- Love letters1. Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine duBeauharnaisSince I left you, I have been constantlydepressed. My happiness is to be near you.Incessantly I live over in my memory yourcaresses, your tears, your aectionatesolicitude. The charms of the incomparableJosephine kindle continually a burning and aglowing $ame in my heart…. I thought that Iloved you months ago, but since myseparation from you I feel that I love you athousand fold more. Each day since I knewyou, have I adored you more and more.2. Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor3. Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning
It seems to me, to myself, that no man wasever before to any woman what you are to me— the fullness must be in proportion, youknow, to the vacancy…and only I know whatwas behind — the long wilderness without theblossoming rose…and the capacity forhappiness, like a black gaping hole, beforethis silver $ooding. Is it wonderful that Ishould stand as in a dream, and disbelieve—not you—but my own fate?Was ever any one taken suddenly from alampless dungeon and placed upon thepinnacle of a mountain, without the headturning round and the heart turning faint, asmine do? And you love me more, you say? ….How shall I ever prove what my heart is toyou? How will you ever see it as I feel it?4. Beethoven to his “Immortal Beloved”Though still in bed, my thoughts go out toyou, my Immortal Beloved, Be calm — love me— today — yesterday — what tearful longingsfor you — you — you — my life — my all —farewell. Oh continue to love me — nevermisjudge the most faithful heart of yourbeloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.5. Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill
6. Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred DouglasMy Own Boy,Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvelthat hose red-roseleaf lips of yours should bemade no less for the madness of music andsong than for the madness of kissing. Yourslim gilt soul walks between passion andpoetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo lovedso madly, was you in Greek days. Why are youalone in London, and when do you go toSalisbury? Do go there to cool your hands inthe grey twilight of Gothic things, and comehere whenever you like. It is a lovely placeand lacks only you; but go to Salisbury >rst.Always, with undying love,Yours, Oscar
martes, 14 de febrero de 2017
martes, 10 de noviembre de 2015
Hi!
Here is a link to the material we used at the 5th of November Tertulia! I hope you find them useful!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a7g8ozutqdudb3j/AACHzAMVi2j-UsAfo6fABl7Ka?dl=0
Un saludo! Native Paul
Here is a link to the material we used at the 5th of November Tertulia! I hope you find them useful!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a7g8ozutqdudb3j/AACHzAMVi2j-UsAfo6fABl7Ka?dl=0
Un saludo! Native Paul
viernes, 17 de abril de 2015
Günter Grass Nobel-winning German novelist, dies aged 87
QUOTES BY GUNTER GRASS
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
• Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
• I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
• I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
• As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
• Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
• I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
• The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
• I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
• Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
• Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
• Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
Günter Grass Nobel-winning German novelist, dies aged 87
Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin. In 1955 Grass became a member of the socially critical Gruppe 47 (later described with great warmth in The Meeting at Telgte), his first poetry was published in 1956 and his first play produced in 1957. His major international breakthrough came in 1959 with his allegorical and wide-ranging picaresque novel The Tin Drum (filmed by Schlöndorff), a satirical panorama of German reality during the first half of this century, which, with Cat and Mouse and Dog Years, was to form what is called the Danzig Trilogy.
In the 1960s Grass became active in politics, participating in election campaigns on behalf of the Social Democrat party and Willy Brandt. He dealt with the responsibility of intellectuals in Local Anaesthetic, From the Diary of a Snail and in his "German tragedy" The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, and published political speeches and essays in which he advocated a Germany free from fanaticism and totalitarian ideologies. His childhood home, Danzig, and his broad and suggestive fabulations were to reappear in two successful novels criticising civilisation, The Flounder and The Rat, which reflect Grass's commitment to the peace movement and the environmental movement. Vehement debate and criticism were aroused by his mammoth novel Ein weites Feld which is set in the DDR in the years of the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin wall. In My Century he presents the history of the past century from a personal point of view, year by year. As a graphic artist, Grass has often been responsible for the covers and illustrations for his own works.
Grass was President of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin 1983-86, active within the German Authors' Publishing Company and PEN. He has been awarded a large number of prizes, among them Preis der Gruppe 47 1958, "Le meilleur livre étranger" 1962, the Büchner Prize 1965, the Fontane Prize 1968, Premio Internazionale Mondello 1977, the Alexander-Majakowski Medal, Gdansk 1979, the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize 1982, Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie 1994. He has honorary doctorates from Kenyon College and the Universities of Harvard, Poznan and Gdansk.
