Friday, March 4, 2011

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"Unworthy you!" Stéphane Hessel

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93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".

Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?

Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...

Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.

And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.

ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.

The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.

Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...

Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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"Logicomix" A. Doxiadis, C. Papadimitriou, A. Papadatos, A. Di Donna

Back Cover:
England, 1884 - In the solitude of an old English manor house, the little Bertie Russell discovers, fascinated, the power of logic. This discovery will lead his life ...
on an American campus, 1939 - As Nazi troops invade the Old: Continent Professor Russell tells an audience of students a fascinating story, one of the greatest minds of his time, Poincaré, Hilbert, Wittgenstein, etc.., that of their relentless pursuit - but apparently he lost before - the foundations of scientific truth. And how these thinkers obstinate aesthetes those who thirst for absolute truth, always preyed by madness and exposed to the violence of their times, tried to reformulate mathematics and contemporary science.
Athens today - Three men, two women and a dog wondering about the fate of these exceptional men and their extraordinary discoveries and their continuing legacy in our everyday life ...
Immerse yourself in an exciting intellectual adventure that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world!

notice of Emmanuel
Logicomix is one of my acquisitions Angoulême 2011. With the nice bonus dedication below (thank you again Ben and So). It is also currently my most interesting discovery. Surprising at first sight for a graphic novel that traces the history of logic, a topic that is certainly not trivial, but let's face it, not really exciting at first. And yet the four authors of this very nice pad of 340 pages are able to make this unlikely material a very good book, innovative in many ways, as smart as beautiful, and instructive as rhythmic. Once is not custom, the subject deserves a little dissection rule to take all the good measure of its rich originality.

First the background. The authors do not hide the purpose of the work was to expose the history of modern logic, focusing on the major issues that formed in the early twentieth century 'the quest of the foundations of mathematics. " So it was for them to convey to the reader a certain amount of very specific information that would likely hit a rare elite particularly interested in the subject if the data had been compiled in an essay or a treaty, or absolutely no one if the track's classic novel had been followed, the risk was as great a story to produce dry and tasteless.

Second bias narrative. The use of a multi-layered narrative is really smart and makes the narrative a fluidity that would probably not have been achieved otherwise (the authors take stage in creating comics, comic which tells a conference September 3, 1939 by Bertrand Russell in a U.S. university on the role of logic in human affairs, conference during which Bertrand Russell himself describes the events of his personal biography and the history of the quest of the foundations of mathematics. "). This seemingly complex structure is made clear by using the format "graphic" and reinforced by clever tricks of formatting or coloring that differentiate implicitly (I only realized after the finished book) different levels of narration: coaching boxes (cutout with rounded corners, square corners ...), sidebar background color pages, color codes in the boxes (black and white illustrations / examples ...).
the center of this structure in the form of Russian dolls is the biography of Bertrand Russell who did a bit of a hero of the story, or character to which attention is that we hate that one understands or that disturbs, but which leaves no one indifferent. Although this choice has forced the authors state in which the afterword, some approximations or even some historical inventions, it immediately gives a very theoretical subject a human who carries the reader from the world of ideas to the facts. Third

form. The choice of comics, it is more daring, finally appears to be an excellent idea. The design (and color) infuses indeed a precious life to work, facilitates the example and demonstration and allows a flexible organization of the narrative whose other media have failed. I must confess that over the single line without being simplistic and colorful impressed me even before they begin reading.

I leave aside the parallels and entanglement between logic and madness put forward by the authors to conclude by stressing the main message of the book, which seems very relevant (to me scientific training aspiring to a minimum of literary and humanistic). Of course, Logicomix highlights the logic as a powerful scientific tool that will find numerous fields of applications, including for example that of making decisions about human affairs. Yet "when logic freezes in global theories and seemingly perfect, it can become very vicious scam!". We now have some clues to take the measurement.


