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[donuts4evry1]

Mizuya, Mijikane

Alright, I finally got myself to settle on a name (hopefully for the last time).

Mizuya is, still the same. Mijikane uses 短 (Mijika) “short, brief” and 音 (ne) “noise”

Mijikane (human form) doesn’t usually wear a beret to school but this is an exception :)

Also had to add in Paulo here because..... I thought it would be funny. Paulo is just incredibly tiny

[luizdominguesfan]

https://paulosanet.com/filme-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-o-dia-em-que-a-terra-parou/?fbclid=IwAR1lQMfEgp4rS0JzEN4p8cXqqg6Lpo6JDqHoOc9kDJ5_Rc4INtOgyh_Dv9M

A minha resenha sobre o filme "The day  the Earth stood still", está disponível no site "Palavras & Sons"

[thinkingimages]

Yasuzo Nojima, photography (1931)

“Faustus: ‘Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord?” Mephistopheles: ‘Enlarge his kingdom.'”

– Christopher Marlowe, Dr.Faustus

“In his book on poor cities of the South, Jeremy Seabrook chronicles the relentless calendar of disaster in Klong Toey, Bangkok’s port slum sandwiched between docks, chemical factories and expressways. In 1989 a chemical explosion poisoned hundreds of residents; two years later a chemical warehouse exploded and left 5,500 residents homeless – many of whom would later die from mysterious illnesses. Fire destroyed 63 homes in 1992, 460 homes in 1993 (also the year of another chemical explosion), and several hundred more in 1994. Thousands of other slums, including some in rich countries, have similar histories to Klong Toey. They suffer from the ‘garbage dump syndrome’: the concentration of toxic industrial activities like metal plating, dyeing, rendering, tanning, battery recycling, casting, vehicle repair, chemical manufacture, and so on, which middle classes would never tolerate in their own districts.

The world usually pays attention to such fatal admixtures of poverty and toxic industry only when they explode with mass casualties; 1984 was the annus horribilus. In February a gasoline pipeline exploded in Cubatao, Sao Paulo’s ‘Pollution Valley’, and burned more than 500 people to death in an adjacent favela. Eight months later a Pemex liquefied natural gas plant exploded like an atomic bomb in Mexico City’s San Juanico district, killing as many 2,000 poor residents (no accurate count of mortality was ever established).

Less than three weeks after the Mexico City holocaust, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, released its infamous cloud of deadly methyl isocynate; according to a 2004 study by Amnesty International, 7,000 to 10,000 people perished immediately and another 15,000 died in subsequent years from related illnesses and cancers.”  

– Mike Davis, 2005, Socialist Review

“Yes. As I often tell my students, the way in which you describe a problem, the language and aesthetics that you use to describe the politics of a particular problem, will absolutely effect the type of solution that resolves. { } Ontologically, they’re already guilty of being criminal whether or not they’ve actually engaged in any criminal behavior at all. I think the figure of innocence (our emphasis on and circulation of it) then obscures the fact that the counterpart to the innocent figure is the person who is guilty of a “status crime” for just being alive in Gaza, for instance.” 

– Mimi Thi Nguyen, in conversation with Leopold Lambert

“However, and this is an immense paradox, the great founding books of communities, the Old Testament, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Chansons de Geste, the Islandic Sagas, the Aeneid,or the African epics, were all books about exile and often about errantry.”

– Edouard Glissant

Exile in antiquity was an exile without deprivation, says Glissant. And this is because it was a voyage from a culture, rather than from a *nation*. The stigma of national identity is the child of Western imperialism, really.

“The conquered or visited peoples are thus forced into a long and painful quest after an identity whose first task will be opposition to the denaturing process introduced by the conqueror. A tragic variation of a search for identity. For more than two centuries whole populations have had to assert their identity in opposition to the processes of identification or annihilation triggered by these invaders.”

– Edouard Glissant

....

[phoenixresistance]

Phoenix Resistance- Chapter 10

London Streets - October 31st, 1997, 9:41 PM

“Come on, Paulo! He said not to fall behind!”

“But it’s Halloween! I want candy!!” Paulo whined as his sister grabbed his hand and pulled him forward and away from the house he was walking towards.

“This is serious Paulo. You are too young to understand but we aren’t safe here.”

“Don’t worry, the monsters won’t get me! I’m a superhero!” He exclaimed, his cape gently flapping and his arms posed heroically.

Alesia rolled her eyes and pulled on his arm again to keep him moving and to catch up with the dark haired man leading them down the wet London streets.

“Monsters aren’t real, idiot. It’s only kids dressed up as monsters.”

“Don’t listen to your sister, Paulo.” The man suddenly spoke up. “Monsters are definitely real, they just are disguised as people.” He said with a wink over his shoulder.

Suddenly he turned around, eyes darting around the street before settling back on the kids. “Why don’t you guys go to that house over there and get some candy? Come right back here when you are done.”

“Yeah!!” Paulo shouted and then ran to the door.

“Don’t you want some too?” The man questioned her.

“No, that’s kid stuff. I’m eleven now. I’ll be going to Hogwarts next year just like Julie! She’s my big sister.” Alesia said proudly, her head held high for a second before falling.

“Mom says she’s too busy at school to come see us but I’m not a child. I know that people like us are being hunted. I think she was taken. Just like we would be if we stayed with mom and dad. That’s why you are taking us somewhere else.”

The man was quiet for a moment, watching Paulo knock on the door. “You are very wise for your age, Alesia Rivera. That will get you far in life.”

“Between you and me,” Alesia whispered with a grin, “I don’t think Paulo is like us girls. I think he’s like mom and dad. Ordinary.”

“Sometimes ordinary is all we need. Magic will never be more important than family, and it doesn’t always save them either. You are way more important and powerful than your magic, Alesia, remember that.” His face grew more serious with every word, his boyish grin falling away to show a weary man, making Alesia think he’s older than she had thought.

“I will.”

A split second later he was young again, the grin taking over his face.

“Hey pal! How’s the candy?”

“IT'S GREAT! A NICE LADY GAVE ME THREE SUCKERS!” He giggled, one sucker clearly already in his mouth as he returned. “Here Alesia, you can have this one. The other one is yours!” Paulo held out his hand towards the man.

He chuckled warmly. “My name is Kaari, but why don’t you keep it? Maybe you can give it to Julie when she comes home.”

“That’s a great idea! Thanks Kaari!”

They kept walking, occasionally stopping to let Paulo get more candy. Alesia shivered in the cold evening air but she didn’t mind. Halloween was one of her favorite holidays. She loved seeing carved pumpkins flicker and glow but most of all she loved the supernatural.

The day Julie got her letter, she hoped she would be as special as her. Alesia knew that it was possible that she wouldn’t have inherited magic, but the day she accidentally slammed a door in anger with her mind was the happiest day of her life. Though, she was grounded for a week.

Alesia was admiring a witch costume across the street, imagining herself on the day she will get her own wand when she slammed into the back of Kaari’s dark coat.

“Quick, let's go this way.” He said hurriedly and hushed. Something was wrong.

They turned off the street and headed down another at a quick pace. Alesia started scanning around, looking for what he saw, but everyone she could see was wearing masks. She didn’t even know what she was looking for.

“Wait, where’s your brother?”

“He was right behind me! I’m sorry.” She said in a panic. She was too busy watching for danger when she should have been taking care of her brother.

Suddenly there was a scream behind them and they took off running, Kaari pulling out his wand from his pocket. They turned the corner just in time to see a man in robes and a mask grab on to Paulo’s shirt, his wand pointed towards him.

“Don’t move, or I’ll kill him.” The Death Eater hissed.

“It’s gonna be ok Paulo.” Kaari reassured him.

