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[[en]] Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and the real-life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.Brave New World book cover Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his work. Gerald Heard, a longtime friend, said that Huxley's ancestry "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations." Throughout Brave New World you can see evidence of an ambivalent attitude toward such authority assumed by a ruling class. Like the England of his day, Huxley's Utopia...

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James Wright

James Arlington Wright s-a născut la 13 decembrie 1927 în Martins Ferry, Ohio, SUA. Și-a făcut studiilela Kennyon College, la Universitatea din Viena. A fost profesor la Hunter College, perioadă în care a realizat traduceri remarcabile din opera unor scriitori precum Georg Trakl, Pablo Neruda, Herman Hesse ș.a. Printre volumele sale de versuri se numără: The Green Wall (1957); The Branch will not Break (1963); Shall we gather at the River (1968); Saint Judas (1969). Moare la 25 martie 1980.

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James Alan Hetfield

James Hetfield In Brief: James Alan Hetfield Born: August 3, 1963 From: Los Angeles, California Personal: Married, 2 Children Specialty: Angst-ridden, soul-rending, growling, loud-ass vocals Instrument: vocals, guitars Vitals: blue eyes, blonde hair, 6\'1\"/1.85 meters tall, weighs 180 lbs/81.65 kilos Hetfield was born to a truck driver and light opera singer on August 3rd, 1963, in Los Angeles. His family\'s Christian Science religious beliefs are often mentioned as the root of James\' \"tortured soul\" lyrics. Musically, he began at age 9 with piano lessons, then banging away on his brother David\'s drums and finally to guitar. With his guitar in hand, James aspired to become a rock star in his first band, Obsession. The band was made up of the Veloz brothers on bass and drums and Jim Arnold on guitar. A pair of friends, Ron McGovney and Dave Marrs, acted as the band\'s roadies. This meant sitting in the loft of the Veloz garage running a control panel for makeshift lighting...

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Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry (1871-1945) - in full Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry French poet, essayist, and critic, who ceased writing verse for twenty years to pursue scientific experiments. Valéry was a member of the 19th-century poetic school of Symbolism, and its last great representative. Throughout his life Valéry filled his private notebooks with observations on creative process and his own methods of inquiry. He insisted that the mental process of creation was alone important - the poems were a by-product of the effort. "Enthusiasm is not an artist's state of mind", stated Valéry. T.S. Eliot has compared Valéry's analytical attitude to a scientist who works in a laboratory "weighing out or testing the drugs of which is compounded some medicine with an impressive name." "Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language...

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Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty. Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful author of children's books. Anna Sewell had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip Sewell. Anna Sewell was largely educated at home. When Anna was twelve years old, the family moved to Stoke Newington, where Sewell attended school for the first time. Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school and severely injured both of her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, partly in the hope that the climate there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, for the rest of her life Anna was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time. For greater...

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Jimi Hendrix

La 27 noiembrie 1942 se naste la Seattle James Marshall Hendrix dintr-o familie in care s-a amestecat sange de alb, negru si rosu. La unsprezece ani, putin dupa moartea mamei sale, incepe sa cante la chitara. La 16 ani abandoneaza scoala si devine un muzician ratacitor. Ei, nu trubadur, nu, ci rythm&blues si rock’n’roll. Dupa ce face armata la parasutisti, la 21 de ani devine session man, adicatalea canta si el cu cine avea nevoie de un chitarist de acompaniament. In ‚65 isi face primul grup, dar nu are prea mare succes in America, asa ca un baiat dragut, Chas Chandler de la Animals il duce la Londinium, unde Jimi devine star. Dupa ce da niste albume tari gen „Are you experienced?”(‚67) sau „Electric Ladyland”(‚68) si dupa ce face istorie la Woodstock(‚69) si in insula Wight(‚70), Jimi moare din cauza unei supradoze in anul de gratie 1970. Daca va fascineaza chitara lui ca si pe mine, va invit sa-i cititi si versurile. Merita.

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Weight

de Leonard Ancuta

Cînd sunt singur sîngele meu cîntărește de șapte ori mai mult decît dacă ar fi mercur. Cînd sunt singur și îndrăgostit greutatea mea este de zece ori mai mare decît a unei statuete de plumb, măsurată...

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de Mihai Sava

Pocnesc genunchii broaștei De-atâta-nchinăciune Pitită-n cozonaci, dospește o-ntrebare E asta ploaie-acidă ori e ceva pe bune Și cât din noi e zahăr, cât valorăm, în sare? Ci stați fixați comod,...

Dirty Diana

de Michael Jackson

You\'ll never make me stay so take your weight ofF of me I know your every move so won\'t you just let me be. I\'ve been here times before but I was too blind to see That you seduce every man this...

A Vision

de Oscar Wilde

Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no green weight of laurels round his head, But with sad eyes as one uncomforted, And wearied with man\'s never-ceasing moan For sins no bleating...

Yours

de Lia Miruna Dumitrache

You’ve left rains of dust on my cheeks On my eyelids and eyes Though it’s been enough weeks And I vowed not to cry. My right arm seems to tremble Because of a weight that is no more And I’m lonely,...

Dintr-o tara ce nu-i a mea

de Florin DeRoxas

americanii trebuiau sa vina acum cincizeci de ani, dar n-au venit. ei spun ca ready-to-eat cereals to promote a healthy body weight. ei spun ca 50 de classics te duc in Marlboro Country. tara asta...

Never to Awaken

de Paul R. Prodan

Hold you close as night prevails Lay a spell if all else fails Never to awaken and take flight Never seemed as one that might But to make certain in my aim From her rosy lips I must refrain. Still...

replica(la Wolf Moon)

de andreea musat

Burnt leavs perfume /and woods green mists The eco breaks in screams You caught me under the red moon Your hair is darkness, Deepness, Smoky green eyes They shine but not alive they seem YOUR ODOUR...

Sapho

de Christina Rossetti

I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh When the dull day is passing by, I sigh at evening, and again I sigh when night brings sleep to men. Oh! It were better far to die Than thus for ever mourn and sigh,...

Necronomikon

de Abdul al-Hazred

THE TESTIMONY OF MAD ARAB THIS is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have learned, in those years that I have possesed the Three Seals of MASSHU. I have seen One Thousand and-One...

Clasic

Sonnet L

de William Shakespeare

How heavy do I journey on the way, When what I seek, my weary travel\'s end, Doth teach that ease and that repose to say \'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!\' The beast that bears me,...

The Bear

de Robert Frost

The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye, Then lets it snap back upright in the sky. Her next step rocks...

To Earthward

de Robert Frost

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of- was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Down hill...