To read or not?
Yes, I strongly recommend reading this graphic novel hybrid absolutely innovative and totally exciting. I would recommend only to those like me who have no specific knowledge regarding the history of logic and mathematics to first read the notebook end of the book or refer to it regularly so as not to pass side by ignorance of important elements of context "historic" or concepts.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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An Angel Passes: A small thing that makes you so BIG : "We often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a compliment sincere, or ... "

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I have a tiny heart of anything, but I send my heart filled full of light, full of love and I pray with all my strength for peace on our planet !!!!! not staying negative, lamenting to our screens that we can help! I remain convinced of the power of the mind and heart when both are directed with such sincerity and love!
THEN if united to send peace would only be in our thoughts more positive, and no I'm not a fool, where a dreamer, a good friend Matthew said: "It's the thought that we create the world" it does no wrong!
Since the power of visualization and thought in my life works why not you?
Prayer is not an "I salute you ..." I do not pray that way, my belief is different, I just pray with short sentences and clear especially with the heart, and it works!!

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I may be naive, but I believe in ME! YES I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES! PEACE that is deposited on the earth once and for all !!!!!! Annie

AND yes I believe with all my heart !

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"Journey to the Land of Cotton" by Erik Orsenna

Back Cover:
This story begins in the mists of time. A man passing remark a shrub whose branches end in white flakes. One can imagine that the hand approach. The human species has become acquainted with the softness of cotton. For years, something told me that by following the paths of cotton, agriculture, the textile industry through biochemistry, [...] I understand better my world. The results of the lengthy investigation has exceeded my expectations. To understand the globalisations of yesterday and today, nothing is worth examining a piece of cloth. Probably because it is fact that son and links, and travel of the shuttle.


Notice JB:
Erik Orsenna young academician (63 years), has many hats, the main one being that of renowned author especially for the Colonial Exhibition, which earned him the Goncourt in 1988. In addition to numerous past political responsibilities under Mitterrand, has more recently been part of the Attali commission.

I like to read essays. Maybe too much so, in view of the stack piled menacing on my bedside table. The annotations are making more frequent than in novels, the reader's eyebrows frown, the pace of play breaks and lengthens the time ... Fortunately for us, some authors are kind enough to write essays descriptive enough, or disseminated uninteresting to soften the course of their reading.

Take a product known and used by all (indirectly): cotton. Reassemble the whole chain "your t-shirt -> peasant -> collect it" will allow us to highlight the interrelated political and economic mechanisms that govern our planet. The concept is not new (see eg Gammon on this blog), purpose, either ("We walk on the head, the bad aspects of globalization will pose to our loss).
The story is meant that a traveler who travels the globe, fueled by his curiosity. The author crosses continents, asking questions, gathering information, meeting the different actors in the cotton sector, and the book ends with twenty pages where he gives his opinion. Each new destination (China, USA, Egypt, etc..) Is accompanied by some historical and economic benchmarks succinct rather interesting.

We discover, through the pages, the facts certainly interesting but a lot of déjà vu. The U.S. over-subsidize their agriculture, creating unfair competition. Their response to this problem is "Stop our grants will not raise the price of cotton, and we will only do so if all other producers are doing it," something obviously false, since doubling the price go up gradually and it is impossible in emerging countries, devoid of American economic power, plunging thousands of people into starvation. Brazil meanwhile, chose to play the card of fair competition by building giant plantations at the expense of the Amazon rainforest. With regard to a country like Mali, whose only asset is her funeral manpower at low cost, production is almost 100% managed by the state. The situation is deteriorating, the world price fell, the government continues to buy fixed-rate production and loss of his peasants, avoiding social revolt, but got bogged down even further into debt. Other examples are presented to us (and Uzbekistan in particular its faux-Mafia).

