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For almost 60 years, Peter Drucker has been writing about everything from management and economics to philosophy and politics with an unorthodox perspective on business and society that continues to attract followers. But in the autobiographical classic Adventures of a Bystander--considered the best of his 29 books by both readers and Drucker himself--the spotlight is turned around to illuminate those he met along the way, who best embody his envisioned ideals of pluralism and diversity. Among them: Sigmund Freud, Henry Luce, Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, and Fritz Kraemer, "the man who invented Kissinger." --Howard Rothman [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978'
Poet, critic, editor, and author, Malcolm Cowley has played a pivotal part in American literature and has dealt with diverse literary figures as Erskine Caldwell, Conrad Aiken, and William Faulkner among others from New York's Greenwich Village to Paris from after World War I to the youth movement of the 1960s into the 1970s. [via]
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The Art of Eating "...only wise men know the art of eating." ?Brillat-Savarin
"There is a communion of more than bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me, Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?" So M. F. K. Fisher begins The Gastronomical Me, one of the five memorable volumes collected together here in The Art of Eating. The five books cover an eclectic array of thoughts, memories, and recipes, from World War I vignettes of frugality at the table to a consideration of the social status of vegetables. Her recipes range from those for all manner of oysters, dressed and undressed, to Cold Buttermilk Soup, and are accompanied by the remarks and observations that provoked W. H. Auden to say, "I do not know of anyone in the United States today who writes better prose." "M. F. K. Fisher evokes the magic that shimmers just beneath the surface of the most commonplace, everyday experiences in prose you can wrap around your soul." ?Richard Sax, Chocolatier
"M. F. K. Fisher is one of the best food writers. She makes you laugh, tells you stories, intrigues your mind, gives you an appetite, takes you on her travels. She is witty, wise, and unpretentious." ?Jane Grigson
"One of the world's finest food writers and, in the eyes of many, the grand dame of gastronomy...M. F. K. Fisher has remained our guiding light, the source of infinite gastronomic and philosophic wisdom, the model of what a truly refined food writer should strive for." ?James Villas, Bon App?tit [via]
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Delightful drawings by Edward Mortelmans [via]
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Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun -- whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome -- like castor oil -- they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is a warm, wonderful, and entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen.
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Kerouac's gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! Unmistakably autobiographical, Big Sur, Kerouac's ninth novel, was written as the 'King of the Beats' was approaching middle-age and reflects his struggle to come to terms with his own myth. The magnificent and moving story of Jack Duluoz, a man blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction, Big Sur is at once Kerouac's toughest and his most humane work. [via]
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The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian ear, made the diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters. [via]
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The sixth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian ear, made the diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters. [via]
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The Index to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This renowned edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, is the first to present a newly transcribed text of the famous Diary and to equip it with a systematic commentary. Published in eleven volumes (nine of the Diary itself, followed by a Companion volume and this Index), it has justly become regarded as the definitive edition. The Index, compiled by Robert Latham, gives the essential key to the nine volumes of the Diary text, including the introduction and the footnotes. It makes it possible to retrieve a massive variety of information, whether the user wishes to trace successive references to individual people, places and events, or to follow through a general topic, or even to locate specific references and phrases from amongst the wealth of subject matter covered by the Diary. The entries are made readily accessible by the use of sub-headings, and are also valuably detailed - often reflecting the style of the Diary itself by borrowing from Pepys's own phraseology. As a result the Index becomes more than merely functional, and offers opportunities for much enjoyable exploration. In many instances references are gathered together under important group headings that can be used to build up a composite picture of different aspects of seventeenth-century England. General topics such as books, dress, food, ships and taverns are afforded detailed entries which include, where necessary, editorial information to identify or elaborate on Pepys's own references. The Index volume completes the set, and maintains the exemplary standards of this great work of scholarship, which was hailed by The Times as 'one of the glories of contemporary English publishing'. [via]
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L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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So what do you expect from a celebrity autobiography? Tales of an impoverished childhood and an unappreciated early career? Angst-ridden revelation? In Jay Leno's take on the genre, tales have only one purpose--laughs. This is a book of jokey anecdotes and humorous stories marking the comedian's progress to the top. The persona of the young Leno is not so different and just as likable as the one appearing nightly on television. Whether it is his mother's advice, his teachers' complaints, or the awkward situations he finds himself in (for example, standing before an Orthodox Jewish audience who have been mistakenly led to expect a Yiddish storyteller) Leno always sees the funny side. [via]

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Débranchez vos téléphones portables et relisez Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire pour redécouvrir ce que l'on doit à la solitude et au libre vagabondage de ses pensées. Perpétuellement dérangé, et comme détourné de lui-même par d'incessantes sollicitations, "l'homme pressé" du monde contemporain pourrait bien retrouver dans la lecture de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature française l'occasion d'un recueillement salutaire.