“I want to go home. Please!” He cried as he looked up at the Death Eater.

Suddenly his wand flew out of his hand and clattered to the wet pavement. Before anyone could say anything, Kaari reacted.

“STUPEFY!” The man was hit square in the chest and fell backwards in a heap.

“Come on Paulo let’s go!”

“Cool! Did you see that! I really am a superhero!” He squealed in excitement as both Kaari and Alesia pulled him away. Glancing down, Alesia noticed the man's mask had fallen away. Maybe Kaari was right. Monsters do exist, but they are just people.

“Uh, I hoped I wouldn’t have to do this out in the open but it looks like we have no choice. Hey kiddos, would you like to meet my best friend?” Kaari grinned and then he whistled sharply with his fingers.

A few seconds went by before a dark shape descended from the night sky and landed quietly in front of them.

“IT'S A DRAGON!” Paulo shrieked and ran up to pet him.

“Kids, this is Ryoko. Ryoko, this is Paulo and Alesia Rivera. We’ve got to get them back to the tavern safely. You can do that, can’t you?”

Ryoko tilted his head and stuck out his tongue, clearly enjoying the attention from Paulo. Alesia approached slowly but then gently stroked Ryoko's nose.

“He is magnificent.” She whispered breathlessly.

“Climb on kiddos and I’ll teach you how real wizards fly!”

Above London - 10:20 PM

Alesia could see thousands of glittering lights down below and just as many up above. Paulo had fallen asleep five minutes ago and was gently snoring in Kaari’s arms as they coasted downward towards Whitechapel.

“Mr Kaari? Thank you for saving my brother, and for this. It’s my new favorite day of my life.” Alesia said, laying her head on his shoulder.

Kaari chuckled warmly, looking over his shoulder. “No problem Mrs Rivera. He saved himself, he’s a brave kid.”

“If your sister is out there, I’m sure she will come back to you, safe and sound. While you are in our protection you will be safe. Once all this is over, you will be a family again. I promise.”

Eventually they would land at the tavern, Devon handing them an entire bowl of candy as soon as they stepped through the door. An hour and a half later they would take the portkey to Paris and be handed even more sweets from Charlie. Alesia only wished Julie could have been there to experience Halloween like they did.

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「怪物」(YOASOBI - Monster)

L'ultima notte

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Tomer Yeshayahu

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Yu Su - “ Xiu

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[barnesandco]

Nikah: March

Story Masterlist

Nikah: noun, Arabic, meaning the contract of marriage.

Bucky marries Peter’s former tutor because her student visa’s about to expire and the government isn’t granting her a green card. Can she find a way to permanent residence by marriage, and if so, will it be at the cost of their hearts?

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Warnings: None.

A/N: Written under the Arranged/Accidental Marriage trope for @mermaidxatxheart​ ‘s writing challenge. Thank you all for reading and commenting! (Picture below is mine, btw)

Bucky’s birthday arrives amidst blooming flowers and a pollen-scented breeze, the day marked by preparations for a party Sam is throwing for him at one of the hotels downtown. Avengers and close friends only, yet he’s spared no expense, insisting on a proper welcome back. The captain is unrelenting in matters of social activity, especially since he has been spending minimal time with his teammates since his marriage. Marriage. He shakes his head at himself in the floor length mirror as he straightens his cuff-links and moonlight catches on the gold band on his finger. It no longer feels like a burden.

Rather, it’s a seed that’s been planted on him, and it’s taken root inside him, growing, growing, growing into a steady feeling of friendship with the person he wears it for. An understanding, a companionship. He refuses to confess to anything more, even within the confines of his own mind. His heart, on the other hand, has no compunctions about making its opinion known, setting off like a hare being hunted whenever she approaches. Most dangerous assassin in the world, defeated by her smile.

She offers him one now when she enters, picture perfect elegance very nearly succeeding in concealing her nerves. Bucky’s nerves, meanwhile, are on fire at the sight of her, sensory overload short-circuiting his brain. He finally turns to look at her directly and the fox-hunt pace of his heart stumbles, stutters to a stop.

“You- you’re- jeepers,” Is all he can manage, the rosewater blush deepening on his cheeks. It has the opposite of the desired effect, and she steps back, mascaraed eyes widening, horrified.

“It’s too much, isn’t it. Oh God, I knew I should’ve-”  She begins to reach for a tissue box on the dresser and Bucky stops her. Lowers her hand slowly and keeps a hold of it, as if she will float away otherwise.

“Jesus, doll, stop. You’re perfect,” He tells her, and she slips her hand away but smiles a little as she sits on the foot of the bed - their bed - to put on her shoes.

“Thank you. You look nice, too,” She says, lifting the hem of her black gown as she pulls on pearl white heels. The matching clutch - pearl encrusted - is on the bedside table, and he hands it to her as they leave the room and then the apartment. 

“Hang on, your tie is loose,” She says the moment they enter the elevator. He can’t even press the button for the ground floor while she holds him in place. The split-second it takes for her to wrap her hands around the green silk and pull it tighter stretches into hours, the graze of her knuckles gentle in his cotton-covered chest. He has enough time to carve the shape of her cupid’s bow into his mind, the descent of her jaw to her chin into his lungs. After half an eternity, she puts distance between them again and presses the button while he tries to smooth his hair back only to feel the short strands tickle between his fingers, and he remembers cutting it last week.

The lobby is bustling, people coming and going like bees in a hive, and they nod their hellos and offer the doorman a Good evening before getting in the car Sam sent. The seats are cold and comfortable, and the chauffeur tips his hat once in the rear-view mirror before putting the Rolls Royce into gear.

“ ‘Possess ye, therefore, ye who borne about In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue’ ” She murmurs, letting her fingers trace the stitching in the butter-soft leather. 

“Marlowe?” Bucky asks, turning away from the New York evening, that special, streetlights-reflecting-on-wet-asphalt evening, to look at his wife. 

“William Cowper. The Task.”

“I think I’ve read that one,” He lies, fully prepared to come clean, and she looks at him curiously. 

“Wow, really? Even I haven’t read all six books,” She says, dubiously verging on impressed, and Bucky drops the facade.

“I’m pullin’ your leg. I’ve read some of Cowper’s work. Don’t remember much, but bits and pieces of school are still there,” He explains, all cheeky smile. “What’s it about? And why in God’s good name is it six books long?” This - the conversation, letting her talk about her work, her passion for literature - this he can do. Playful questions intermingling with genuine intellectual interest is manageable. Her beauty, her grace, the cloud of perfume that bleeds into his veins and makes his lungs strive for air, is not. So he concentrates on what he knows. Or doesn’t know, apparently.

“Honestly, what isn’t The Task about?” She laughs, eyeshadow glimmering like stardust in the smile wrinkles in the corners of her intelligent eyes. “Cowper had a bit of a breakdown during his barrister training in London, and retired to the countryside. In 1781, he met his friend Lady Austen, who later gave him a task to write about, to cheer him up. He started, and then just followed that train of thought wherever it took him.”

“Which book is that line from?” Bucky asks as the car stops in the inevitable Friday night traffic jam. At least they accounted for it, leaving early on purpose to avoid tardiness.

“I don’t actually remember. I think it’s from an extract in which Cowper criticizes the superficial pleasures and unnecessary luxuries of city life,” She answers, opening her clutch. Her phone and a tube of lipstick peek out but she reaches deeper for a pair of earrings.

Closing her eyes, she fastens the first one on the side Bucky can’t see, the other crescent-moon shaped accessory in her silk draped lap. The flower made from pearls matches her bracelet, the two pieces of jewellery clinking together as she puts on the other one.