As for the beef industry is the endless circle of economic interdependence that makes the game of the rich against the poor. China and India are buying more than they poor (that is to say to Africa) to produce low cost to the U.S., the West and support the growth of domestic demand. When the rural exodus will slow, and especially when the middle class will be the majority, rising wages and living standards that China will (it is already beginning to do) will "make happen" in turn. Brazil, among countries with the strongest growth world, made the economic choice of the short term. Its huge land used to grow cotton, oil palm or soybeans for export, disfigure its primary forest. For several decades now, France is disqualified. It is impossible to manufacture manufactures simple, competitive, despite government subsidies and high productivity of French workers.

few spikes on Monsanto, cakes to feed the cattle, "China requires that social peace in order to better support its growth" and is obtained from an interesting product Base (e cotton) and a few local examples (countries) a nice little treatise against evil counterparts of globalization.
can agree or not. But, since this is the book and not the ideas that I think here we would have liked to read more engagement, provoke debate, and not fall into the eternal cotton / cattle / seed / pesticides, although this probably also works with diamonds / shoes / salmon.

To read or not
No. The ideas are interesting but too general to fuel a debate that is not new. We would like to stop read the findings for reading suggestions, solutions (if there is a problem) or at least approach the subject differently. Journey to the Land of Cotton is certainly not a bad book. But it is wrong to describe what has already been written a thousand times and sometimes better.

Monday, February 28, 2011

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Bon Voyage!

I have more time for internet these days, as you know I moved, yet tonight I really wanted to do my small tribute to a great lady!
from tiny ANNIE GIRARDOT has always touched me, I have not watched a movie without shedding tears of my emotion, this woman was for me an exceptional woman, WOMAN AUTHENTIC !!!!!
Tonight I found myself crying watching TV with the announcement of his death! My favorite actors and BEBEL ANNIE, I only have one!
GOOD Annie travel to the land of stars, angels and god. May peace be in your heart and soul!
un homme qui me plait

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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"Do not pull on the Mockingbird" by Harper Lee


Back Cover:

In a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch raises her two children, Jem and Scout. Man of integrity and rigorous, this lawyer is appointed by the court to defend a Black man accused of raping a white woman.
This brief summary can explain why this book, published in 1960 - at the heart of the struggle for civil rights - was so successful. It is not enough however to understand how this novel became a cult book in the United States and many other countries.
is that, while lying about it in Alabama at a precise time - 1930 - Harper Lee wrote a novel universal child confronted with prejudice, lying, bigotry and evil. Narrated by Scout with great humor, this story is the tale of the American short story and the novel of initiation.

Notice JB:
Is it still necessary to present this book? Only the significance of the title you may still seem mysterious why one solution: to read at least half of the book.
30 million copies sold, the Pulitzer in 1961, no interviews, no second novel, what could explain the success of a seemingly mundane book? So in all dives myth ...

The action takes place in a small American town in Alabama, Maycomb, during the years 1930. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and he raises only his two children, Jem and Scout girl rather "tomboy" who will be our narrator. An event will disrupt the daily rather quiet Maycomb: black, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white woman and Atticus is who will handle his defense.

Rumours rife on the autobiographical novel, half assertion validated by the author (Atticus was partly inspired by his father, the town of Maycomb which unfolds the story would be very similar to that of Harper Lee's childhood).

Alabama 30 years suffered the brunt of the Great Depression. The population, mostly rural, is poor, well attached to the hatred of the "Yankee" and mocks the abolition of slavery. It is full segregation, and although the KKK has lost its superb (after numerous convictions for bribery and tax debts exponential), blacks still live in the margins, living in imitation slavery.

At the book's release in the early 1960s, much has changed. It is in full civil rights movement ("African Americans' struggle for obtaining and enjoyment of their civil rights "), Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech in Washington and white youth in his manner conveys the momentum of freedom through the emergence of culture-cons. That may be where there is a part of the book's success. Part of the American population 30/40 years will return to childhood through the story of Scout, and the side "small town south of the U.S." They will find themselves in may be the little girl who discovers the world of adults.

is then discussed issues and commitment by Harper Lee is the second key to success. Atticus is a good father, right, and particularly modern for its time, as opposed to traditionalism and ambient sexism. Through his work as a lawyer, he managed to cast doubt on a meeting of jurors to convict a black man accused of raping a white woman. J. Taylor and Hate the sheriff, state figures, know how to be fair and honest. Many avant-garde themes (instead of black, instead of women, role of the state) that will echo the claims of the American youth of the 60s.

