#bullet jour

[imadititom]

Paris Texas - BULLET MAN

#son du jour bonjour #Paris Texas #Bullet Man #Youtube

[mourning-again-in-america]

gotta say, "Informational Interview" does not make me feel *less* anxiety about a simple phone screen, thanks for the effort.

#this WOULD be an extremely cool place to work #i think i might have sold them on the fact that i did 'blockchain research' which consisted of pilling my manager on why i should #fuck around on arxiv reading Spivak or petri nets or learn idris or type level metaprogramming for cool resume bullet points #such a cool job it taught me well that i would NEED a very involved mentor who kept me on track if i ever did phd work. #because lord knows that i am very good at convincing myself that interest du jour is the Most Important Thing Ever

[thatdogmagic]

Clip Studio Paint is Incorporating Stable Diffusion

***THE BUILD GOES LIVE DECEMBER 6TH***

Here's the bullet points you need to know about Clip Studio Paint joining deviantArt as today's 'villain for no good reason' de jour.

They are adding Stable Diffusion as a function of the program.

It is using the same stolen dataset we're all very familiar with.

This, in lieu of the millions of other features artists have actually been asking for.

This should be enough to make anyone angry. Really. The SD dataset is still a tirefire of stolen material. Nothing has changed that, and Celsys has made no steps to create their own AI database. Which is ironic, because they could've managed to bring in a lot of good will by seeking volunteers and buying up stock, but they did not.

As with dA, this is a case of 'do the thing, then apologize later, and hope people just kind of go along with it.'

What the new changes do not currently do:

Celsys is allegedly not scraping content from their users.

Celsys is allegedly not going to scrape content from their users without the users' express permission.

Celsys has not explained how they aim to do this, or what formal steps users must take to opt in or out.

I personally don't trust that it will stay like this. So:

What I'd recommend is freezing auto-updates on iPad (you have to do it through Settings -> App Store -> App Updates toggle) and just not updating CSP at all on any other platforms until this gets sorted out.

#clip studio paint #stable diffusion #ai #CSP #warning

[bourbon-ontherocks]

First line tag!

I was tagged by (I think? I'm sorry but it was a while ago) @sothischickshe and @pia-writes-things ❤️❤️

Rule: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

– Je vais, heu… je vais quitter la conversation. Au-revoir. "I, uh... I'm gonna leave the conversation. Good-bye."

Il faudrait penser à colmater cette fissure dans le mur. Someone should plug that crack in the wall.

Florence tombe. Florence collapses.

— Bon ben, encore une affaire rondement m'née ! On fait une bonne équipe, hein ? "Another case smoothly handled! You and I make a good team, yeah?"

Aujourd'hui est un jour particulier. Today is a special day.

La situation est tellement cliché que c’en est rageant. The situation rings so cliché, it's infuriating.

Les impacts de balles courent sur le crépi défraîchi en une cicatrice minérale, une mémoire qui résonne encore dans ses oreilles, et elle manque de renoncer. The bullet marks run across the worn-out render like a mineral scar, a memory still echoing in her ears, and she almost gives up.

Elle va bien. She's fine.

– J'ai pas les enfants, ce soir, vous… vous voulez venir ? "I don't have the kids tonight, you... do you want to come in?"

Hébétude. A daze.

There's definitely a pattern, which doesn't come as a surprise since I generally give a lot of thought to my first lines.

I hate first lines that feel too exposition-y so I like diving right in the middle of the action with a short sentence and a tight POV, like we just barged into someone's inner monologue. I always try to make it a bit immersive and intriguing, for instance by mixing a domestic thought with a rather odd or insignificant detail (e.g. something like "they ran out of her usual detergent brand." or "In retrospect, his life choices had not been that bad.") to create a connection with the reader and make them want to know more.

More rarely, I'll start with a dialogue line that's almost always borrowed from canon. This tends to happen for fix-it fics of sorts that start immediately after a canon scene, to show where I start off.