Ces heures de solitude et de méditation sont les seules de la journée où je sois pleinement moi et à moi sans diversion, sans obstacle, et où je puisse véritablement dire être ce que la nature a voulu. Seconde promenadeSi vous avez aimé La Première Gorgée de bière de Philippe Delerm, vous éprouverez sans conteste les délectations d'une prose admirable qui restitue l'expérience élémentaire de la dégustation et de l'attention savoureuse au monde qui caractérise ces moments délivrés de l'urgence où nous nous laissons aller aux joies simples de l'existence.
Loin d'exalter l'enracinement et le goût du terroir, Rousseau, en ce sens résolument moderne, nous rappelle qu'un homme libre n'a pas de racines mais des pieds, pour s'en servir et parcourir le monde. Une invitation à la marche, à lire dans l'esprit cosmopolite propre au Siècle des lumières ! --Paul Klein [via]
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Sidney Poitier wrote The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography because he "felt called to write about certain values, such as integrity and commitment, faith and forgiveness, about the virtues of simplicity, about the difference between 'amusing ourselves to death' and finding meaningful pleasures--even joy." Yet Poitier's book does not speak from on high; its tone is conversational and endearingly self-critical. He begins the first chapter by recounting an evening spent channel-surfing and wondering, as most of us do at one time or another, "What am I doing with my time?" The spiritual reflections in The Measure of a Man are nonsectarian; Poitier's faith is clearly influenced by his experience in Christian churches, but he is not, strictly, Christian. Though idiosyncratic, his faith is disciplined and rigorous, informed by leaders as diverse as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Poitier's love--for himself, his family, and the world--infuses his recollections of his early life on Cat Island in the Bahamas and his memories of his stage and film career (including his Oscar-winning role in Lilies of the Field). Poitier has been rich and poor; he has been popular and despised; and his extremely varied experiences have made him a wise man, as he demonstrates with statements like this one: "[W]hat we do is stay within the context of what's practical, what's real, what dreams can be fashioned into reality, what values can send us to bed comfortably and make us courageous enough to face our end with character." [via]
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The House of the Dead (Russian: ??????? ?? ???????? ????) is a novel published in 1861 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp [via]
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Here is the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write "84 Charing Cross Road" and of all the things its success brought to her. [via]
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The first of seven volumes, this book offers a glance at the inner life of a young pre-monastic Merton. The reader witnesses the insatiably curious graduate student in Greenwich Village give way to the tentative spiritual seeker and brilliant writer. The writings range from playful lists of the things he most loves and hates to more serious entries. [via]
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Cuando llego a Bombay no era mas que un fugitivo, sin identidad, sin futuro, sin esperanza. Alli conocio el paraiso y el infierno, el amor y el odio, la pasion y la guerra. Y se gano un nombre otorgado con el corazon: Shantaram. Aterrizo en Bombay huyendo de un pasado de crimen y droga, perseguido por la policia tras su fuga de una prision de maxima seguridad en Australia. Esta es la historia real de la transformacion de un hombre que atraveso todos los estadios del espiritu y todas las pruebas del cuerpo. Y es tambien el relato de una aventura increible en una ciudad terrible y fascinante a la vez, en cuyas calles caoticas y abigarradas se esconden las verdades esenciales de la vida. / Lin is an escaped convict with a false passport, who flees from Australia to the city of Bombay. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love while running a clinic in one of the citys poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison, murder, and a series of betrayals. [via]
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The former vice president and conservative spokesman offers a personal account of his controversial years in the White House, from helping prosecute the war against Iraq to starting the ""Murphy Brown"" debate over family values. 300,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. [via]
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If you judge books by their covers, Jack Welch's Winning certainly grabs your attention. Testimonials on the back come from none other than Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Brokaw, and other praise comes from Fortune, Business Week, and Financial Times. As the legendary retired CEO of General Electric, Welch has won many friends and admirers in high places. In this latest book, he strives to show why. Winning describes the management wisdom that Welch built up through four and a half decades of work at GE, as he transformed the industrial giant from a sleepy "Old Economy" company with a market capitalization of $4 billion to a dynamic new one worth nearly half a trillion dollars.
