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<title><![CDATA[Aufzuarbeitendes...]]></title>
<link>http://planet9.wordpress.com/?p=1052</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jessebird</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Höhämm. Manchmal hat man (also ich jedenfalls) Zeiten, in denen man (also ich) so viel zu tun hät]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Höhämm. Manchmal hat man (also <em>ich</em> jedenfalls) Zeiten, in denen man (also <em>ich</em>) so viel zu tun <em>hätte</em>, dass man (also <em>ich</em>) erstmal gar nichts <em>tut</em>. Zu viele Pläne lähmen. Vergangene Woche war so eine Zeit - ich hätte so vieles zu schreiben vorgehabt, aber ich konnte mich nicht aufraffen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://planet9.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/raetsel.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1051" title="raetsel" src="http://planet9.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/raetsel.jpg?w=127" alt="" width="127" height="96" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und das, wo ich gerade im grossen <a href="http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-booty-be-thine/" target="_blank">Septembergewinnspiel</a> bei Wolf den ERSTEN PREIS gewonnen hatte - eine (ganz bestimmt!) sehr seltene und begehrte Ausgabe von "Das Rätsel des Eismeeres" (E.A. Poe / J. Verne). Und noch richtig gut in Schuss! Ein herzliches (verspätetes) "Thanks, ye salty sea-dog!" von hier aus...</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und wo ich gerade Paul Austers Drehbuch zu "<a href="http://www.rowohlt.de/buch/Paul_Auster_Das_Innenleben_des_Martin_Frost.22092008.1672144.html" target="_blank">Das Innenleben des Martin Frost</a>" gelesen habe. Lohnt sich. Ziemlich typisch Paul Auster. Interessant auch das Interview im Anhang, in dem über die Entstehung des Films gesprochen wird - immerhin ist dieser Film Bestandteil eines älteren Romans von Auster: "Buch der Illusionen". Jetzt hat Auster den Film "nachgeliefert".</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und <a href="http://www.1668.cc/" target="_blank">Richard K. Breuers</a> "Die Liebesnacht des Dichters Tiret" habe ich auch gerade gelesen. Dazu folgt eine ausführliche Besprechung.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und außerdem liegen lesebereit noch "Rotkäppchen 2069" (auch von Herrn Breuer) und Jonathan Safran Foers "Everything Is Illuminated" in der wunderschönen <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Everything-Is-Illuminated/dp/0061686670/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;qid=1222859103&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Olive-Edition</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2007/10/10/denis_johnson_s.html" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-1081 alignleft" title="Denis Johnson" src="http://planet9.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/djohnson.jpg" alt="Denis Johnson" width="100" height="102" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nicht zu vergessen: Denis Johnsons "<a href="http://www.amazon.de/Tree-of-Smoke/dp/0330449214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books-intl-de&#38;qid=1222859318&#38;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Tree Of Smoke</a>", dessen <a href="http://www.rowohlt.de/buch/Denis_Johnson_Ein_gerader_Rauch.01102008.2437841.html" target="_blank">deutsche Ausgabe</a> in der <a href="http://www.rowohlt.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=rr_magazin&#38;bookmark_id=2751251" target="_blank">aktuellen</a> Nummer der Rowohlt-Revue (das ist zwar das Werbeblättchen des Rowohlt-Verlags, aber nicht ohne Niveau) von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Modick" target="_blank">Klaus Modick</a> empfohlen wird, unter anderem mit den Worten:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Vergleichbar vielleicht nur Melvilles gigantischer Allegorie des «Moby Dick», der nicht zufällig zitiert wird, ist Denis Johnsons Roman eine Reise durch eine Hölle auf Erden: «In der Wahrheit des Krieges», so der Zyniker Colonel Sands, «erkennen wir, dass Macht uns Recht gibt.»</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Ein must-read, mit so einem Hinweis...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]></title>
<link>http://timeenoughatlast.wordpress.com/?p=171</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[437 pages (plus an introduction).  And I put it away in a weekend.  From Friday night to Sunday ni]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>437 pages (plus an introduction).  And I put it away in a weekend.  From Friday night to Sunday night, I read and read and read about Captain Nemo.   I don't want to say it was favorite or to hyperbolize, which I have a tendency to do.  I'll just say it was good and that it was readable enough that I put away 437 pages (plus an introduction) in a weekend.</p>
<p>If I were ever given free reign at my public school (as opposed to GHP), I'd love to teach this novel both for the science &#38; social studies content.  It goes heavily into (naturally) biology, physics, and some chemistry.  I would very much like to know how much of it still pans out as "true."  My guess is a lot.  Maths don't change (see <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Arcadia</span>).   Nemo's crusade against different governments and his "Robin Hood"-like distribution of wealth sparks thoughts on 19th century Imperialism.   And, as I pointed out, it's readable.  It only has four characters to speak of:  Nemo, Arronax (our narrator), Ned, and Conseil (the narrator's... shall we say... manservant, who refers to himself as a "confirmed bachelor).   Nemo remains a mystery, but the three prisoners-after-a-fashion on the Nautilus develop, over the course of the novel, a distinct and realistic relationship.  The book wins for science, social studies, and lit. development.</p>
<p>But, of course, it has the nasty misfortune of being labeled "science fiction."  Of all the classics I can think of, only <em>Frankenstein</em> and <em>1984 </em>don't suffer from the label.   Anytime I see a perfectly legitimate work which happens to be fantastic fiction looked down upon because it incorporates a flight of fancy, I think of Steven Spielberg.  He has a beautiful quote I have returned to many times over the years:</p>
<p>"The thing that always grabs me about science fiction, is it frees the imagination to journey anywhere it can imagine itself, and that's the basis of science fiction for me... It doesn't have boundaries... It doesn't fence you in....For me, speaking personally, it's the most liberating genre."</p>
<p>This applies to the Bradbury nicely as well (Bradbury, btw, unsurprisingly, wrote the forward particular edition of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">20,000,</span> and compares it to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Moby Dick.</span>   I didn't choose it for that reason, but it's interesting that he did so.</p>
<p>The introduction is as interesting, though maybe not as much fun, as the book.  Bradbury points out the similarities and differences between Nemo &#38; Ahab.  Nemo is the Realist; Ahab the Romantic.  Each rebelling against America's industrialization of her natural resources.  I really need to read Melville's whale book in its entirety.</p>
<p>Finally, my quote for <span style="text-decoration:underline;">20,000</span> comes from the beginning of the novel:</p>
<blockquote><p>The engineer was once again called up.</p>
<p>"Have you reached your maximum pressure?"  asked the commander.</p>
<p>"Yes, sir," replied the engineer.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>"Are the valves up to pressure?"</p>
<p>"Six and a half atmospheres."</p>
<p>"Get them up to ten."</p>
<p>This was an American order if there ever was one...</p></blockquote>
<p>I so want to read <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mysterious Island </span>next because Nemo is such a good antihero (I have no idea why the book jacket of this edition refers to him as a villain).   Soon, soon.  It goes onto the list.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[CFP:  Eaton 2009, Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond]]></title>
<link>http://dynamicsubspace.wordpress.com/?p=390</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason Ellis</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Latham recently sent out a CFP for next year&#8217;s Eaton Conference on &#8220;Extraordinary Vo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rob Latham recently sent out a CFP for next year's Eaton Conference on "Extraordinary Voyages:  Jules Verne and Beyond."  I haven't had an opportunity to go to the Eaton Conference, but I hope to soon.  Definitely check out the CFP below, and read more about the conference on their official site <a href="http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/">here</a>!</p>
<blockquote><p>The 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference</p>
<p>Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond</p>
<p>April 30-May 3, 2009          </p>
<p>University of California Riverside</p>
<p>Extraordinary voyages have shaped world literature since the Biblical Flood and The Odyssey, but no single writer has done more than Jules Verne to forge this device into a narrative template for addressing modern issues.The UCR Libraries' Eaton Science Fiction Collection, in coordination with the North American Jules Verne Society, proposes a three and one-half-day conference that will examine the traditions Verne exploited, Verne's own extraordinary work, and his far-ranging influence in modern fiction and culture. In 1863, Jules Verne published the first of the sixty-four novels and short story collections that would become known as the "Extraordinary Voyages." Verne's influence on the hardware and the locales of modern science fiction: the center of the earth, the bottom of the seas, outer space, is widely recognized. More significant is his influence on the shape of modern SF: the extraordinary voyage has become a foundational motif by which scientific knowledge is linked to the exploration of richly-imagined worlds. This conference will explore the implications of the extraordinary voyage as a narrative and ideological mode that resonates in world SF down to the present day.</p>
