The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
diary - revolution ! - my left fist
At the end they circulated a wooden bowl, and each of them had the opportunity to place a small stone inside. Blanca counted them, and there were as many stones as women in the ruca; it was a vote and I had been approved unanimously, the only way to belong to the group. They congratulated me, and we drank a toast with tea.
Sonunda tahta bir kaseyi dolaştılar ve her birinin kase içine küçük bir taş koyma fırsatı vardı. Blanca onları saydı ve rucada kadınların sayısı kadar taş vardı; bu bir oylamaydı ve gruba üye olmanın tek yolu olan oy birliğiyle kabul edilmiştim. Beni tebrik ettiler ve çay ile kadeh kaldırdık.
Sayfa 183 - MayaKitabı okudu
49* Henna
The world is big, but our time here is small and precious. Life is meant to be lived, not solved. And love … well, it’s like a white T-shirt with french fries and ketchup. It’s messy, but worth the risk.
Sayfa 298 - <3
Prerequisties
The main reason is that combat actions aimed to deny control of the sea would mostly take place in enclosed and semi-enclosed seas. Basing/deployment control is relatively much more important for a small or medium sea power than for an out-of-the-area major sea power. Information dominance has emerged as a critical prerequisite for both obtaining and disputing sea control. At the same time, it provides a great opportunity for the weaker side at sea to balance the superiority in raw power of the stronger side. Finally, regardless of odds, a weaker side at sea must be active in disputing control by the stronger side. This
means that offensive spirit must pervade the entire navy; otherwise, no success
will be achieved.
Sayfa 120 - PrerequisitesKitabı okudu
In terms of production and wealth, not to mention culture, the differences between the major pre-industrial regions were, by modern standards, remarkably small; say between 1 and 1.8. Indeed a recent estimate calculates that between 1750 and 1800 the per capita gross national product in what are today known as the ‘developed countries’ was substantially the same as in what is now known as the ‘Third World’, though this is probably due to the enormous size and relative weight of the Chinese Empire (with about a third of the world’s population), whose average standard of living may at that stage have actually been superior to that of Europeans.3 In the eighteenth century Europeans would have found the Celestial Empire a very strange place indeed, but no intelligent observer would have regarded it in any sense as an inferior economy and civilization to Europe’s, still less as a ‘backward’ country. But in the nineteenth century the gap between the western countries, base of the economic revolution which was transforming the world, and the rest widened, at first slowly, later with increasing rapidity. By 1880 (according to the same calculation) the per capita income in the ‘developed’ world was about double that in the ‘Third World’, by 1913 it was to be over three times as high, and widening. By 1950 (to dramatize the process) the difference was between 1 and 5, by 1970 between 1 and 7. Moreover, the gap between the ‘Third World’ and the really developed parts of the ‘developed’ world, i.e. the industrialized countries, began earlier and widened even more dramatically. The per capita share of the GNP was already almost twice that in the ‘Third World’ in 1830, about seven times as high in 1913.
"Down vith children! Do them in!
Boil their bones and fry their skin!
Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!
Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!
Offer chocs vith magic powder!
Say 'Eat up!' then say it louder.
Crrram them full of sticky eats,
Send them home still guzzling sveets.
And in the morning little
