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Tampakiera

 

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Love & Tobacco. A Perfect reason to quit smoking.
 
“I tampakera”
Music: Iosif Ritsiardis
Lyrics: M. Traiforos, G. Giannakopoulos
 
I came across this song, as I usually come across anything.  I stumble upon it.  I loved it.  It took me awhile to discover the lyrics translation and now I love the song even more.
 
The first clip is my [...]

Measuring Silence…

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
 
 

 
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
 
 
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
 
 
Once more, frost [...]

Sense of Humour

 
 
 
“And Your Point being?” versus “Do you have a sense of humour?”
 
 
“Mein Lieber A.” (a friend of mine) and I had a few conversations and most of them ended up by him asking the question “And your point being?” and me asking “Do you have a sense of humour?”
 
I know he does.  But sometimes it [...]