ponedjeljak, 18. ožujka 2024.

RAZÃO MORAL DA VOSSA EXISTÊNCIA PERSISTIR NO TEMPO PERSISTIR APESAR DE TUDO É O SONHO DE TODOS OS MEGALOMANÍACOS COMO PUTIN E DAS SUAS CIVILIZAÇÕES E IMPÉRIOS EXTINTOS PELO TEMPO E PELOS ACIDENTES CÓMICOS TAMBÉM CHAMADOS CÓSMICOS

 

In South-eastern Europe at the present day ceremonies are observed for the purpose of making rain which not only rest on the same general train of thought as the preceding, but even in their details resemble the ceremonies practised with the same intention by the Baronga of Delagoa Bay. Among the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, when a drought has lasted a long time, it is customary to send a procession of children round to all the wells and springs of the neighbourhood. At the head of the procession walks a girl adorned with flowers, whom her companions drench with water at every halting-place, while they sing an invocation, of which the following is part: "Perperia all fresh bedewed, Freshen all the neighbourhood; By the woods, on the highway, As thou goest, to God now pray: O my God, upon the plain, Send thou us a still, small rain; That the fields may fruitful be, And vines in blossom we may see; That the grain be full and sound, And wealthy grow the folks around." In time of drought the Serbians strip a girl to her skin and clothe her from head to foot in grass, herbs, and flowers, even her face being hidden behind a veil of living green. Thus disguised she is called the Dodola, and goes through the village with a troop of girls. They stop before every house; the Dodola keeps turning herself round and dancing, while the other girls form a ring about her singing one of the Dodola songs, and the housewife pours a pail of water over her. One of the songs they sing runs thus: "We go through the village; The clouds go in the sky; We go faster, Faster go the clouds; They have overtaken us, And wetted the corn and the vine. That’s the gist behind Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week from TJ Skelton, who asks via Facebook: “ Can a color-blind animal still tell if another animal is [venomous], even if they can’t see the bright colors? Shades of Prey: Can Color-blind Predators See Warning Colors? Snakes, butterflies, and more have evolved vibrant patterns to advertise their toxicity to predators. Picture of a poison dart frog

EINSTEIN'S PLANETOID An Engrossing Tale of An Incredible World by PAUL DENNIS LAVOND - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73173/pg73173-images.html

 Paul Dennis Lavond is a pseudonym known to be used by three different authors: C. M. Kornbluth, Robert A. W. Lowndes, and Frederick Pohl.

They were the heirs of space-flight: They planned to be the first humans to land on Alpha Centauri, but the original Hartnett expedition had been lost and they had to find it first. They followed the signals and found that they led to what looked like a one-way excursion to the screwiest planetoid in the galaxy!


nedjelja, 17. ožujka 2024.

THE WAR IS GOING ON FOR YEARS - EUA quer aprovar “rapidamente” mais €275 milhões de apoio à Ucrânia: o que marcou o 762.º dia de guerra

 762 days of war in europe 

THE WALLS *** By KEITH LAUMER - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72410/pg72410-images.html

 Four walls do not a prison make—unless

they look out upon a world
that doesn't exist anymore.

2 B R 0 2 B by KURT VONNEGUT, JR. - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21279/pg21279-images.html

WIND IN HER HAIR By Kris Neville - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65032/pg65032-images.html

 The Big Ship, the balanced terrarium of fifty lives, swung downward in her path, rushing toward her parent sun, the first interstellar voyager coming home.

Home. After twenty-one generations had peopled her vast bulk, after four hundred long years in space.