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Normal_Life_in_Finland: February 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Sunday, February 24, 2008. Is Botswana on Your Map? As human beings we are constructors of realities. Last weekend I got caught in what Alexander McCall Smith keeps on constructing in Botswana. Before having read any of his books I had no idea about a country called Botswana nor about the life people lead there. They did not exist on my personal map of the world. Last weekend I got again stuck in Botswana, more closely in Caborone, Zebra Drive. I do not stop admiring. As an author...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: January 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Sunday, January 20, 2008. The Most Important Learning. There is a study indicating that people in French bistros touch each other 110 times per hour. In English pubs they touch one another an average of three times an hour. Finnish pubs have not been studied. 180;Nothing special´indicates mental laziness. It is an effort to shift the communicative responsibility onto the other person´s shoulders: "You talk. Me listen.". I´m not that much different. I would like to have a ...On Sat...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: October 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Constructing Memories and Prizing Books. Estoy leyendo el libro Mira si yo te querré por Luis Leante (ISBN: 978-84-204-7195-2). El texto me fascina. Es uno de los libros que no quieres dejar al lado antes de haber disfrutado las últimas palabras, uno de los libros que te abren un mundo nuevo sin visitas anteriores. Por lo menos a mí me pasa éste. One day people in the radio were telling how the world economy is stumbling and probably falling down. The me...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: Mortality and Procreation
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Normal Life in Finland. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. That is an extract of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid (ISBN:978-0-141-03602-1). The book caught me at the airport. I have no idea why it happened, but I am really glad it did. We are remarkable, as Hamid says, and obviously some of us are even more remarkable than others. Reading the book you might tend to classify Moshin Hamid into the group of the more remarkable among us. Why do I write about this? I have been reading some Robert Kiyo...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: May 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Friday, May 2, 2008. Human Mind and Sumerian Gods. Sumerians thought that the world is governed by the council of seven gods: Sun, Moon, Sky, Fresh water, Salty water and Storm. The mightiest of them was Storm. This council gathered the first day of every year to decide what the new year will be like, what will be possible and what not. This is the best time to visit Finland. Even the most pessimistic people won´t say yet that the autumn will start approaching soon, meani...They s...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: June 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Thursday, June 26, 2008. Where does God´s Home End? World never comes to an end - if it comes, it will end on the very point where God´s home starts, just exactly at the fence.". World has not come to an end. In the forests blue flowers ( hepatica triloba. I told my daughter that the apple trees will soon have blossomed. "Why didn´t you tell me before. I would have liked to see them.". Days, nights, apple trees and Midsummer roses. Being in a hurry it is easy to forget that Nature...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: Existing or Strangely Inexisting?
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Normal Life in Finland. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Existing or Strangely Inexisting? The word you just said does not exist." says my native Spanish friend having listened to my explanation of the difference between commercial and financial thinking in Spanish. Abrigos de verano no hay." "There are no summer overcoats." Julio answers when I ask him if I should wear a summer overcoat when coming to Madrid in october. It seems to me that beside the worlds of either-or. There is also a world of existing. Home ...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: July 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Sunday, July 27, 2008. Sunshine and Stomach Ulcers. The first sentence of a novel needs to construct a picture." (Leo Tolstoy). I have a book consisting of the first sentences in 200 novels. Those books have been published in 1954-1986. When I got the book I thought it would be a treasure. It hasn´t been. I find it very irritating to be able to read the first five lines of a world-famous book and . All of a sudden there is nothing more. The opposite page repeats the same drop out.
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: April 2008
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Normal Life in Finland. Thursday, April 17, 2008. The Weight of Your Brain? When the Russian author Turgenejev died in 1883 his brain was weighed and found to be exceptionally heavy - heavier than any other brain by that time. When the French author Anatole France died in 1924 his brain was weighed as well. It was found to be the lightest of all brains by then. The brain of both of these two authors was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records and both of the records have been beaten since then. Maybe it...
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Normal_Life_in_Finland: Constructing Memories and Prizing Books
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Normal Life in Finland. Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Constructing Memories and Prizing Books. Estoy leyendo el libro Mira si yo te querré por Luis Leante (ISBN: 978-84-204-7195-2). El texto me fascina. Es uno de los libros que no quieres dejar al lado antes de haber disfrutado las últimas palabras, uno de los libros que te abren un mundo nuevo sin visitas anteriores. Por lo menos a mí me pasa éste. One day people in the radio were telling how the world economy is stumbling and probably falling down. The me...