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  Regardless of one's religious confession, all it takes is some knowledge of the bible and you're set to laugh. The Creation Effect .

                              Shorter Stories The Tower – Tolkien; One Year of Solitude – Márquez ;Tiny Women – Alcott; Two Blue Fish – Seuss; The Gentleman of Verona – Shakespeare; The Jaunt – Homer; Six Angry Men – Rose; Peace – Tolstoy;  John Atkinson, Wrong Hands . 

Polímata ou Homem do Renascimento. Não digo que o talento deva abranger diversas áreas, mas o Luís deu-nos tanto! A composição inesquecível com o poema de Florbela Espanca, e este livrinho infantojuvenil, «A coragem de Tição», ilustrado por Catarina França e revisto por Manuel Coelho para a Dom Quixote / Leya. Ser poeta é ser mais alto, é ser maior Do que os homens! Morder como quem beija! É ser mendigo e dar como quem seja Rei do Reino de Áquem e de Além Dor! É ter de mil desejos o esplendor E não saber sequer que se deseja! É ter cá dentro um astro que flameja, É ter garras e asas de condor! É ter fome, é ter sede de Infinito! Por elmo, as manhas de oiro e de cetim... É condensar o mundo num só grito! E é amar-te, assim, perdidamente... É seres alma, e sangue, e vida em mim E dizê-lo cantando a toda a gente!  

  Belíssimo vídeo sobre Maria Keil (1914 - 2012). Uma ou outra gralha na legendagem mas, de resto, é isto que a IA pode ter de positivo.  Grata ao Ti Calotas - Algarve STYLE no FB e no IG .    

  For the June 8, 2026, Fiction Issue cover, the artists Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral collaborated on a shared vision of a life filled with books, enjoyed by a whole community. The two work in close partnership: he draws, she applies the colors, and they develop their ideas together. “Our home is literally filled with books in every room, even the bathroom. We and our children read them, study them, live with and among them,” the couple told us. They quoted Federico García Lorca, a writer from their home town of Granada, Spain: “No sólo de pan vive el hombre. Yo, si tuviera hambre y estuviera desvalido en la calle no pediría un pan; sino que pediría medio pan y un libro.” His words translate to: “Man does not live by bread alone. If I were hungry and destitute on the street, I would not ask for a loaf of bread; I would ask for half a loaf and a book.”

Para a Zero a Oito .    

In my case, I know a few of these voice actors because they're "also face actors" (well, apart from The Simpsons's, who doesn't remember a few names from its end credits but has never seen their faces?) "A documentary co-produced by John DiMaggio (who also narrates). It centers on the behind-the-scenes process of voice acting, featuring interviews of many voice actors (a lot of whom you may recognize from many Western animated TV series, English anime dubs, and video games) and the entire entourage of people responsible for getting voices from studio to premiere. It also covers the history of voice acting and shows how professional voice acting is still going strong in an age when live-action celebrities (most of whom can't voice act very well) are brought in to do voice-work, as well as voice acting in video games and anime dubbing." TV Tropes  (includes links to trailers on youtube).  

Let's check these many illustrated by Anjana Iyer , for the Found in Translation project.  Backpfeifengesicht – DE – A face badly in need of a fist. (Em PT, somos negativos e depreciativos, a pessoa nem tem cara para levar um estalo / um soco.) Iktsuarpok – Inuit – The frustration of waiting for someone to turn up. (We have seen this one before, but with another translation: “The sense of anticipation as you wait for someone to visit.”) Tingo – Pascuense / Rapa Nui – To gradually steal all the possessions out of a neighbour's house by borrowing and not returning. (We have seen this one before, but with another translation: “The act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”) Ilunga (Tshiluba) – A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. (Em PT, Luba é uma das línguas bantas.) Hanyauku – KWN – The act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand. (E...

Let's check a few more – illustrated by Emma Block , who did an art retreat in Monsaraz. 🇵🇹  Flechazo – ES – An arrow shot love at first sight. Iktsuarpok – Inuit – The sense of anticipation as you wait for someone to visit. Merak – SR – A sense of oneness with the universe derived from the simplest of pleasures. Firgun – HE – The simple, unselfish joy that something good has happened to someone else. (The opposite of Schadenfreude!) Oodal – TA – The fake anger lovers display after a tiff. Dor – RO – The sense of longing when separated from that which you love. (tantamount to PT Saudade; «Dor» means Ache or Pain in PT) Aay’han – Mandalorian – A bittersweet moment of mourning & joy. Manabamáte – Rapa Nui – The lack of appetite you suffer when falling in love.  

Because of our Saudade, let's check a few more – illustrated by  Marija Tiurina . Duende – ES – The mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person. Cafuné – PTbr – The act of tenderly running fingers through someone's hair.   Gufra – AR – The amount of water that can be held in a hand.   Palegg – NO – Anything and everything that you can put on a slice of bread. (Temos isto em PT: conduto; presigo.)   Tingo – Pascuense / Rapa Nui – The act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.  

From The New York Times     Chris (Simpsons artist)                 As someone in the word business, I’m often asked to weigh in on the question of literature and artificial intelligence. People are usually surprised when I admit that I love A.I. I use A.I. for everything, 24/7. I can’t get enough, me and my whole family. My uncle uses A.I. to buy onions. It used to be you wanted onions, you went to the store and maybe it was full of people, or it was empty — you literally never knew. Now A.I. can calculate when the grocery store is low-traffic, and my uncle just strolls in, la-di-da, and buys onions, no waiting. Imagine a world where you don’t have to wait to buy onions. It’s here. I have this digital agent. Does everything for me, from managing work flow to offloading repetitive tasks to reminding me when to hug my kids. I call it the Gooch. The Gooch is up all night, scrabbling around its binary habit trail, what’s-upping m...

 

Venho só lembrar do Concurso Sardinhas 2026, a decorrer até 7 de abril. Por exemplo, estas são da autoria de Joanna Grodecka, 2019; Hugo Figueiredo, 2020; Raquel Silva, 2023; Patrícia Penedo, 2019.  

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From BBC Culture :  Forget Romeo and Juliet or Rose and Jack: Frederic William Burton's achingly beautiful depiction of Hellelil and Hildebrand's last moment together will stay with you forever. So say the painting's many new fans on social media, where it has been stratospherically popular. Though it dates back to the 19th Century, a surge of TikTok videos about viewing The Meeting on the Turret Stairs – both online and in real life – has gone viral, describing the painting as "a breathless moment" and "life changing".  It might have been made the most vulgar thing in the world, [but] the artist has raised it to the highest pitch of refined emotion – George Eliot Painted in large, vivid swathes of red and blue, Burton's 1864 watercolour Hellelil and Hildebrand, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs boldly illustrates the couple's final tryst before Hildebrand's painful death. Here, the prince meets with the love of his life, Helleli...