“City life, huh?” Bucky muses, trying desperately to calm his heart. The earrings dangle, contrasting wonderfully against her simple black gown, and he swallows. She looks like royalty.

“Yeah, many poets of the time wrote a lot about the beauty of nature. They had a lot more of it at their disposal, I guess,” She shrugs.

“Do you have any favorites?” “Nature poems? I don’t know. There are so many good ones. Wordsworth’s To the Cuckoo, Herrick’s Daffodils, Yeats’ Wild Swans at Coole, Tennyso-” She cuts herself off with a huff of a laugh at herself.

“What is it?” 

“Nothing, no- I just-” She laughs again, trying to wave her hand like she’s shooing a fly. “I just have conflicting feelings about these poems by classical authors who write about nature. Poems that express a keen appreciation of beauty yet are fillled with sadness because so many beautiful things are short-lived and because human life itself is so short,” She says, twirling the ring around her finger, deep in thought. Bucky doesn’t know how he found her. This simple, wise soul, in the midst of all the chaos of the world. The chaos of resettlement. 

The chaos of the kitchen, an hour before dinner as the Avengers prepare dinner together, is unholy. Sam’s panicking about dessert while Wanda stirs the marinara sauce for spaghetti in her signature demure fashion, while Peter’s pile of handmade spaghetti grows taller and the pasta dough shrinks. His phone lights up on the table, and Bucky - kneading more dough nearby - is the only one who notices. He calls for Peter and pushes it over to him, not knowing what the point of having a phone is if it’s always going to be on silent, but Peter holds it out to him after just a moment of conversation.

Bucky reads the caller ID on the top and sees who it is, closing the kitchen door behind him, flour on his black t-shirt, as she speaks.

“Hi, Bucky. I hope I’m not disturbing.” 

“No, not at all. Have you decided?” He asks, pacing the hallway, staying out of sight of the others. Not that it matters, they’re still fairly busy. She had seemed unsure when they met, and he had given her time to decide it she wanted to do this. 

“Yeah, but I just- this is a huge favor,” She says.

“Not to me, doll. I’m just helping a friend of a friend,” He says, and it isn’t entirely true. That isn’t why he’s doing this. Something in him wanted to help, wanted to repay the debt of kindness that he owes the world. This is how he wants to do it, although he doesn’t think it’s fair that he gets to choose his penance.

“I thought you said Peter talks your ears off.” Bucky cringes, grateful she can’t see his face, even though he can hear the joking lilt of her tone.

“He’s a good kid. And I want to do this. Do you?” 

“Yeah.” A lengthy pause, heavy and tangible, even across the phone line. 

“When do you want to get married?” She asks finallly, voice shaking. His hand is, too. 

“We have a week-long mission right after Christmas. Boxing day arms deal in Sao Paulo,” He replies, cursing the Brazilian gangs who could find no other time do get up to no good. Evil doesn’t go on vacation, and neither do the Avengers.

“So… New Year’s Eve?” She asks, doing the math. He realizes that’s true. A week from Boxing Day.

“Yes. Shit, you don’t have a ring-” He begins to say, freaking out about the logistics. He didn’t even propose properly.

“It’s okay, we’ll figure it out.” “Alright, I’ll see you then.”

“Bye Bucky.”

“G’night.” He bids her farewell, then looks at the phone, asking himself what the hell he’s just gotten himself into. A knot builds and twists in his body, and he tries to loosen it. Breathes, and makes his way back.

“I’m engaged,” And the kitchen freezes in time as they all drop everything - not literally, Sam’s holding a knife - to look at him. The smile on Peter’s face is brighter than the Christmas tree in the adjacent common room, and the somersaults in Bucky’s stomach only settle at the sight of his relief.  

It seems that his teammates gave him a later time on purpose, because they’re all ready, dressed to the nines and wine-tipsy, waiting for him when they enter. It’s a small ballroom, downtown Manhattan, quaint and graceful. A chorus of Happy Birthday erupts in the room, and he smiles and thanks them. The hugs pile on, and he begins to introduce his wife to his friends. Home away from home for the man who has never had one since the 1940s - until he met her, that is. She’s home now, though he wouldn’t tell her that.

Instead, he relishes in the grin she offers him between introductions, till Sam drags him off to stand him on a chair and sing a birthday song. The party commences in much a similar fashion, too much noise in the room for a couple of dozen people. He stays away from Thor’s alcohol, knowing she doesn’t drink, not wanting to make her uncomfortable. 

He’s just thinking about how she might be dealing with the hectic atmosphere when her hand slips into his while he’s talking to Harley Keener about letting him look at his arm. He’s shocked, looks at her to see her smiling and concentrating only on the conversation, but he can tell she’s tired. It’s been hours, and he knows he can’t leave early - it’s his party - but he just wants to slip those heels off her feet and sit and talk, still in partywear, for hours on end. Let her quote Byron and Cowper and Austen to him, poems and essays and books, until he falls asleep on their sofa. Instead, her voice says something he isn’t expecting at all.

“Is it possible to put some sort of temp regulation in it?” She asks curiously, head tilted to the side like a sparrow. Harley thinks it over for only a second.

“Of course, why?”

“It hurts in the cold. He rubs and rolls his shoulder a lot in the winter,” She answers, and the thoughtful observation astounds him. It’s accurate, but it hadn’t even occurred to him, the movements that she’s citing entirely subconscious. They talk to Harley for a while longer, and then dance to several of Bucky’s favorite songs. Billie Holliday is crooning in the background as the second-to-last guest exits, leaving only his wife and his captain and his deputy director. When the door shuts behind them, they break apart, and Sam and Maria approach, ready to call it a night.

The car ride home passes in complete silence, a comfortable weight resting like a blanket between them, so much so that she falls fully asleep on the way, her head resting against the cold window when they arrive. He doesn’t have the heart to wake her, so he goes around to her door, opening it slowly and lifting her into his arms, not caring what it might look like to onlookers. It’s late, and there are few of them, at least in the lobby, and as the elevator doors shut, her head curls against his shoulder, hair tickling his Adam’s apple.

Bucky looks down at her, her resting, easy expression, the chandni earrings still on, and thinks: what a way to turn 103.

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[sciencespies]

'Unbelievable' video shows two bees work together to unscrew a soda bottle

https://sciencespies.com/nature/unbelievable-video-shows-two-bees-work-together-to-unscrew-a-soda-bottle/

'Unbelievable' video shows two bees work together to unscrew a soda bottle

While we all recognize bees for their importance in our food chain as pollinators, the clever creatures have a series of other talents, including math ability, face recognition, and even tool use.  

A new video, originally posted on Twitter, shows a pair of bees apparently unscrewing the orange lid of a Fanta to reach the sugary liquid inside. In today’s age of digital trickery, we have to be mindful that this could just be clever CGI; or, perhaps the bees really did work together, but simply toppled an already loosely perched bottle cap.

Either way, it’s fun to think about whether bees would have the brains to pull off such a soda heist.

According to ViralHog, the video licensor that acquired the footage, the moment was caught in São Paulo, Brazil by a worker on their lunch break.

“I got a soda from a customer but soon the bees stole it,” the person wrote in the video’s caption. 

The smooth skill with which these two bees appear to twist the lid off a soda bottle has baffled many on the internet, with some wondering how such intelligence exists in what is obviously a very tiny brain.

What kind of intelligence exists in such a tiny brain, how do they know it has to be twisted anti clockwise. ?

— Jeffrey Marlowe (@JeffreyMarlowe) May 25, 2021

I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it and I’m still not sure I believe it! 🤔

— Brian B. (@brian163t) May 25, 2021

As we’ve come to learn in recent years, however, the size of an animal’s noggin isn’t everything. For one thing, tiny animals have far less body mass for brain cells to govern, so naturally they’ll need smaller brains. In addition, the complexity of connections between neurons could be more important for cognitive performance.

