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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
South to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
between Scylla and Charybdis,
Her name is Portia
It's quite a thing, to watch a person slip from the potential of life into the finality of death. It's another thing entirely to be the one who pushed. And for all Mercurio's teachings, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl who'd just committed her first act of murder. Her
Before Nubrevna, it had been Dalmotti. Before Dalmotti, it had been Marstok. For centuries, this peninsula had changed hands, and for centuries, no one had ever fully won - or ever fully lost.
Coasted up the Adriatic, its shores swimming in an atmosphere of amber, rose, and aquamarine; we lay in wide land-locked harbours, we roamed through ancient and noble cities,
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash.
Hello - what hotel is this - ?
ardor which is tapas; the name Indra
Mellingey Stream
But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?
the coast, irregular
Verranica, I will never leave you.
India Lima Yankee
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
Esperanza, that you,
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest ...
Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt.
So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
Approaching the marina entrance,
Intramuros! The old Manila. The original Manila. The Noble and Ever Loyal City ...
Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
Her soft spanish accent and her infinite arsenal of sighs.
Megan Luisa Garcia
I WAS HERE
Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?
Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt?
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Annia of the red braid and the ferocious scowl and the long, long limbs. Annia Galeria Faustina ...
"Mine," I whispered, "Mine
Piragua - cold syrup trickled over crushed ice - her favorite treat from her childhood in Viejo San Juan.
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.
Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale.
Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.
Ibiza is very close to my heart.
Hello Clarice...
Raft of the Medusa.
Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it.
{Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.}
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.
come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier
We left a debt in blood,' she said, baring her teeth. 'Malazan blood. And it seems they will not let that stand.'
They are here. On this shore.
The Malazans are on our shore.
Milan. What a beautiful place to die.
I'll go to Santiago.
And the banana tree a jellyfish.
Midian is where the monsters go.
Meredith Chambers, hottest romance agent in New York, filthiest mouth east of the Mississippi. Or west, come to think of it. Some women walking by give her a shocked, slightly annoyed expression. She responds with aplomb. "Legs together, ladies. I'm not afraid of a little muff diving.
My family isn't safe. Mermen from Natatoria are coming today to reclaim the house and reopen the gate. We have to leave.
The Caddo Bayou Marina.
There is no you, Maria, any more than there is a me. There is only this way that we have established over the months of performing together, and what it is congruent with isn't "ourselves" but past performances
we're has-beens at heart, routinely trotting out the old, old act.
The shanty soon ended, but Ryber kept pounding the drum and hollered, "'The Maidens North of Lovats!'" - which Merik knew was her favorite song, since she was a maiden from north of Lovats.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
Luchesi cannot tell amontillado from a sherry
Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.
How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
Merridew might not have been the slenderest of men or the tallest. But he had grip, he had cunning and like many fat men he had unexpected resources of indignation which he was able to turn on like a flood when they were needed.
Lydia. Beautiful. My everlasting dream.
It's leviOsa, not levioSA!
The one taken underwater of Mel's garden of women,
Gervasio Lonquimay
Avicenna California ... Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to
Wendla: How did you come here?
Melchior: I followed my thoughts.
Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
What do you want?"
"Spain"
"Fuck!
The cool, grey city of love.
Marena," he said with an effort, "Marena ... " He did not recognize her. His voice failed.
If I am peaceful, I shall seeBeauty's face continually;Feeding on her wine and breadI shall be wholly comforted,For she can make one day for meRich as my lost eternity.
The call of sedona
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.
Northern San Diego. The white stucco walls rose, interrupted by huge windows. The whole structure nearly floated off the pavement, sleek, modern, and somehow light, almost delicate. The salt-spiced wind blowing from the coast less than a mile away only strengthened the illusion. He'd
Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true!
Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy?
Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)
You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
My beautiful, my own
My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!
Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I
She summahs in Lake James, how mahvelous
Seville is a tower full of fine archers ... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.
StocktontoMalone
Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
What in Urza's nameUrza-- Ari Marmell
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission".
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]