Finally, the book is focused by writing simple, personal and just serves the story perfectly. Harper Lee wrote several versions of the work, and this, over several years. Wise decision: it is a success! No story filled with commonplaces or torrents of good feelings, the author has found an alchemy themes / interest in the story / tone that works. Tested recipe, the book is full of very good parts (which Atticus shoots, gifts Bo Bradley, etc..), And mood-years Southern 30 is a success (the stereotypes of "Finch" / "Ewell" are particularly about).

To read or not?
"Do not pull on the Mockingbird" is a work full, frank, open and above. Seriousness of the topics covered and subtlety of approach, quality of writing, a reminder of childhood, you might find, like me, your book and can be your pleasure. An excellent book that I recommend without hesitation.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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"If one night a traveler" by Italo Calvino

Back Cover :
Reader, have you ever dreamed of being the hero of a novel by Italo Calvino? Have you ever imagined becoming an author, librarian, university professor? The journey begins here: not a story, but ten sublime and breathtaking adventures, you'll be involved. One of the most ingenious novels, the most unusual, this magical triangle that links author, characters and reader.

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At the sound of the flute, seduced by a back cover promising and by the relative difficulty in obtaining the book, we wanted the first page of a great story.
The book is constructed as a "project literary, alternating narrative "monitoring" cut into sections and chapters of the first unfinished often sewn to your main line. Add a touch ahead of interaction author / reader ("You drive, drive ..."), and some fantastic touches, the idea is quite interesting and quite ambitious. In your books ...


Notice JB:
"The book you are the hero" ... accompanied by a cover bears a dragon, a dungeon and often adventurous, very brave teenagers of the 1990s may remember being. Following the birth of literary conscience, was perhaps marked by "Ants" and its sequels, and, by extension, you may have read the "book travel" (Bernard Werber). At 15 or 30 years, and although the sensitivity is different, the player that I like to think that this is his book, but he does not like to be "You Drive" tu "or be heard in a tone and didactic. Mr. Calvino may tend to think he knows his future readers and that therefore our ability to dissect a fatherly feelings and habits (The story "classic" of the work tells the story of a player who begins a book that is very interesting but the rest is missing). Humble-the-board author-who-don't-read-this-ever-lines, the personality of the bed is not always the mirror of what he will as a "player", the calmer of us may be the most virulent of the readers. Reading, like writing without doubt, an act often selfish, a little voyeuristic and dreamlike, and you do not like seeing his little kingdom collapsing blows of tu and ultra-marked paths.

If you always follow, as this reader-protagonist in search of the rest of his book, the author inserts some sort of "early" chapters, stories and quasi-independent with no real link with the main story of book, which-s'-complete-at-end-of-20-pages-but-we-should-have-wanted-to-go, we are now similar to the "hero" of the main narrative. Given the quality of some of these early stages, it is certain that we can only satisfy us that the sequence was truncated: some are pleasant (in the station's history, revolution), some honest smile (The tepid erotic story Japanese), the general level is quite poor ... As we turn the pages, and we see unfold over the history of the "main" particularly complex drawling imitation ( Spotted an end "pseudo" original), the desire to commit the irreparable, skip pages, is strong ...

To read or not?
Not ...
This book is a concept, a structure that tends to scrutinize the reader as he turns the pages, and has not for him literary talent necessary to reduce this unpleasant feeling. We are the judges-buyers-readers, do not deny. A snub would end 'hit' here we feel attacked. Unfortunately for me it missed a concept which can not but welcome the research to make "original."

