Friday, August 27, 2010

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Kata Sandairui

Kata by Sensei Sandairui Seikoh Tohyama (1928 - 2009), 10th dan Hanshi and direct disciple of Kanbun Uechi, founder of the Uechi Ryu style.


Monday, August 23, 2010

Egg White Discharge On Day Of Period

*** A mansion under the influence ****

Contemplating the river that runs silently, it admires the pink and white lilies in bloom. A strange silence voices speak to us bass, greet the person who spends a nod. We dare to cry, laugh. The trees themselves are standing still, some of their branches are reflected in the placid water. Mood disorder enough to finish reading the novel by Sarah Waters, The Junk .

The first time he entered Hundreds Hall, the narrator is ten years. Her mother works as a nanny. Colonel Ayres, his wife and their daughter Susan living in the mansion. All three "were a lovely family. "These are important people in the region. The house sits almost unreal as its majestic architecture impresses ... Thirty years later, the narrator became Dr. Faraday, his parents are dead, the Second World War is over. Coventry rebuilt. Called to the mansion to care for an illness of their young servant, the narrator is amazed its ramshackle appearance. There live more modestly than Mrs. Aydes, Roderick, his son, Caroline, his daughter. Ruined, they have no resources other than their farm products. The colonel died of a ruptured aneurysm, Suzan diphtheria. Fascinated by the decay due to the war, Dr. Faraday imagined the splendor that once lit up the family home, forging close ties with its occupants. As as the plot unfolds its golden son, later to lead, is still hostile and benevolent character. Like Mrs. Aydes, Roderick and Caroline, the manor hides its secrets in heavy wet walls, its creaky floors, its frayed fabrics, objects obsolete. The stone-carved pieces whole stand. Weed invades the stairs split. Fleeting impressions portrayed by Dr. Faraday, which gradually turn into an evil being exhausting. "The house is greedy, greedy. She defends herself against intruders from outside. Spiteful, she attacks the three residents, inventing sticky shadows, creating frightening specters. The past springs from all sides, like a hereditary madness, a collective hysteria that camouflages falsely everyday life. Her mother and brother out of reach, Caroline hides behind a growing concern hard work, pushing for no apparent reason as he dedicates the love Dr. Faraday.

It is impossible to describe fully, and this would be a shame, a story so haunting, masterfully conducted by Sarah Waters. Only English writers manage to cross with as much creativity and talent of the frontier separating the tangible reality of fantasy. We love the descriptions almost Balzac, while lace, places captured by Dr. Faraday. The author's careful gaze is divided between historical facts and social degradation of a changing century. Sarah Waters we permeates the atmosphere that prevailed once reckless in some middle-class families, victims of unpredictable WWII. The tragic events that shook the mansion annihilate the memory of revelry, showing fashionable neighborhood relations. Silencing the rumors that occur each day revealing more about Hundreds Hall is reason enough to save the pride uniting these creatures threatened with extinction. Fire and water, and rustling rustling mingle with the panting of the house, that oppressed protagonists stumbling in the ruts poisoned ... Dr. Faraday tells a spectator helplessly naive, disasters that occurred three years earlier. It still does not understand the forces that destroyed abject Hundreds Hall, as if the mansion had harbored harmful beings who would turn against the building until the brambles, ivy and other plants devouring the choke in turn .

Roman dense and captivating as he wrote it more today. Actors arisen from a bygone world have adapted to the modern era of the postwar period. Hundreds if Hall has protected the contemporary needs, the mansion has awakened consciences footprints regret evil, evil omens stigmatized. What Caroline has been very appreciative, confident Dr. Faraday she had no place in England. Stone and mortal flesh collided, each experiencing the irreversible failure of its painful mysteries. The undesirable, returning childish, is it not refuse to keep their eyes open to his own downfall? Waive away sooner or later "something" unknown, one day or another, hit hard? Read

to realize that the old man, we can not bear to be disturbed. Defy the laws of balance we deport adventures beyond contingency, assured, we met Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, this tale precursors Funky fabulous and terrifying!

Note the original presentation of the book. Hard cover, untrimmed sheets, sepia tones. All matches perfectly with the melancholy tale of coming off.