I don't know who has or hasn't done this yet since I come way after the battle, so feel free to play anyone, and I'll tag @hemerae-ramblings @luluonthemoon @sdktrs12 @michelleelizabethtanner just in case but no presh 😘

#tagging games #writing #my writing #my fics #fanfic #first line

[kidlit-queen-competition]

I would love to hear the mods top ten train media we should all be consuming if that's okay.

Well, I am no authority on what train media you "should" consume- anyone who is is probably several decades my senior and a lot more experienced with model railroading- but I can tell you some of my favorites! I'll do five fictional and five nonfictional.

Fictional:

Sunless Skies. this one is kind of cheating, but the main way the player interacts with the spooky, steampunk-y, alt-Victorian skyscape of the Reach is by driving their locomotive. it's also one of my favorite games in general, and I think a lot of people who follow this blog would adore it.

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett. Its main train was knocked out of this pole in round one, but I'm about three quarters of the way through this book, and it's one of the few I've read that really manages to capture the feeling of steam trains. It is, of course, fantastic in many other ways, but it's a standout piece of train media all the same.

Bullet train (2022). I love dumb action movies and I love shinkansens and I love murderous women in pink. 10/10, shapes and colors the likes of which I've never seen.

the Titfield Thunderbolt (1953). unfortunately this film is from 1953 and also British, but is a great little comedy all the same, and the special effects are very impressive for the era. I especially recommend this one to enjoyers of a certain 70+-year-old massive franchise about a little blue tank engine, because there are similarities in the humor I think they would enjoy.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Chris Priestley. this is another horror thing, specifically a children's book. Its framing device is a train trip, and well it doesn't go into like, indulgent detail about the mechanics of it, good use is made of it all the same, and the stories really stuck with me-I remember some clearly and still find them scary, and it's been more than 10 years since I read the book.

non-fictional:

basically anything from Network Nathan, my train vlogger fave du jour. I really like his presentation style and charisma, and I've learned a lot from his content that I probably couldn't have picked up otherwise.

The Train Book: The Definitive Visual History from DK. this is basically a picture book for adults, going from the early age of steam to roughly the 2010s. I like it because it's broad-scope and accessible, both of which are hard to come by in rail literature.

Steaming Eccentrics: Life on the Footplate by Stan Wilson. this has the previously mentioned problem of being British and old, but is still a good account of some delightful (and probably slightly exaggerated) railway shenanigans all the same. I much prefer memoirs to history books, so if you're similar, I'd recommend this one.

Steam Railways Explained - Steam, Oil & Locomotion: Steam, Oil and Locomotion by Stan Yorke. this is a great little explainer of railways, not just locomotives. It's easy-to-read and understand, and doesn't suffer the mind-numbingly dry tone a lot of railway nonfiction does.

tie between the YouTube channels Mid Hants Railway 'The Watercress Line' and Hyce. both are educational channels about steam locomotives/railway operation, and occupy very similar spaces. The former is British, the latter is American, so the engines they work with are very different, so I feel comfortable letting them share spot.

#mod note #reading list #fictional train fight ask

[seventeen02]

favorite movies !