Notice Emmanuel
The pitch and the title of this book by Calvino could only enchanters. They also had their effect because they had allowed this novel exhausted pipped at the post the very famous in The Great Gatsby voting by readers of the blog for the choice of the book of the month of February!
Having recently read and enjoyed Cloven Viscount I was even more eager to discover this new novel by Calvino, whose language and intelligent fantasy completely conquered me.
So ominous disappointment that gripped me when I glimpsed the first line a sort of pre-Book of Travel , whose book had crystallized deep void in my memory as as an intolerable tu drive.
The discovery of the different beginnings of stories, which are the salt of the book, I though for a moment a door ajar on the novel by Calvino could have written: a kind of hybrid between novel and brilliant essay, which would have talked of writing (how one creates a story that makes you want in a few words), reading (When and how do we scale the initial curiosity to this irrepressible greed that grips us from reading a good story) at the same time as the interaction between two. Maybe so I imagined at that time a sort of courage that the author agrees to "burn out" potential ten novels just to write one. I must emphasize in particular that I found none of the "first chapter" really bad, some are more my style (the detective story that opens the book, the pseudo-Mafia novel, the strange half-fantasy novel that begins ringtones ...) than others, but all I seem to incipits valid for a novel of the genre they represent (even the Japanese-style erotic novel seemed nice).
Still, the chapters on how to make the link, even those that would enlighten the reader of all the stories cleverly linking them aborted, are quickly succeeded by dint of ridiculous twists, endless digressions, and exuberance nonsensical, frankly bored me. The overall result is therefore very disappointing because even the introductions which I emphasized quality above, eventually seem meaningless in the midst of this jumble of ramblings of a trivial nature. To give the final impression that Calvino wrote his book in mind with the idea of a form (a book that would bring together the beginnings of stories linked by all-means-) rather than a substantive (a book about the exposure of a story from the perspective of the reader, but also what the writer). And that's a shame.

Read or not?
No. At least I've read a lot better Calvino ( Cloven Viscount ) worth well over the trip. But this is not all the more annoying that we frankly feel that the author (which we know the talent) was let go during the writing of this book, resting on a reputation and ease of pen, and betting on the originality to lay a book loosely mall when he could make his masterpiece.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

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"The little novel of the eighth Christian Millau

Back Cover:
All the magic and the keys of wine a small book universe.

Notice JB:
It was after one of my many plays of "In Vino", broadcast on the wine posted on BFM, I discovered this book which was presented by its author, Christian Millau, co-founder of the Gault-Millau.
few clicks later on the excellent site selling second hand books that I-don't-mention-not-the-name, and here he stood roaring in my mailbox.
The book is in fact a succession of anecdotes and stories about wine and its environment, some not exceeding a few pages, Christian Millau has had time to collect during his long career as a critic. The last pages are, meanwhile, spent the author's favorite quotes, for wine (It includes authors such as Wilde, Baudelaire, etc..). We can therefore read a jumble of Yquem vertical legend, the story of "Billionaires Vinegar" or discussion of a bottle of XVIIIth century.
All these stories are not of equal interest, some frankly deserve a visit, others much less. I guess the sensitivity of the player plays much. It is true, for example, that the social role of wine through the ages is not what excites me the most.

Christian Millau likes to define himself as a lover, a lover of wine, which criticizes the "experts" and their pompous jargon and customs. The wine must remain a beverage of pleasure, or the novice as the insider should be able to find, so the dead "aromas of pear Lorraine", "sweat of young doe" or else "essence of rare wood in the Amazon" ... There is also no recall his adolescent discoveries along this gruff grocer in the cellar full wonders, or even to desecrate agreements dishes and wines universal type: oysters, Chablis, Sauternes, foie gras, etc.. The truth is probably somewhere between the two, as the saying goes, even if the notion of pleasure can be immediate and accessible (I / I hate / why), to discover the wine should be drunk, be a palace, share feelings and talk with those who speak the best winemakers. Christian Millau may elect (Hon incidentally) anti-diktat because he has learned, and because it was initiated.