The Junk, Sarah Waters
Translated of English (United Kingdom) by Alain Defossé
Editions Alto, Quebec, 2010, 584 pages

Monday, August 16, 2010

Conginetal Ptosis Non-surgery

Zoom ... vroom ... Summer! ***

We love to walk so that we ride by car rarely attracts. Yet, all windows down, hair flying, it's nice to indulge in a sweet insouciance, the landscape moving at a brisk pace. We remember these rides on Moroccan roads, the smell of the ocean, eucalyptus, mingling with the harshness of Saharan dust. The images were accommodating spontaneous, they are pushing for us to look at the number 102 of the journal XYZ. A review of the news.

First, it was noted that the theme - the tank - similar to the perfect season. Although the fluidity of some texts seems blurred by anguish or questions raised, we took great pleasure in reading these nine stories, without identifying them may be reached exactly. What happens there in the head of a man, when Jean-Pierre Vidal transforms into a character imbued with himself, driving a luxury car that appeals to girls as to neglect lovingly driver? Is this the bike messenger who finds a final solution? New cruel humor softened a realist who is chilling. Softer, almost desperate, signed the new Diane-Monique Daviau, staged a son who remembers the beautiful blue eyes of his father, his love to his "chariot". His last hour freezes "fetal position" in the unusual interior, like a stomach of steel, condemning the old man to a pathetic end of life. What are such beautiful eyes if they capture more light? Similar to the two mentioned new, death lurks around the story of John Paul Beaumier. A late winter day, a translator falls down in a "forgotten corner of the city." He wondered bitterly about "the erosion of newspaper" that he shared with his wife, Madeleine. Wear little time forgiving to humans when it is modeled inferior feelings, the inertia of the heart that beats no more than for ordinary things. Night, leaving nothing to chance, more corrupt the fate of this lonely man who, deep down, knew nothing solved ... Thus

in new news, we turn from worse to enjoy the caustic narrator camped by Suzanne Myre. One Sunday, she accompanied her boyfriend in a car dealership. He wants to rent or buy a new vehicle. The tour of this "temple of scrap" we is hilarious pages and squeaky on the set of artificial landmarks, "infection metallic and repugnant. "The blonde service" a platinum surreal "does not escape the sharp criticism of those who said a" widow of entrepreneur "because she rarely sees, he is too busy with his various projects . It is a "rider to the tips of toes," which allows him to reflect on the efforts being made by his fellows to ensure the well-being of the planet. But she, what does it mean? Two new, signed Jean-Sebastien Nicolas Tremblay and Lemieux, we walk on two floats. The first relates to the pianist Glenn Gould, the second at - fictional? - Quebec poet Jean Char. If a wide detour to the music needed to the memory of the narrator captivated by a recurring noise, a student punished for plagiarism is "a thousand times to write a sentence without mistakes" in which the teacher looks towards the French poet Rene Char. Wink us is the emergence of the child's father, condemned without knowing the dunce "haggard and lost in thought" it will be hit by a stock Corvette with a bang "like Hubert Aquin [...] liked to do. " The child narrator Nicolas Tremblay and Jean-Sebastien Lemieux gave the striking impression of having deceived route. Music and words coalesce, work to merge, transform themselves into something unexpected. Jamming tracks so brilliantly initiated and settled by both nouvelliers.

It is impossible to name the nine new enriching the number 102. However, the idea that men of letters "hate" the automobile, as mentioned in his presentation Nicolas Tremblay, seems absurd, erroneous. Just read the texts inspired ingenious the vehicle approached the authors to realize that the "chariot" is part of our habits as well as the char-iot that we push in supermarkets!

Under "Intertext", it reports the interesting article by Michel Lord on the history of the new French. We learn that the short texts, under different names, fascinate everyone since time immemorial. This last issue

invites the reader to enjoy the last weeks of summer. We are enjoying the waterfront, a terrace, amid the crowd, and we savor the best for us to soak up the summer weather only return in a year and also enjoy new singular, unpublished.