<p>The conference welcomes scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts of the extraordinary voyage and will address, but not necessarily be limited to, the following sets of questions. What is the place of the extraordinary voyage within the complex of genres that makes up early or proto-science fiction: the utopia, the scientific romance, the hollow-earth tale, the Robinsonade, etc.? How has the extraordinary voyage been linked to discourses of travel and tourism, to scientific and technological revolutions, to the history of European colonialism and the rise of industrial militarism? In what ways does a detailed focus on the mechanisms of locomotion (balloon, rocket, steamship, submarine, train, aircraft) transform the imaginary voyage into an extraordinary voyage, and how has this technique influenced other SF traditions? Does the theme of travel, of transit across physical borders and toward extreme destinations, serve as an allegory for contact and communication across other sorts of boundaries (linguistic, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, national)? How do 20th-century writers (such as the so-called "steampunks") rework legacies of Verne and other 19th-century SF, whether earnestly or satirically, as paradigm or as pastiche? What accounts for the remarkable afterlife of Verne's characters, and those of 19th-century SF more generally, who appear in numerous revisions and elaborations by 20th- and 21st-century SF writers? What are the influences of the Vernian paratext: the thousands of maps, illustrations, photographs, and ornately colored and ornamented bindings of the first editions' on contemporary works of imaginative fiction? How has the extraordinary voyage been translated into other cultures and other media, from comic books, graphic novels and film to theme parks and digital texts, and with what consequences?</p>
<p>Abstracts of 300-500 words (for papers of 20-minutes in length) should be submitted by December 15, 2008 to Melissa Conway, Head, Special Collections &#38; Archives, UCR Libraries at Melissa.Conway [at] ucr.edu.</p>
<p>Contact us: eatonconference [at] ucr.edu</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[La vuelta al mundo en 80 días - Julio Verne]]></title>
<link>http://guillen.wordpress.com/?p=170</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jgmarquez</dc:creator>
<guid>http://guillen.es.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/la-vuelta-al-mundo-en-80-dias-julio-verne/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[La vuelta al mundo en 80 días es, quizá, uno de los libros más famosos de Julio Verne (aunque ins]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La vuelta al mundo en 80 días es, quizá, uno de los libros más famosos de Julio Verne (aunque insisto en que <em>Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino </em>es mucho más conocido) ya que incluso tenía su propia serie de televisión, no recuerdo en que años estaba pero estoy seguro de que la ví muchas veces.</p>
<p>En el libro <em>La vuelta al mundo en 80 días </em>nos encontramos con Phileas Fogg, un inglés millonario y miembro del reform club. <em>Mr. Fogg </em>siempre se muestra con un cara seria y no se preocupa por nada excepto por su exactitud con los horarios. Nunca se nos dice en que trabaja ni como es que consiguió su dinero (en alguna parte del libro se dice que <em>sin duda debió ser marinero </em>pero no sabemos mucho más de ello).</p>
<p>El excéntrico protagonista despide a su críado y consigue uno nuevo (en mi opinióin el verdadero protagonista) Picaporte, un francés que ha pasado por varios oficios y ahora está a servicio de Fogg. Los problemas vienen cuando una apuesta que le costaría su fortuna: Dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días.</p>
<p>Así llega a su casa en una hora a la que Picaporte no había sido avisado, tomando dinero y a su nuevo empleado se retira para así empezar tan pronto su travesía... Aunque no todo sería tan fácil, pues días antes se había asaltado al banco y se habían llevado una cantidad de 50.000 libras; las señas del ladrón indicaban que Fogg era el ladrón, así que nuestro antagonista, el detective Fix se decide a hacerle imposible el viaje y lo seguirá por todos sus destinos para ponerle un alto.</p>
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="499" caption="El recorrido de Fogg y compañía"]<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_map.png/800px-Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_map.png" alt="El recorrido de Fogg y compañia" width="499" height="230" />[/caption]
<p>Ya en un ámbito más subjetivo, el personaje de Fogg no me agradó... Demasiado frío para ser el protagonista y además Picaporte siempre se muestra más.</p>
<p>El libro es tedioso en algunas partes (en especial al principio) y algunos detalles referentes a la geografía o al tiempo podrían hacerse más sencillos, sin embargo creo que todo el libro vale la pena por la última frase. No la considero <em>del todo </em>un "spoiler" aún así, la pondré:</p>
<blockquote><p>¿Pero qué había ganado con esa excursión? ¿Qué había traído de su viaje?<br />
Nada, se dirá. Nada, enhorabuena, a no ser una linda mujer, que por inverosímil que parezca, le hizo el más feliz de los hombres.<br />
Y en verdad, ¿no se daría por menos que eso la vuelta al mundo?</p></blockquote>
<p><em>La vuelta al mundo en 80 días - Julio Verne</p>
<p>¿No se daría la vuelta al país, al mundo, a todo lo que sea <a href="http://mruval.wordpress.com/">por eso</a>?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie Review - Journey to the Centre of the Earth ]]></title>
<link>http://rthktheworks.wordpress.com/?p=207</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theworksrthk</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary Pollard (first aired on RTHK Radio 4&#8217;s &#8220;Morning  Call)&#8221;)
At local cinemas thi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#00ffff;">Gary Pollard (first aired on RTHK Radio 4's "Morning  Call)")</span></p>
<p>At local cinemas this week, one of the oldest science fiction books has been brought to life with some of the latest Hollywood technology.</p>
<p>Jules Verne wrote “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” in 1864. As in much of his work, a lot of which has already been turned into movies, he took many of the most up-to-date scientific theories of his time and combined them with an adventure story. “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” has been filmed several times before and even turned into a TV series, but now it’s here in glorious 3D, at least if you catch it at certain cinemas.</p>
<p>And that really is the best way to see it. Basically that’s the only reason to see it.</p>
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<p>Story-wise the movie gets off to a bit of a slow start, so to keep things moving for a while the filmmakers introduce a dream sequence to whet our interests in 3D dinosaurs and 3D lava.</p>
<p>The dream sequence involves the disappearance of Max Anderson, the geologist/explorer brother of Trevor (Brendan Fraser) ten years earlier. Trevor is a professor who is trying to follow up on his brother’s work, but has run out of money and support. Max had held idiosyncratic theories on volcanic activity, many of which were – we later discover – inspired by the idea that Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” was based on a real expedition.</p>
<p>Trevor's work is in trouble. His students are bored with his classes, his lab is being converted to a storage room. Most of the seismic monitors his brother had placed around the world are no longer working.</p>
<p>A chance to change this comes about when his sister-in-law brings Sean (Josh Hutcherson) to stay with him. Sean is Max’s son. Initially, Sean is no more happy to be staying than Trevor is to have him there, but when he begins to look through some of his brother's old things Trevor sees a series of notes in his brother's old copy of Verne’s book, and when he and Sean go to his lab he sees that the monitors have all changed to show that conditions are similar to those noted in the book. When they realize that a fourth monitor has resumedworking, and is showing seismic activity in Iceland, they get on a plane to go there.</p>
<p>In Iceland, they meet Hannah Asgeirsson, (Anita Briem) the daughter of a professor who had worked with Max. The three of them head up the mountain, taking shelter in a cave during a storm. When the cave mouth is blocked, they only have one choice, to go deeper into the recesses of the mountain and look for another way out.</p>
<p>They find their way to an old mine, and the movie gives us one of its first 3D rollercoaster rides as they climb on carts which begin careening through the shafts.</p>
<p>From here the surroundings get more fantastic. In one scene they are falling through seemingly endless space, long enough for them to have conversations and get used to the idea. They end their fall relatively gently and find themselves even deeper in the Earth. Here, the 3D adventure has them encountering blue glowing birds, huge prehistoric piranha-like fish, carnivorous plants that want to eat people, a tyrannosaurus rex, and streams of red hot lava.</p>
<p>They don’t have long to escape from the bowels of the earth as Trevor notices that the temperature is increasing enough to kill them within 48 hours, and there’s soon going to be another eruption which they’ll have to somehow ride to get back to the surface.</p>