In 1962, a decade before winning the Nobel Prize for research on bee communication, Karl von Frisch declared bumblebees too small-brained to think, putting their ingenious nature all down to hardwired instinct. Since then, the question of just how much a bee’s brain can manage has repeatedly been tested.

Despite having a noggin the size of a grass seed, roughly 0.0002 percent the size of our own, bees have proved surprisingly intelligent in recent research. Not only can these insects learn from each other and use tools, they can also count to zero and perform basic mathematical equations.

The question is, how would a tiny seed-sized calculator turn its problem-solving skills to something as complex as removing a cap from a soda bottle?

Clearly, von Frisch’s bias for large brains is still with us today. While the zoologist admitted bees could “accomplish astonishing intellectual feats”, he claimed they did so only through instinct, failing “when suddenly faced with unfamiliar tasks”.

Unscrewing the cap of a sugary drink is hardly a job bees evolved to tackle in nature, so von Frisch would be skeptical. It’s possible the bees just got lucky this time, detecting a sweet reward that drove them to wander somewhat blindly against a slight resistance.

On the other hand, nature could yet surprise us. In the packed bee brain, for instance, a single nerve cell can sometimes contact up to 100,000 other cells.

This is amazing.

I forget where I read it, but I recently saw the question posed “can cells make decisions and change their minds”. The article related to amoeba behavior.

It is really profound to contemplate the origins and commonality of thought inherent in all life.

— Hvaldimir (@Hvaldimir1) May 25, 2021

In recent research, bumblebees were trained to roll a ball into a goal for a reward. To score, the insects needed to copy each others’ movements and learn from their mistakes, which they were able to do with startling ease. 

“Such ‘tool use’ at one time was ascribed to humans alone, but then to primates, next to marine mammals, and later to birds,” researchers wrote in 2017.

“Now we recognize that many species have the capacity to envision how a particular object might be used to achieve an end.”

Even with their small circuitry of neurons, bees may well be capable of far more than we once thought. Next time you treat yourself to an outdoor lunch, you might want to keep an eye on your drink.

#Nature

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SnK S3E11 Poll Results (Anime Viewer Only Version)

The poll closed with 57 responses. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Please note this is the anime only viewer version of the poll. Manga readers, please click here for the results of the manga reader poll!

RATE THE EPISODE 50 Responses

The episode received only positive reviews this week! 

best episode ever??????

It was AMAZIIIIIING ♡♡ I cried a lot.. thank u Isayama thank u araki thank u wit studio.. and I really hope it will not be a long break

THIS EPISODE HAD A SENSE OF FINALITY TO THE ARC. DO YOU THINK WE WILL GET A NEW OP/ED NEXT WEEK, DESPITE THE UPCOMING BREAK? 51 Responses

The largest group of voters believe we’re still going to have the same opening and ending songs this week. A little less than a quarter are confident we’ll get treated to something new.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SCENES WERE YOUR FAVORITES? 50 Responses

Keith’s backstory was the highlight of the episode, followed closely behind with Grisha’s backstory that ran alongside Keith’s and Eren hearing the loving words of his mother. 36% of voters enjoyed meeting the new recruits and 30% were excited for the titan guillotine (or was it Eren’s nosebleed). 

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTER INTERACTIONS WERE YOUR FAVORITES? 51 Responses

The two most loved interactions was Mikasa’s jealousy of Historia and Eren talking and Eren hearing from Keith what Carla once said about him. Followed closely behind was Sasha wanting to stay away from Keith. People also enjoyed Keith and Grisha’s interactions, Keith telling Eren what traits he picked up from his parents and the new 104th recruit telling the others how much they’ve changed.

I liked all of the small character moments

WHO'S MORE OBLIVIOUS TO ROMANCE - EREN OR MARLOWE? 47 Responses

Eren wins the vote for most romantically oblivious character!

HOW BEAUTIFUL DID CARLA LOOK AT THE WEDDING? 50 Responses

The majority thought Carla was looking amazing at her wedding. A few voters weren’t as impressed. 

HOW CUTE WAS BABY EREN? 50 Responses

Just about everyone agrees that baby Eren was adorable!

HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT KEITH AFTER HE TOLD HIS STORY? 48 Responses

The vast majority of voters felt badly for Keith after learning about his backstory. A few didn’t care and even fewer were pretty upset with his actions. 

Just gave him more depth! A much more relatable character

It's like he's aware he isn't a main character

YOUR REACTION TO CARLA’S WORDS ABOUT EREN BEING SPECIAL? 50 Responses

Most agree that Eren really needed to hear the words. Overall the moment was very moving for viewers, with only a small few who didn’t really care much about it. 

KEITH WANTED TO PROTECT EREN FOR CARLA’S SAKE. WHY DO YOU THINK HE GAVE IN AND LET EREN PURSUE THE SURVEY CORPS? 50 Responses

It was a tie between those who believe that Keith saw Eren’s potential as a “special person” and those who believe he just felt he couldn’t stop anything. 

EREN SAYS HE “HAS NO CHOICE” BUT TO KILL REINER AND BERTOLT. DO YOU THINK HE STILL WANTS REVENGE, OR IS IT SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS HIS DUTY? 50 Responses

Only a small few actually believe Eren is still fueled solely by revenge and most voters believe that it’s at least a mix of his desire for revenge and his sense of duty at this point that are driving him.

What I think “He’s still fueled by revenge” I mean He’s fueled by his anger.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS ABOUT THE NEW RECRUITS? 49 Responses

Almost 39% of voters are hoping to see more of the new recruits, 32% are sure they’re just death fodder and 20% simply just don’t care.

What's with that hair?

Have we ever seen these characters on the show before? They remind me of Nikki and Paulo from Lost.

They don't know what they are going in for

Flock’s hair is seems more redhead than what I see is blonde from manga version.

DO YOU BELIEVE GRISHA WAS TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIMSELF TO KEITH? 49 Responses

Half of voters are certain that Grisha is lying to Keith. 32% believe it’s a mix of him being truthful and a liar. A small percentage believe he’s being genuine or just don’t know what to think yet. 

SHADIS FOUND GRISHA WANDERING AROUND OUTSIDE THE WALLS. WHERE DID HE COME FROM? 47 Responses

The majority of voters are certain that Grisha is from where RBA came from. 21% think he’s from a new place and 12% believe that he was always native to the walls. 

Grisha Jaeger, how dare you hoard all the secrets and conveniently die before we can uncover any of them!

WERE YOU SHOCKED TO FIND OUT KEITH IS THE ONE WHO TAMPERED WITH EREN’S EQUIPMENT? 49 Responses

Over half of voters believe Eren truly just had faulty equipment. 26% believed it had been tampered with - just not by Keith. Some had already been spoiled and a few others had a gut feeling it was him!

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE?

Amazing to see more backstory for little character or ones that I may have forgotten about. Great break before the wild stuff that's going to be happening soon

WHERE DO YOU PRIMARILY DISCUSS THE SERIES? 47 Responses

Thank you again to everyone who participated. See you again on Tuesday!

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Who's the green haired character in that pfp? On the discord screenshot, I mean /gen

Oh!! That would happen to be one of my jellyfish ocs- Paulo :)

A friend of mine, @menherakannibal drew them for me as a commission (which, btw, it's still taking :>. You can find the info in its carrd).

