Always between two trains, or two countries, or two towns, catch me if you can. You may find me in English, except if I am in Pali or some other more or less exotic language, or book. Have you tried the Dhammapada recently? If not, just give it a try, in Pali of course. You may also have a try at looking for me on the Internet, simply Coulardeau with Google, but on the global web, not on the French pages of it. Have a good trip.
Carnival
and Mardi Gras are close at hand and you have to find some entertainment not to
get lost in the festivities without any guideline. The videos I suggest there,
are just to be enjoyed as entertainment and not too much as mental sports,
though Shakespeare is going to be so witty he will bring you to your wits' end.
But Shakespeare is just as brilliant in Stradford-Upon-Avon as anything
adventure in Bristol, Baltimore, or London. Get around the Globe in no time at
all, and in less than eighty days for sure.
The
adventure is going on with this seventh hour or so of fantastic literature read
for the radio and actually broadcast on Radio Craponne, Haute-Loire, France.
The stories are all in French. Just enjoy them. They have definitely one foot
in horror, one foot in terror, and one third foot in grossness, according to
Stephen King's old formula.
It was a time when the century was going to change. It was a time when I was
going to step out of the School system with some kind of furor. That was a time
when I had to look for new horizons and it is in literature, imagination,
creation, and research that I found salvation and in a way a certain sense of
being avenged, of having retaliated the gross injustice this society, or rather
the bureaucratic non-entities that govern us, imposed onto me.
The
subject is as beautiful as the topic but the topicalization onto harbor
trafficking first, and then on Black ghettoization does not help understand how
everyone, every community is nothing but a pawn on the political chessboard of
the ambition of anyone who wants to become the boss, meaning, the mayor, the
governor, the chief of police, the local senator, the head of a gang or a
union, the latter being little different from the former, etc.
That is the most typical American nightmare, but open your eyes and look at the
populists: that's what the USA is all about: ambition, greed, and manipulation
for the "winners," and alienation for the masses who can only be the
losers.
This
book was published when Mahinda Rajapaksa was president of Sri Lanka but now
Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected president by a landslide result it is
getting particularly hot and to the point, because the five lost years from
2015 to 2020 can be repaired and pushed aside. Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean
are more than ever the center of the world's maritime commerce and those who
will not be there in due time will be the losers. Europe is well-positioned to
be present but the USA are not and there is no alternative that could make the
US great again in the Indian Ocean, except if they want to be the military
gendarme if not colonizer of this ocean. Some may think or dream about this,
and they will have a very painful awakening with some political and economic
hangover. They should prepare their magic potion with Alka Selzer and
other sobering substances.
Articulated
language emerged with Homo Sapiens some 300,000 years ago and it followed a
phylogenetic route to become what it is today, with migrations out of Black
Africa that determined the three great families of languages. The evolution of
language and languages is the result of its or their inner structure and the
role it or they play in the communicational situation they integrated into
themselves as their syntax.
Learning a language, native or foreign, follow
Learning a foreign language is then questioning and at times destabilizing the
psychogenesis of the first language of a child or adult.
The didactics of foreign languages has to take this into consideration if we
want the learners to mediate the shift from one phylogeny to another phylogeny.
C'est l'histoire de la pauvre Dolorès témoin d'un
crime de lèse-gendarmerie et qui ne sait même pas quoi faire dans sa solitude
complètement déraillée.
Quand le mal policier vous prend vous 'e pouvez pas savoir quand il vous
libèrera. Garde à vue, détention, le début est clain, la fin est toujours
brumeuse.
Suivez donc cette descente de Dolorès dans les bas-fonds de je ne sais quelle
capitale provinciale qui se croit le nombril de l'univers car elle a le
Torpilleur Sirocco quelque part dans ses gènes métropoliques.
This
short book is essential to understand the shift brought by agriculture. The
main change, apart from agriculture and herding, was the shift from a society
centered on a territory with many exchange rules to avoid inbreeding, and with
a special labor organization so that women could guarantee the future of the
tribe, of the community and the network by providing them with enough children
brought to full adult life for the species to survive and for it to expand and
go on migrating. To a society centered on the control of land and the
management of the work of those who had to till this land, and that led to a
male-dominated society based and centered on the possession of this land. And
in Europe all that was done in some Turkic languages or dialects that have
become Basque in modern times.
Without this gendered approach of this Paleolithic society and this linguistic
approach of their culture, we cannot understand the proliferation of what is
called the Paleolithic or Magdalenian Venuses.
Éditions
La Dondaine 2020
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:30 PM 0 comments
6 years spent in foreign countries: 1 year in North Carolina USA, 1 year in California USA, 1 year in Zaïre (Kinshasa), 3 months (2005, August-November) in Sri Lanka on research with an NGO attached to the UNESCO site of Sigiriya, numerous shorter periods in Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany (East and West), Austria, among others