say you love me

a moment of romance

in blow

scarface

life is beautiful

death in venice

purple noon

mr and mrs smith

hackers

leon

girl interrupted

in the mood for love

days being wild

fallen angel

the beautiful person

the apartment

fuyajo

the black swan

the godfather 2

my own private idaho

two lovers under one roof

the scent of green papaya

vertical ray of the sun

stealing beauty

teorema

call me by your name

bonnie and clyde

fight club

kill bill

city of the rising sun

wheels of ashes

fruit of paradise

floating clouds

ghosts

inception

x movie

ley lines

the brown bunny

american psycho

platonic sex

last night in soho

emma

pride and prejudice

red lights

the dreamers

the wind rises

closer

six in paris

mermaids

garden state

on the occasion of remembering the turning gate

the doom generation

the girl on the motorcycle

open house

the place without limits

ratatouille

twin peaks

before sunrise

malèna

possession

all about lily chou chou

bride for rip van winkle

the lover

amelie

rebels of the neon god

as tears go by

a moment to remember

the hot spot

less than zero

edward scissorhands

eyes wide shut

un homme et une femme

the story of adele h

the last mistress

billboard dad

metropolitan

the pillow book

singles

la la land

mirrored mind

fatal frame

and then we danced

dear ex

tune in for love

one fine spring day

reality bites

running on empty

millennium mambo

lost and found

who's the woman, who's the man

mulholland drive

Jess + Moss

swallowtail butterfly

dorian gray

durian durian

hana & alice

40 days and 40 nights

l'amour braque

picnic

to each is own

guilty of romance

vagabond

city of madness

three times

mary is happy mary is happy

comet

sleepless town

like someone in love

hausu

house

46 okunen no koi

2046

l'enfer

cloud atlas

old boy

mystery train

the odd one dies

kedi

l'amour l'apres-midi

fire on the black hand side

le bonheur

fantastic planet

mirror

belladonna of sadness

daisies

lost highway

sweet movie

pearl

heathers

moulin rouge

suspiria

the rich man's wife

requiem for a dream

the others

return of the living dead

dracula

interview with the vampire

wir kinder vom bahnof zoo

le mepris

chi-n-pi-ra

chungking express

ashes and snow

shuttering island

the grand budapest hotel

the young girls of rochefort

the florida project

the edge of love

irreversible

crash

gone girl

bullet ballet

of love and shadows

minari

galaxy express 999

audition

lan yu

silsila

belle de jour

taal

dead or alive

videodrama

lost in translation

washington square

soulmate

summer lovers

barbarella

snake of june

a woman under the influence

mysterious skin

red eye

happy together

the walk

brick

l.a. confidental

love & pop

linda linda linda

swing girls

nana

the lover

hirugao

helter sketler

suzhou river

kaili blues

kamikaze girls

valerie and her week of wonders

comrades, almost a love story

naked lunch

endless love

whiplash

taxi driver

vivre sa vie

la collectionneuse

dog day afternoon

night in paradise

my mister

my name

better days

himizu

first love, letter on the breeze

split of the spirit

one million yen girl

juncchi mori

la belle

ITSAY

mermaid legend

blue spring

badlands

marie antoinette

aftersun

brokeback mountain

portrait of lady on fire

nostos: the return

shiki-jitsu

farewell my concubine

constantine

never let me go

bones and all

paris is burning

trouble everyday

memories of matsuko

pierrot le feu

taipei story

blue velvet

a woman is a woman

buffalo 66

the love witch

valley of dolls

the rocky horror picture show

[madmollah]

An Israeli drone films the execution of 4 Palestinians by the most moral army in history, using not bullets but missiles.

Sensitive people refrain! !!!!

#palestine #palestinian lives matter #gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #palestinewillbefree #free gaza #free palestine #gaza under attack

[magxit]

Taylor and Joe schedules  Joe is bold and Taylor in bullet points

JANUARY 2020

January 5 ~ 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles

January 7 ~ Tom Ford Beauty ‘Beau de Jour’ Fragrance Launch in London

FEBRUARY 2020

February 2 ~ 73rd British Academy Film Awards in London

February 7 ~ Tom Ford AW20 Show in Los Angeles

SEPTEMBER 2020

September 18 to 26 ~ San Sebastian International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain

DECEMBER 2021

63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, March 14, 2021

Global Icon during The BRIT Awards, May 11, 2021

36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony, October 30, 2021

“All Too Well: The Short Film” premiere, November 12, 2021

“All Too Well (10 minute version)” SNL, November 12, 2021

December 4 ~ Festival Internacional de Cine de Panamá

Dec 13th Taylor had a bday party. 

