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The Wild Wild West




Robert Conrad-James West
Charles Aidan-Jeremy Pike



Zero Dark Thirty

I have not seen the movie yet. Reading this article, I am debating should I?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/torture-zero-dark-thirty_b_2512767.html

Sand, Sea and Sun

make Aruba. We spent a week there. Soaked up lot of sun along with alcohol accompanied by some great and some not so great food. Bhupen was in heaven because he could eat Pineapple every meal. It is his favorite fruit.

Map Of the Island

A Caribbean desert island 19 by 6 miles in area with a population of 120000 to 130000. Desert because it does not rain much here. Local languages, Dutch, Papiamento and Spanish. Mostly undeveloped and yet a heavenly place for tourists.

Staple food, colorful Iguanas who run all over the isalnd. Locals say they taste like chicken.

Iguanas



The tourism is served mostly by immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Phillipines, Dominican Republic, Colombia and Mexico. A melding spot.

A few photographs of the island and the resort we stayed in.

Caribbean Sea

Palm Trees on Resort campus

Waves of the Sea

Another hotel across

Palms in Rains

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This is cute.........

A friend sent this to us. I do not know who originated this video.  But, I enjoyed it very much.

 

"Commerce in Human Souls"

A close friend at the University Of Illinois at Chicago has been working tirelessly for past year or two at putting together an exhibit of rare books and manuscripts on Atlantic Slave Trade. She sent us the catalogue of her work.

I am posting the Cover and two inside pictures of the catalogue. The exhibit is supposed to be on display until, I believe,  May 2013. I think we will take a tour.

Outlook for E-mails......

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Have called an expert..............

Playing waiting game............

King, Queen, Knave-By Nabokov

Why am I always disappointed in a book when I have finished it. This one is no exception.

After finishing a book I try to put together the plot of the story which is almost always not very complicated. The story can be related in no more than fifty to seventy pages. And yet, the book is no less than three hundred pages.

I have concluded that author writes and repeats same points,  as for example, two people being in love, in various surroundings and in various words. Perhaps, to show author's mastery of the language. This is to me extraneous.

This author is a masterful writer. He commands the language beautifully. I love him for that. I was enamoured when I read following, "he was a bachelor with a beautiful marble wife, a passionate hobbyist without anything to collect, an explorer not knowing on what mountain to die, a voracious reader of unmemorable books, a happy healthy failure."

(Of course, I would have preferred "unwritten" in place of "unmemorable" and "a successful failure" in place of "happy healthy failure".)

I have come across many more new words in his books than I have ever in any other author. For example;

fripperies-luxury
plage-sandy beach
vivieur-enjoyer of excesses
revanche-revenge
adumbrated-obscure

I will continue to forage his books.