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Dissolution
“She cast about for her next adversary. She didn't seem to have one. The fight was over, and the few surviving hobgoblins were running away.
"Form up!" she shouted. "I want a column with the traders in the middle. Fast!"
Once the procession was under way, Aunrae, striding along at Greyanna's side, asked, "May I know where we're going? An ally's castle?"
"No," Greyanna replied. "I suspect we couldn't get in. We're going to hide our charges in Bauthwaf."
The column crept past corpses and burning stone, and as they made their way to the cavern wall, other commoners came running out of their homes to join the procession. Greyanna's first impulse was to turn away those without ties to House Mizzrym, but she thought better of it. Many of the newcomers carried swords, and she could press the dolts into martial service if needed.
Occasionally someone collapsed, coughing feebly, poisoned by the stinging smoke. The rest stepped over her and pressed on.
Someone gave a thin, high cry, as if at an unexpected pain. Greyanna spun around. The goblins weren't attacking. Her client the canoe maker had simply seized his opportunity to knife another male in the back.
"A competitor," the craftsman explained.”
Magic
Betrayal
Fantasy
Forgotten Realms
Dark Elf
Drow
Spider Queen
Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
“It would be forty-four years before physicist Donald Olson would discover that D-Day at Tarawa occurred during one of only two days in 1943 when the moon's apogee coincided with a neap tide, resulting in a tidal range of only a few inches rather than several feet.
The actions of these Marines trapped on the reef would determine the outcome of the battle for Tarawa. If they hesitated or turned back, their buddies ashore would be decimated.
But they didn't hesitate. They were Marines. They jumped from their stranded landing crafts into chest-deep water holding their arms and ammunition above their heads.
In one of the bravest scenes in the history of warfare, these Marines slogged through the deep water into sheets of machine-gun bullets. There was nowhere to hide, as Japanese gunners raked the Marines at will. And the Marines, almost wholly submerged and their hands full of equipment, could not defend themselves. But they kept coming. Bullets ripped through their ranks, sending flesh and blood flying as screams pierced the air.
Japanese steel killed over 300 Marines in those long minutes as they struggled to the shore. As the survivors stumbled breathlessly onto shore their boots splashed in water that had turned bright red with blood.
This type of determination and valor among individual Marines overcame seemingly hopeless odds, and in three days of hellish fighting Tarawa was captured. The Marines suffered a shocking 4,400 casualties in just seventy-two hours of fighting as they wiped out the entire Japanese garrison of 5,000.”
Courage Under Fire
World War Two
Usmc
Us Marines
Us Marine Corps
The Thugs & a Courtesan
“Like a thief, the image of her taut, well-formed body crept into his mind next. His hair swept backwards, shot up like long needles in the rush of the air and his thoughts grew bolder. He marveled how beautifully her body arched as she stood and gave commands. Vishwakarma, the god of all craftsmen, in an exalting moment had threaded a wire through it to give it that elegant curve. From that instant, the memories of a wife, of dear daughters waiting back in the village seemed hazy as in a dream. Inhibitions became soft barriers. He remembered the gestures of Chanda Bai’s two hands as she talked; her palms like delicate seashells; her elegant fingers. Flashes of her jewel studded ears, another pair of shells; and her long hair lovingly braided by her servants with thick strands of white and yellow jasmine flowers interlaced in them. He wanted to caress those flowers with his finger.”
Infidelity
Boldness
Inhibitions
Beautiful Woman
Bold Passion
Vishwakarma
The Thugs & a Courtesan
“Like a thief, the image of her taut, well-formed body crept into his mind next. He marveled how beautifully her body arched as she stood and gave commands. Vishwakarma, the god of all craftsmen, in an exalting moment had threaded a wire through it to give it that elegant curve.”
Infidelity
Beautiful Woman
Vishwakarma
Storm Rising
“Leif had a crush on special warfare combatant-crafts. Maybe he'd lose it intentionally...have it turn up back home. Magically.”
Leif Metcalfe
The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems
“These six tapestries, dated to the late fifteenth century, hail from a region near the French-Belgian border known for tapestry-weaving. They hung in relative obscurity in the Château de Boussac until the 1840s. Writer George Sand encountered the tapestries in central France, damp and neglected. She helped to have them cleaned, subsequently writing repeatedly about their subject and craftsmanship. Sand visited the town of Boussac regularly. In 1870, she wrote of an overnight stay at the château there. The night was windy and restless, sending Sand to fetch a forgotten letter from the salon. She described studying the lady and unicorn tapestries in the remaining light from the fire. “Thin, richly and bizarrely dressed,” she wrote, “This blond, stylish lady is quite mysterious.” Her granddaughter had called her “fairy-like.”
George Sand
The Lady And The Unicorn
The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
“In England, in the Netherlands, in France, from the sixteenth century on, economic and political violence expropriated craftsmen and peasants, repressed indigence and vagrancy, imposed wage-labor on the poor. Between 1930 and 1950, Russia decreed a labor code which included capital punishment in order to organise the transition of millions of peasants to industrial wage-labor in less than a few decades. Seemingly normal facts: that an individual has nothing but his labor power, that he must sell it to a business unit to be able to live, that everything is a commodity, that social relations revolve around market exchange ... such facts now taken for granted result from a long, brutal process.”