Welch's first book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, was structured more as a conventional CEO memoir, with stories of early career adventures, deals won and lost, boardroom encounters, and Welch's process and philosophy that helped propel his success as a manager. In Winning, Welch focuses on his actual management techniques. He starts with an overview of cultural values such as candor, differentiation among employees, and inclusion of all voices in decision-making. In the second section he covers issues around one's own company or organization: the importance of hiring, firing, the people management in between, and a few other juicy topics like crisis management. From there, Welch moves into a discussion of competition, and the external factors that can influence a company's success: strategy, budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions. Welch takes a more personal turn later with a focus on individual career issues--how to find the right job, get promoted, and deal with a bad boss--and then a final section on what he calls "Tying Up Loose Ends." Those interested in the human side of great leaders will find this last section especially appealing. In it, Welch answers the most interesting questions that he's received in the last several years while traveling the globe addressing audiences of executives and business-school students. Perhaps the funniest question in this section comes at the very end, posed originally by a businessman in Frankfurt, who queried Welch on whether he thought he'd go to heaven (we won't give away the ending).
While different from the steadier stream of war stories and real-life examples of Welch's first book, Winning is a very worthwhile addition to any management bookshelf. It's not often that a CEO described as the century's best retires, and then chooses to expound on such a wide range of management topics. Also, aside from the commentary on always-relevant issues like employee performance reviews and quality control, Welch suffuses this book with his pugnacious spirit. The Massachusetts native who fought his way to the top of the world's most valuable company was in many ways the embodiment of "Winning," and this spirit alone will provide readers an enjoyable read. --Peter Han [via]
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Tells the story of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic from its departure in 1910 to its return in 1913. The author was, himself, a member of the expedition. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott's party then had to negotiate the last part of the journey, a doomed attempt which entered into modern history. [via]
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Brian Wilson was the creative genius behind The Beach Boys. He turned a suburban California garage into a group that took the world by storm, with the sound of his songs, the sound capturing the laid-back, sunny Southern California lifestyle. But the cheerful image belied what was really going on. This autobiography describes Wilson's 20-year nightmare of drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity and mental illness. He spent three years alone in his room. He lost his family, and he nearly lost his life. It is a frank discussion of what destroyed his life and of the controversial forces which helped to save it. [via]
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[Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger: Aus meinem Leben -Erinnerungen Hardcover (Gut) Deutsche Verlags- Anstalt 1998 ] [via]
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"Ich such die DDR / und keiner weiß, wo sie ist", schrammelten die Anarcho-Punks von "Feeling B", nachdem ein gewisser Hans Modrow das, wie es damals hieß, "marode" Staatswesen besenrein an Helmut Kohl übergeben hatte. Seit dem Fall der Mauer war kaum ein Jahr vergangen, und wer damals an der Schwelle von Kindheit und Erwachsensein stand, hatte es wirklich nicht leicht: In den Klassenräumen erinnerten nur mehr helle Flecken an die Bilder von Erich Honecker und Lenin, die Bravo ersetzte Trommel und ABC-Zeitung, die Kaufhalle wurde zum Supermarkt. "Die Dinge hießen einfach nicht mehr danach, was sie waren. Vielleicht waren sie auch nicht mehr dieselben." Im Sauseschritt der neuen Zeit, die schon manch Ältere ins Stolpern brachte, geriet die Kindheit der in den Siebzigern geborenen zu einem "Museum ohne Namen". Den Schlüssel dazu muss dann irgendwann jemand verlegt haben. Fortan hielt man sich besser fern: Betreten verboten!