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Artist: @lorangemusic and @solemnbrigham Music: #TheBasement Album: #Marlowe Label: @mellomusicgroup Year: #2018 #instamusic #33rpm #45rpm #vinil #vinilbrasil #vinyl #vinylporn #vinyladdict #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinylrecords #recordoftheday #recordscollection #recorcollector #nowspinning #limitededition (at São Paulo, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMA7IEMZOp/?igshid=3ispji7q2un4

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1265 - Nasce Dante Alighieri, poeta italiano. 1593 - Morre Christopher Marlowe, dramaturgo inglês. 1778 - Nasce Francisco María Arouet, Voltaire, escritor francês. 1814 - O Tratado de Paris reconhece a República Dominicana como possessão espanhola. 1815 - José Gaspar Rodríguez Francia se proclama ditador perpétuo e chRedação Terra da Igreja no Paraguai. 1818 - Promulgada primeira constituição argentina. 1898 - Nasce Howard Hawks, diretor norte-americano de cinema. 1906 - Inaugurado túnel de Simplom nos Alpes, o que facilitou a comunicação entre a Itália e a Suíça. 1912 - Nasce Julius Axelrod, neuroquímico norte-americano, prêmio Nobel de Medicina em 1970. 1915 - Expropriação de bens, deportação e matança de armênios na Turquia. 1918 - A guerra civil cresce na Rússia. O governo dos soviets perde o controle da maior parte do país. 1920 - Canonização da heroína francesa Joana D'Arc, que foi queimada na fogueira em Rouen, neste dia, em 1431. 1926 - Triunfa o pronunciamento de Braga, encabeçado pelo general Gomes da Costa, que dá início a um regime militar em Portugal. 1934 - É firmado um tratado entre Estados Unidos e Cuba, que inclui a abolição da emenda Platt e outorga a independência total da ilha. 1940 - O governo da Bélgica suspende as funções do rei Leopoldo III, alegando conduta inconstitucional. 1942 - Segunda Guerra Mundial: mil aviões britânicos bombardeiam a cidade alemã de Colônia. 1945 - Um bombardeio inglês destrói a base de Peenemunde, onde os alemães fabricavam as famosas V-2. 1948 - Syngman Rhee é nomeado presidente da Assembléia Nacional sul-coreana. 1960 - Morre Boris Pasternak, escritor russo, ganhador do Prêmio Nobel 1958. 1961 - Assassinado a tiros o ditador dominicano Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. 1967 - Independência de Biafra, território oriental da Nigéria. 1972 - O presidente norte-americano Richard Nixon e as autoridades russas firmam em Moscou os acordos SALT, sobre limitação de armas nucleares. 1981 - É assassinado o presidente de Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, em um golpe separatista dirigido pelo general Manzur. 1986 - A quinta Encíclica do papa João Paulo II, entitulada Dominum et vivificantem é apresentada oficialmente no Vaticano. (em Tijuca, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByG5IxklzAA/?igshid=tvx2umijsof2

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200 + 1: The Music Of 2016

Africaine 808, Basar   [Golf Channel Recordings] Africans With Mainframes [Heiroglyphic Being + Noleian Reusse], K.M.T.   [Soul Jazz] Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra, Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra   [Glitterbeat] Alpha 606, Afro-Cuban Electronics   [Interdimensional Transmissions] Oren Ambarchi, Hubris   [Editions Mego] Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Real Enemies   [New Amsterdam] A$AP Ferg, Always Strive And Prosper   [RCA] Asda, The Abyss   [NoCorner] Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, Oceanic Suite   [Marlow Records] Audacity, Hyper Vessels   [Suicide Squeeze] Babyfeather, “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow   [Hyperdub] Azealia Banks, Slay-Z   [self-released] Kenny Barron Trio, Book Of Intuition   [Impulse!] Beekman, Beekman Vol. 2   [Ropeadope] Bent Shapes, Wolves Of Want   [Slumberland] Beyoncé, Lemonade   [Parkwood Entertainment] Big Ups, Before A Million Universes   [Exploding In Sound] BJ The Chicago Kid, In My Mind   [Motown/UMG] Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann   [Shhpuma] Black Milk & Nat Turner, The Rebellion Sessions   [Computer Ugly] Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow, Andando El Tiempo   [ECM] Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans   [Outline] Bombino, Azel   [Partisan Records] Brookzill!, Throwback To The Future   [Tommy Boy]

Danny Brown, Atrocity Exhibition   [Warp] Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs   [Motema Music] Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter The PlusTet   [Firehouse 12] Uri Caine Trio, Calibrated Thickness   [816 Music] Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones   [Motema] Car Seat Headrest, Teens Of Denial   [Matador] Causa Sui, Return to Sky   [El Paraiso] Cavern of Anti-Matter, void beats/invocation trex   [Duophonic] Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book   [self-released] The Chicago Plan, The Chicago Plan, [Clean Feed] Chimurenga Renaissance, Girlz With Gunz   [Glitterbeat] Brandy Clark, Big Day In A Small Town   [Warner Bros.] The Coathangers, Nosebleed Weekend   [Suicide Squeeze] Avishai Cohen, Into The Silence   [ECM] Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker   [Sony] Kweku Collins, Nat Love   [Closed Sessions] Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing   [Bayonet Records] Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The Declaration Of Musical Independence   [ECM] Damana (Dag Magnus Narvesen Octet), Cornua Copiae   [Clean Feed] The Dead C, Trouble   [Ba Da Bing!] Deap Vally, Femejism   [Nevado Music] Death Grips, Bottomless Pit   [Third Worlds] Debo Band, Ere Gobez   [FPE Records] Jack DeJohnette, In Movement   [ECM] Olegario Diaz, Aleph In Chromatic   [SteepleChase]

Whit Dickey / Kirk Knuffke, Fierce Silence   [Clean Feed] DJ Rude One, ONEderful   [2RBR] Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra, Ubi Zaa [SteepleChase] Dave Douglas, Dada People   [Greenleaf] Dre Hocevar, Transcendental Within The Sphere Of Indivisible Remainder   [Clean Feed] Mark Dresser Seven, Sedimental You   [Clean Feed] Dressy Bessy, Kingsized   [Yep Roc Records] Drive-By Truckers, American Band   [ATO Records] Earprint, Earprint   [Endectomorph] Harris Eisenstadt, Old Growth Forest   [Clean Feed] Eskimeaux, Year Of The Rabbit   [Double Double Whammy] Family Atlantica, Cosmic Unity   [Soundway] The Field, The Follower   [Kompakt] Fire!, She Sleeps She Sleeps   [Rune Grammofon] Flatbush Zombies, 3001: A Laced Odyssey   [Glorious Dead Recordings] Zélia Fonseca, O Terceiro Olho da Abelha   9Yellowbird] Michael Formanek / Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance   [ECM] Daniel Freedman, Imagine That   [Anzic Records] Free Nelson MandoomJazz, The Organ Grinder   [RareNoise] Fruit Bats, Absolute Loser   [Easy Sound Recording Company] Robbie Fulks, Upland Stories   [Bloodshot] Ras G, The El-Aylien Tapes   [Leaving Records] Gambari Band, Kokuma   [Membran Media] Giant Peach, Tarantula   [Don Giovanni Records] Bob Gluck [etc], Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music Of The Mwandishi Band   [self-released]