When Mr. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, the Swedish Academy credited the book with having granted German literature “a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.”
He has died on the 13th – April – 2015 at 87.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
• Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
• I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
• I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
• As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
• Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
• I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
• The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
• I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
• Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
• Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
• Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
• Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
Günter Grass Nobel-winning German novelist, dies aged 87
Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin. In 1955 Grass became a member of the socially critical Gruppe 47 (later described with great warmth in The Meeting at Telgte), his first poetry was published in 1956 and his first play produced in 1957. His major international breakthrough came in 1959 with his allegorical and wide-ranging picaresque novel The Tin Drum (filmed by Schlöndorff), a satirical panorama of German reality during the first half of this century, which, with Cat and Mouse and Dog Years, was to form what is called the Danzig Trilogy.
In the 1960s Grass became active in politics, participating in election campaigns on behalf of the Social Democrat party and Willy Brandt. He dealt with the responsibility of intellectuals in Local Anaesthetic, From the Diary of a Snail and in his "German tragedy" The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, and published political speeches and essays in which he advocated a Germany free from fanaticism and totalitarian ideologies. His childhood home, Danzig, and his broad and suggestive fabulations were to reappear in two successful novels criticising civilisation, The Flounder and The Rat, which reflect Grass's commitment to the peace movement and the environmental movement. Vehement debate and criticism were aroused by his mammoth novel Ein weites Feld which is set in the DDR in the years of the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin wall. In My Century he presents the history of the past century from a personal point of view, year by year. As a graphic artist, Grass has often been responsible for the covers and illustrations for his own works.
Grass was President of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin 1983-86, active within the German Authors' Publishing Company and PEN. He has been awarded a large number of prizes, among them Preis der Gruppe 47 1958, "Le meilleur livre étranger" 1962, the Büchner Prize 1965, the Fontane Prize 1968, Premio Internazionale Mondello 1977, the Alexander-Majakowski Medal, Gdansk 1979, the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize 1982, Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie 1994. He has honorary doctorates from Kenyon College and the Universities of Harvard, Poznan and Gdansk.
When Mr. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, the Swedish Academy credited the book with having granted German literature “a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.”
He has died on the 13th – April – 2015 at 87.
viernes, 3 de enero de 2014
LAS ACTIVIDADES DE LA ASOCIACIÓN AMIGOS DEL INGLÉS “ONE WAY”
La Asociación de Amigos del Inglés One Way (http://asociaciononeway.blogspot.com/), creada en 1996 y con sede en en el Centro Centro Social de la calle Cifuentes, 26, organiza tertulias en inglés una vez a la semana, además de facilitar a sus socios el uso de revistas, libros, películas, novelas y material didáctico en inglés. El uso de la sede de la asociación se ubica en una dependencia del Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara.
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A lo largo de todo el año, con la excepción de los meses de julio y agosto, One Way ofrece la posibilidad de mantener una tertulia de forma desenfada y distendida con el inglés como elemento de comunicación. La cita es los jueves, de 18:30 a 20.45 horas, en el Centro Centro Social de la calle Cifuentes, 26.
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Desde 1996 One Way Asociación de Amigos del Inglés ha facilitado a los guadalajareños la posibilidad de practicar la conversación en inglés. Esta asociación permite practicar el inglés mediante una tertulia semanal, de forma sencilla, accesible, cercana y de forma gratuita.
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Otra actividad de One Way es la lectura y debate a partir de textos y artículos de Internet, revistas en inglés, programas de radio y televisión, videos musicales o anuncios publicitarios.
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Por otro lado, como colaboración con la Concejalía de Deportes del Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara, participamos de forma voluntaria en los servicios de traducción con motivo de la celebración eventos deportivos de carácter internacional en la ciudad de Guadalajara.
La asociación dispone de su propio blog. En este espacio digital se incluyen informaciones relacionadas con el material que se trabaja en las tertulias, pero también de cuestiones sobre el aprendizaje y el conocimiento de la lengua inglesa.
viernes, 4 de octubre de 2013
viernes, 5 de julio de 2013
Ken Robinson
We are still having meetings during July (not very crowded, nice air conditioning)
In August we will stop. We will be back in September.
Enjoy this talk:
Suggestion: activate subtitles in English (or other language if you prefer)
Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011. His latest book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, will be published by Viking in May 2013.
In August we will stop. We will be back in September.
Enjoy this talk:
Suggestion: activate subtitles in English (or other language if you prefer)
Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011. His latest book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, will be published by Viking in May 2013.
domingo, 5 de mayo de 2013
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