Jana Hensel, 1989 gerade 13 Jahre alt, hat sich fast zehn Jahre später auf die Suche gemacht: Nach längst verschütteten Erinnerungen, nach einer verlorenen Zeit. Sie betritt damit vermintes Gelände, denn noch immer gilt: Wer die DDR anders denn als Unrechtsstaat mit Mauer, Stacheldraht und Stasi in den Blick nimmt, wird als Ignorant oder Ostalgiker gescholten und mit Missachtung nicht unter fünf Jahren bestraft. Doch anders als ihre Eltern oder die letzte "echte" DDR-Generation der heute 35- bis 40-Jährigen starteten die "zwittrigen Ostwestkinder" ohne moralischen Ballast ins Leben. Dank einer anderen "Gnade der späten Geburt" kann Hensel über Fahnenappell und Ferienlager ebenso unbefangen sprechen wie über den langen, steinigen Weg, den ihre Altersgenossen zu den feinen Unterschieden der westlichen Warenwelt, zu den Dresscodes und Floskeln des bundesdeutschen Alltags zurückgelegt haben. Gelebtes Leben geht weder in Anekdoten noch in Spiegel-Stories auf; es will erzählt werden. Genau das tut Hensel, gleichsam naiv, und doch genau, voller Witz und Selbstironie. Ihre Geschichten um Heimat, Erziehung, Liebe und Freundschaft geben jenen, die sich auf Dauer in einer fremden Welt einzurichten hatten, einen verdrängten Teil ihrer Biografie zurück -- weit entfernt von dumpfen "Es-war-doch-nicht-alles-schlecht"-Reflexen.
Entstanden ist so das Porträt einer Generation zwischen allen Stühlen: Die "ersten Wessis aus Ostdeutschland", denen ihre wenigen DDR-Jahre im Rückblick immer märchenhafter scheinen, sind längst im Hier und Heute angekommen. "Teil einer Jugendbewegung" wollen sie nicht mehr sein -- das hatten sie schon. Dass die Zonenkinder -- Ballack und Schneider, Gold-Franzi und Ullrich-Jan lassen grüßen -- bislang hauptsächlich auf dem Feld der Leibesübungen zu medialem Ruhm gekommen sind, soll uns nicht wundern. Hier sind die berühmten deutschen Sekundärtugenden, Ausdauer und eiserne Selbstdisziplin, besonders gefragt, die in langen Jahren der Anpassung trainiert wurden. Doch Vorsicht! Die Generation Golf (Florian Illies) sollte sich nicht zu früh freuen: Auch wenn die Zonenkinder in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung bislang merkwürdig profillos geblieben sind, könnten sie es sein, die die Geschicke des Landes in den nächsten Jahrzehnten entscheidend mitgestalten. --Niklas Feldtkamp [via]
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Este libro relata la extraordinaria historia de un grupo de veinte pacientes ingresados en el hospital Monte carmelo de Nuevas York, supervivientes de la gran epidemia de encefalitis letargica que alcanzo dimensiones planetarias en los anos veinte del siglo pasado, y del asombroso y subito despertar que experimentaron, cuarenta anos despues, gracias al Dr. Oliver Sacks, que les administro L-Dopa, un medicamento de reciente aparicion por aquel momento. Las anecdotas que cuenta de esa serie d epacientes, cada uno de ellos con una notable personalidad, son siempre conmovedoras y dan testimonio del valor con el que se enfrentaron a la enfermedad y a veces tienen connotaciones tragicas. [via]
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174pages. in8. Broché. "Tout ce qu'on peut dire de l'Inde est vrai, on y voit les choses plus clairement parce que c'est le chaos", affirme Arundhati Roy à propos de ce premier livre qui lui a valu le Booker Prize en 1997. La jeune romancière indienne s'est inspirée du village d'Ayemenem, dans l'État de Kerala en Inde du sud, où elle a grandi. Un monde de bruit et de fureur vu à travers le regard de Rahel et de son frère Estha, deux jumeaux silencieux, perdus dans le monde des adultes et contraints par eux à la pire des trahisons. Dans l'odeur douceâtre de l'usine de confitures de la grand-mère, la lutte des classes rejoint la lutte des castes et autour de la redoutable grand-tante Baby Kochamma s'agitent des personnages tragiques ou pittoresques comme l'oncle Charko ou Ammu, la mère des jumeaux, abandonnée par son mari et amoureuse en secret d'un Intouchable. La seule loi qui régisse ce chaos est celle qui précise "qui devait être aimé et jusqu'à quel point", une loi qu'il coûte toujours cher d'enfreindre, en Inde ou ailleurs. -Gérard Meudal [via]
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