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Catana Tully

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Born

Livingston, Guatemala

Website

http://www.splitattheroot.com

Genre

Memoir, Mystery, Nonfiction

Member Since

October 2012

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Catana Tully grew up trilingual (German, Spanish, English) in Guatemala where she attended elementary and middle school. In tenth grade she entered a boarding school in Jamaica, WI and received her Advanced Level Higher Schools Certificate from Cambridge University, England. Expecting to become an international interpreter, she continued her studies at the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich, Germany. However, she was called to work in a play and discovered her affinity for the dramatic arts. She became the actress and fashion model Catana Cayetano and appeared in Film and TV work in Germany, Austria, and Italy. In Munich she met and married the American actor Frederick V. Tully and ultimately moved to the United States. They have a ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 166 ratings · 43 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity 4.18 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda H.L. Transue Woolston (Editor), Laura Dennis (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gespaltene Seele: Aufzeichnungen über Liebe und verlorene Identität 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity] [By: Tully, Catana] [October, 2012] by Catana Tully (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Although I have a few topics I’m ready to blog about, I’ve not posted lately because I’m busy reading Split at the Root in German! It never ceases to amaze me how Universe works. There was a time when that language was my primary so I knew the difference between “deren” and “dessen.” That’s no longer the case, and I am sure other linguistic things have also fallen by the wayside. Sho

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“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
― Gore Vidal

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“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: euphemisms, language, political-correctness, politics, propoganda

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“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
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“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
― Gore Vidal

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