The Sun King is currently freezing his royal postrieur off. The terrible winter of 1709 doesn't stop at the door of the royal chamber, and even less at the terribly non-insulated windows. I'm wrapped into several coats and woolen blankets. Some weeks ago it was even worse. Sometimes, when I had sent a servant to the fireplace to unfreeze my wine, a new ice layer... Read More
You may wonder about this question - of course, everybody knows what a request is, be it in your century or in mine. Request, demande, Bitte, ruego, domanda - it's part of everybody's life. But what is it? Can you define it?
You can, of course, define "request" as the act of asking somebody for something - but that's just replacing... Read More
There is a common misconception on the palace and court of Versailles. Many people think that the palace has been built out of royal megalomania, a sign that the Sun King cares more about himself than about his kingdom and people, a giant waste of money which would better have been spent to put the kingdom of... Read More
Votre Majest m'honore! Merci cordialement pour votre aimable mot de bienvenue! *je suis fort dsapointe, il n'existe pas pas de smilies en forme de rvrance... *
Je suis trs fire d'appartenir enfin votre cour de courtisanes, aprs moults sicles dans l'attente!!... Et espre ne point vous dcevoir!
On artificial languages: From Logopandecteision to Lolcat
In 1653, a Scottish wag named Sir Thomas Urquhart wrote a book on his plans for the creation of an artificial language by the name of Logopandecteision. The book consists in great parts of a praise of the language's 66 unparalleled excellences, and of rants against those whose neglect and wrongdoings prevent him from publishing this perfected... Read More
Votre altesse, je tiens vous dire que le testimonial que vous avez laiss sur mon profile est tout simplement trs touchant!
On m'a rarement dit quelque chose d'aussi profond et beau!
Plein de bisous doux pour vous
Osama Bin Gandalf
or: Why simple minds shouldn't read the Lord of The Rings
Elves and Ringwraiths, Hobbits and Orks, Gandalf and Saruman, Aragorn and Sauron, Peace and War, Light and Darkness, White and Black - that's the world of the Lord of the Rings, written more than two centuries after my death. Nevertheless I read it last week - as what you call eBook.... Read More
Le projet "Gullive" va tre report, car la jeune fille avec qui je comptais le raliser n'aura pas beaucoup de temps et celui ci va demander des conditions optimales. Je pense que je vais essayer de le aire plus tard avec Opale.
Unlike many people on this site, I'm not an artist, although I have always been patron of fine Arts in France, and as such the propoter of artists such as Molire, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Charles Le Brun. Some adulators even called me the "leader of the muses", like Apollo Musagetes. But there are certainly a lot of people on this site who... Read More
When I first read about this fabulous invention called "television" on your electrical net, I thought it was kind of a mechanized Punch and Judy show. I imagined that the spectators choose what play they want to see, start the television's sophisticated mechanism and then watch the play - or the news or whatever he wants to see. I thought television... Read More
j ai pas de tele et j en veux pas. C est comme les portables, des que je dis que j en ai pas les gens veulent m en donner un et comprennent pas que c est un choix... bref !
Every time I hear US politicians blather aboud God, I get annoyed. Some of them may use religion just to get votes, but some of them - and that's the worst kind - seem really to think that God is on their side. Would god vote republican? Is the war in Irak god's will? Sometimes I wish that the Allmighty would... Read More
grayness said:
How do you resist the urge to attempt to find what your fate holds via your conduit into our future world? Or is it your intent to change the events that would unfold in your time, and after? This presents a most curious aspect to me, since I reside in the future you... Read More
Whoever you may be, thank you for the kind words. I've been admiring your posts for quite some time. It's heartwarming to read such intelligent and thoughtful words. I just wish I could not tear up every time someone wrote me.
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Welcome back ♥