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"Not the Terry Pratchett I'm used to. I'm still going to finish it but it has to do a heck of a lot better if it wants me to care for the characters or the story." — Jan 09, 2016 06:43AM
"Not the Terry Pratchett I'm used to. I'm still going to finish it but it has to do a heck of a lot better if it wants me to care for the characters or the story." — Jan 09, 2016 06:43AM
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"Yeah, I'm not feeling it. It probably has to do with the character of Dairy who I'm not at all invested in. Give me some Loch and Pyvic for crying out loud!" — Jan 09, 2016 06:42AM
"Yeah, I'm not feeling it. It probably has to do with the character of Dairy who I'm not at all invested in. Give me some Loch and Pyvic for crying out loud!" — Jan 09, 2016 06:42AM
In martial arts training, you punch and shout at the same time. Your “Shout louder!” command helps to override the “Less power!” command.
“Es esencial comprar libros que no vayan a ser leídos enseguida. Al cabo de uno o dos años, o acaso de cinco, diez, veinte, treinta, cuarenta años, llegará el momento en que se sentirá la necesidad de leer precisamente ese libro -y tal vez lo encontraremos en un estante poco frecuentado de la propia biblioteca-. Mientras tanto, puede suceder que ese libro se haya vuelto irrepetible, y difícil de encontrar incluso en un anticuario, porque es de escaso valor comercial (ciertos libros de bolsillo parecen disolverse rápidamente en el aire) o incluso porque se ha vuelto una rareza y entonces vale mucho más. Lo importante es que ahora se pueda leer enseguida. Sin más búsquedas, sin la necesidad de buscarlo en una biblioteca. Operaciones laboriosas que cancelan la inspiración del momento.
Qué extraña sensación cuando se abre ese libro. Por un lado, la sospecha de haber anticipado, sin saberlo, la propia vida, como si un demonio sabio y malicioso hubiese pensado: "Un día te ocuparás de los Bogomilos, aunque por ahora no sepas casi nada de ellos." Por otra parte, un sentimiento de frustración, como si solo fuéramos capaces de reconocer aquello que tiene que ver con nosotros con gran retraso. Después nos damos cuenta de que esa doble sensación se aplica también a muchos otros momentos de nuestra vida. Valéry escribió una vez que "estamos hechos de dos momentos, y del retraso de una 'cosa' sobre sí misma".”
― Come ordinare una biblioteca
Qué extraña sensación cuando se abre ese libro. Por un lado, la sospecha de haber anticipado, sin saberlo, la propia vida, como si un demonio sabio y malicioso hubiese pensado: "Un día te ocuparás de los Bogomilos, aunque por ahora no sepas casi nada de ellos." Por otra parte, un sentimiento de frustración, como si solo fuéramos capaces de reconocer aquello que tiene que ver con nosotros con gran retraso. Después nos damos cuenta de que esa doble sensación se aplica también a muchos otros momentos de nuestra vida. Valéry escribió una vez que "estamos hechos de dos momentos, y del retraso de una 'cosa' sobre sí misma".”
― Come ordinare una biblioteca
“Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“El lector verdadero está siempre leyendo un libro -o dos, o tres o diez- y la novedad llega como una molestia -a veces irritante, a veces agradable, a veces incluso deseada- en el seno de esa actividad ininterrumpida. Donde, no sin esfuerzo, deberá conquistar un espacio, si no cae antes de las manos del lector. Este, entonces, volverá felizmente a ese otro libro que estaba leyendo porque eso es precisamente lo que tenía ganas de hacer.”
― Come ordinare una biblioteca
― Come ordinare una biblioteca
“In general, everybody got respectable performances out of peroxide, although there were some difficulties with ignition and with combustion stability, but that freezing point was a tough problem, and most organizations rather lost interest in the oxidizer.
Except the Navy. At just that time the admirals were kicking and screaming and refusing their gold-braided lunches at the thought of bringing nitric acid aboard their beloved carriers; they were also digging in their heels with a determined stubbornness that they hadn't shown since that day when it had first been suggested that steam might be preferable to sail for moving a battleship from point A to point B.”
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Except the Navy. At just that time the admirals were kicking and screaming and refusing their gold-braided lunches at the thought of bringing nitric acid aboard their beloved carriers; they were also digging in their heels with a determined stubbornness that they hadn't shown since that day when it had first been suggested that steam might be preferable to sail for moving a battleship from point A to point B.”
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
“And it is a nerve-wracking experience to put your ear against a propellant tank and hear it go "glub" -long pause- "glub" and so on. After such an experience many people, myself (particularly) included, tended to look dubiously at peroxide and to pass it by on the other side.”
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
― Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
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