Catégorie : EN
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Brian’s Rules for East Coast Style Words
Voici revenir à petits pas la saison des conventions de jeu de rôle américaines (GTS, Origins, GenCon). Les voyages qu’on peut y faire sont toujours pleins de bonnes surprises. C’est l’occasion de retrouver des personnes sympathiques comme les gens d’Avalanche Press et Liz leur égérie goth, les bons vivants de White Wolf ou encore les…
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Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report) (Orson Welles, 1955)
And now I’m going to tell you about a scorpion. A scorpion wanted to cross a river, so he asked a frog to carry him.« No« , said the frog. « No, thank you. If I let you on my back you may sting me, and the sting of the scorpion means death.– Now where« , asked the scorpion,…
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When I’m old and other stories (Gabrielle Bell, 2003)
One day I realized that I was no longer a genius. I had allowed myself to gradually erode into just an average person. But what was even worse was I was still hanging onto this conception of what I thought I once was. It was easier than taking responsibility for my fucked up life. In…
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Shadow Games (Glen Cook, 1989)
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are…
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English as She is Spoke
Category: PhrasebookNumber of pages: 152Language: Portuguese and EnglishAuthor(s): José da Fonseca & Pedro Carolino (edited by Paul Collins)Publisher: The Collins LibraryYear of publication: 1855 (this edition 2004)ISBN: 1-932416-11-0English as She is Spoke: Being a comprehensive phrasebook of the English language, written by men to whom English was entirely unknown features extracts from an infamous phrasebook.…