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... dacă nu poţi lupta sau dacă lupta n-are şanse de succes, singura formă de rezistenţă este să ne refugiem în "fabulatoriu". (Avertisment la ediţia a II-a - 1996)

CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE

You can’t trust him, that dirty bastard,” said the child boy. “The dirty bastard, I suppose, was born clean,” replied Ena.

I’d rather be a beggar than be with the wrong king—not the queen of slaves, but the slave of bravery. I lay me on rocks, cover me with the darkness of the nights—not the king’s poisonous soft duvets that won’t let me meet I at dawn.

Due to a century of successes at the hands of the aforementioned emperors—from Basil I to Basil II—a false sense of security prevailed. Vigilance was abandoned; rule “passed into the hands of a series of dotards, sensualists and courtesans—female rule once again predominated.” The twenty-nine-year reign of Empress Zoe, “a middle-aged harlot,” saw her marry and divorce—often by blinding or murdering—several men.27 Concern for the frontier and the struggle against Islam was dropped; the empire’s resources were squandered on the fancies of the civil bureaucracy, which came to rule in all but name.

Ia și privește o specie-n viață în inșii ce-i are Și vei găși că ei nu-s chiar cu totul de o înfățișare: Nici nu ar fi un alt mijloc ca mama să-și știe copilul, Apoi acesta pe mamă; și lucrul le este-n putință, Căci se cunosc ca și oamenii desăvârșit între dânșii. Astfel adesea vițelul în impodobitele temple Cade jertfit lângă-altarul pe care tămâie-i aprinsă, Iară din pieptu-i țâșnesc fumegânde șiroaie de sânge: Însă cu suflet cernit a lui mamă cutreieră pajiști, Cată-n țărână la urma copitelor mici despicate, Ochii străpung oirce loc, tot crezând undeva că se poate Puiul pierdut să-și găsească; oprindu-se, jalnicu-i muget Umple pădurea stufoasă, dar fulger la staul se-ntoarce, Dorul de micul ei drag săgetandu-i întreaga ființă. Nici frunzisoare de sălcii, nici iarbă ce-n rouă-nvioară, Nu pot nici râuri ce curg lunecând între largile maluri, Sufletul să i-l desfete și chinu-i năprasnic s-abată; Nici chiar vițeii ceilalți, care zburdă-n pășunea cea grasă, Nu pot s-aline-al ei zbucium și gându-i aiurea să-ntoarcă; Ea pe al ei și-l tot cată, pe-al ei într-atât îl cunoaște. (Cartea a II-a, v. 347 - 366)

Coley and I had to separate to get around a girl who was mostly eclipsed by the size of the power she was carrying some sort of project about World War II—a picture of Hitler doing his mustachioed Sieg heil, a gaunt concentration camp victim, a couple of American soldiers smoking cigarettes and scowling at the camera, the captions beneath each photo in glitter-bubble letters. If this had been the movie version of my life, I knew, somebody who did teenage stuff well, some director, would have lingered on that poster and maybe even have swelled some poignant music, out is in slow motion as the hallway continued on at regular speed around us, backlit the three of us—Coley and the poster board chick and me—and in doing so tried to make some statement about teenage frivolity and prom season as it stacked up against something authentic and horrible like war. But if renting all those movies had taught me anything more than how to lose myself in them, it was that you only actually have perfectly profound little moments like that in real life if you recognize them yourself, do all the fancy shot work and editing in your head, usually in the very seconds that whatever is happening is happening. And even if you do manage to do so, just about never does anyone else you’re with at the time experience that exact same kind of moment, and it’s impossible to explain as it’s happening, and then the moment is over.

My computer had been equipped with a slightly different program which M.I.T. called Colossus IIA; it was aptly named. I felt flea-sized in its presence, and punched the computer keys with a good deal of reverence, as I availed myself of the services of this giant. That is, until it and I started to disagree and it refused to give me the answers I sought. Then I lost my temper. Flash an “operator error” light at me, will you, you stupid goddamned computer, and I would sputter and stammer until the soothing voice of Tom Wilson14 or one of the other instructors came over the earphones and unctuously explained how I had offended their precocious brat.

St. Thomas Aquinas [M]editation is the cause of devotion since through meditation man conceives the idea of giving himself to God. A man forms this idea in one of two ways. The first is by considering the divine goodness and kindness, which leads to the thought expressed in the Psalms, “It is good for me to cling to my God, to put my hope in the Lord” (Ps 82:28). Considerations of this type awaken love which is the proximate cause of devotion. The second way is by considering man’s weaknesses, which leads to the realization that man must depend upon God. Hence the Psalmist says, “I lift up my eyes to the mountains, whence help shall come to me; my help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (120:1). Consideration of man’s weaknesses leads a man to submit to God since it banishes presumption which leads man to trust in his own strength. (ST IIa–IIae, q. 82, a. 3 [G])

Apple II C computer. This was the small Apple II—a really small one—as small as today’s laptops except you had to plug it into a wall. I thought it was just a beautiful computer, my favorite one to this day. I really think it was one of the best projects ever done at Apple.

IIa would be bound to think up some sort of scheme, finance was nearly as good as magic.

They’re all the same coin, aren’t they,” said one of his brothers. “Well, yes,” said the IIa, very embarrassed, because interfering with the divine flow of money was alien to his personal religion.

Once you decided to fulfill your purpose, what were your first substantive thoughts? Probably not “Point II.A. 3. b. in plan.” Your first ideas were more likely things like “Italian food at Giovanni’s,” or “Sitting at a sidewalk table at the Bistro Café.” You probably also imagined some positive picture of what you might experience or how the evening would turn out—maybe the people involved, the atmosphere, and/ or the outcome. That was your outcome visioning.

Résumé Alors que la prévalence du cancer gastrique distal décroît, l’incidence et la prévalence de l’adénocarcinome de la jonction œsogastrique (AJOG) sont en constante augmentation depuis plusieurs décennies dans le monde occidental. Les travaux récents montrent que le pronostic des AJOG est plus sombre. Du fait de leur localisation anatomique, à cheval sur l’œsophage et l’estomac, la prise en charge thérapeutique est complexe. Le standard thé- rapeutique, en cas de tumeur localisée, repose sur une approche chirurgicale adaptée à la classification de Siewert avec exérèse de la tumeur primitive et lymphadénectomie régionale. L’œsophagectomie par voie transthoracique est recommandée pour les AJOG de type I, la gastrectomie totale pour les cancers de type III, alors que les deux approches peuvent être discutées pour le type II. La chirurgie seule ne peut être recommandée que pour les tumeurs de stade I et IIa. Elle doit être combinée à une chimiothérapie (CT) périopératoire pour les tumeurs de stade IIb, III et les IV non métastatiques. Une radiochimiothérapie (RCT) adjuvante peut être proposée pour les tumeurs à haut risque de récidive pour les patients n’ayant pas bénéficié de traitement préopératoire. En situation néoadjuvante, la RCT peut être proposée pour les tumeurs localement avancées à débord œsophagien principal, alors qu’elle semble être une voie d’avenir pour les AJOG en général. Une approche pluridisciplinaire est indispensable au diagnostic et à la planification optimale des modalités du traitement