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Chinese Proverbs & Old Chinese Sayings

XII

“Sonhei que eu era uma borboleta,
a esvoaçar aqui e ali.
Agia somente como borboleta,
Sem ter consciência
de ser um indivíduo.
Depois, dei comigo acordado
outra vez no meu corpo.
Era eu uma pessoa
a sonhar que era uma borboleta?
Ou sou uma borboleta
a sonhar que sou uma pessoa?

Existe uma diferença
entre uma e uma pessoa.
A transição é chamada
metamorfose das coisas materiais.”

Meditações do Kung-Fu e Sabedoria Chinesa Proverbial.
Tao Te King (Tao Te Ching)- Lao-Tse (Lao-Tsu)

http://leiturasdogiba.blogspot.com/2008/08/provrbios-chineses-frases-de-sabedoria.html

The skin I live in

Once again, Almodóvar proves a graceful stylist and poised provocateur with a streak of sexual daring and potent gifts for melodrama, comedy and pathos. More than that, he is able, like such titans of the medium as Hitchcock and Renoir and Wilder and Scorsese to imprint all manner of material with the unmistakable marks of his craft and his personality. You can always tell an Almodóvar film, whether from a plot description or a few moments of footage or even a still shot. His is the sort of talent which the auteur theory was, justifiably, devised to explain.

Of love and other demons

The novel requires readers to consider the possibility that the distinction between fantasy and reality is hazy. How can we know the truth? How do we account for what we cannot explain? Apparently it all depends on perspective. The novel acknowledges that some people will find answers in science and some people will find them in religion. Others will merely admit to the uncertainty of life.The novel begins with the report of the emptying of the crypts at the Convent of Santa Clara. This is where a skull is found of a twelve-year-old girl with a huge amount of copper colored hair growing out of it. The author remembers the legend of the twelve-year-old girl from two hundred years ago who died of rabies. The scene then shifts to a city in colonial New Grenada, in what is now Columbia. Sierva is the twelve-year-old girl, and is going to the market on her birthday. She is slightly bitten on the ankle by a dog that is later found to be infected with rabies. Sierva is being raised by the women of the slave quarter in the house of her father, the Marquis. She is wild and difficult to deal with in any case.

The boy in the striped pajamas

Two boys become friends through a barbed wire fence in "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a beautiful story that provides a unique view of the holocaust as told from the perspective of the eight year old son of a Nazi officer. When the father is promoted, the family moves from Berlin to an isolated home in the country. The first thing young Bruno- played by Asa Butterfield- notices from his new bedroom window is a nearby “farm” with odd people who all wear pajamas. He becomes interested in finding out more about these strange people, however once his mother  realizes that the “farm” he is referring to is actually the Jewish prison camp that his father is running, she forbids Bruno from venturing out that way. The window to his room is boarded up, and his play area becomes very restricted. This film certainly lefts a strong impression. It was more than a movie, it was truly an experience.

Brazilian Jaguar- The cream of cats

The region of Brazil known as the Pantanal -58,000 square miles of rivers and streams, seasonally flooded grasslands, riverine forests and bumpy airstrips, the runways marked out with old tyre halves painted white. The Pantanal is home to between 4,000 and 7,000 jaguar. The presence of these amber-eyed, luxuriantly liveried creatures lends romance to a primordial landscape already brimming with biodiversity.   Panthera onca, to use the scientific name of the world's third biggest cat, is listed in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which means it is among the most threatened creatures on the planet.