Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico, was number 12; dinero, money, was number 10. This was la charada, the sacred and obsessive numerology my abuela used to predict lottery numbers or winning trifectas at the dog track. The grocery stores and pawn shops on Flagler street handed out complementary wallet-size cards printed with the entire charada, numbers 1 through 100: number 70 was coco, number 89 was melón and numb...
Mango No. 61 — a poem by Richard Blanco
Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico, was number 12; dinero, money, was number 10. This was la charada, the sacred and obsessive numerology my abuela used to predict lottery numbers or winning trifectas at the dog track. The grocery stores and pawn shops on Flagler street handed out complementary walle...
Mango No. 61 — a poem by Richard Blanco
...If, on the other hand, Cersei falls fully and irrevocably—as did Eleanor Cobham, the disgraced former Duchess of Gloucester who spent the rest of her life under house arrest following her own penance—then once again Game of Thrones fails to be medieval, despite what many believe. If, instead, the show is a fantasy, then it's a misogynistic fantasy. If Cersei is not allowed redemption following her walk, she will have had her life destroyed for her sexual choices, becoming ano...
What Cersei Lannister's Naked Walk of Shame Tells Us About Our Culture | VICE | United States
To strip someone completely naked instead of leaving them their underwear is a creative decision by series author George R. R. Martin (and followed by showrunners D. B. Weiss and David Benioff) along the lines of Deadwood's decision to use contemporary swear words because modern people wouldn't even notice historically accurate cur...
What Cersei Lannister's Naked Walk of Shame Tells Us About Our Culture | VICE | United States
...e disgraced former Duchess of Gloucester who spent the rest of her life under house arrest following her own penance—then once again Game of Thrones fails to be medieval, despite what many believe. If, instead, the show is a fantasy, then it's a misogynistic fantasy. If Cersei is not allowed redemption following her walk, she will have had her life destroyed for her sexual choices, becoming another notch on the show's headboard of wrecked women's lives.
What Cersei Lannister's Naked Walk of Shame Tells Us About Our Culture | VICE | United States
...e other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my woodyard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever ...
Walden, Chapter 12
I took up the chip oil which the three I have particularly described were struggling, carried it into my house, and placed it under a tumbler on my window-sill, in order to see the issue. Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breastplate was apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite. They struggled half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldier had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies, and the still living heads were hanging on either ...
Walden, Chapter 12
I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that...
Walden, Chapter 12
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