GoGo Penguin, Man Made Object   [Decca Records France] Brian Groder Trio, R Train On The D Line   [Latham Records] Los Hacheros, Bambulaye   [Jacob Plasse] Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life   [Impulse!] Mary Halvorson Octet, Away With You   [Firehouse 12] Handsome Family, Unseen   [Loose Music] PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project   [Island] Alexander Hawkins & Evan Parker, Leaps In Leicester   [Clean Feed] The Heliocentrics, From The Deep   [Now-Again Records] The Fred Hersch Trio, Sunday Night At The Vanguard   [Palmetto] Hinds, Leave Me Alone   [Mom + Pop] Anna Högberg Attack, Anna Högberg Attack   [Omlott] Homeboy Sandman, Kindness For Weakness   [Stones Throw] HXLT, HXLT   [Def Jam] The I Don’t Cares, Wild Stab   [Dry Wood Music] Ethan Iverson, The Purity Of The Turf   [Criss Cross] Jigmastas, Resurgence Resurgence   [BBE] Julie Ruin, Hit Reset   [Hardly Art] Ka, Honor Killed The Samurai   [Iron Works] Matthew Shipp/Bobby Kapp, Cactus   [Northern Spy] Kaytranada, 99.9%   [XL] Allan Kingdom, Northern Lights   [So Cold Records] Aly Keïta, Kalo-Yele   [Intakt Records] Kel Assouf, Tikounen   [Igloo Records] Alicia Keys, Here   [RCA]

The Knocks, 55   [Big Beat Records] Kirk Knuffke [& Jesse Stacken], Satie   [SteepleChase] Konono No. 1, Konono No. 1 Meets Batida   [Crammed Discs] Kool A.D., Official   [self-released] Glenn Kotche / So Percussion, Drumkit Quartets   [Cantaloupe Music] Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove, Checkpoint   [Table Pounding Records] Julian Lage, Arclight   [Mack Avenue] La Sera, Music For Listening To Music To   [Polyvinyl Record Co.] Lady Gaga, Joanne   [Interscope] Kendrick Lamar, untitled unmastered   [Aftermath/Interscope] Law Holt, City   [Soulpunk] Okkyung Lee / Christian Marclay, Amalgam   [Northern Spy] Steve Lehman/Sélébéyone, Sélébéyone   [Pi] Jinx Lennon, Past Pupils Stay Sane   [Septic Tiger] Jinx Lennon, Magic Bullets Of Madness To Uplift Grief Magnets   [Septic Tiger] James Brandon Lewis Trio, No Filter   [BNS] L’Orange & Mr Lif, Life & Death Of Scenery   [Mello Music] Baaba Maal, Traveller   [Knitting Factory] Luísa Maita, Fio da Memória   [Cumbancha] Mantra Percussion / Michael Gordon: Timber Remixed   [Cantaloupe Music] Milton Marsh, The Music Of Milton Marsh Revisited Vol. 1   [Alankara Records] Leyla McCalla, A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey   [JazzVillage] Lori McKenna, The Bird & The Rifle   [CN Records] Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Otis Was A Polar Bear   [Royal Potato Family] Nick Millevoi, Desertion   [Shhpuma Records]

Mr Fingers, Outer Acid EP   [Alleviated] Mr. Lif, Don’t Look Down   [Mello Music Group] Moksha, Beauty Of An Arbitrary Moment   [Jazzland] Heraldo do Monte, Heraldo do Monte   [Biscoito Fino] Moodymann, DJ-Kicks   [!K7 Records] Clara Moreno, Samba Esquema Novo De Novo   [Far Out] Maren Morris, Hero   [Sony] Murray, Allen & Carrrington Power Trio, Perfection   [Motema] Roy Nathanson & Friends, Nearness And You: Duets And Improvisations   [Clean Feed] Willie Nelson, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin   [Sony] Nisennenmondai, #N/A, [On-U Sound] No Em Pingo D’Agua, Sambatologia   [Biscoito Fino] Nots, Cosmetic   [Goner] NxWorries, Yes Lawd!   [Stones Throw] Frank Ocean, Blond   [Boys Don’t Cry] Aruan Ortiz Trio, Hidden Voices   [Intakt Records] Anderson .Paak, Malibu   [Steel Wool / OBE] Jeff Parker, New Breed   [International Anthem] Aaron Parks, Groovements   [Sundance] Parquet Courts, Human Performance   [Rough Trade] Florian Pellissier Quintet, Cap De Bonne Esperance   [Heavenly Sweetness] Luis Perdomo, Spirits & Warriors   [Criss Cross Jazz] Pet Shop Boys, Super   [x2 Recordings] Ralph Peterson, Triangular III   [Onyx/Truth Revolution] Richard Poole / Marilyn Crispell / Gary Peacock, In Motion   [Intakt]

Margo Price, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter   [Third Man Records] Psychic TV, Alienist   [Dais Records] Punkt3, Ordnung Herrscht   [Clean Feed] Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno, 1000 Watts   [Tru Thoughts] Isaiah Rashad, The Sun’s Tirade   [Top Dawg] Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness   [Nonesuch] Renegades Of Jazz, Moyo Wangu   [Agogo] Eric Revis Trio [w/ Kris Davis and Gerald Cleaver], Crowded Solitudes   [Clean Feed] Rhythm Future Quartet, Travels    [Rhythm Future Quartet] Rihanna, Anti   [Westbury Road Entertainment] Jim Rotondi, Dark Blue   [Smoke Sessions] Rudy Royston, Rise Of Origin   [Greenleaf] Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi, Strength & Power   [RareNoise] Wanda Sá, Cá entre nós   [Fina Flor] Sao Paulo Underground, Cantos Invisiveis   [Cuneiform] Savages, Adore Life   [Matador] Scarcity Of Tanks, Ringleader Lies   [Total Life] Mikael Seifu, Zelalem   [RVNG Intl.] Noura Mint Seymali, Arbina   [Glitterbeat] Shabaka & The Elders, Wisdom Of Ancestors   [Brownswood] Paul Simon, Stranger To Stranger   [Concord] Sleigh Bells, Jessica Rabbit   [Torn Clean] Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks   [Cuneiform] Sneaks, Gymnastics   [Merge] Snowboy & The Latin Section, New York Afternoon   [Mark Cotgrove]

Elza Soares, The Woman at the End of the World   [Mais Um Discos] Solange, A Seat At The Table   [Columbia] Sonzeira, Tam Tam Tam Reimagined   [Brownswood] So Pitted, neo   [Sub Pop] Vince Staples, Prima Donna   [Def Jam] Robert Stillman, Rainbow   [self-released] Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth   [Atlantic] Sun Ra / Merzbow, Strange City   [Cold Spring] Swet Shop Boys, Cashmere   [Customs] Tegan And Sara, Love You To Death   [Warner Bros] The Thermals, We Disappear   [Saddle Creek] Thug Entrancer, Arcology   [Kemado/Mexican Summer] A Tribe Called Quest, We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your service   [Epic] Trio Da Paz [Lubambo/Matta/Fonseca], 30   [Zoho Music] Ukandanz, Awo   [Atypeek Music] Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil, Dois Amigos, Um Seculo De Musica David Virelles, Antenna EP   [ECM] Dan Weiss, Sixteen: Drummers Suite   [Pi Recordings] Kanye West, The Life Of Pablo   [self-released] Waco Brothers, Going Down In History   [Bloodshot] Greg Ward, Touch My Beloved’s Thought   [Greenleaf Music] Warehouse, super low   [Bayonet] White Lung, Paradise   [Domino Recording Co] Wussy, Forever Sounds   [Shake It Records] Eri Yamamoto Trio, Life   [AUM Fidelity] La Yegros, Magnetismo   [Soundway] Yoni & Getti, Testarossa   [Joyful Noise]

-- jazz, pop, avant: a jumping off point for explorations. 

[cryptodictation]

Died writer and psychoanalyst Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, aged 84

The author created detective Espinosa, a character who was not always a hero (photo: Companhia das Letras / Divulgao)

The writer from Rio de Janeiro Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza died on Thursday, 16, at the age of 84. Creator of detective Espinosa, he authored more than a dozen detective novels and was considered one of the masters of the genre in Brazil. The burial ceremony will be restricted to the family. Garcia-Roza had been admitted to the Samaritano Hospital in Rio for about a year after suffering a stroke.