<p>It’s all very good natured, and Brendan Fraser is pretty good at doing these kind of tongue-in cheek good natured roles. Somehow I find it all a lot more pleasant to watch than the recent Mummy movies. The jokes aren’t as contrived, and it’s overall cheerfulness comes from the fact that the main characters, and we, are no more concerned about any real danger than we would be if they were on a genuine rollercoaster. And after all, that’s what this movie is really meant to be. All director Eric Brevig and his scriptwriters really have to do is to provide a transition from one fun 3D effect to the next.</p>
<p>Overall it reminded me of the old Disney family movies like the 1962 “In Search of the Castaways” (also based on a Jules Verne novel). Verne, although writing over a century ago, seems particularly well suited to this kind of cinematic adaptation. Other works by him turned into movies include “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “Around the World in Eighty Days”, and “Mysterious Island”. Most have a similar ability to give us a sense of local colour and a bit of a thrill ride, without encouraging us to think that there will be completely dire consequences.</p>
<p>The new adaptation of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" isn’t particularly original of course, and scenes here do seem to be lifted wholesale from other movies like Spy Kids, and – indeed  “In Search of the Castaways”</p>
<p>Director Eric Brevig usually works as a visual effects supervisor, which gives you some idea of where the focus of this movie is.</p>
<p>I have to say that while I didn’t expect it to be a particularly strong movie, and it wasn’t, it was an experience, and a bit of a 3D adventure. It managed to get the balance right, having just a tenuous enough story that you don’t get distracted from its whole reason for being: the yo yo that comes bouncing straight at the camera, the careening ride through the mine, or even the drop of tyrannosaurus rex drool that falls, in one shot, right between your eyes. It’s fun. Which is all I wanted from it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cinecrítica. Viaje al Centro de la Tierra (Brevig, 2008)]]></title>
<link>http://carlosdragonne.wordpress.com/?p=685</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Carlos Dragonné</dc:creator>
<guid>http://carlosdragonne.com/2008/08/06/cinecritica-viaje-al-centro-de-la-tierra-brevig-2008/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Por: Enrique Lores 
Brendan Fraser cierra uno de los mejores veranos de cine de entretenimiento con ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Por: Enrique Lores </strong><a href="http://carlosdragonne.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_1003.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-484" src="http://carlosdragonne.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/img_1003.jpg?w=96" alt="" width="96" height="96" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000409/" target="_blank"><strong>Brendan Fraser</strong></a> cierra uno de los mejores veranos de cine de entretenimiento con dos cintas de aventura. Por un lado, llega repitiendo su rol de Rick O'Connell en la tercera entrega de la Momia, <strong>"La Momia: La Tumba del Emperador Dragón." </strong>Por el otro se presenta como Trevor Anderson en <a href="http://www.journey3dmovie.com/" target="_blank"><strong>"Viaje al Centro de la Tierra."</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Este texto se hará cargo de la segunda, aunque en verdad que bien podría ser el mismo Rick O'Connell quien viajara al centro de la tierra, lo que deja bastante claro que Brendan Fraser está desperdiciado como actor y que últimamente todos sus personajes son exactamente lo mismo, mismas reacciones, mismas palabras, mismo todo.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://carlosdragonne.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_3d_ver2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-686 aligncenter" src="http://carlosdragonne.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_3d_ver2.jpg?w=202" alt="" width="202" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><!--more-->Pero bueno, no se le puede exigir mucho a una película que tiene la única gracia de estar filmada para presentarse en cines de tercera dimensión. Quisiera dejar esto muy claro: no es una película para verse en formato normal. Ojo, si quieren verla en formato normal se toparán con un filme de hora y media que no tiene absolutamente nada nuevo y que llega incluso a ponerse algo aburrido en momentos.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mundos fantásticos totalmente desperdiciados; una temática vacía; personajes totalmente planos (pero bueno, están en 3D, eso les ayuda...); música que intenta, sin triunfar, guiar lo que sentimos de personajes con los que nunca nos identificamos; gritos exagerados; rostros sobreactuados y todos y cada uno de los convencionalismos más baratos del cine de aventuras sin sustancia.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">¿Entonces qué es lo bueno en esta película? La tercera dimensión definitivamente. Imagino que cuando los productores la planearon dijeron algo como: "necesitamos una película de tercera dimensión, agárrate cualquier guión". Porque en realidad, si se saca la tercera dimensión de la fórmula, la película no es más que una hora y media de efectos especiales que hemos visto mil veces en otras películas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">De hecho, la preproducción de la película tuvo dos etapas. Al principio iba a ser un filme de aventuras basado casi enteramente en el libro de Julio Verne que le da nombre. La película iba a correr a cargo de Paul Chart, amante de la obra del padre de la fantasía moderna. Sin embargo, cuando los productores tomaron la decisión de que la película fuera filmada en tercera dimensión, Chart dejó la silla del director, pues su deseo era hacer una película, no una "montaña rusa cinematográfica." En su lugar contrataron a Eric Brevig, que ni siquiera es director de cine, sino creador de efectos visuales de películas como "La Isla", "El Día Después de Mañana" u "Hombres de Negro" por mencionar sólo algunos ejemplos.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://carlosdragonne.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_3d_movie_image_brendan_fraser__anita_briem_and_josh_hutcherson__2_.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-701 aligncenter" src="http://carlosdragonne.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_3d_movie_image_brendan_fraser__anita_briem_and_josh_hutcherson__2_.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Por eso le repito al lector: véala en tercera dimensión, por favor. La experiencia cambia totalmente. Las secuencias de aventura con un punto de vista de primera persona, la lluvia tridimensional, el ataque de enormes peces piraña y el hocico de un Tiranosaurio Rex sobresaliendo hacia el espectador a través de la pantalla son lo suficientemente emocionantes para que esté en espera constante de la siguiente sorpresa.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Porque ver esta película en tercera dimensión me recordó lo mágico que nos resulta ver a los personajes salir de la pantalla. El efecto de la tercera dimensión me sigue sorprendiendo. Todos sabemos que nada se está "saliendo" de la pantalla y sin embargo el efecto visual es tan poderoso que muchos extienden las manos para atrapar a los pájaros luminosos que guían el camino de nuestros personajes a través de su aventura, y otros tantos saltan hacia el respaldo del asiento, temerosos de ser alcanzados por los dientes de un hambriento dinosaurio.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Tristemente, como sucede con las películas IMAX o el cine digital, México no cuenta con muchas salas que puedan ofrecer este filme en tercera dimensión. Así que si no va directamente a un complejo que la anuncie como "en tercera dimensión", si en la entrada de la sala no le dan su par de lentes tridimensionales... no la vea, sencillamente no vale la pena. Mejor entre a ver "La Momia: La Tumba del Emperador Dragón", al menos esta película no depende enteramente de un par de anteojos para tener algún sentido... y también sale Brendan Fraser, en caso de que este actor sea el gancho que lo esté llevando a dejar el sillón de su sala para sentarse en la butaca.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I haven't been keeping up with this project, right.  I blame summer.  I blame sunshine and the beach and bicycles.  Basically, I've opted for a season outside.  I mean, I have been reading some scattered classics. The Invisible Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Nothing against Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne or HG Wells, but I just didn't have much to say about them.  Basically, I read the books I should have been reading as a child instead of my steady diet of Sweet Valley High and Harriet the Spy ad nauseam.  Good for me.  But I didn't really get anything useful from their technique. Maybe due to my bad attitude.</p>
<p>I also read more Truman Capote - Summer Crossing.  And I am reading Answered Prayers right now.  And I watched a documentary about Truman, a film he starred in, and two movies about In Cold Blood.  In Cold Blood, by the way?  The only of his books I can't get into.  It's too dense, too much to digest.  It's so meticulously researched; you can tell Capote was loathe to leave out any detail because they were all so important to him.  Which makes me love Truman even if I don't love In Cold Blood.</p>
<p>I guess part of why I haven't been keeping up also has to do with a kind of dry spell in my writing ambitions.  Periodically, I feel like everything I have ever written is complete rubbish and isn't even worth my time to rework.  I feel like everything on my mind and everything in progress is a bad copy of something that someone else did to perfection.  And then I stop writing.  When I talked about my writing problems with my smart boy, he suggested that I re-read my mission statement.  So I did.  And I'm back, for better or worse.  Probably worse until I get my head in the game and a few words on the page.</p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Yanlış hatırlamıyorsam yaklaşık 2 gün önce önünden geçtiğim bir duvarda bu afişi g]]></description>
