GODIVA

So... i was listening to Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now" and caught this one:
"...I´m a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva...".
Which led to me searching the story on wikipédia, it's a pretty fun story and there are tons of references to it in popular music, literature, TVs series and even movies. So you can search for the story yourselves, I'm just going to put the poem i found in wikipédia, and that i think is so cool.
Oh! and say this: "Poorly clothed or naked man have little or no influence in society... of course, the reverse happens with women."

Godiva (poem)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Godiva is a poem written in 1842 by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892). It is based on the story of the Countess Godiva (c. 980 - 1067), an Anglo-Saxon lady who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England after her husband promised that he would remit oppressive taxes on his tenants if she agreed to do so.

"I waited for the train at Coventry;
I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge,
To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped
The city's ancient legend into this:
Not only we, the latest seed of Time,
New men, that in the flying of a wheel
Cry down the past, not only we, that prate
Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well,
And loathed to see them overtax'd; but she
Did more, and underwent, and overcame,
The woman of a thousand summers back,
Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled
In Coventry: for when he laid a tax
Upon his town, and all the mothers brought
Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve!"
She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode
About the hall, among his dogs, alone,
His beard a foot before him and his hair
A yard behind. She told him of their tears,
And pray'd him, "If they pay this tax, they starve."
Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed,
"You would not let your little finger ache
For such as these?" -- "But I would die," said she.
He laugh'd, and swore by Peter and by Paul;
Then fillip'd at the diamond in her ear;
"Oh ay, ay, ay, you talk!" -- "Alas!" she said,
"But prove me what I would not do."
And from a heart as rough as Esau's hand,
He answer'd, "Ride you naked thro' the town,
And I repeal it;" and nodding, as in scorn,
He parted, with great strides among his dogs.
So left alone, the passions of her mind,
As winds from all the compass shift and blow,
Made war upon each other for an hour,
Till pity won. She sent a herald forth,
And bade him cry, with sound of trumpet, all
The hard condition; but that she would loose
The people: therefore, as they loved her well,
From then till noon no foot should pace the street,
No eye look down, she passing; but that all
Should keep within, door shut, and window barr'd.
Then fled she to her inmost bower, and there
Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt,
The grim Earl's gift; but ever at a breath
She linger'd, looking like a summer moon
Half-dipt in cloud: anon she shook her head,
And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee;
Unclad herself in haste; adown the stair
Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid
From pillar unto pillar, until she reach'd
The Gateway, there she found her palfrey trapt
In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout
Had cunning eyes to see: the barking cur
Made her cheek flame; her palfrey's foot-fall shot
Light horrors thro' her pulses; the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: but she
Not less thro' all bore up, till, last, she saw
The white-flower'd elder-thicket from the field,
Gleam thro' the Gothic archway in the wall.
Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity;
And one low churl, compact of thankless earth,
The fatal byword of all years to come,
Boring a little auger-hole in fear,
Peep'd -- but his eyes, before they had their will,
Were shrivel'd into darkness in his head,
And dropt before him. So the Powers, who wait
On noble deeds, cancell'd a sense misused;
And she, that knew not, pass'd: and all at once,
With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon
Was clash'd and hammer'd from a hundred towers,
One after one: but even then she gain'd
Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and crown'd,
To meet her lord, she took the tax away
And built herself an everlasting name."

You've got to admire a women who know how to get her way!
Go Godiva! To women around the world, her name means more than just good chocolate!

Star Light, Star Bright

Star Light, Star Bright,
I wish you may,
I wish you might.
Grant me my wish
that I wish tonight.

Love the poem, used to sing it every time I saw a star when I was in my family camping trips.

Speak Out for the Right to Diference

I was wandering on the net and found a site called Speak Out
GLBT Speakers -http://www.speakoutboston.org/
Its the official site of a gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangender speakers bureau.
And they are on a mission: To rid the world of homo-bi-transphobia and other forms of prejudice!
Go and take a look!
Speak out about everyone's right to diference!

Language Abusers Anonymous

I haven't written anything in this blog for a while now, because I've been too busy with my hobby of reading Harry Potter fanfiction.
So here it is:

...I’m calling to order a meeting of Language Abusers Anonymous.

After reading hundreds of Fanfictions, where the writing is in the least ridiculous, from people who claim to have English has their first language, and who I (who only have English as second language) think they can only know English in idiot-vile.
I have come to the conclusion that you all need a language abuse class.
Let's begin and in easy sentences, remember here are the wrong things to do, with the right words:

• Prey/Pray: I prey that together we shall find our pray.
  
• Council/Counsel: The counsel badly needs your council on this matter!
  
• Two/To/Too: I'd like two go too so I can get to the final.
  
• There/Their/They're: Their was a loud bang, which hurt they're ears, and there going to have to punish someone.
  
• Draught/Drought: In order to counteract the effects of the draught she took a hydrating drought.
  