ago in this book a bit of Taste and the power of Jonathan Nossiter . Wrongly called Mondovino by many, this story / movie had the effect of a mini-bomb in the wine world to its output. Standardization of taste, flavor Parkerizing, ubiquity of technology, excessive speculation, the wine world was not the venerable patriarch stroking his vines of his calloused hands, but a bureaucrat greedy for profit and export. Obviously, the situation is not as binary, and though some areas have clearly tipped toward a culture worthy of a science fiction movie, many winemakers known or unknown, or continued have switched to more natural practices, and a more upright stance vis-à-vis the vagaries of weather, disease or the wine itself.
"Wine is made to be drunk, not to be subject to speculation." While we obviously agree with this charming principle, I believe it is now impossible, even ridiculous, to hide the globalization of demand and the democratization of knowledge (thank you internet). As the years go by, the "stars" are expensive (at least in the Bordeaux region), as demand has become highly exceeds supply, the rich Russian or Asian who joined the rich American or European in the dance, and all these people often want to drink the same thing. The result comes from two angles:
- Fields announced on the fly "vintages of the century, rising prices, and the young novice buyer who sees the 2009 as a supermarket exclaimed: This is a great vintage ! Nobody wants to miss the next 1982/1990/2005 ...
- Fields not increasing their prices and continuing to supply their faithful recipients priced area are victims of counterfeiting and black market.
I consider the wine is worth the price we are willing to put there. If you growl against the rise of prices on the 1st GCC, not fear, many excellent reasonably priced areas still exist. If you plague because such areas do not accept growlers to take you as beneficiary, think of those who trusted them 20 years ago, and make an effort on your side to go to meet young winemakers.

Notice JB:
A little yes. No technical jargon, this book is for anyone curious oenophiles, and that, whatever their level. The stories are generally rather nice, the book is short and reads quickly, the approach is honest and simple, have fun by combining a dozen stories that are part of the construction of the comparison to wine by Christian Millau. Writ for want of a great literary moment, a moment of friendly curiosity.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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"Cantatrix Sopranica L. and other scientific writings" by Georges Perec

Back Cover
parody, pastiche, load, cartoon? Let the reader to characterize a name all texts gathered here, and sometimes reveal a figure unknown to Perec, one of the scientist.

Notice Emmanuel
Dear reader who lives in the hard science and you relax in the literature.
Or you who work daily in the field of humanities. You finally
is loving critics and literary interpretations of obscure works that are not less. Cantatrix Sopranica L. is a small collection of texts that you can not be unexpected as I fail to appreciate.
Georges Perec is one of the most prominent members of the OULIPO , this workshop creative and experimental literature created by Raymond Queneau we talked about on this blog a few months ago, with criticism of Quackgrass .
is an author who was very productive but is generally known for its award-winning novels such Life user manual (which I aspire to read soon) or Things . Yet a man of science as letters engaged in a process of exploring the possibilities of language and writing, he seems to have made her creativity in many directions, including that which concerns us here: scientific writing fictitious.
Because that's what the five texts are compiled in this collection of barely a hundred Pages: pseudo-scientific texts that mimic or away, both in substance over form, the archetypes of the genre.
Article eponymous Cantatrix Sopranica L., the most famous of the five, is naturally the most brilliant and most delicious to the doctor I am. But it is also an admirable text for the many levels of interpretation clearly intended by the author: the neophyte will appreciate the puns created by the names of authors cited in references (McHullot, Mac Haskett & Massinture; Payre & Tairnelle ...), while the non-specialist scientific guffaw at the resumption of the exact structure of an article Scientific and approximate translation of the abstract and the most connoisseurs will enjoy the scientific references that Perec sharp turn away brilliantly (the somatotopic organization of the cerebral cortex becomes tomatotopique, abbreviations designating the basal ganglia brain-STN, GPI, GPE ... - become SNCF, CNRS, CHU ...).
Obviously I am less expert to judge the other texts, aspects of which still attracts me: the seriousness with which is admirably addressed the question of crossings between cyclic imaginary butterflies and interpretation of delusional fantasy of a fragment text written by the enigmatic Raymond Roussel at the beginning of last century are just a few examples.