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<p>Yanlış hatırlamıyorsam yaklaşık 2 gün önce önünden geçtiğim bir duvarda bu afişi gördüm.Dikkat etmemin nedeni yeni çıkacak olan bu filmin sanırım Jules Verne'nin eserinden yola çıkılarak yapılmış olması.Bu tür Fantastik-Bilim Kurgu filmleri ve kitapları daima ilgimi çemiştir.Başrolde oynayan abimizi Mumya filmindende hatırlarsınız.</p>
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<p>Bu arada hazır bu konuya değinmişken, eskiden Arz'ın Merkezine Seyahat isimli bir yabancı dizi vardı.Umarım ona benziyordur.2-3 bölümünü izlemiştim ama hayran kalmıştım.CD lerinide aradım ama bulamadım.Kısaca bu filmden çok şey bekliyorum.İzlemeye giderim inşallah.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dr. Azrael Tod</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Wohl jedem von uns sind sie schon einmal aufgefallen: Fehler in typischen Sciencefiction Geschichten]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wohl jedem von uns sind sie schon einmal aufgefallen: Fehler in typischen Sciencefiction Geschichten.<br />
Dabei sollte eigentlich schon vom Namen des Genres her klar sein dass man sich bei all der Fiktion doch bitte auch ein wenig an reale Wissenschaft halten sollte.<br />
Viele dieser (oft billig produzierten) Geschichten zeugen aber noch heute vom imho eigentlich überlagerten Vorurteil dass SciFi generell nur Einheitsbrei mit Weltraummonstern, schlampigen Geschichten, einer typischen Heldenfigur und ein paar hübschen, spärlich bekleideten Frauen sein muss.<br />
Diese Meinung stammt wahrscheinlich noch aus den Anfangszeiten des Genres (oder zumindest als es erstmals so eingeordnet wurde) als diese Geschichten in der Tat hauptsächlich billig produziert als Groschenhefte auftauchten und eher der seichten Unterhaltung dienen sollten.<br />
Da es ziemlich schwer ist, physikalisch korrekte, realistische Einschätzungen der Zukunft zu bringen, dies alles so ganz nebenbei noch spannend zu erzählen und mit glaubhaften Charakteren zu versehen (an den beiden letzten Bedingungen scheitern bereits in anderen Genres die meisten Autoren, warum sollte das hier besser sein und dann auch noch abstrusen physikalischen Gesetzen entsprechen?) kann man die vorhandenen Fehler meiner Meinung nach in verschiedene Gruppen aufteilen:</p>
<p><!--more-->Die erste Gruppe wären Punkte bei denen der Autor nicht im geringsten auf bestehende Physik achtet wenn sie einen dramatischen Vorgang erschweren würde. Meist hat der Autor nach einer anderen Lösung gesucht, doch keine einfache gefunden.<br />
Das klingt auf den ersten Blick nach der schlechtesten Möglichkeit, meiner Meinung nach muss das jedoch nicht unbedingt der Fall sein. Natürlich ist vieles aus diesen Geschichten unmöglich und kann mit ein wenig Hintergrundwissen leicht verlacht werden, doch die Autoren konzentrieren sich an diesen Stellen dafür oft auf die Dinge die sie eher können und erzeugen Geschichten die vom Erzählstil und den geschilderten Vorgängen her äußerst fesselnd wirken.<br />
Oft entstehen daher große Meisterwerke die ohne derartiges nicht möglich wären und man sollte bei all der Kritik nicht vergessen dass vieles aus diesen Geschichten zwar völlig unmöglich sein mag, dies aber in vielen anderen Genres völlig normal und gar erwünscht ist.<br />
Es hat sich ja auch noch nie jemand aufgeregt, dass <a href="http://www.herr-der-ringe.ws/wiki/Sauron" target="_blank">Sauron</a>, die <a href="http://www.herr-der-ringe.ws/wiki/ents" target="_blank">Ents</a> und wohl 3/4 aller anderen Wesen in <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" target="_blank">Tolkiens</a> Geschichten aus <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkiensches_Universum" target="_blank">Mittelerde</a> in der Realität unmöglich wären.<br />
Gute Beispiele für derartige Fehler finden wir z.B. wenn im <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skylark_of_Space" target="_blank">Skylark-Zyklus</a> von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith" target="_blank">Eduard Elmer "Doc" Smith</a> ansehen wie interstellare Reisen ermöglicht werden: -&#62; Einstein hat sich geirrt, wir brauchen nur immer weiter zu beschleunigen und werden schneller als das Licht. (Ein recht häufiger Ansatz bis man dazu übergegangen ist via "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurmloch" target="_blank">Wurmloch</a>" oder "<a href="http://stargate-wiki.de/index.php/Hyperantrieb" target="_blank">Hyperantrieb</a>" zu reisen da dies schwerer zu widerlegen ist.)</p>
<p>Die Zweite Gruppe der Fehler sind wohl Stellen die dem Autor gar nicht bewusst waren, er versuchte sich möglichst an alle bekannten Theorien und Gesetzmäßigkeiten zu halten doch ihm ist ein Fehler unterlaufen.<br />
Die meisten dieser Fehler sind eher unwichtig und werden von denjenigen die sie entdecken meist nur belächelt. Aber immerhin hat man etwas bemerkt was anderen nicht aufgefallen ist, daher werden derartige Fehler oft bekannter als Stellen die sehr offensichtlich sind.<br />
Natürlich gibt es auch offensichtliche Fehler in diesem Bereich, dies ist dann aber auch die Stelle an der uns das Vorurteil der billig produzierten SciFi wieder einholt. Wenn sich eine Person mehr diese Geschichte durchgelesen hätte bevor sie veröffentlicht wurde, hätte der Fehler evtl. behoben werden können.<br />
Beispiel: Um die <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwelt" target="_blank">Ringwelt</a> von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven" target="_blank">Larry Niven</a> wurde zeitweise viel Aufhebens gemacht, als ein paar Physiker das beschriebene Gebilde durch gerechnet haben und feststellten dass eine derartige Welt nicht lange existieren würde da sie keinen stabilen Orbit behalten würde. Ringwelt war davon abgesehen in vielen Aspekten ein physikalisch sehr korrektes Werk und Niven hat in <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Ringwelt-Zyklus-Ringwelt-Ingenieure-Bd-2/dp/3404242394" target="_blank">Teil 2</a> dieser Buchfolge auch auf die Instabilität reagiert und eine komplette Geschichte aufgebaut in der die Probleme wie auch ihre Lösung erklärt wurden (Die Bekanntheit dieses Fehlers soll angeblich soweit gegangen sein dass Studenten am MIT davon 1971 auf den Fluren gesungen hätten. Quelle: Widmung des Buches Ringewelt Ingenieure)</p>
<p>Eine weitere Art Fehler sind "die Unvorhersehbaren", damit meine ich Fehler die der Autor gar nicht bemerken konnte, weil die ihnen entgegenstehenden Gesetzmäßigkeiten zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung noch gar nicht bekannt waren.<br />
Mit diesen Fehlern will ich mich gar nicht all zulange aufhalten, sie kommen natürlich ab und zu vor und sind nahezu unmöglich zu verhindern.<br />
Ein Beispiel: Die Oberflächengestallt der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(Planet)#Oberfl.C3.A4che" target="_blank">Venus</a> in der <a href="http://www.perry-rhodan.net/start.html" target="_blank">Perry Rhodan</a>-Reihe. Zum Zeitpunkt des Erscheinens der ersten Hefte war schlicht noch nicht genug über die Beschaffenheit bekannt, dass die Autoren also <a href="http://www.perrypedia.proc.org/index.php/Venus" target="_blank">daneben lagen</a>, war zu erwarten.<br />
Es sei mir nur noch die Randbemerkung gestattet dass es erstaunlich ist wie selten diese Fehler in manchen Klassikern vorkommen und wie genau manche Werke, z.B. manches von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" target="_blank">Jules Verne</a>, an erst später entdeckten Prinzipien und Technologien liegen. (Allerdings hat auch Verne Fehler gemacht, es würde z.B. wohl den wenigsten Personen gefallen in einem Projektil, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_der_Erde_zum_Mond" target="_blank">per Kanone auf den Mond geschossen</a> zu werden...)</p>
<p>Als vierte Art der Fehler würde ich Dinge zählen, in die man sich über Umwege hinein gesteigert hat, diese Art der Fehler ist in Büchern noch relativ selten gewesen, nahm mit der Verbreitung von längeren Fernsehserien oder monatlich erscheinenden Fortsetzungsromanen immer mehr zu.<br />
Gute Beispiele <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">[Update]wären hier z.B</span>. fallen mir im Moment leider nicht ein, aus diesem Grund hatte ich diese Stelle bereits leer gelassen, werde nochmal ne Nacht drüber schlafen und hoffentlich etwas nachliefern[/Update]</p>
<p>Die fünfte und letzte Art der Fehler sind diejenigen die ich am meisten hasse. Sie sind erst mit der Verbreitung von Film und Fernsehen in größeren Mengen aufgetreten und entstehen entweder aus Budgetgründen (egal welchen Effekt man darstellen will, bei einem Buch macht das Preislich nicht wirklich große Unterschiede) oder um auf dem Bildschirm einen schöneren Effekt zu verursachen.<br />
Für die erste Variante finden wir ein Beispiel wenn wir uns Ansehen warum bei <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek" target="_blank">Star Trek</a> der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleporter" target="_blank">Teleporter</a> genutzt wurde: Landungen auf Planeten via Raumschiff darzustellen wäre zu teuer gewesen. Der Teleporter, welcher sich in der SciFi derartig festgesetzt hat, ist also (zumindest sein massives Auftreten) nur ein Nebeneffekt einer Sparmaßnahme. Der Fehler liegt darin dass es dank der <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbergsche_Unsch%C3%A4rferelation" target="_blank">Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation</a> unmöglich wäre die Subatomaren Teilchen gleichzeitig exakt bezüglich ihres Impulses als auch Position zu erfassen. (Dazu muss man aber noch sagen dass a) dies nach neueren Erkenntnissen evtl. gar nicht nötig wäre und b) mir die Art der Autoren damit umzugehen sehr gefallen hat: "Wir haben ein Gerät das diese Dinge ermöglicht: Einen <a href="http://www.memory-alpha.org/de/wiki/Heisenberg-Kompensator" target="_blank">Heisenbergkompensator</a>!" eine sehr schöne Möglichkeit den Fans klar zumachen dass es sich trotz allem nur um Fiktion handelt und man nicht alles auf die Goldwaage legen sollte)<br />
