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April 13, 2009
Your Space in my Blog: 17th of April 2009
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Your Space in my Blog: 16th of April 2009
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Your Space in my Blog: 14th of April 2009
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Your Space in my Blog: 15th of April 2009
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Association of the week: Wine
The traditional symbolism doesn’t link wine with the state of drunkenness. The only exception is when the drinker is in a state of “mystical drunkenness” - meaning in communion with the divine.
Wine in Ancient Cultures was reputed to dispel curses, reveal lies (in vino veritas) and could also be drunk by the dead when people would spell wine in the earth.
The idea that wine is “the blood of the vine” goes back to very ancient perceptions that later on were incorporated to the Christian symbolism o
From Pirate Coelho Central
This week we are going to have the final veredict on the Pirate Bay, the website that allows sharing contents in internet. Yesterday I was browsing internet on pirates, and this is what I found out:
“Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the “golden age of piracy” - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were
The Caliph and his wife
Paulo Coelho
The Arab Caliph sent for his secretary:
“Lock up my wife in the tower while I’m away,” he ordered.
“But she loves Your Majesty!”
“And I love her,” answered the Caliph. “But I respect an old traditional proverb of ours that says “keep your dog thin and he will follow you; make him fat and he will bite you.”
The Caliph went off to war and returned six months later. On arriving, he called for his secretary and asked to see his wife.
“She has abandoned you,” was the secretary’s answer. “Yo
Bookstore in Greece by Dimitri
Thank you Dimitri!
The books have been released so far only in UK, India and Russia. But during the month of April it will be released in US, Greece, France, Holland, Hungary, South Africa, Lebanon and Middle East.
In May: Australia, Iran, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia
If you pass by a bookstore and you happen to have a camera on you, if you see the book in a visible place - it would be great that you would take a picture and send an email to : paulocoelho.writer@gmail.com
Thank you!
To see the r
Quote of the Day
Paulo Coelho
No one day is like another, each moment has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars created.
(By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)
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