• Throes/Throws: Lost in the throws of passion, Draco knocked one of the throes off the bed.
  
• Brake/Break: During my summer brake I learned how to use the emergency break in my car.
  
• Summary/Summery: She was wearing a summary sort of dress, but that wasn't mentioned in the summery, as the author wasn't that cruel.
  
• Shutter/Shudder: The shudders gave a dangerous shutter as the wind picked up.
  
• Wither/Writhe: She withered on the floor as her lifeforce, writhed away. (Gah, that was pathetic.)
  
• Wonder/Wander: She told him very firmly not to wonder around the castle at night, no matter how much of a sense of wander the ancient structure held for him.
  
• Explicit/Implicit: Our explicit trust in each other means I'm not all that bothered by those implicit porn sites he likes to visit.
  
• Wary/Weary: I am so wary of you sounding like a broken record. And lately, I've been peeking down corridors before entering, weary of the possibility of you being present.
  
• Loose/Lose: Don't let him get lose or we'll loose!
  
• Clothes/Cloths: My cloths were incredibly expensive looking, despite the fact that Madame Malkin used a fairly cheap selection of patterned clothes to fashion them.
  
• Rogue/Rouge: My rouge character in EverCrack isn't allowed to wear rogue!
  
• Elicit/Illicit: We need to illicit some information about her elicit actitivies.
  
• Calm/Clam: I've never seen such a clam bed of calms before. Wow.
  
• Accept/Except: You should except that all dobermans are vicious, accept the one I own, because I trained him real good.
  
• Weather/Whether: Weather or not I can see outside, the state of my sinuses are a good indication of the whether.
  
• Sore/Soar: If you sore around like that with those new wings you're going to be really soar in the morning.
  
• Your/You're: I don't know what you think your doing thinking that's you're food, you muffin-napper!
  
• Bear/Bare: The scars I bare are only visible if I sweep aside my hair and bear my neck.
  
• Fowl/Foul: That foul smells really fowl.
  
• Cue/Queue: Oh! That's our queue to form up in a cue.
  
• Quiet/Quite: He asked us to keep things quite, and I'm quiet sure he'll become angry if we don't.
  
• Here/Hear: Now see hear. I don't want to here anything else like that!
  
• Where/Wear/Ware: Wear the castle! It's a place ware if you where red you could be shot.
  
• Choke/Chock: Harry chocked on hearing the news, accidentally kicking the choke out from under the wheel of the wagon.
  
• Mute/Moot: It's a mute point that he's moot. I already knew he couldn't speak!
  
• Altar/Alter: God will punish you if you altar the alter!
  
• Maybe/May Be: It maybe true, but may be he'll change his mind.
  
• Apart/A Part: Apart of me simply can't stand to be a part from you.
  
• Tome/Tomb: The tomb was retrieved from a dusty Egyptian tome.
  
• Bane/Bain: The bain of my existence can often be found at the bane I frequent.
  
• Vein/Vain/Vane: I'd be careful given that you're so vein. The vain on that windmill could open a vane if you get too close.
  
• Discreet/Discrete: He used a discreet variable, because among his set it was considered the discrete thing to do.
  
• Past/Passed: I past him in the hallways, as I had often done in the passed.
  
• Bored/Board: If you're that board, I could smack you upside the head with a bored.
  
• Sight/Site: The sight is within site, if you look in that direction.
  
• Heal/Heel: Hold still and let me heel your heal.
  
• Precedence/Precedents: There are precedence which must take precedents.
  
• Rein/Reign: Harry took up the reigns of power in the new rein.
  
• Died/Dyed: He dyed due to a violently allergic reaction after having died his hair....

*sorry, you are forgiven if you can't stop laughing long enough to comment... lol

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Love

well, i knew i had to post here someday and now the time has come. what i'm gonna post it's not "well-written", for example, i didn't use capital letters and there's a lot of commas. there's an explanation for that. i always write like that, as you can see now. it's a way to organize my thoughts, so it's easier for me. hope you don't mind me writing like that, because you can understand everything i wrote this way. i wrote this today, just a few minutes ago. you will see by the context of my text that all i wrote is true, it's not some made-up story. it's about my life, about something very recent. something that i would like to have back. well, i don't know what else to say, so i'm just gonna copy paste it here. hope you like it.