Für die Zweite Variante Beispiele zu finden ist wohl der einfachste Teil dieses Artikels. Wir alle kennen Filme in denen Laser mit lautem Zischen durch den (luftleeren!) Weltraum gefeuert werden oder Raumschiffinsassen trotz angeblich vorhandener Beschleunigungskompensation bei dem leichtesten Angriff durch die Gegend geworfen werden.<br />
Diese Fehler finde ich besonders ärgerlich da sie als einzige bewusst gemacht werden UND die Geschichte nicht voran bringen. Man kann sie meiner Meinung nach damit vergleichen dass ein Koch eine schon bis zur Schmerzgrenze gesalzene Mahlzeit noch mit besonders hübschen Salzkristallen dekorieren will. Es mag am Ende schöner aussehen, aber essbarer wird es dadurch nicht!</p>
<p>Sollte sich wirklich jemand den Aufwand zugemutet haben diesen endlosen Rant durchzulesen freue ich mich natürlich wie immer über Meinungen und Kommentare.<br />
(In diesem speziellen Fall wäre es schon interessant zu erfahren ob das überhaupt jemand auf sich nehmen wollte.)</p>
<p>BTW: ein netter <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/05/08/Neal_Stephenson_Science_Fiction_as_a_Literary_Genre" target="_blank">Vortrag zum Thema SF</a> von Neal Stephenson, mit Ausflügen zur Erklärung warum Geeks so handeln wie sie es tun. (<a href="http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b6879f29" target="_blank">via Fefe</a>)</p>
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So I am pushing closer to the 1k visits mar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should sue <strong>McDonalds</strong> cause the just F**ked you up…</p>
<p>So I am pushing closer to the 1k visits mark on the blog so I am thinking I am going to have to create some better content for people to look at. Next week I will be –previewing my new page with some different content – so watch this space. However if I was you I would just skip and go straight to grinding my gears section.</p>
<p>I got sent this video before I put up this post so I thought I would place it up for all to see<br />
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<p><strong>In the news -</strong><br />
Google must divulge YouTube log - Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. <em>Wait does that apply to just Youtube or to Porntube aswell. </em></p>
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<p><strong>Prince William</strong> helps bust $80m drug smuggling boat - Britain's Prince William has helped the U.S. Coast Guard bust a drug smuggling boat carrying cocaine worth a minimum of $80 million. <em>Harry must be pissed at the moment! </em></p>
<p>Japanese computer games giant <strong>Nintendo</strong> has developed a new game purely for the British market which enables players to experience a virtual reality pub brawl in the comfort of their own homes. Building on the success of Wii fit, designed to help players stay in shape, Wii Pub Fight leaves its players bloodied and bruised and usually banned from going into that virtual pub ever again.<em> What the hell you have to be kidding me, what next a game depicting working in a 9-5 job in an office. </em></p>
<p><strong>Celebrity news (kind off)</strong> - The Verne saga continues… well I mentioned yesterday that I thought one of them released the tape to further there career and I was right!!! Well the ex Ranae release the tape. <em>That girl is one lying Bidatch!</em></p>
<p><strong>Music news –</strong><br />
<strong>DMX </strong>was arrested in Arizona on Wednesday for violating the terms of his bond.<br />
His arrest in Miami last week (for attempting to buy pot and coke) on top of his same arrest a few days earlier for driving without a license. He violated a bond issued after his Arizona arrest a few weeks back. So, basically, DMX was arrested for being arrested! <em>Yep there you go I knew he would mess up again soon. DMX has so many mug shots he could start a portfolio.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hancock-</strong><br />
<strong>Will Smith</strong> seems to own the July 4th weekend for movie releases. His Independence Day, Men in Black, and Men In Black 2 movies have netted millions over the holiday weekend. So, it's no shocker that his latest film, Hancock, is out this July 4th as well.<br />
So I went and saw Hancock last night, it’s my first trip to the cinema in like a year I know long time; in my opinion it was a good film I have some reservation on it thou. However the film was slightly rushed and they could have played out the interaction between the two main characters or giving some background information on Hancock at the start of the film – if I had to give it a mark it would get 7/10.</p>
<p><strong>Grinding my gears </strong>– Today grinding my gears is about people that do not give there seat up for women and old people. There are countless forums and news paper article about people that do not give up there seats for women or elderly people. Well I am neither a women nor elderly but I do think its disgraceful behaviour. Countless times I have been sitting and seen a pregnant woman get on the train looking all hot and flustered and instead of all the able bodied men on the train getting up and offering there seats they all get that vacant steer look on there face or they dive there heads into there papers or act asleep, so as not to make eye contact and have to get up. I think this behaviour is totally unacceptable. Too many times I find myself getting up offering my seat and having to stand for the rest of the journey when there is someone with there 2yr old child taking up a seat which could have been offered up first. Now I don’t mind giving up my seat but the mother of the 2yr old should make the child sit on your lap and give the seat up, you where pregnant once – you must know how it feels.</p>
<p>I came across this news paper article about what is happening in Japan to tackle this very issue:<br />
<em>There was a time in Japan when courtesy was second nature. If you saw an elderly person, a pregnant woman or somebody on crutches, you would leap up and offer them your seat. These days, you pretend to be asleep and avoid eye contact at all costs. But the spiralling decline of train-seat etiquette may be about to end with the arrival of an elite, fearless and impeccably polite “manners squadron” - to be unleashed on the Yokohama underground network in an attempt to avert a breakdown of the “Japanese way”. The unit's mission is simple: to patrol the length of the train and make sure that any seats - highly prized on Japan's packed commuter lines - are vacated by the young and offered to those who need them. </em></p>
<p>Now I think this is a really good idea, however will this work outside of Japan let alone work in London. I for one would love to see this be put into action over here.</p>
<p><strong>The list –</strong> I am adding News websites that don’t actually put up any news but just have a pretty looking site.<strong> BBC</strong> and <strong>SKY</strong> are the main violators. I have been looking at there site everyday since I started writing posts to try and get some news, but I end up having to spend extra time shovelling threw the crap they have up. I should start my own news website…</p>
<p>Take a look at this video – I found it funny, maybe I should stop putting up others comments on adverts and put up my own…<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyb4Wq8UYyA&#38;feature=related</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">So again a busy weekend and I haven't had time to post properly. Oops! Anyway - today I was rocking my candy coated jewels T-shirt wearing it with pride as its apart of the limited edition that is out of stock and I open London paper and see some dude rocking the same thing, now I am not one to hate but dam you DJ Ironik copying by T-shirt. Anyway I am going to be wearing the exclusive candy polo shirts once they are done!<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">Soaring fuel prices have forced one police force in the US to increase fines for offending motorists. From 1 July, motorists caught in Holly Springs, Georgia, will have to pay an extra $12 (£6) to cover the costs of police chasing them down. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">The town's police chief says the "fuel surcharge" will generate up to $26,000 (£13,000) in revenue per year. <em>Now if they could only do something like that over here it would help.</em> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">US Court</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;"> Makes Gun Law Ruling - Strict gun laws in parts of the US have been dealt a fatal blow as the Supreme Court declared the personal ownership of guns is constitutional. The decision effectively gives citizens the right to keep a loaded handgun in their home which can be used in self-defence and strikes down the handgun ban in Washington DC, the tightest gun laws in the country. <em>When will America learn that people have guns is just a recipe for disaster. </em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">French celebrity magazine Closer is reporting that Angelina Jolie delivered her twins this morning. – <em>Not sure if this is true so don’t quote me on this.</em> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">The $5million dollar commercial - Volkswagen premiered the commercial for their new Gol in Brazil on Sunday. Starring Gisele Bundchen and Sylvester Stallone, the commercial had a budget of $5m and was directed by Brazilian Andrucha Waddington. Gisele's salary was way higher than Sly's<em>. She was paid $2.5m and he got "just" $800,000.</em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">Grinding my gears</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;"> – Celebrities and there fake sex tapes. We all know they are not real and no one cares that you are suing the company that released the tape. Just release the tape get some money on the side so that you can eat, we will respect you more. