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• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  21 avril, par Cogito escritum

  – « Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here ?
  – That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.
  – I don’t much care where–-said Alice.
  –Then it doesn’t matter which way you go, said the Cat.
  – so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an (…)
• Lewis Carroll : Jabberwocky

  6 avril, par Cogito escritum

  Jabberwocky
  ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
  “Beware the Jabberwock, my son ! The jaws that bite, the clawsthat catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch !”
  He took his (…)
• Elizabeth Bishop : El armardillo

  30 mars, par Cogito escritum

  The Armadillo
  « Last night another big one fell. It splattered like an egg offire against the cliffbehind the house. The flame ran down. We saw the pair
  of owls who nest thereflying up and up, their whirling black-and-white stained bright pink underneath, until they shrieked up out of sight. (…)
• Elizabeth Bishop : L’art de perdre

  23 mars, par Cogito escritum

  L’art de perdre :
  Dans l’art de perdre il n’est pas dur de passer maître, tant de choses semblent si pleines d’envie d’être perdues que leur perte n’est pas un désastre.
  Perds chaque jour quelque chose. L’affolement de perdre tes clés, accepte-le, et l’heure gâchée qui suit. Dans l’art de (…)
• Elizabeth Bishop : One Art

  23 March, by Cogito escritum

  One Art :
  The art of losing isn’t hard to master ; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
  Then practice losing farther, (…)