Transition
Labor
Capitalism
Theft
Feudalism
Expropriation
Makers of America: A Personal Family History
“The surname Fletcher belonged to my maternal grandfather and was one that he held very proudly. It is the name I legally adopted as my own surname at age 15. Fletcher is an English surname meaning “arrow maker” that was given to medieval craftsmen who designed and crafted arrows.”
Family
Name
England
Fletcher
Richard II
“He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,
When time shall call him home from banishment,
Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green,
Observ'd his courtship to the common people;
How he did seem to dive into their hearts
With humble and familiar courtesy;
What reverence he did throw away on slaves,
Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
And patient underbearing of his fortune,
As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;
A brace of draymen bid God speed him well
And had the tribute of his supple knee,
With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends';
As were our England in reversion his,
And he our subjects' next degree in hope.”
Henry V
Henry Iv
Like Father Like Son
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
“The origin myth of the Tukano speaks of the time, eons ago, when humans first settled the great rivers of the Amazon basin. It seems that 'supernatural beings' accompanied them on this journey and gifted them the fundamentals upon which to build a civilized life. From the 'Daughter of the Sun' they received the gift of fire and the knowledge of horticulture, pottery-making, and many other crafts. 'The serpent-shaped canoe of the first settlers' was steered by a superhuman 'Helmsman.' Meanwhile other supernaturals 'travelled by canoe over all the rivers and ... explored the remote hill ranges; they pointed out propitious sites for houses or fields, or for hunting and fishing, and they left their lasting imprint on many spots so that future generations would have ineffaceable proof of their earthly days and would forever remember them and their teachings.”
Proof
Myth
Origin
Settle
Deep Human History
Cataclysm
Lost Ancient Civilizations
Serpent People
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Il tè sa dare alla vita pratica la struttura di una dimensione estetica. Il tè non può mantenere la propria identità, se viene separato dalla perizia artigianale. Il tè è la capacità di cogliere la bellezza nelle pratiche artigianali e la dimensione artigianale della bellezza.
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Il tè e lo zen sono stati, com'è logico e naturale, intimamente connessi fin dai tempi più remoti. Il tè è l'approfondimento dello zen tramite l'uso delle cose. Una ciotola del tè o un vaso di fiori offrono ottime possibilità per la meditazione zen.”
Te
Bellezza
Artigianato
Meditazione
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“I maestri non cercarono una bellezza avulsa dalla realtà della vita e scoprirono gli aspetti più alti e nobili del bello negli oggetti legati all'esistenza. Fu questa la loro esperienza più intima e profonda. Per loro bello e artigianale erano sinonimi.
I maestri del tè sono agli antipodi degli esteti dei nostri giorni, i quali attribuiscono valore solo alla maestria degli artisti e disprezzano la perizia dell'artigiano. Gli esteti tentano di valutare la bellezza con il ragionamento.”
Te
Bellezza
Artigianato
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“I maestri del tè si guardarono attorno con occhi amorevoli e posarono il loro sguardo sugli oggetti d'uso comune che li circondavano, quelli cui nessuno presta di solito attenzione. Qualcuno potrebbe dire che i maestri del tè furono molto arditi, ma in realtà si comportano in modo del tutto naturale. Anche gli oggetti più comuni, destinati all'uso quotidiano, si ammantano di bellezza quando li si ama. Ciò che è umile sa accogliere l'amore. Quegli oggetti, nati nella purezza e nutriti dalle benedizioni della natura, sono quindi integri sia dal punto di vista materiale che da quello spirituale. Se fossero stati troppo delicati o troppo vistosi non avrebbero potuto servire come utensili. Non è forse la schiettezza il loro pregio principale? Non c'è da meravigliarsi dunque se irradiano un'autentica bellezza. Il regno dei cielo è stato promesso proprio agli umili e l'umiltà è in stretta relazione con la bellezza.”
Te
Bellezza
Artigianato
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Una cosa utile non può essere poco pratica o fragile in quanto esiste una stretta relazione fra funzione e bellezza. Un oggetto per essere utile deve essere affidabile, e non perdona nessuna indulgenza. Nel creare un oggetto destinato all'uso pratico, chi lo fa non pone se stesso in primo piano o nel caso specifico, in superficie. In questi oggetti l'errore, l'autoaffermazione sono ridotti al minimo. È questo forse un altro dei motivi per cui le cose d'utilità pratica sono belle.
Secondo me, gli oggetti il cui creatore rimane anonimo hanno facile accesso alla bellezza: il fatto che i più begli esempi di arte funzionale esistenti al mondo siano quasi sempre quelli che non hanno avuto l'opportunità di recare la firma di chi li ha fatti, dovrebbe far riflettere molto seriamente.”
Arts And Crafts
Artigianato
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Quando una tradizione muore essa deve essere sostituita dagli artisti che lavorano a livello individuale. Questi però non hanno il compito di lavorare da soli o per se stessi, ma di aprire la strada per creare una nuova tradizione. Proprio per questa ragione è auspicabile che essi siano dotati di una forte consapevolezza sociale. Se così non sarà, non potranno essere di alcun aiuto alla società nella quale vivono, anche se personalmente raggiungono la salvezza.