MAY 2022

May 5: Conversations with Friends press, screening and Q&A in London, England

May 7: The Graham Norton Radio Show in London, England

May 8: British Academy Television Awards in London, England

May 9: BBC The One Show in London, England

May 11: Conversations with Friends Ireland premiere

May 14: BBC Radio 4 interview

May 17: The Kelly Clarkson Show taping in Los Angeles, CA (airs May 19)

May 17: Conversations with Friends Emmys FYC Event in Los Angeles, CA

May 18: Elle Hollywood Rising Party in Los Angeles, CA

New York University, May 18, 2022

May 22: BFI & Radio Times Television Festival in London, England

May 25: Stars at Noon premiere at Cannes Film Festival

May 26: Stars at Noon press conference and photocall at Cannes Film Festival

May 28: Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Ireland

JUNE 2022

June 5: Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales

Tribeca Film Festival, June 11, 2022

Video Music Awards, August 28, 2022

SEPTEMBER 2022

Toronto International Film Festival, September 09, 2022

September 11: Catherine Called Birdy premiere at TIFF

September 12: Catherine Called Birdy screening and press at TIFF

September 15: Catherine Called Birdy screening for Directors Guild of America (DGA) in New York

September 20: Catherine Called Birdy UK premiere in London

NSAI Awards, September 20, 2022

September 21: Catherine Called Birdy press in London

OCTOBER 2022

October 2: Stars at Noon NYFF Screening and Q&A

October 25: TIME100 Next Gala in New York City

NOVEMBER 2022

November 16: Catherine Called Birdy Q&A in Los Angeles

November 19: 13th Annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles

MTV Europe Music Awards, November 13th, 2022

AMAs, November 20, 2022

2023

Feb 5th, 2023 Grammy Awards 

[3score11poet]

Coffee Hour

Monday, 03/13/2023, Time

Changing clocks twice annually leads to an increase of deaths of about 3% (according to various sources). I don’t know if it is true, of course. I’m still alive after the switch this past weekend, so I guess I dodged another bullet.

My Stunt Double du Jour is nervous, He’s told a watched pot never boils. It could be due to DST, couldn’t it? Curious minds will investigate this immediately.

As an aside, I’m old enough to know what time his watch says. Do you? :-)

#coffee hour #time

[lavenderandpear]

I’m really glad that the 2010 tumblr girl aesthetic has become deeply cringe to most post millennials. It means I can enjoy my aesthetic trash in peace, unbothered by the hoards of influencers and advertising scavengers that is the lofty price of liking the thing du jour.

I can take my lofi pictures, wear my big scarf, my high waisted things, do my bullet journaling, and be content and in my lane and left alone.

What a cosy thought.

[vampiremuney]

help me pick

for context:

Montreal was my first time seeing MCR

Toronto 1 made me some wonderful friends

despite the crowd chaos riot fest was iconic and a wonderful trip with my friends plus “destroy” is pretty sick

bon the fuck jour isn’t an official drumhead but cmon. I was there and am canadian

merci pour le venin… what more is there to say about her. I may not have been at the Paris show but it’s a classic. I have tattoos for all albums except revenge, and yes I know it was in the bullets liner but it is a song off revenge after all

#i am so indecisive #mcr tour #mcr tour drumheads #tattoo poll

[lastdreamofazombifiedbrain]

L'ARRIVÉE

Mart Chris stepped out of the -door-. He was now engulfed in the crowd of departure and arrival in the waiting point for the megaroute. He let himself get drag between all the people. He took a deep breath sensing all the different perfumes of this place sensing all the stress, joy, sadness and all other flagrances that were build up by the crowd.

He didn't know where to go and he didn't care, his booted feets led him to a less crowded area, some sort of Alley where trashbin and smokers cohabited to get some air in the middle of the smoke they produced.

"Mart?"

The voice was coming from behind but even after turning himself he didn't see who was calling him.

"Plus bas grande perche!"

He finally looked down to a frail looking teenager.

"Putain! J'attends depuis trois jours, heureusement que ton contrat dit que tu es le meilleur à ton prix mais quand même!"

Mart wasn't able to understand any word what looked more like a goblin with a really bad case of acne than a man. He simply stared down at him, waiting.

"... C'est pas en me faisant un regard de tueur qu'on va avancer! Au lieu de faire ton mystérieux suis moi, on a du pain sur la planche."