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">The list</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">- going to add <strong>Minnie m</strong>e, that's it Vern you are the first actual person on the list, and why does he make it to the list. Well after a year or so of breaking up with his ex and having a dwindling career he decides to release a sex tape. Now he and his ex will both claim that they had nothing to do with it being released or leaked but as I have previously stated, there is no such thing as the tape accidently getting out. So it is left to me to believe that he has put the tape put there himself to try and salvage the little that’s left of his career. Now I think he should stop lying and tell the truth and it should go a little like this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">I made the tape, my career when south and my publicist told me to release the tape and so I did through the company that bought the tape and is now trying to distribute it. Don’t worry them suing the company is not going to hurt the company as the lawsuit is only going to give extra publicity to the tape (All publicity is good publicity) Yep that's how he should play it. Not someone stole my tape and I am going to sue for million. That’s like a 1million for every inch, yep the dude is 2.2 inches tall -get it!! - But in all seriousness, did they use a tripod or just lay the camera on the floor?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">Ok the ghetto wedding and chavs post got a lot of hits, even more that breastfeeding and porn and the fake sex tape!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;">As I am about to leave I have just been sent this and I thought I would put this up it’s a video between a tech guy and a sales guy. I sometimes thing this is what happens at my office. Take a look and let me know. </span></p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-bottom:1em;">Pull out the Kleenex and KY, because a <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mini-Me</span> sexy time tape is upon us! It's what your genitals have been waiting for. <a href="http://tmz.com/">TMZ</a> has a "<span style="font-style:italic;">tiny</span>" clip of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Verne Troyer </span>tonguing his girlfriend at the time. SugarDVD has reportedly offered $100,000 for the sex tape, but no deal has been made.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-bottom:1em;">I need to see this now, just so I know what Mini-Me is working with. I bet he has taquito dick with extra cheese. I mean, does it even reach?!</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-bottom:1em;">They better call this shit "<span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Mini-In-Me</span>" or I'm going to be pissed!</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-bottom:1em;"><a href="http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1628434327">Click here</a> to watch the "<span style="font-style:italic;">short</span>" clip and try not to bust a nut all over your keyboard.</p>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Davide</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Stamani, colto da un raptus non poi così inaspettato, ho investito una manciata di piastre in un po]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span><a class="image" title="Jules Verne.jpg" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Jules_Verne.jpg"><img style="float:right;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:10px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Jules_Verne.jpg/200px-Jules_Verne.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="279" /></a></span>Stamani, colto da un raptus non poi così inaspettato, ho investito una manciata di piastre in un polposo volume dedicato all'opera di quel promettente autore francese, Jules Verne.<br />
Quasi milletrecento pagine su carta di qualità bassissima, imprigionate fra due copertine rigide ornate da un casco da palombaro.<br />
È noto che difficilmente io riesco a resistere a libri con caschi da palombaro in copertina.<br />
<em><strong>Viaggi fantastici</strong></em>, edizione BUR Radici.<br />
Venti pagine di tiepido apparato critico, e cinque romanzi, in vetuste traduzioni del secolo scorso:</p>
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<li><em><strong>Viaggio al centro della Terra</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Datta Terra alla Luna</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>In</strong></em><em><strong>torno alla Luna</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Ventimila Leghe sotto i Mari</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Il Giro del Mondo in Ottanta Giorni</strong></em></li>
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<p>Lo so, le vecchie edizioni Mursia erano un'altra cosa, ma quest'affare è stolido e maneggevole, un buon libro da tenere in borsa per i lunghi viaggi.<br />
Se anche cascasse in un fiume, ne uscirebbe probabilmente migliorato.</p>
<p>Stando all'anagrafica di base dei lettori di fantastico, io Verne avrei dovuto leggerlo trent'anni fa.<br />
Ma come diceva il poeta, non è mai troppo tardi.<br />
I libri vanno letti quando è il momento di leggerli - né prima, né dopo.</p>
<p>Certo, i cinque testi di Verne contenuti nell'omnibus sono noti, e non dovrebbero riservarmi - almeno sulla carta - grandi sorprese.<br />
Ed invece, ecco che<em><strong> Viaggio al Centro della Terra</strong></em> (romanzo per il quale ho una certa affettività di natura accademica), si apre con una mezza paginetta che da sola mi salva la giornata...</p>
<blockquote><p>La presente traduzione è stata condotta sul testo del <em>Voyage au centrte de la terre</em> nell'edizione del 1864 (ristampata undici volte). Nell'edizione del 1873 Verne inserisce, dopo il capitolo XXXVII, un capitolo nuovo:in esso è descritta l'immane distesa di fossili preistorici con una lunga dissertazione erudita. Più rilevante è la pagina aggiunta nel capitolo seguente: appare un gigantesco essere umano, pastore di un gregge di mastodonti. Evidentemente, Verne vuole imprimere al simbolismo del viaggio una pesante coloritura alla luce delle più recenti ipotesi di Darwin, la cui <em>Origine dell'uomo</em> fu pubblicata proprio nel 1871. Riproponendo il testo del 1864 piuttosto che quello del 1873, noi intendiamo rendere omaggio alla primitiva intuizione di Verne: il viaggio come dimensione simbolica. Con le varianti in apparenza più "realistiche" del 1873, Verne cade nell'inverosimile di un romanzo fantastico-scientifico.</p></blockquote>
<p>Quindi, fatemi capire - avete pubblicato la versione meno aggiornata perché le aggiunte realistiche rendevano inverosimile un romanzo simbolico?<br />
Wow!<br />
Ah, no, scusate - erano varianti <em><strong>in apparenza "realistiche".</strong></em></p>
<p><a class="image" title="A Journey to the Centre of the Earth-1874.jpg" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:A_Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth-1874.jpg"><img style="float:right;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:10px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/A_Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth-1874.jpg/200px-A_Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth-1874.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="280" /></a>Il pistolotto qui sopra risale probabilmente al 1959, data della traduzione ristampata da Rizzoli.<br />
E fornisce un sacco di cibo per il pensiero.<br />
La rima cosa che colpisce è quanto Verne fosse più avanti nel 1873 rispetto ai suoi editori italiani del 1959.</p>
<p>Poi c'è quella faccenda delle aggiunte <em><strong>in apparenza "realistiche"</strong></em>, la storia della iverosimiglianza di <em><strong>un romanzo fantastico-scientifico</strong></em>, da cui la necessità di ripescare una edizione precedente pur di evitare l'etichetta (giovanissima, nel '59) di fantascienza, e poter passare così Verne per autore di romanzi carichi di simbolismo.<br />
Verne come Baudelaire,Verlaine, Rimbaud e Mallarmé.<br />
Roba seria.</p>
<p>Il paternalismo editoriale nazionale mi ha sempre infastidito.<br />
L'atteggiamento dell'editore che sottovaluta a tal punto l'intelligenza del lettore da voler prendere delle precauzioni a monte, per evitare traumi, confusione o - già nel 1959 - cadute d'immagine.</p>
<p>Ora mi toccherà trovare una versione 1873 di Viaggio al centro della terra.<br />
Lo devo a Verne.<br />
Lo devo ad Arne Saknussemm.<br />
Lo devo a me stesso.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rferrazzi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lapoesiaelospirito.es.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/verne/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rileggere Jules Verne può essere un’esperienza dolorosa come incontrare la compagna di banco che ci faceva battere il cuore e trovarla ingrassata, disfatta, con dipinta sul volto una fisionomia da inconsapevole megera, e immaginare la vita d’inferno che avrà fatto passare a marito e figli negli ultimi quarant’anni. Eppure anche così, anche davanti all’evidenza del disinganno, capita di cogliere in un gesto, in un’occhiata, l’eco di sensazioni che credevamo perdute, di desideri che in gioventù ci sembravano nuovi e sconvolgenti e mai provati da nessuno, e che anche oggi non vogliamo riconoscere per quel che sono: vecchie esche di una vecchia trappola.<!--more--><br />
Non sono molti gli uomini che, varcato il confine dell’andropausa, si voltano indietro e possono considerarsi soddisfatti della vita che hanno vissuto. Quasi tutti cercano il senso del proprio passato, non nei castelli di sabbia che hanno edificato e visto crollare, ma nei sogni che li avevano spinti a progettarli. Il guaio è che i sogni, si sa, muoiono all’alba e non è facile ritrovarne il filo tra suggestioni, evocazioni, nostalgie, malinconie e rimpianti. Se uno ci prova, fissa lo sguardo nel vuoto, resta lì con il cervello che gira in folle, e mentre sta in questa situazione confusa e indistinta può succedere che si ritrovi in mano L’isola misteriosa o Michele Strogoff.<br />
Legge. E la prima impressione è catastrofica.<br />
