All Things Considered

between Alice , Mock Turtle and Gryphon. I CANNOT think of a better parody of today’s education system !
[You don’t have to know anything about Alice in Wonderland or the Mock Turtle to get this. But you DO need a strong gut, since I laughed and laughed and still laughing.. For those new to this wonderland, it […]

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Sylvie sends me Jeux interdits, L’odeur de la papaya verte, La Mariée était en noir and makes my day ! :)
For someone whom I’ve met just twice, she reads my mind about things in general and movies & books in particular spectacularly well. It is almost impossible to believe how two very different people from […]

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 The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
`Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it […]

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With ‘La vie devant soi’ and ‘India after Gandhi’.
One thing that puts me off in all these older French novels is the Passé Simple. It is SO hard to conjugate in passé simple, not intiutive at all to find out the infitive form when it is conjugated and gives me a feeling of reading a novel from […]

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