The small guy pulled out a primitive looking tablet. Mart could see at first glance that it was either a strange pseudo-brand or that he made it himself. Seeing him pulling out an actual BIC pen to fidget it made him believe it was the latter. What looked like a contract appeared on the screen, he reconised his name writed in their alphabet and a picture of himself on the top left. The pic seemed taken in a photoshoot his brown skin slighty reflecting the flash, his eyes red due to the old gen of the camera. His long curled hair resting behind his ears to let his face visible his thin lips absolutely straight over his little chin.

He looked like he was about to kill himself out of boredom on this one. Sadly, it is his resting face.

A flash blind him for a second as the tablet proceeded to indentify him before approving with a joyous bip.

"Bon, on bouge! Marcel ne va pas nous attendre indéfiniment." Said the teen that Mart chose to now call, the goblin.

The little guy started walking away and as he got nothing better to do, Mart followed.

No word were uttered during their walk. The traveler didn't mind, it's not like he was able to make a good conversation anyway. He used this time to observe the differents super-hangars of this place. Each had a different color-pallet and vibe. He couldn't understand any word writed on the buildings but still looked at each one of them.

"Première fois a Neo-Nice hein? Prends pas la peine de t'attacher, on repart aussi sec!"

They finally arrived to an old hangar wich logo and color was reminiscent of the old american advertising. Mart didn't know it at the instant but it was important to note it.

Entering it without even knocking they arrived to what could be describe as a gigantic, armored, boosted up and quite possibly armed volkswagen combi. The old blue and white paint had clearly seen better days and was missing part due to what looked like bullet impact.

A big face popped out of one of the several windows. A white man with a face that can can at best be qualified as an english bulldog glared with angry eyes the duo.

"Hé bien tu auras pris ton putain de temps espèce de bâtards on ne t'aurait pas vendu comme un génie de la mécanique d'urgences, on serait clairement parti sans toi!" Barked the man, seemingly true to his appearance.

He came back in his vehicle. The goblin ran up to a mechanised wheelchair and put it before one of the many doors, only for the one just next to it to open, forcing him to push it again.

Mart could now clearly see the old man. He was clearly overweight with big flacid arms but what standed out the most was the absence of legs or even waist for that matter. His belly hide most of it but the mechanical implant mostly constitue of connectables was put on a mechanised arm who gently put him in his wheelchair which immediately emitted a light buzz sound.

"Bonjour quand-même, moi, c'est Marcel et le gremlims qui t'a amené, c'est Ramid. Ravi de te rencontrer!" Said loudly the man extending one of his greasy hand for a handshake.

Mart shook the hand that was gave to him and discreetly swiped it on his clothes after.

"Bon, perdons pas de temps, je vais te présenter l'équipage!" Said the man riding away.

END CHAPTER ONE

#writing #scyfy #science fiction #humans are space orcs #writeblr

[mariacallous]

At last: a shake-up, a crack in the wall, a challenge to the canon, a change to the same old list-making business of reshuffling the same old names in a slightly different order at the top.

Sight and Sound magazine has announced the result of its latest decennial Greatest Film of All Time critics’ poll and Chantal Akerman’s radically austere, disturbing and brilliant 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is in with a bullet at No 1. This is the eerily unsettling and mesmeric three-hour-plus account of a single mother’s apparently banal life in real-time long takes, which progressively disclose an awful secret. With a fierce, cold, sustained blaze, the movie speaks to contemporary issues and questions: housework as work, sex work as work, the burden of motherhood and caregiving, the theatre of bourgeois respectability, the terrible loneliness of domestic life and female marginalisation, the unnoticed ubiquity of power and violence.

Jeanne Dielman makes this the first time a female director has been admitted to this exclusive gold medallists’ club. It has hitherto had only three members: Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves in 1952), Orson Welles (Citizen Kane in 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002) and Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo in 2012). Now Akerman has joined them and, like Hitchcock, did not live to see this triumph, having died in 2015.

