February 2001 - web version
Web Café
Best of the web : a talk
He Praised the Night
(...) He was a deep and tender soul, seeing life as bewitching, in the passing of a glorious and creative sun, - hard, difficult, and almost happy, in the heroic abandonment to a love coming only like a holy dream in the sleep of the night. However, Novalis’ dream is not exhausted in an eternal tension between the not-that-opposites, in a paradise lost and always imminent. In his "Hymns to the Night", death is most of all a synonym to resurrection, and night, going back to the orphic awareness of the mystical source of love and of all creation, represents especially the ascetic way of living. - Read more...
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Student Land/Writers' Word
E, Introductory note: the vigilance of a specific and strict discipline
(...) A correct advice is useful only in the right moment and spoken in the right way, which is rarely the case, so that to go into oneself as deeply as possible, to recognise the spring of thoughts, to weigh a thought in the light of the most precious of the personal experiences, becomes the safest way to worthy judgments. And it is the safest for one to weigh a thought by means of any richness of the time past, than by means of a simple calculation, or a wish and an expectation, no matter how beautiful this latter might seem, because a hope by definition is not proved, while spiritual progress does not destroy a previous step, even when it goes beyond of it. (...)
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Knowing the things as products of actions * Whom are you talking to? * Talking to God * On writing * Writing creates forgetfulness and a tiresome company! * Intelligence needs knowledge of the circumstances * Writing as amusement * Teaching needs dialogue and congeniality of souls * Recapitulation * Socrates' prayer
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Feb. 19:
Dictionary Wish List - you are very welcome to help.
TTRACY adds the quote: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show".
Feb. 16: The Dickens House Museum.
Feb. 14: Who is David's hero? Enter to vote!
* Feb. 13: A random-quote & news front page added. It is experimental and maybe it will be removed in the future
Feb. 11: David's aunt or Mr. Micawber? Trish Russell writes on David Copperfield's heroes. Read and add your note!
Feb. 10: Ttracy on Mr. Dick: "A crazy but incredibly wise man forever haunted by King Charles' attempt to get into his memorial!" @ the David Copperfield community
Feb. 8: David Copperfield Quotes. Read and add yours!
Feb. 5: Dickens for Dummies , plots, reviews and character lists, as well as links to Dickens sites. - Familial Relationships in Great Expectations: The Search for Identity, by Anthony F. Franco.
Jan 29: Help: Does anyone have photographs or pictures of the settings from David Copperfield? Please e-mail!
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Resources: The role of the European Union on the world stage, by The Rt Hon Chris Patten
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Salinger pages: The Nando Times, 'The Catcher in the Rye' anniversary marked with tight lips
Critical updates[Feb. 6, 2000] Patch Available for "Network DDE Agent Request" Vulnerability (Win2000).
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Windows XP
"People want to do more and more with their PCs," Gates says. "Windows XP builds on their dreams, taking the power and adaptability of the PC to a new level. It delivers on our vision of bringing the most advanced Windows ever to home users, unlocking the true and amazing potential of everyone's PC." More (& screenshots)..
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