"BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH, Sarko" ! G@ttus : Sarkus! Sarkus : Ha! Who calls? Casca : Everyone, quiet. Peace! Sarkus : Who’s calling for me? I hear a voice that is more shrill than all the music yelling, "Sarkus"! Speak, I’m listening. G@ttus : Beware the Ides of March! Sarkus : Who is that man? Brutus : A c@t who can tell the future is telling you to beware March 21. Sarkus : Bring him here; let me see his face. Cassius : Felis, come here; look at Sarkus. Sarkus : What do you say to me now? Speak again.. G@ttus : Beware the Ides of March. Sarkus : He is a c@t; let's get away from him. Let's go. [Exeunt]
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... until April the 1st - aka Fools' Day. Are we going to see a French-style-big-fish in two weeks, with Parisian Titi ? # 67 - REKO Rennie - March 14th/2010 Reko's video of his hopping tour in Europe in 2009, when he won an Australian Council of the Arts residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. ___
After a phone call with a friend recalling some conversations with old people on a topic that has always been a taboo, I just googled two keywords : Accabadora and mazzoccu.
- The"feminaaccabadora" or "agabbadora" (Span. v. acabar) is the woman who completes the task - meaning she "helps" to pass away or, in short, a "terminator". This character used to be an old woman dressed in black, veiled face - often the midwife of the village, who was called to end the agony of the dying when it lasted too long, causing unnecessary suffering. Her task accomplished, she moved away. Her performance wasnot paid with money, but rewarded with flour, salt, lard or other common items. It was an ancestral form of euthanasia, practiced in cases of extreme necessity.
- The "mazzoccu" or "mazzolu" is a piece of wild olive wood, T-shaped like a hammer(more info here to translate). Like all items related to the most secret rites and traditions, this tool was kept carefully hidden, when people didn't get rid of.However, one of them is still visible at the Gallurasethnographic museum, in Luras. A single sharp blow of this instrument on the temporal bone was supposed to end the agony, thoughsometimes choking with a hand or a pillow was enough to stop a weak breath of life.The accabadora's performance was so fast it appeared to be painless...
The latest reported activities of the Accabadora would have occurred in Luras (1929) and in Orgosolo (1952), although someone believes that the last casewould be as more recent as in 2003.
The Luras case is certainly emblematic : when a 70 years old man passed away - with some help from such a black angel, the local police and prosecutor were unanimous in reporting the act to a humanitarian context, so the woman wasn't convicted and the case was filed.
AlbertoLa Marmora and William HenrySmith were the first to report this primitive practice of euthanasia in Sardinia in their travel journals, in the early 19th century. ___ *[the sentence "su ohi de s'accabadora" means "the last lament of the dying"].
Yes, Armel, パリから若い男、東京でスプラッシュになります ! Irresistibly attracted by the many {and 1 peculiar] splendours of the Land of the Rising Sun, he has left behind the City of Lights - and even the Griset spot [already a nest of Nippon creativity], to join the top fashion designers in Tokyo... - Above, from the .jp "MadameFigaro" - Below : from "Openers"web magazine Leave a comment on Armel's work and encourage him !
SALON DE L'AGRICULTURE Short summary, in pictures :
An evening strongly tinged with sadness that emanates from the eyes of animals - except from the poultry, maybe, in an environment that is, after all, hostile for them all : people watching them only in a steak-and-roastbeef perspective.
Traditionally, at the Salon de l'Agriculture, people use to linger to taste regional specialties - wine included, we are in France, right ?
After a four-hour tour and some regional snaks here and there, my dinner theme revolved around vegetables only. ____