Late author, he started in the fiction literature only at the age of 60, in 1996, with The silence of the rain, romance that earned him the Jabuti. A window in Copacabana (2001), Berenice seeks (2005) and Ghost (2012) are other of his works. The most recent book The last woman (2019), launched when the author was already hospitalized. All of his works were released by Companhia das Letras.

Garcia-Roza became known for his greatest literary creation, the detective Espinosa. Passionate about the economy and precise found in the writings of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet, the writer built, however, a character completely different from Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade. Espinosa is a somewhat “Gauche” protagonist, somewhat eccentric, in the sense that he is not well fitted anywhere.

“He is not the hero, not like the characters in the police novels of the 1940s, who were, for example, adventurers par excellence”, commented Garcia-Roza, in an interview with the newspaper The State of S. Paulo, in 2000. “a more reflective being, without being an intellectual and, above all, he feels uneasy in life.” The inspiration of the name, the writer revealed, was the Dutch thinker Baruch Espinosa (1632-1677), one of the most noble figures in philosophy and also one of the most investigative.

This tortuous personality allowed stories to be built outside the traditional line. So in Southwest WindFor example, what matters is not finding out who is the killer, but which of the characters will be killed. Gabriel, a young business administrator, had heard from an unknown fortune teller at his birthday party that he was going to kill someone before he turned years again. With the date approaching and plagued with the possibility of becoming a murderer, Gabriel seeks out Espinosa who, like some flesh-and-blood policemen, believes in the story, although no crime has been consummated.

Garcia-Roza did not distort, however, the traditional police reading formula, because, when strange deaths start to happen, the novel takes a turn and leaves the reader, sure that Gabriel would commit some crime, the common doubt of good suspense literature: who is the murderer? Curiously, at that moment, as astonished as the reader is the policeman Espinosa.

“when we enter an intermediate range of society, occupied by professionals as different as police and psychoanalysts: the universe and its reverse, that is, the normal and its opposite”, commented the author. “The territory in which they work is divided by a line between sanity and madness, order and disorder, normal and pathological; thus, some attitudes considered illegal are accepted as natural.”

Garcia-Roza, creator of the first post-graduate course in psychoanalytic theory in the country, at the Institute of Psychology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), has always believed in the existence of an intermediate range of society, occupied by professionals as different as police and psychoanalysts.

Despite running away from psychologisms, creating a totally different universe, his work searches all points of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro. And, in the midst of alleys, there is a certain concern with understanding the origin of inequality and violence in Brazilian society.

The first detective novel was published in 1996, The silence of the rain, in which Espinosa, also a bibliophile, has to discover the connection between the mysterious death of an executive in downtown Rio and another murder with the refinement of cruelty. Despite being recognized by the critics, Garcia-Roza had to publish two other books, Lost and found (1998) and Southwest Wind (1999), to receive an international bno: in June 2000, the newspaper The New York Times, published a story with the title The teacher who became a novelist. On the same day, the telephones of the Companhia das Letras publishing house began to ring insistently and the e-mail box to be stuffed – they were American, Italian, French literary agents, interested in the Brazilian's work.

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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong • Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don’t tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God’s children. Don’t preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give. – Cory Booker • Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it. – William Shakespeare • Eternity is in love with the productions of time. – William Blake • Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. – Matthew Henry • Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. – Dwight L. Moody • For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us. – James Dillet Freeman • For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin • For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson • For those who love… time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke • For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. – George Eliot • Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. – Rumi • Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. – Peg Bracken • Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. – Lope de Vega • Hate the sin, love the sinner. – Mahatma Gandhi • Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King, Jr. • I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. – William Blake • I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. – Nicholas Sparks • I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. – Nicholas Sparks • I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. – Nicholas Sparks • I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. – George Eliot • I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald • I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. – Jennifer Aniston • I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. – George Washington Carver • I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. – Jonathan Safran Foer • I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. – Juliette Drouet • I love you for the part of me that you bring out. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning • I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you – Roy Croft • I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. – Pablo Neruda • I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. – Henry Ward Beecher • I really don’t know what “I love you” means. I think it means “Don’t leave me here alone. – Neil Gaiman • I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see. – Lady Gaga • I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. – Bill Watterson • I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. – Haruki Murakami • I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J. D. Salinger • I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. – Humphrey Bogart • I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. – Og Mandino • If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm • If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert. – Paulo Coelho • If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. – Mary, Queen of Scots • If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Hermann Hesse • If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? – Aberjhani • If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. – Lynda Barry • If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love. – Richard Rohr • If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I’d be soaring in flight. – Jay Asher • If somebody says, “I love you,” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? “I love you, too.” – Kurt Vonnegut • If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. – Princess Diana • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa • If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries. – Harold Klemp • If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it. – C. S. Lewis • If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. – Douglas Horton • If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. – George Orwell • If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. – Mother Teresa • I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. – Hilaire Belloc • Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm • In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. – Maya Angelou • In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. – Paulo Coelho • It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. – Thomas Mann • It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter’s eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. – Robert Breault • It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno • It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E. M. Forster • It seems everyone’s so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen. – Carlos Salinas • I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. – Sid Vicious • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde • Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Johnny Depp • Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. – Maya Angelou • Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. – D. H. Lawrence • Life began after I fell in love with you – Brad Hodge • Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly – Paulo Coelho • Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. – Mitch Albom • Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Saint Augustine • Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. – Thomas a Kempis • Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. – Elbert Hubbard • Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you. – Bob Marley • Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin • Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare • Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides • Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. – Leo Buscaglia • Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. – Rabindranath Tagore • Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith • Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle • Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate. – Oscar Wilde • Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. – Ann Landers • Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. – Leo Tolstoy • Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. – Paulo Coelho • Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. – Leo Tolstoy • Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. – Jerome K. Jerome • Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. – Nicholas Sparks • Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what. – Jodi Picoult • Love is not a business. It’s not a transaction. It’s not an exchange or something you get for doing something it’s not a trade. It’s a gift! – Tony Robbins • Love is not in our choice but in our fate. – John Dryden • Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart. – Tammara Webber • Love Is Stronger Than Pride – Marquis de Sade • Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein • Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon • Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. – Petrarch • Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see – Soren Kierkegaard • Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons – Khalil Gibran • Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. – Rabindranath Tagore • Love is the river of life in this world. – Henry Ward Beecher • Love is the symbol of eternity. – Madame de Stael • Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. – e. e. cummings • Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart! – Torquato Tasso • Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. – Andre Breton • Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta Young • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – William Shakespeare • Love loves to love love. – James Joyce • Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. – Erich Fromm • Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. – Henry David Thoreau • Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. – Christina Rossetti • Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. – Bertrand Russell • LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. – Ambrose Bierce • My heart is, and always will be, yours. – Jane Austen • Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. – Leonardo da Vinci • One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. – Romain Rolland • Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. – Katharine Hepburn • Paradise is always where love dwells. – Jean Paul • Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. – Ice T • Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. – Rumi • Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires – Barbara Pease • Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. – Dalai Lama • Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy • Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. – Percy Bysshe Shelley • Take love when love is given. – Sara Teasdale • The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. – Rumi • The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The greatest pleasure of life is love. – Euripides • The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive. – Orlando Aloysius Battista • The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. – W. Somerset Maugham • The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. – Moliere • The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. – Nhat Hanh • The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. – Hugh Walpole • The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you’re gone. – Fred Small • The only victory over love is flight. – Napoleon Bonaparte • The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. – Maureen Duffy • The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. – Edward Thomas • The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo • The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. – Jean de la Bruyere • The things that we love tell us what we are. – Thomas Aquinas • There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. – Jean Anouilh • There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. – Emmet Fox • There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand • There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. – William Shakespeare • This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. – Thomas Mann • Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. – Bertrand Russell • Till I loved I never lived. – Emily Dickinson • Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke • To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. – Bill Russell • Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. – Edmond de Goncourt • True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery • True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. – Torquato Tasso • True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal • True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you. – Julia Roberts • True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. – e. e. cummings • We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. – Saint Joseph • We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano De Crescenzo • We are shaped and fashioned by what we love – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen • We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it. – Paulo Coelho • We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. – Nicholas Sparks • We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe • We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents. – Henry Ward Beecher • We pardon to the extent that we love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. – Robert Breault • We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power. – Brother Yun • We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins • We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. – Robert Fulghum • Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. – Thomas Aquinas • When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew. – Arrigo Boito • When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. – Fred Rogers • When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca • When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama • When we first met, I didn’t want to get involved with anyone. I didn’t have the time or energy, and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. – Nicholas Sparks • When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. – Leo Tolstoy • When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. – Albert Einstein • Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? – Jimmy Walker • Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. – Lord Byron • You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Robert Louis Stevenson • You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein • You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts • You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. – Charles Dickens • You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss • You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. – Norman Vincent Peale • Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

