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Messages - Gopa B. Caesar

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: Food Poisoning
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:31:42 PM »
i often suffer from food poisoning... :(

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: What is diarrhea (or diarrhoea)?
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:31:22 PM »
meh :/

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: Sizzling Summer Seafood Recipes!!!
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:30:37 PM »
yummy!
 ;D

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Great tips!
:)
regards.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: 10 Nutrients You May Be Missing!
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:29:18 PM »
I won't be missing any from now on, very useful post! :)
Regards.

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: Dairy Myths!
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:28:26 PM »
mythic indeed! :/

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Nutrition and Food Engineering / Re: Leaves to LOVE!!!
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:27:15 PM »
simply, it was a POST TO LOVE
:)

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English / Re: Popular Culture
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:26:31 PM »
 :)

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English / Re: Twist your TONGUE :P
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:24:50 PM »
Thanks a lot for the latest additions to the list of tongue-twisters, Shamsi apu. :-*

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:22:44 PM »
Dostoyevsky has always been a happy banquet for the film-makers; "The Meek One" is no exception.

In 1962, а film adaptaion was made by Alexander Borisov; in 1969, another adaptation was made by Robert Bresson; in 1995, by Mariusz Treliński as Łagodna; in 1989, Mani Kaul made this short story into his film Nazar and finally, in 1998, Raphael Nadjari did a modern adaptation set in present day New York, The Shade.

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:20:43 PM »
The characterization of the narrator has been compared to the underground man of Notes from Underground, and of the pawnbrokers in Crime and Punishment and The Idiot that seek to empower themselves through the accumulation of wealth. The characterization of the narrator and his wife's suicide are meant as a criticism of what Dostoyevsky refers to as kosnost or spiritual stagnation that results from material pursuits.

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:20:12 PM »
When the narrator returns home, he is met with a crowd of people outside his house. His wife had committed suicide: she had jumped out of the window while holding an icon. The narrator is convinced that he was only five minutes too late, even though it was ultimately his narcissistic love that drove his gentle wife to suicide.

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:19:49 PM »
The narrator spares no expense for his wife's medical care, and she slowly recovers. Throughout the entire winter the narrator watches his wife furtively, and a watershed moment happens when she begins to sing in his presence. The narrator kisses his wife's feet and promises to be a changed man. He recounts the story of his shame in the regiment, and he promises to take her to Boulogne-sur-Mer. Several days later, the narrator leaves the house to make arrangements for passports.

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:19:25 PM »
The narrator and his wife return home. They retire for the night separately. In the morning, the narrator opens his eyes to see that his wife is standing over him with the revolver pointed at his temple. He simply closes his eyes again, and he is convinced that he conquered her with his readiness to accept death. She does not shoot, and the narrator buys her a separate bed that day. That same day, she also contracts tuberculosis.

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English / Re: Dostoyevsky Delight: "The Meek One"
« on: November 09, 2013, 06:19:01 PM »
The narrator's wife makes a habit of leaving during the day, and eventually it is discovered that she is visiting Efimovich, a member of the narrator's former regiment. The narrator's wife eventually confronts the narrator with the details that she learned from Efimovich: details about the narrator's shameful departure from his regiment. The narrator is unfazed, and his wife continues her visits to Efimovich. One time, the narrator follows his wife to Efimovich, bringing a revolver. He listens in delight to a verbal duel between his wife and Efimovich, and eventually he bursts in and reclaims his wife.

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