not found The Devil's Company also exciting that A Conspiracy of Paper . What bothered me was the bidding war, which made me say, at times, "No, there is too much." Too many twists and turns in the plot, too many twists and turns that ultimately seem artificial, an overflow which affected my ability to stay immersed in the story, making me move from player to player credulous disbelief, losing my " ; willing suspension of disbelief " so dear to writers of fiction when they think of their future reactions to readers or viewers.
Moreover, I came several times, to wonder if Benjamin Weaver was really low ceiling. Is it really so uncritical that he falls into the traps the coarsest him, the "hunter of thieves" ( thief taker ) proclaimed?

In total, Weaver is a puppet in this plot, but is it too easily manipulated, and too many puppeteers? It is for each reader to form his own idea. I got mine, do not deprive you of yours. The Devil's Company is perhaps not a gem of purest water, but not for much of the shoddy treatment!

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Halloween Message For Newborn

Casanova (s)

Battaglia Mattotti, Crepax, these names sound so familiar to the ears of lovers of Italian comics. They can also be a familiar music to the ears of Casanovas. Indeed, a comic collective Casanova was carried out by Italian designers, Brazilian and Argentine talent, each of them involving images a chapter in the life of the famous Venetian. This book

was published 30 years ago in French (Editions Glénat, 1981, ISBN 2-7234-0246-0; the original Italian edition published in 1977) and although I've read some excerpts here and there, this is a few months ago I could buy one copy in a bookstore Bécherel , the very friendly Cite book of Ille-et-Vilaine.


In this book, Hugo Pratt has shown that coverage.



Dino Battaglia sign the prologue, "A old librarian, "which opens this book about a Casanova in the winter of his life.



Cinzia Ghigliano us to discover a sickly child Casanova in " stupid child."


Lorenzo Mattotti introduced in "The student , a Casanova who begins to glimpse in his early school years, the duplicity of some men and women .


With " Humiliation and rebellions" of Maurizio Bovarina is the Abbe Casanova who is fighting back.


Ro Marcenaro invites us, in "The trip " forward Casanova from Venice to Ancona and Naples in the Following his bishop, a voyage during which he multiplies both mercury and seduces a young Greek girl as the wife of a lawyer.

In "The castrato " of Miguel Paiva (Brazilian designers of this bunch), yields to the charms of a indécits disturbing and true-false castrato .

Under the pen of Altan, Casanova pass "the gentleman bandit From " Protection of Senator Bragadin the threat of the Inquisitors.

For Argentina Oski, our Venetian is " A bright young man and carefree , playing his patter to bamboozle the gullible who pride themselves on esotericism.

" Henrietta" and Renato Calligaro in a style completely different styles of other authors of this collective album, painted (and the word is not too loud), the loves of Casanova to the French Henriette he had known in Italy for which we can that it vibrated with love.



Finally, Guido Crepax , who had already drawn a Histoire d'O (1975) inspired by Pauline Réage and draw a Justine (1979) inspired Marquis de Sade, the album closes with the chapter most directly erotic " The nun," an episode in the life of Casanova, where it plunges into a whirlwind of fun with nuns from a good family, along with the Ambassador of France to Venice, François de Bernis, the future cardinal.



This album enchanted me. I appreciated the diversity of appropriation of Casanova by these artists, whom I knew, mostly, the style of other works before or after this Casanova. This album is not very easy to find good used condition, but bédéphiles and Casanova will probably find, as each other, their happiness.


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