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• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. – Thomas Carlyle • A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. – Charles Dickens • A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. – Robert Murray M’Cheyne • A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. – William Butler Yeats • A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. – Honore de Balzac • A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. – Max Lucado • Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. – Frank Sinatra • All you need is love. – John Lennon • And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. – Cassandra Clare • Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. – Tom Flynn • Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or – such is the pleasure they experience – they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them. – Paulo Coelho • As her father had so often said… Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is. – Philip James Bailey

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: '1', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_1').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_1 img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. – Bob Marley • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Laozi • Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? – Richard Bach • Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. – James Allen • Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. – Christopher Marlowe • Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. – Rumi • Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II • Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. – Erica Jong • Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don’t tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God’s children. Don’t preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give. – Cory Booker • Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it. – William Shakespeare • Eternity is in love with the productions of time. – William Blake • Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. – Matthew Henry • Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. – Dwight L. Moody • For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us. – James Dillet Freeman • For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin • For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson • For those who love… time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke • For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. – George Eliot • Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. – Rumi • Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. – Peg Bracken • Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. – Lope de Vega • Hate the sin, love the sinner. – Mahatma Gandhi • Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King, Jr. • I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. – William Blake • I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. – Nicholas Sparks • I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. – Nicholas Sparks • I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. – Nicholas Sparks • I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. – George Eliot • I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. – F. Scott Fitzgerald • I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. – Jennifer Aniston • I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. – George Washington Carver • I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. – Jonathan Safran Foer • I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. – Juliette Drouet • I love you for the part of me that you bring out. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning • I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you – Roy Croft • I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. – Pablo Neruda • I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. – Henry Ward Beecher • I really don’t know what “I love you” means. I think it means “Don’t leave me here alone. – Neil Gaiman • I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see. – Lady Gaga • I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. – Bill Watterson • I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong. – Haruki Murakami • I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J. D. Salinger • I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. – Humphrey Bogart • I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. – Og Mandino • If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm • If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert. – Paulo Coelho • If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. – Mary, Queen of Scots • If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Hermann Hesse • If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? – Aberjhani • If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. – Lynda Barry • If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love. – Richard Rohr • If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I’d be soaring in flight. – Jay Asher • If somebody says, “I love you,” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? “I love you, too.” – Kurt Vonnegut • If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. – Princess Diana • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa • If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries. – Harold Klemp • If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it. – C. S. Lewis • If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. – Douglas Horton • If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. – George Orwell • If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. – Mother Teresa • I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. – Hilaire Belloc • Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm • In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. – Maya Angelou • In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. – Paulo Coelho • It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. – Thomas Mann • It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter’s eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. – Robert Breault • It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno • It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E. M. Forster • It seems everyone’s so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen. – Carlos Salinas • I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. – Sid Vicious • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde • Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Johnny Depp • Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. – Maya Angelou • Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. – D. H. Lawrence • Life began after I fell in love with you – Brad Hodge • Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly – Paulo Coelho • Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. – Mitch Albom • Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Saint Augustine • Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. – Thomas a Kempis • Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. – Elbert Hubbard • Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you. – Bob Marley • Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin • Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare • Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides • Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. – Leo Buscaglia • Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. – Rabindranath Tagore • Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith • Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle • Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate. – Oscar Wilde • Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. – Ann Landers • Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. – Leo Tolstoy • Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. – Paulo Coelho • Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. – Leo Tolstoy • Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. – Jerome K. Jerome • Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. – Nicholas Sparks • Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what. – Jodi Picoult • Love is not a business. It’s not a transaction. It’s not an exchange or something you get for doing something it’s not a trade. It’s a gift! – Tony Robbins • Love is not in our choice but in our fate. – John Dryden • Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart. – Tammara Webber • Love Is Stronger Than Pride – Marquis de Sade • Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert A. Heinlein • Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon • Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. – Petrarch • Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see – Soren Kierkegaard • Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons – Khalil Gibran • Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. – Rabindranath Tagore • Love is the river of life in this world. – Henry Ward Beecher • Love is the symbol of eternity. – Madame de Stael • Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. – e. e. cummings • Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart! – Torquato Tasso • Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. – Andre Breton • Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta Young • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – William Shakespeare • Love loves to love love. – James Joyce • Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. – Erich Fromm • Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. – Henry David Thoreau • Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. – Christina Rossetti • Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. – Bertrand Russell • LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. – Ambrose Bierce • My heart is, and always will be, yours. – Jane Austen • Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. – Leonardo da Vinci • One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. – Romain Rolland • Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. – Katharine Hepburn • Paradise is always where love dwells. – Jean Paul • Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. – Ice T • Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. – Rumi • Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires – Barbara Pease • Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. – Dalai Lama • Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy • Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. – Percy Bysshe Shelley • Take love when love is given. – Sara Teasdale • The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. – Rumi • The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The greatest pleasure of life is love. – Euripides • The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive. – Orlando Aloysius Battista • The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. – W. Somerset Maugham • The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. – Moliere • The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. – Nhat Hanh • The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. – Hugh Walpole • The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you’re gone. – Fred Small • The only victory over love is flight. – Napoleon Bonaparte • The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. – Maureen Duffy • The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. – Edward Thomas • The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo • The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. – Jean de la Bruyere • The things that we love tell us what we are. – Thomas Aquinas • There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. – Jean Anouilh • There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. – Emmet Fox • There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand • There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. – William Shakespeare • This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. – Thomas Mann • Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. – Bertrand Russell • Till I loved I never lived. – Emily Dickinson • Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke • To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. – Bill Russell • Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. – Edmond de Goncourt • True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery • True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. – Torquato Tasso • True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal • True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you. – Julia Roberts • True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. – e. e. cummings • We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. – Saint Joseph • We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano De Crescenzo • We are shaped and fashioned by what we love – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen • We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it. – Paulo Coelho • We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. – Nicholas Sparks • We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe • We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents. – Henry Ward Beecher • We pardon to the extent that we love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. – Robert Breault • We shouldn’t pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power. – Brother Yun • We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. – Tom Robbins • We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. – Robert Fulghum • Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. – Thomas Aquinas • When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew. – Arrigo Boito • When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. – Fred Rogers • When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca • When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama • When we first met, I didn’t want to get involved with anyone. I didn’t have the time or energy, and I wasn’t sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. – Nicholas Sparks • When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. – Leo Tolstoy • When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. – Albert Einstein • Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? – Jimmy Walker • Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. – Lord Byron • You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Robert Louis Stevenson • You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein • You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts • You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. – Charles Dickens • You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss • You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. – Norman Vincent Peale • Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

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jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'o', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_o').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_o img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'u', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '4', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_u').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_u img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); );