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UNITED COLORS OF KNOWLEDGE: Anime on hold, thoughts in the wind. Distant echoes of stuffed men

TALK – Headline Socratic: Speak, that I may see you. FAR – D. Wagoner: With dark star, dark of the moon in mind, and next to other silences, and others, with no escape in the wake, turn around and turned by the wind, as far as ever from light. WITH AUDACITY – JM Serrat: I bet the horizon, and I …

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UNITED COLORS OF CONFORMITY: Souls on hold and thoughts in the wind. Distant echoes of stuffed men

TRUTH – Giunajd: No man has reached the stage of truth, before hundred of his friends as they have declared a heretic. ECHOES – Jean Paul: In the world can be heard more easily echo the answer. COMFORT – V. Nabokov: Better not to see, all that is hidden in the eyes of others. CURRENT – C. Dickens: “Better, in …

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UNITED COLORS OF UNDERSTANDING: Fly over the limits of the apparent meaning, whereas here we play

LIMITS – Jean-Paul Sartre: The Limits to understanding are deadly. Fly over, without insisting too. UNDERSTAND – Ethiopian proverb: They talk to signs with the blind. They speak softly to the deaf. STRESS SPACE – H. Heine: Tell me! What does the man? Which side has come? Where you go? Who dwells beyond the stars? Monotonous murmur of the waves, …

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OLD SHOPS, NEXT TO CONCORDE PARIZ: A weekend in Prague, sleeping just a few steps away from a royal residence

Welcome, Lena, in Meeting Benches. Your mail comes from a Central European city, Prague, none of our friends offered us contributors. Thank you, really thank you for having told the story of the small and large city with two clocks, one where old Slovakian men with wide hats no longer turn – from house to house – to collect scrap …

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A WEEKEND LOW IMPERIAL: Looking for special items, including craft shops and beautiful Moorish villas

Meeting Benches hosts an Italian contribution, that of Mario. As he says of himself, “I am a Roman of Rome,” we welcome his invitation to visit his city, knowing that – even if the weekend is short – the size of the place suggests a return. We are still waiting, Mario, in info@meetingbenches.com   Museums and galleries, the Colosseum and …

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UNITED COLORS OF BEHAVIOR: Walking in the clouds, next to the red brick houses, where flames burn solitary lives

HONESTY CONDUCT – M. Navarra: All the pleasure and joy, which can have a kind honest heart, is freedom of body and mind, which makes me happy every man, bird or beast. HYPOCRISY – E. Canetti: Oh that sucks recognized this homogeneity of the instincts! They are the cause and the purpose, nothing keeps the head, because they are also …

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MARRAKECH, IN THE SUK: Looking for special items, including craft shops and beautiful Moorish villas

This is a first time for both of us for the preparation of the Meeting Benches (because our “contributor” host the first African travel tip), but also to Ben, who tells us about his city – Marrakech – providing useful guidelines and recommendations not found in a normal tour guide. We are waiting again, Ben, in info@meetingbenches.com     Hello, …

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UNITED COLORS OF THE CITY: Walking in the clouds, next to the red brick houses, where flames burn solitary lives

DESOLATION – E. Pound: I’ve walked these streets. I believed that they were alive. SPELL – S. Spender: Dreaming of the city, where the clouds will tilt their thick neck, white as a swan. EVENING – FT Marinetti: The City, despising the night terror, which went up by far the onslaught of lights, aderse suddenly, with a glowing hand, the …

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VIENNA, SHOPPING AND ART: In the magical atmosphere leading up to Christmas, bakeries and move between markets, not to mention must-see art shows

We should call it “Christmas Litz” because the article in this Viennese girl is so personal and full of emotion away – in the history of the life of a human being born in Austria – as to appear, at first reading, as a “diary of intimate and personal. “Not so. If you, as well as the editorial staff of …

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UNITED COLORS OF COLORS: Where life breaks into shades and transparencies, also of gray or black.

LIGHT AND LIFE – M. Nijhoff: The light, the white light of God, it breaks into colors. Colors are the actions of light that breaks. Life breaks in the events multicolored. And my heart breaks when he speaks words. PALETTES – M. Mianiti: The endless shades of Degas, Delacroix bitumen that adds color to achieve transparency seductive, sudden bursts of …

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