To read or not?
If you're tight or not really know anything in the world of science, no. But otherwise, if you are interested in science or even more if you befriend every day you will appreciate the extraordinary inventiveness of Georges Perec. Especially since these few seemingly innocuous texts if raise genuine philosophical question as their "scientific" makes them appear realistic and valid. So it is a pure figment of imagination of a man ...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Kidde Alarm 1276 Keeps Beeping

"War Reporter" by Patrick Chauvel

Back Cover:
For thirty-five years, Patrick Chauvel has photographed most of the conflicts that have gripped the world. Nourished by Kessel and Monfreid Schoendoerffer, great old son of the reporter Jean-Francois Chauvel, he tried to go even closer to the news. It is one of the last of a generation of reporters who lived in the Six Day War, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ireland, Iran, Lebanon, Panama, Afghanistan, Chechnya .. . He should have died a hundred times, he was wounded numerous times. In his reports, Patrick Chauvel was removed, he found himself facing a firing squad, he sank with the boat people to Haiti ...

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No pictures brand new boxes waiting patiently soak up the light to capture a scene of Parisian nightlife, modeling diaphanous swaying to the rhythm of flash or Insect Close-Up, welcome bullets, bombs and vests. No paparazzi in biceps trembling under the weight of their bazooka-zoom but the sound of the cocking lever and montages of film sent in envelopes.

You'll understand this book by Patrick Chauvel evidence tells a different era, a photograph "old" immortalizing conflicts around the globe. Starting his career as a photographer "war" in Vietnam, he will constantly follow all the major conflicts of the 20th century, Ireland to Panama, Iran to Chechnya.

The book is divided into chapters-conflicts, which summarize a few dozen pages of the newspaper of the author and sometimes the nature of the conflict, surrounded by a few anecdotes "field" often interesting. It is therefore entirely possible to read in any order depending on whether you preferred "IRA" or "Khmer" when your hands are trembling seize the book.
can salute the small dressing literary approach the strength of stories, each story there is an effort to maintain a certain structure, preventing the bombardment of chaotic stories.
Chauvel talks about his addiction to conflict, the adrenaline, personals, his "lucky star" and simply do what he must do, take pictures at the peril of his life. I read on various forums that many praise his ability to does not give its opinion on the conflict that crosses, others might say that his choice of photographs are nonetheless, another debate. A bit like a Mike Horn, the author is like magnetized by the conflict, measuring perfectly well aware of the danger and he wants to be a witness. So obviously we do not cut the hand "getting close to death-chance-inhuman-ego", but that's part of genre ...

The war photographer saw this golden age of pre-internet where it was sometimes the only witness to history in the making, or in the same measure, the agency Magnum could afford to send their free see results across the globe, "brings us your vision, your testimony."
Advent of digital democratization of the photographic material, everyone becomes a photographer, able to bring back the "image". The good side of things is no doubt that it is now virtually impossible to "miss" event as the eyes-everywhere cell phones are sometimes used to carry or bring real moments. The worse is that now the professional photographer is required to make "better" than the amateur, to take risks sometimes ridiculous or have an excellent finisher to give sensational in his image. While the editing is nothing new, it was already possible in the era of film development, but it is now so heavy, so systematic, it can transform the mundane into "interesting", turning the intensity of tone or sharpness of the picture above the choice of composition.
Not sure Nick Ut's Pulitzer would have been without a Photoshop expert today ...

To read or not? :
An interesting plunged into the world of journalism war, driven by a real immersion in the everyday life of the author, halfway between the adventurer and the artist.
We regret the side a bit "comprehensive" narrative, a succession of several armed conflicts throughout the century are not all on the same level of interest. It lacks the "dive" that would have made me really get into the book, this thread that would not have actually read the book over several days.
It is above all a book than a true testimony "newspaper" written in the heat of the action, not to love that shade or not.
If you like photojournalism, and you have at least a small interest in the geopolitics of the last century, when a small yes.

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Sometimes I flip my nostalgic old photo albums. Paris, Lyon and silver (2004)

Friday, February 11, 2011

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Intimate Concert on Mysterious Wave





A nice concert tonight on the aptly named Mysterious Wave, along with Lazy Mistwood (vocals and guitar)
decor a bit delayed .. a bit intimate, a little corner in heaven .. Under the Cherry Moon.
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And here is how to pass a non-day trip to London without her friends. If I'm going to the movies, not to see Nothing to declare - haha - but to enjoy The speech of a king . And a little taste of London anyway.