-> nothing will ever be so clear: i love you. i cannot live without you. it hurts so much to be away from you. it hurts so much when we're not together. i just wanna be with you. i just wanna make you happy. i just wanna make you smile. i just want you to love me. i just want you to be with me. if you're by my side, i don't want nothing else. i'll try to be a better person. i'll try to never let you down. i'll try to never make you unhappy or sad. i'll do it. i know i will. because i love you. i do love you. you're my soulmate. you're the best thing that ever happened to me. and i know we can be happy together. i know. and i swear that's all i want, to make you happy. i wanna see that smile again. i wanna see that look again. i want those kisses. i want those hugs. i want those days, where we used to be together doing nothing, just being together. i want those hands that used to confort me all the time. i want those words, the words you said to me, always in the right time. i want those cold days, when we used to lie down together, warm. i want you to pick me up at the train station. i want you to knock at my door. i even want that bad temper you have. i have it too. see how we match ? i want to say that i love your hair. i want to say that i love your beard and that i don't want you to shave it off. i want to say that your eyes are the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen. i want you to say that your nose is big, so i can answer that yes, it is big, but i love it. i want to say that i'm fat, so you can make that face like: "you're so silly". i want to be with you and your friends, because truth is: i like them all. i want to go out at night with you and tell you not to drink too much, waiting for you to make that lovely face. i want to go out at night with you, so we can sleep together in a tiny couch. even when you're going out without me, i want to say: "be a good boy". i want you to take care of me when i'm sick, and i wanna take care of you too. because you're one of my most important persons. i miss you explaining me all about star wars while we were watching the movies, beause i'm really dumb. i and i miss calling you nerd. i want to go to the japanese with you. to the italian. to the zoo. to the oceanarium. to the beach. on vacation. because we never had the chance to do that. i want to fulfill all those silly plans we made together. and i want to make some more. guess they're not so silly if they're with you. i even miss your friends making fun of me, of us. i miss talking with you without shuting up while you, seriously, are paying all your attention to what i'm saying. i miss being silly with you. our games. our tickling. our afternoon teas. our movies. i even miss your sleepy face. i want to watch you sleep, like i did a lot of times, and to touch and kiss your face while you do that. i want to sleep with you like we did, embraced. i want to say: "come to bed, it's cold" or "cover me, i'm so cold". i even miss the angry face you used to made when you saw the cuts in my hands, did by my cat. so you can see how much i really miss you, i even miss when you used to said: "i hate your cat". and when i asked you: "why?", you always answered: "because he hurts you". don't you miss it ? doesn't it makes you laugh when you remember how he used to piss us off when we were lying on the couch ? how he was jealous of you and when you said: "she's mine, get off". doesn't it brings good memories ? good memories we could repeat, and even make better. better memories. better days. something you don't know, but i miss my mom asking for you, asking when were you going to meet me at my place, how she said that she really liked you. i even miss your mom saying: "you don't need to be shy" and giving me a hug. your dad with that big big smile saying hi to me, and calling me: "little one", like you did all the time. and i even miss my father asking me: "what's his name ?" and my brother saying you had some nice jokes (yeah, he really liked you). my friends saying: "it can really show that you love each other" and "his eyes are sooo beautiful !". yeah, that's right, and they used to be mine. i want them again. there's nothing like your eyes, looking at me so deeply, enough to make me melt away. i miss those times, those moments we spent together. it seems like a lifetime to me. but i know it's not, and that's why i want you back, to make them last for a lifetime this time. no more pain, no more sorrow, just happy moments, just happy faces and a lot of smiles ! and a lot of love too. they say that love is the greatest feeling in the world, that when you love you can overcome pain, sorrow, sadness, well, everything that's bad. i love you, and i want to take your pain away. i want to bring that same old smile to your face. i don't know what else to say. there's so much i could say, so much i would never finish. i just want to say i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. and i want you back. so give just one chance to our love, one opportunity. i know we can make it happen. i know we can make it better this time. i know we're meant to be happy together.

Filipa Marques

Apparently I've a problem...

Addicted to books part 2...

I love reading

I love writing.
I love writing ABOUT reading!

Ok...

So, on Addicted to books part 2
we are going to take a tour on

great quotes and images about
our favourite topic...

BOOKS!!!

Welcome to BookLand...

All the "rides" are own by different people on the Internet
So none or very little actually belongs to me

Except my photo...

I'm not gonna say which one it is,

because if you know me you already know and if you don't
well... though luck!´

Popcorn is free

Coca-Cola was free, but then I got thirsty...

and if you are a Prince of Tennis Fan,

(such as myself) I can offer you some Grape Ponta...

OK... Let's Begin...

SPEAK OUT turns to READ OUT

the Truth is in here...




Never judge a book by it's movie

***

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. Paxton Hood

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Books are uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me

From mine own library

with volumes that

I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616),

The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Unknown


A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Cicero

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~ G. K. Chesterton

When a new book is published, read an old one. Unknown

***

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. Unknown

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

The covers of this book are too far apart. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~ Voltaire

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ~ Groucho Marx

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. Library in nature...

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps.My Favorite Novel! "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Not my favorite book tough... My Favorite book is "A Thousand and one Nights".

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

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God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages.

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Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. (talking about Henry James)
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
***
I was reading a book...'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
***
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

That's All...

Review and Write on!