Senza una salvezza collettiva il mondo dell'artigianato non può prosperare. È questo il punto centrale attorno al quale ruota la differenza tra la missione del puro e semplice artista e quella dell'artigiano. Del primo si dirà che va per la sua strada, del secondo invece che egli procede di pari passo con la società.
La caratteristica principale dell'artigianato consiste nella diffusione dell'uso dei suoi prodotti: l'utilità è più importante dell'apprezzamento estetico. Secondo me l'opera d'arte non solo non dovrebbe essere un'esistenza autonoma, ma dovrebbe armonizzarsi con l'impiego pratico. Solo in questo caso si manifesterà la sua vera bellezza.”
Arte
Artigianato
Tradizioni
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Utilità, materiale e tecnica, se tenuti nel dovuto conto, ci danno automaticamente la pacata, calda bellezza delle opere artigianali che adoperiamo quotidianamente.”
Matéria
Artigianato
Materiali
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Ignorare i requisiti intrinseci dei materiali e pensare che i vari motivi possano essere riprodotti su qualunque cosa liberamente e con fantasia, è una stortura della mentalità moderna di cui non si vuol prendere nota. Dobbiamo imparare di nuovo a entrare in sintonia con i materiali grezzi dai quali sbocciano i motivi tradizionali.”
Artigianato
Materiali
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Sarebbe opportuno creare delle associazioni o delle corporazioni a tutela degli artisti onesti, per salvaguardare gli interessi finanziari di chi produce oggetti fatti a mano, o con le macchine, dai tentacoli delle vendite su larga scala. Per raggiungere questo scopo, è essenziale tendere a una sempre più profonda etica della produzione, a un più profondo senso religioso nella vita quotidiana. Quella dell'artigianato non è solo una questione spirituale: il lavoro, manuale o meccanizzato, volgerà al peggio in mancanza di una preparazione spirituale.”
Artigianato
Manualità
Lavoro Manuale
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Io credo che il lavoro manuale sia così essenziale, così naturale, che il bisogno irresistibile di farvi ricorso non cesserà mai di manifestarsi. Inoltre la caratteristica intrinseca dell'opera artigianale è quella di mantenere un contatto vivo e costante col cuore dell'uomo, e così il lavoro acquista una qualità umana. Tutto ciò che nasce dalla macchina è figlio del cervello e quindi manca di umanità.”
Arts And Crafts
Artigianato
Manualità
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Un'opera priva d'innata bellezza è un'opera morta: ecco qual'è dunque l'importanza dell'artista-artigiano al quale noi oggi chiediamo non solo di produrre delle buone opere, ma anche di lavorare a stretto contatto con l'artigianato tradizionale in modo da far rivivere la bellezza anche negli oggetti di uso comune.”
Arts And Crafts
Artigianato
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Quel che io desidero non è tanto che il visitatore "incontri l'artigiano nel suo ambiente", quanto che egli possa rendersi conto di quale sia (o sia stato) il ruolo dei vari manufatti nella vita quotidiana, traendone idee che arricchiscano la sua vita.
Altro scopo del museo (delle tradizioni popolari del Giappone) è quello di fornire degli spunti per le future produzioni.”
Artigianato
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
“Abbiamo l'impegno, in quanto artigiani, di operare come umili e leali intermediari del volere divino insito nella natura.”
Natura
Artigianato
Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
“Engaging specialists in interpreting ancient artifacts in Egypt is absolutely necessary in establishing a credible hypothesis. Without their input, there cannot be a comprehensive understanding of the past. For instance, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau were built not by Egyptologists or archaeologists but by engineers and craftsmen. It is not surprising, therefore, that Egyptologists overlook engineering features and nuances that would be recognized immediately by those who are trained in those disciplines.”
Hypothesis
Craftsmen
Pyramids
Engineers
Specialists
Ancient Artifacts
Archaeology
Egyptology
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
“The most compelling evidence for the likelihood that the Great Pyramid was constructed by craftspeople with specialized knowledge and advanced techniques is the precision with which it was built. This precision reveals more about the true nature of its builders than any inscription or cartouche. There is no way to ignore the accuracy of this stonecutting, despite Egyptologists' interpretations of the inscriptions found in pyramids or temples in Egypt. After all, hieroglyphics, like any language, has the potential to be misunderstood.
After discussing much of the preceding information with the artisans at today's building sites, machine shops, and quarry mills, I became aware of the reason why we are still influenced by ideas that are not compatible with practical application. The artisans of today are too busy making a living to give serious thought to scholarly theories, and even when gross inequities are presented to them, they respond with a cynical shrug. When told that giant limestone casing stones, which were cut to within 1/100 of an inch, were cut with hammer and chisel, a typical response was a shake of the head.”
Monuments
Deep Human History
Megalithic Monuments
Egyptology
Ancient Civilization
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
“Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.”
Anarchy
Anarchism
Anarchist
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