A lot has happened in the cultural conversation since the last poll in 2012, when Hitchcock unseated Welles though without exactly changing the critical landscape. Identity and representation are now important and that is a very good thing. A stagnant set of assumptions has been stirred up, and the greatness of a modern master has been acknowledged. But it isn’t just that. Akerman’s genius and uncompromising vision, along with her compassion and human sympathy, have been pressing on the debate for some time now and Jeanne Dielman has progressed from being an unsettling rumour or cult choice, bursting through to fully fledged classic.

It is a film that poses a confrontational question to the audience, as difficult in 2022 as in 1975: what does the viewer expect to see and when? Akerman transcribes the apparently dull life of Dielman, played by Delphine Seyrig, in distinctively long, unbroken takes from fixed camera positions. We watch as Dielman sits down at her kitchen table and peels potatoes or begins to cook a meal. This scene goes on for long enough for us to think: this person is really peeling potatoes; there is effectively no difference in what she is doing here in this fictional mode and how she would do it in real life. This is happening. Without cutting away, we simply look at what is front of us, and begin to notice incidental details that would otherwise be overlooked.

But after a while, having been lulled into this faintly hypnotised state, we notice disturbing things that are slightly off, symptoms of an unacknowledged off-camera reality. It is the very polar opposite of a jump scare. Proportion and perspective are what’s in question. The long, long stretches of uneventfulness that surround the main event are not usually accommodated like this and significant things are not usually left unsignposted, and yet this is arguably a truer representation of our lived, unedited experience.

Jeanne Dielman is also a movie that reaches back to Agnès Varda’s 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7 – which makes the list at No 14 – in its quasi real-time scrutiny of a woman’s private life, as well as Buñuel’s Belle de Jour from 1967, with its sheen of dreamlike strangeness in ostensible normality. It also reaches forward to movies such as Jaime Rosales’s The Hours of the Day from 2003 and Michael Haneke’s Hidden from 2005, in that it is about denial, about the prosperous bourgeois capacity for carrying on and ignoring suffering and violence, whether this violence is being caused by or inflicted upon you. It is a poem of stoicism and fear and pain and a kind of survival.

Elsewhere in the list, it is refreshing to see more recent films (at last) being listed: Wong Kar-Wai’s delectably unhappy love story In the Mood for Love (2000) at No 5, Claire Denis’ Beau Travail (1998) at No 7 and David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr (2001) at No 8. Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) is in there at No 18 but his mighty The Seventh Seal (1957) – once a shoo-in for lists like this – doesn’t make the cut, and great European heavyweights such as Fellini and Antonioni are absent. A small worry of mine is that, as ever, comedy is pretty much frowned on, although Singin’ in the Rain (1952) gets in at No 10, with its heroic insistence on the importance of making ’em laugh.

But how exhilarating to see Akerman’s magnificent work being recognised like this.

[unbulletjournalbanal]

Présentation

Salut ! 👋🏻 Moi c'est Amandine, j'ai 25 ans et je me prépare au quotidien au concours d'Officier de la gendarmerie 2023. Je vous emmène avec moi dans mon bullet journal, qui m'aide à m'organiser au quotidien. Entre le sport et les révisions, ce n'est pas facile de s'y retrouver tous les jours, surtout quand on est son propre chef. 🤯

Je vous fais découvrir les thèmes que j'ai choisi pour les différents mois mais aussi mon organisation annuelle, mensuelle et hebdomadaire. Évidemment, si vous avez des suggestions, je suis preneuse ! 😊

J'ai décidé de faire ce blog pour vous montrer qu'il est facile de s'organiser et de se motiver quand on est le seul maître de son planning. Vous y trouverez donc de l'inspiration, de l'organisation, de la motivation et des conseils pour atteindre vos objectifs, qu'ils soient professionnels ou personnels. 🧐

Il ne me reste plus qu'à vous souhaiter une bonne visite sur mon blog ! 😉

Amandine

#bullet journal #bujo #bujoinspiration #education #gendarmerie #concours #france #étude #studies #culture #planning #organisation #motivation #inspiration #lifestyle #entraide #creation #ecriture #sport #revision

