venerdì 25 marzo 2011

ELEVATOR, Mark Strand, da Uomo e cammello, a cura di D. Abeni, Mondadori

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L' ascensore scese fino in cantina. Le porte si aprirono.
Entrò un uomo e chiese se andavo su.
"Io vado giù", risposi, "Non vado su".

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L' ascensore scese fino in cantina. Le porte si aprirono.
Entrò un uomo e chiese se andavo su.
"Io vado giù", risposi, "Non vado su".


                 INSTALLING A CLOTHESLINE ELEVATOR        adapted by Jago

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Choose two adjacent points that will provide enough space to hang your clothes. 
Try to pick a spot that is relatively flat
and open.
 
2.
Tools Needed – A hammer, Pencil, Drill, Socket, Wire cutters, Punch.

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Omissis...


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Depending on how you would like the elevator to operate, choose either a comfortable position
to hang your clothes or the highest point you can reach.
(Elevator should be mounted according to the reach of the user).
The top of the elevator has the wheel inside the bracket.
Hold elevator against the wall or post and mark the bottom
mounting points with a pencil only.
The elevator should be square, flat, leveland centre
to opposite mounting point.

                        http://www.solardryingsystems.com/

Scegliere due punti adiacenti in grado di fornire sufficiente spazio per appendere gli abiti.
Provate a scegliere un posto relativamente piatto
e aperto.

2.
Strumenti necessari - Un martello, una matita, un trapano, una presa, un tagliafili,

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Omissis ...


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A seconda di come si desidera operare con lo stendini , scegliere una posizione comoda
per appendere gli abiti o il  punto più alto che si può raggiungere.
(Lo dovrebbe essere montato in modo da essere alla portata
dell'utente)
La parte superiore dello stendino ha la ruota all' interno della staffa.
Tenere  lo stendino contro il muro o un palo e segnare il fondo del
punti di fissaggio con una matita solo.
Lo stendino dovrebbe essere quadrato, piatto, livellato
al contrario del punto di montaggio.

5 APRILE 2011, COMPLEANNO DI IPAZIA...

« ὅταν βλέπω σε, προσκυνῶ, καὶ τους λόγους.
τῆς παρθένου τὸν οἶκον ἀστρῷον βλέπων
εἰς οὐρανὸν γάρ ἐστι σοῦ τὰ πράγματα,
Yπατία σεμνή, τῶν λόγων εὐμορφία,
ἄχραντον ἄστρον τῆς σοφῆς παιδεύσεως
. 
« Quando ti vedo mi prostro davanti a te e alle tue parole,
vedendo la casa astrale della Vergine,
infatti verso il cielo è rivolto ogni tuo atto
Ipazia sacra, bellezza delle parole,
astro incontaminato della sapiente cultura. »
(Pallada, Antologia Palatina, IX, 400)


e compleanno di  Marilia...


For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman

by Miller Williams 


Because you’ll find how hard it can be
to tell which part of your body sings,
you never should dally with any young man
who does any one of the following things:


tries to beat all the yellow lights;
says, “Big deal!” or “So what?”
more than seven times a day;
ignores yellow lines in a parking lot;


carries a radar detector;
asks what you did with another date;
has more than seven bumper stickers;
drinks beer early and whiskey late;


talks on a cellular phone at lunch;
tunes to radio talk shows;
doesn’t fasten his seat belt;
knows more than God knows;


wants you to change how you do your hair;
spits in a polystyrene cup;
doesn’t use his turn signal;
wants you to change your makeup;


calls your parents their given names;
doesn’t know why you don’t smoke;
has dirt under his fingernails;
makes a threat and calls it a joke;


pushes to get you to have one more;
seems to have trouble staying awake;
says “dago” and “wop” and words like that;
swerves a car to hit a snake;
sits at a table wearing a hat;
has a boneless handshake.


You’re going to know soon enough
the ones who fail this little test.
Mark them off your list at once
and be very careful of all the rest.


Auguri!!!!

                          Alessandro & Jago

giovedì 24 marzo 2011



Adrian Mitchell era un poeta impegnato però sapeva anche divertirsi!
Adrian Mitchell was a poet and playwright very involved in social issues of his time but he was very able to have fun! Look below!

CELIA, CELIA
When I am sad and weary,
When I think all hope has gone,
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on