Innanzitutto lo stile. Quando un personaggio di Verne si versa un bicchiere, non si versa un bicchiere e basta: se lo versa perché ha sete. Dopo una giornata di viaggio, dopo aver percorso Dio sa quante verste, miglia, leghe o vattelapesca, come mai Michele Strogoff o Phileas Fogg si verseranno un bicchiere? Gli approssimativi scrittori contemporanei lascerebbero il lettore sospeso in questa angosciosa domanda. Verne no. Lui te lo spiega: il protagonista si versa un bicchiere perché ha sete.<br />
Può sembrare ingeneroso mettersi a fare dell’ironia sull’abitudine verniana di “chiudere il cerchio”, di non lasciare assolutamente nulla all’immaginazione del lettore, come se volesse proibirgli di irrompere nel suo mondo fantastico, pensato esclusivamente per essere contemplato dal di fuori. Ma dopo quattrocento pagine di spiegazioni che anticipano le domande, il palato del lettore è ridotto come se avesse mangiato un chilo di carciofi crudi.<br />
Poi i “mezzucci”: l’esotismo dozzinale, l’erudizione libresca, il profluvio di “piccolo padre”, verste, knut, villaggi siberiani ricordati uno per uno senza strapparli dalla loro insignificanza, notizie da enciclopedia sui costumi calmucchi e turchestani. Tutto coscienziosamente elencato con la chiara intenzione di épater le bourgeois.<br />
Insomma, è difficile dire se lo stile narrativo di Verne è più rozzo o più ingenuo.<br />
Quanto ai personaggi, meglio non parlarne: nascono, vivono e muoiono imbalsamati nelle loro caratteristiche. Cyrus Smith era ingegnere fin da quando andava a balia. Michele Strogoff seguiterà a considerare la sua vita a disposizione dello zar anche dopo le fucilazioni di Ekaterinburg. I “cattivi” di Verne sono bestie feroci destinate a essere uccise, mentre i protagonisti sono idee platoniche presentate come modelli di vita, sulla scia di un trionfante socialismo positivista fin de siècle.<br />
Ma davanti agli scempii ambientali messi in atto dai cinque naufraghi sull’isola misteriosa cosa direbbe Pecoraro Scanio? E Diliberto non si schierebbe piuttosto dalla parte dei tartari insorti contro lo zar? Ahimé, come sono effimere le ideologie!<br />
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E allora perché rileggere Verne?<br />
Perché nessuna disillusione potrà mai far tacere il fascino della giovinezza. Perché in mezzo a tutte le ingenuità nei suoi romanzi c’è un’idea centrale che fa sempre presa, oggi come cent’anni fa, ed è l’epopea del viaggio, dell’avventura nell’ignoto, dell’ottimismo della volontà. È questo il segno distintivo della narrativa vera, che apre gli orizzonti ai sogni e ai progetti: dai viaggi di Ulisse a quelli di Sindbad, all’esodo degli ebrei dall’Egitto, l’epica dipinge la vita come una lotta in cui periranno i deboli e i malvagi, mentre saranno selezionati gli eroi (che in premio avranno Itaca, Baghdad, la Terra Promessa, oppure una morte eroica e la sopravvivenza nel mito).<br />
Verne è un Omero in sedicesimo: anche lui canta l’orgoglio dell’uomo, spinge ad andare avanti, promette che d’ora in avanti a ogni esame di coscienza saremo contenti di noi stessi. È un cacciaballe? Può darsi. Però quando ci voltiamo indietro e ci sentiamo assalire dal terrore di aver gettato al vento l’unica vita che avevamo a disposizione, è importante che qualcuno ci dica: “Non hai sbagliato. La tua idea era giusta e hai fatto bene a seguirla.” Non è vero, e in fondo lo sappiamo anche noi. Ma abbiamo un gran bisogno di sentircelo dire.<br />
Dopo tutto, la verità che ci costa fatica riconoscere è che se abbiamo continuato ad arrabattarci nella vita è perché quella compagna di banco, rimasta eternamente sedicenne nella nostra memoria, ci ha dato una spinta che ha cominciato a esaurirsi soltanto ieri, quando l’abbiamo incontrata e sul suo volto disfatto abbiamo visto le tracce delle stesse inconcludenti disavventure che sono capitate a noi, poveri Ulisse e Penelope senza gloria.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 05:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>xerais</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Recibimos tres novas reedicións da renovada colección Xabaril de clásicos da literatura xuvenil: ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;margin:10px;" src="http://xerais.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/xg00129401.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="323" />Recibimos tres novas reedicións da renovada colección Xabaril de clásicos da literatura xuvenil: <a href="http://www.xerais.es/cgigeneral/ficha.pl?codigo_comercial=1325504&#38;origen=4&#38;obrcod=1392381&#38;id_sello_editorial_web=13"><em>Viaxe ao centro da Terra</em></a> e <a href="http://www.xerais.es/cgigeneral/ficha.pl?codigo_comercial=1325505&#38;origen=4&#38;obrcod=758791&#38;id_sello_editorial_web=13"><em>A volta ao mundo en 80 días</em></a> de <a href="http://www.xerais.es/cgi-bin/html_generados/aut_ilus_902701_44.pl">Jules Verne</a> e <a href="http://www.xerais.es/cgigeneral/ficha.pl?codigo_comercial=1325503&#38;origen=4&#38;obrcod=1173223&#38;id_sello_editorial_web=13"><em>Venres ou a vida salvaxe</em></a> de <a href="http://www.xerais.es/cgi-bin/html_generados/aut_ilus_903453_44.pl">Michel Tournier</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Descarga</strong> <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/azbv485s8g"><strong><em>La vuelta al mundo en 80 dias</em></strong></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[El mágico mundo de Julio Verne]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Un pasaje de la historia de cebrian recordando a este fantástico escritor y visionario&#8230;
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un pasaje de la historia de cebrian recordando a este fantástico escritor y visionario...</p>
<p>yo desde que vi la pelicula del viaje al centro de la tierra mi gran fantasía a sido de siempre realizar esa aventura... debe ser flipante, os imaginais jaja, mas de una vez la he intentado emular metiéndome en una que otra cueva... pero nada, ni punto de comparacion con lo que describió julio verne.</p>
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nunca habéis pensado que puede haber otro mundo allí abajo ? pues puede que si... quien no dice que algunos hombres de las cavernas y animales prehistóricos en su afán de exploración o por otras circunstancias se internaran cuevas adentro se perdieran y se adaptaran a ese ambiente con el tiempo para terminar creando un nuevo mundo subterráneo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[¿Pero quién era el Capitán Nemo?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 01:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[En su libro &#8220;La isla misteriosa&#8221;, en la Tercera Parte, Capítulo XVI, Verne nos revela e]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>En su libro "La isla misteriosa", en la Tercera Parte, Capítulo XVI, Verne nos revela el origen del CAPITAN NEMO.</p>
<p><a href="http://capitanemo.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/capitannemo.jpg"><img class="alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-128" style="border:1px solid black;float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;" src="http://capitanemo.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/capitannemo.jpg?w=198" alt="" width="198" height="300" /></a>(...) El capitán Nemo era un hindú, el príncipe Dakkar, hijo de un rajá del territorio, entonces independiente, del Bundelkund, y sobrino del héroe de la India, Tippo-Saib. Su padre le había enviado a Europa a la edad de diez años para que recibiera una completa educación, con la secreta intención de que un día pudiese luchar, con armas iguales, contra los que él consideraba como los opresores de su país.</p>
<p>De los diez a los treinta años, el príncipe Dakkar, superiormente dotado, con una preclara inteligencia y gran nobleza de sentimientos, estudió todas las disciplinas y profundizó considerablemente sus conocimientos en las letras, las artes y las ciencias.</p>
<p>El príncipe Dakkar viajó por toda Europa. Su cuna y su fortuna le granjearon la solicitud de la sociedad, pero nunca se sintió atraído por los placeres mundanos. Joven y guapo, se mostraba serio y hasta sombrío, dedicado a saciar su sed de conocimientos. Tenía un implacable resentimiento anclado en el corazón.</p>
<p>El príncipe Dakkar odiaba. Odiaba al único país en el que nunca había querido poner el pie, a la nación de la que había rechazado ofertas y proposiciones. Odiaba a Inglaterra, tanto más cuanto que la admiraba también en más de un aspecto.</p>
<p><!--more-->El hindú llevaba consigo todo el odio feroz del vencido al vencedor. El invasor no había podido lograr el perdón del invadido. El hijo de uno de esos soberanos a los que el Reino Unido sólo ha podido someter nominalmente, el príncipe de la familia de Tippo-Saib, educado en las ideas de reivindicación y venganza, animado de un gran sentimiento patriótico hacia su poético país sometido al yugo inglés, no quiso jamás poner el pie en esa nación para él maldita, a la que la India debía su servidumbre.</p>
<p>El príncipe Dakkar se convirtió en un artista al que impresionaban las maravillas del arte, en un sabio al que ninguna ciencia le era ajena, en un hombre de Estado formado en las cortes europeas. Ante observadores superficiales, pasaba por ser uno de esos cosmopolitas ávidos de saber pero renuentes a la acción, uno de esos opulentos viajeros, de orgullosa y platónica mentalidad, que van incesantemente de un país a otro sin pertenecer a ninguno.</p>
<p>No era ése su caso. El hombre, el sabio y el artista eran un indio de corazón, indio por el deseo de venganza, indio por la esperanza que alimentaba de reivindicar algún día los derechos de su país, de expulsar de él al extranjero, de reconquistar su independencia.</p>
<p>Por ello, el príncipe Dakkar regresó al Bundelkund, en 1849. Se casó allí con una notable india, que compartía con él el sufrimiento por los males de su patria. Tuvo con ella dos hijos muy amados. Pero la felicidad doméstica no podía hacerle olvidar la esclavitud de la India. Esperaba una ocasión, que no tardó en presentarse.</p>
