HERBERT MARSHALL > All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me, sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness of spirit and contempt of your soul’s rights, which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you. You really grew to hate me for love of me, because I was your soul’s happiness, formed and tempered, to solve your life for …
Read More »DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ, CUBAN PAINTER – A painting that capturesand enchants
THE COMPLEX MAZE – Denis Nunez Rodriguez: painting the nature of human beings
DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ 1/4 – Cuban painter, he was born in Mantanzas. He studied drawing and painting in Cuba`s National Art School and graduated in 1986 as a painter and professor of painting and drawing. Subtle elements in his works reinforce the image of the psychological island in the artist’s concept, a stone pedestal where the figures or true martyrdom …
Read More »BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS OF SIERRA ROSARIO – Cuba: 800 orchids and a castle in the clouds to the west of Havana
I was leaving early that morning from Havana, headed west in search of Soroa, who was waiting for me, in the mountains of the Sierra del Rosario. http://www.cubaculturaltrips.com/las-terrazas-sierra-del-rosario-biosphere-reserve/ The desire to see the wonderful park of orchids – full of life, 700 meters above sea level – had turned into reality. Observing nearly 800 orchids, I think the countries of …
Read More »FEELING SOMETHING SPECIAL – Cuba and Tanga music
When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside as well as the Vitruvian Man reminds us. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting …
Read More »WHENEVER YOU WANT – Novel, by Armando Prieto Perez
WHENEVER YOU WANT Cuban blood and an almost carnal love for art. Luis, the protagonist of the story is the classic seducer, lover of women, tireless predator and believe that sex is the most important reason of life. He is an instinctive seducer, of those without inhibitions or rules: that’s why nobody knows resist. The case, however, to fall for …
Read More »BY YOUR EYES ALIGHT – Poetry, by José Martí
POR TUS OJOS ENCENDIDOS > Por tus ojos encendidos, y lo mal puesto de un broche, pensé que estuviste anoche, jugando a juegos prohibidos. Te odié por vil y alevosa: te odié con odio de muerte. Náusea me daba de verte, tan villana y tan hermosa. Y por la escuela que vi, sin aber cómo ni cuándo, sé que estuviste …
Read More »DOMENICO DELL’OSSO, ITALIAN PAINTER – Paint in solar way, what one perceives ironically
WHEN THE SURREAL ATMOSPHERES BLEND WITH POP – Domenico Dell’Osso: the admirable use of oil paints, colored in fantastic allegories
DOMENICO DELL’OSSO 1/4 – He is an Italian artist coming from Puglia, and he lives in Milano, but he has an art gallery in Matera. He is absolutely convinced that any situation as long addressed with humor and fortitude, always is able to lead to a greater awareness of what life is beautiful. DOMENICO DELL’OSSO 2/4 – His original creations, …
Read More »NAKED ARE YOU SO SIMPLE – Poetry, by Pablo Neruda
DESNUDA ERES TAN SIMPLE > Desnuda eres tan simple como una de tus manos, lisa, terrestre, mínima, redonda, transparente, tienes líneas de luna, caminos de manzana, desnuda eres delgada como el trigo desnudo. Desnuda eres azul como la noche en Cuba, tienes enredaderas y estrellas en el pelo, desnuda eres enorme y amarilla como el verano en una iglesia de …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – Lana Del Rey: Born To Die
BORN TO DIE Why? Who me? Why? Feet don’t fail me now. Take me to the finish line. Oh my heart it breaks every step that I take, but I’m hoping at the gates, they’ll tell me that you’re mine. Walking through the city streets, is it by mistake or design? I feel so alone on the Friday nights, can …
Read More »SILENTIUM – Poetry, by Fëdor Ivanovič Tjutčev
SILENTIUM Shut up, hide and hidden their own dreams and feelings. That in the depths of your arise, and go into the sunset, silent, like the stars in the night. They split up, thou, and shut up. It may emerge the heart, ever? Another will ever understand you? Deemed of what you live? Thought expressed is already lie. Peat becomes …
Read More »GRAY MOUNTAIN – Romance, by John Grisham
GRAY MOUNTAIN The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast trackShe’s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she’d get her old job back. Her new job takes Samantha into the murky …
Read More »ORPHAN TRAIN – Romance, by Christina Baker Kline
ORPHAN TRAIN A captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship. Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine, and in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to …
Read More »SEPTEMBER 12,1966 – Poetry, by Giuseppe Ungaretti
12 SETTEMBRE 1966 > Sei comparsa al portone in un vestito rosso, per dirmi che sei fuoco che consuma e riaccende. Una spina mi ha punto, delle tue rose rosse, perché io succhiassi al dito, come già tuo, il mio sangue. Percorremmo la strada, che lacera il rigoglio della selvaggia altura, ma già da molto tempo io sapevo che, soffrendo …
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