XYZ. A review of the new
Number 102, directed by Nicolas Tremblay
XYZ publisher, Montreal, 2010, 102 pages

Monday, August 2, 2010

Tiffany Pinky Peachyforum

Scenes of family life *** 1 / 2

In a story entitled "wanderings" is wrote this: The August is tragic. He gives everything, it takes everything. We could have added that the month of August is the month for cats. On a rustic wall or roof of a building urban, they are thought to stand out on the orange disc the full moon. Perfect time to read the news of Margaret Laurence, A bird in the house.

Vanessa Macleod oscillates between ten and twelve years old when she made the "professional monitoring" of events that will disrupt her and her family. She lives with her parents, surrounded by her maternal grandparents and paternal aunt of Edna, her mother's sister. Early last century to Manawaka suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The stage is set: the home of his parents and "Brick House" where the sweet older grandmother Agnes, and the terrifying grandfather Timothy Connor, her husband. From the first chronic Great Depression is rampant. Vanessa's father, Ewen, is a doctor, her mother, Beth, a nurse, is expecting a second child. Every Sunday evening, all three share the family meal with the parents of Beth, each to support the rivalry between the Connor Macleod and vice versa. That evening, the atmosphere is tense Ewen, selected from "Mr. Pearl. He is dying of pneumonia. [...] "Will not be present, which annoys grandfather Timothy ruthlessly rooted in the principles purists of the time. Arrives unexpectedly, Uncle Dan, "the brother of a grandfather." Nice man but failed, drunken merry bachelor, he raises horses and sells them without much success. He begs for money to Timothy, which exceeded, accuses his brother of the worst evils of the world and puts it at the door ...

Thus a column to another, Vanessa observes the adults to whom she not understand much. His intelligent criticism was soon discovered that "it was absurd to try to hide: the best hiding place was to stand quietly sitting in front of everyone. What she will do during the eight stories she recounts. Can we say that Vanessa is a girl privileged to have lived during this murky period, so rewarding? It has the leisure to stroll in the countryside shaded by trees along the rivers, share a strange night at a lake with one of his cousins. She tasted the air of freedom that did not know the women of his family. The characters, because characters are unreal sometimes, how devious in their actions, she sees him learn to grow, to measure the proportion of true and false. Even if unspoken insidious clutter the existential journey of Vanessa, she guesses that humans, as adults, are not always masters of their destiny. Not that it will be better later on his own when, teenager, secrets of the brick house nestled in unusual places, revealing to him that life is neither smooth nor soft like a silk ... The inevitable death that threatens her grandparents for her remains a mystery, a sort of fate against which she can not, do not particularly up.

The new eponymous terms with the death of his father as a result of pneumonia, is one of the most moving of the collection. For the first time, Vanessa realizes that this represents the loss of a loved one. She says she was twelve years old when his father dies. It "bordered on [...] quarantine. It crosses a crisis of rebellion against his family and especially against Noreen, a young woman a little witch, that is their right. Vanessa tries to break the conspiracy of silence, submission inexplicable each other, without really succeeding. Only fictional stories inspired by the Bible, she writes in a notebook schoolgirl, help to stay afloat against the incomprehension of his. One afternoon, she had questioned his father about the death of his brother during the Great War. His answer remains enigmatic, it will be years before the riddle is solved. A letter and a photo hidden in a drawer. Another novel, The horses of the night, we were particularly affected . Chris teenage cousin Vanessa, reside at home for three years to continue his studies. It carries with it the dreams that eventually the stunning defeat ... Thus, the time which affects everyone, disclose many secrets, death will not be missing the appointment of the elderly. When Vanessa returns one last time at the brick house, she has forty years of age his father when he died. We feel that all small drifts were forgiven, the sins washed away in the humble headstone.

Through these eight texts, we see what will become the great writer Margaret Laurence. Vanessa does focus does not mirror in a place where multiplied the childhood memories of a girl who is none other than the author of these stories? It gives the reader the pleasure of discovering a major writer, intellectual mentor of Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, to name a few. Read also how to capture beings of that time, for social and religious reasons, restricted their aspirations for a semblance of life he had to accept the risk of sinking into madness, as Chris, if unconventional to be content rejects the existence ...


A bird in home Margaret Laurence
Translated from English (Canada) by Christine Klein-Lataud
Alto Publishing / Éditions Nota bene, Québec, 2010, 287 pages