<p>El yugo inglés iba haciéndose cada vez más insoportable a la población india. El príncipe Dakkar tomó la voz de los descontentos y les inculcó su odio al extranjero. Recorrió no sólo las comarcas aún independientes de la península índica sino también las regiones directamente sometidas a la administración inglesa. Recordó los grandes días de Tippo-Saib, caído heroicamente en Seringapatam por la defensa de la patria.</p>
<p>En 1857 estalló la gran rebelión de los cipayos. El príncipe Dakkar se convirtió en el alma de la misma. Organizó el gran levantamiento. Puso todo su talento y todas sus riquezas al servicio de la causa. Contribuyó también con su persona, luchando siempre en primera fila y arriesgando su vida como el más humilde de aquellos héroes que se habían sublevado para emancipar a su país del yugo extranjero. Resultó herido diez veces en veinte batallas, sin poder encontrar la muerte cuando los últimos combatientes de la independencia cayeron bajo las balas inglesas.</p>
<p>Jamás el poderío británico en la India había corrido tanto peligro y de haber obtenido los cipayos, como esperaban, la ayuda exterior, tal vez habrían acabado en Asia con la influencia y el dominio del Reino Unido.</p>
<p>El nombre del príncipe Dakkar se hizo célebre entonces. El héroe que lo llevaba no se ocultó y luchó abiertamente. Se puso precio a su cabeza, y, aunque no surgió ni un solo traidor para entregarla, su padre, su madre, su esposa y sus hijos pagaron por él, antes incluso de que él pudiera darse cuenta del peligro que corrían por causa suya.</p>
<p>El derecho había sucumbido, una vez más, a la fuerza. Pero la civilización no retrocede nunca, y parece extraer de la necesidad todos los derechos. Derrotados los cipayos, el país de los antiguos rajás cayó de nuevo bajo el dominio, aún más fuerte, de Inglaterra.</p>
<p>El príncipe Dakkar, que no había podido encontrar la muerte en combate, regresó a las montañas del Bundelkund. Allí, solo en lo sucesivo, presa de una inmensa repugnancia ante todo lo que llevaba el nombre del hombre, embargado de odio y horror al mundo civilizado, se propuso huir de él para siempre y, haciendo acopio de los restos de su fortuna, reunió a una veintena de sus más fieles compañeros y desapareció con ellos un día.</p>
<p>¿Adónde había ido a buscar el príncipe Dakkar esa indpendencia que le rehusaba la tierra habitada? Bajo las aguas, en la profundidad de los mares, donde nadie podría seguirle.</p>
<p>El científico sustituyó al guerrero. Una isla desierta del Pacífico le sirvió para establecer sus astilleros, y allí se construyó un barco submarino según sus planos. Empleó para todas las necesidades de su aparato flotante, como fuerza motriz, lumínica y calorífica, la electricidad, cuya inconmensurable fuerza mecánica supo utilizar a través de medios que algún día se conocerán, obtenida de fuentes inagotables. El mar, con sus infinitos tesoros, sus miríadas de peces, sus cosechas de algas, sus enormes mamíferos, y no sólo lo que la naturaleza mantenía en su seno sino también todo los que los hombres habían perdido en él, bastó ampliamente para subvenir las necesidades del príncipe y de su tripulación. Con ello vio logrado su más vivo deseo, que no era otro que el de cortar para siempre toda comunicación con la tierra. Dio a su aparato submarino el nombre de Nautilus, y a sí mismo el del capitán Nemo, y desapareció bajo los mares.</p>
<p>Durante muchos años, el capitán Nemo visitó todos los océanos, de un polo a otro. Paria del universo habitado, recogió de esos mundos desconocidos admirables tesoros. Los millones perdidos en la bahía de Vigo, en 1702, por los galeones españoles, le proporcionaron una mina inagotable de riquezas, que utilizó siempre, anónimamente, en favor de los pueblos que combatían por la independencia de sus países.</p>
<p>Llevaba mucho tiempo sin mantener ninguna comunicación con sus semejantes, cuando, durante la noche del 6 de noviembre de 1866, tres hombres abordaron el Nautilus. Eran un profesor francés, su sirviente y un pescador canadiense. Esos tres hombres habían caído al mar, tras el choque que se había producido entre el Nautilus y la fragata de los Estados Unidos Abraham Licoln, que trataba de darle caza.</p>
<p>El capitán Nemo supo por ese profesor que el Nautilus, tomado unas veces por un gigantesco mamífero de la familia de los cetáceos, y otras por un aparato submarino tripulado por piratas, era perseguido por todos los mares.</p>
<p>El capitán Nemo habría podido devolver al océano a esos tres hombres lanzados por el azar hacia su misteriosa existencia. No lo hizo, sino que los mantuvo prisioneros, y durante siete meses pudieron contemplar todas las maravillas de un viaje de veinte mil leguas bajo los mares.</p>
<p>Un día, el 22 de junio de 1867, esos tres hombres, que nada sabían del pasado del capitán Nemo, lograron escapar, tras haberse apoderado de la canoa del Nautilus. Pero como en ese momento el Nautilus había ido a caer, frente a las costas de Noruega, en los torbellinos del Maelstrom, el capitán creyó que los refugiados se habían ahogado en aquellos espantosos remolinos. Ignoraba que el francés y sus dos compañeros habían sido milagrosamente arrojados a las costas, que los pescadores de las islas Lofoden les habían recogido, y que el profesor, a su regreso a Francia, había publicado la obra en la que se describían y se entregaban a la curiosidad pública siete meses de la extraña y aventurera navegación del Nautilus.</p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 23:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So says Mr. Phileas Fogg's fastidious Parisian manservant, Jean Passepartout.  Why?  The dude just wants some peace and quiet and Fogg is the perfect master to provide it.  "There was no study, nor were there books, which would have been quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his service."  One, Jules Verne writes like me (in the "too many commas" sense) and Two, the protagonist prefers the library: Three, I heart Phileas Fogg.</p>
<p>Around the World in Eighty Days is probably what you'd expect it to be.  Phileas Fogg is the Indiana Jones of seventeenth century literature: he's cute, eccentric and he always gets the girl.  He's also kind of funny, which is essential in lit crush material.  At one point, some dude exclaims at Fogg's generosity-slash-willingness to adventure forth to save a lady from her tribal customs (in particular, the one in which a wife is required to be burned alive with her husband's corpse if he chances to predecease her).  The dude says, "Why, you are a man of heart!"  Fogg responds, "Sometimes, when I have the time."</p>
<p>I won't reveal whether Fogg &#38; company win their bet to traverse the world in eighty days, but if you missed this book in junior high like I did, I will recommend it even if you're not trying to read 50 books in 50 weeks because above all else, this book was fun, which is a welcome change from some of the dark stuff I have read recently (for reference, Stendahl's The Red and the Black is a novel contemporary with this one, and is far more dreary and philosophical).</p>
<p>Verne writes this book with an eye for the perfect detail; he's a bit of a minimalist.  He combines a travelogue with bizarre adventures and manages to make the reader sympathize with Fogg although he seems as inscrutable at the end as he was at the beginning.  That takes skillz.  The interesting thing about this book is the way Verne merges the travel narrative with the story; his description of San Francisco was all of two paragraphs long and I was transported there.  The genius of Jules Verne lies in his ability to distill what could be too much text into the most pertinent features of the description so that you see what he sees without losing interest because he spends too many words on it: something I *definitely* need to take from him.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino]]></title>
<link>http://agendadecocina.wordpress.com/?p=101</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romány Julese Verna a umění ilustrace]]></title>
<link>http://poznamnik.wordpress.com/?p=9</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Roman</dc:creator>
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Fascinující svět románů Julese Verna podněcoval fantazii mladých čtenářů mnoha generac]]></description>
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<p>Fascinující svět románů <a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" target="_blank">Julese Verna</a> podněcoval fantazii mladých čtenářů mnoha generací. Přiznám se bez mučení, že ani já jsem nepatřil v tomto ohledu k výjimkám. Ovšem tento svět dobrodružných cest, rozmanitých vynálezů, pevných charakterů a jednoduchých zloduchů nám, čtenářům, byl prostředkován nejen mimořádně poutavým textem, ale také osobitými ilustracemi, které vytvořili především pánové <a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Benett" target="_blank">Léon Benett</a>, <a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Roux" target="_blank">George Roux</a> a <a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Riou" target="_blank">Édouard Riou</a>. Jejich vidění ovlivnilo naše čtení možná více, než jsme si tehdy uměli či vůbec chtěli uvědomit. O těsném, v tomto případě takřka nerozdělném spojení textu a ilustrace svědčí rovněž filmy <a href="http://www.csfd.cz/reziser/3138-karel-zeman/" target="_blank">Karla Zemana</a>, jejichž vizuální podoba je Vernovými ilustrátory zásadně inspirována (viz též <a href="http://www.film.org.pl/prace/karel_zeman.html" target="_blank">polský přehled</a> režisérovy filmografie, opatřený obrazovým doprovodem i dalšími odkazy). S odstupem let považuji texty J. Verna na jedné straně a ilustrace jmenovaných umělců na straně druhé za příklad dokonalé tvůrčí symbiózy. Obdivovatelé umění knižní ilustrace 19. století by určitě měli navštívit stránky projektu <em><a href="http://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/" target="_blank">The Illustrated Jules Verne</a>.</em> Galerie je zde řazena chronologicky, podle data prvních vydání jednotlivých románů.</p>
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