[thelibraryiscool]

Short Story Project – Week 4

What I read this week – as before, no ratings, but I’ll still say if I recommend (R), strongly recommend (S), or don’t recommend (D) a story:

1. Herman Hesse, “The Poet,” trans. Denver Lindley (R) “And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world.”

2. Nella Larsen, “Sanctuary” (R) “Ah does mah duty as Ah sees et ‘thout no thanks from you. Ef de Lawd had gib you a white face ‘stead o’ dat dere black one, Ah shuah would turn you out. Now hush yo’ mouf an git yo’se’f in. An’ don’ git movin’ and scrunnchin’ undah dose covahs and git yo’se’f kotched in mah house.”

3.  Guy de Maupassant, “La Maison Tellier” (R) “Rosa, ravie, se leva, et doucement, pour ne réveiller personne, alla chercher l'enfant. Elle l'amena dans son lit bien chaud, la pressa contre sa poitrine en l'embrassant, la dorlota, l'enveloppa de sa tendresse aux manifestations exagérées, puis, calmée elle-même, s'endormit. Et jusqu'au jour la communiante reposa son front sur le sein nu de la prostituée.” [tr. below the cut]

4. Beka Kurkhuli, “The Killer,” trans. Natalia Bukia-Peters & Victoria Field (S) “A bit later, a round of four bullets hit Diasamidze in the right side of his chest. A fourth bullet grazed his shoulder. Gia quickly ran up to him, sat down beside him, and stared bewildered at Shukria’s quivering face and the pink bubbles of blood appearing at his mouth. One bullet had gone through his lung. It was the first time Gia had seen a man killed by gunshot and he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw how, even though he was already dead, for a few seconds Shukria Diasamidze kept pulling at the belt of his submachine gun and how the fingers of his right hand were convulsing.”

5. Михаил Булгаков, “Москва 20-х годов” [Moscow in the 20s] (R) “— Нет, благодарю вас, чаю не хочется. Сыт, — со вздохом ответил я, чувствуя какое-то странное томление. Обломки кекса плавали внутри меня в чайном море и вызывали чувство тоски.” [tr. below the cut]

6. Prabda Yoon, “Feet First,” trans. Mui Poopopsakul (S) “Roang caught himself swinging his legs at a faster pace than what could be called walking, despite the fact that no part of his brain had signaled his legs to plow through the air so hard. But he was  running — there was no mistaking it because he was looking down, astonished, at his two feet as they took turns flinging rapidly forward on the sand. He had no idea why his feet had started running, he didn’t know what had ordered them to do so, but running he certainly was.”

7. Clara Ng, “Meteors,” trans. Toni Pollard (R) “If Cen hadn’t had any sleep for forty hours she was not to be disturbed. She would close her eyes and you wouldn’t be able to engage her in conversation for hours. This aspect of Cen was very puzzling to Tiansun. He didn’t need to close his eyes because he didn’t have any eyelids. And why couldn’t you get Cen to talk while she was asleep, anyway?”

8. Diana Wynne Jones, “What the Cat Told Me” (S) “I had just reached the stage of washing where you have one foot high in the air. I fell over. It was most annoying. The next minute, I was rolling around in a huge room full of people cooking things. A kitchen, Boy said it was later. It smelled marvelous. I hardly minded at all when Good Thing made me leap up and snatch a roast leg of mutton from the nearest table.“

3. Rosa, thrilled, got up and softly, so as not to way anyone, went to find the child. She took her to her well-warmed bed, pressed her to her chest with kisses, coddled her, wrapped her up in her exaggerated show of tenderness, and then, herself calmed, fell asleep. And until daylight the communicant rested with her brow on the prostitute’s naked breast.

5. ‘No, thank you, I don’t want tea. I’m full,’ I replied with a sigh, feeling a strange discontent. Bits of the cake swam around inside me in a sea of tea and caused a feeling of melancholy.

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