Literature
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[Keefer's testimony]
"Mr. Keefer," said the judge advocate, "at any time prior to 18 December were you informed that Maryk suspected Queeg of being mentally ill?"
"Yes."
"Describe how you learned this fact."
"At Ulithi, about two weeks before the typhoon, Maryk showed me a medical log he'd kept on Queeg's behavior. He asked me to come with him to the New Jersey...
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Lorsque j'avais entre huit et douze ans, j'étais passionné d'astronomie. Je cherchais à dessiner des éclairs
Hans Hartung ((Hans Hartung est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de l'abstraction lyrique
Hans Hartung (1904/1989) Art Maniac))
Fondation Maeght
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"cette exposition très complète du parcours artistique de Hans Hartung est organisée sur des ensembles cohérents, des propositions convergentes de l’artiste, où apparaissent les méthodes construites du...
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Ann May Wong (1932)
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Anna Mae Wong, américaine d'origine chinoise, fut sans doute la plus jolie et la plus talentueuse Asiatique du cinéma Hollywoodien. A l'époque où les spectateurs américains faisaient une grande consommation de films exotiques, elle sut imposer avec infiniment de grâce et de mystère, son charme troublant de "femme-dragon". ((Anna My Wong Pseudonyme de Wong Liu...
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To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives --
Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.
There were still good people at CDD. They were the same specialists who had saved the world in 2017. They quickly resolved the July 23 issue. Public Relations could now spin a more-or-less accurate statement: Yes,...
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"Writing is considered a profession, and I don't think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy."
Georges Simenon (1903-1985)