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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Sunday, May 1, 2011

REMEMBERING THE TYPEWRITER. 05-01-2011. Reading practice.


PICTURE SOURCE: www.cbsnews.com
The wire was abuzz last week when news spread about India's last typewriter manufacturer reportedly being down to its final few hundred models for sale. That was good enough to set off a round of nostalgia on the Twitter transom, even though there still seem to be a few factories in Asia making typewriters.
But - pardon the pun - the proverbial writing has been on the similarly proverbial wall for years. The indelible fact is that typewriters long ago got elbowed into obscurity by personal computers and it won't be long before the only place you'll find them will be in antique shops and museums (or your crazy uncle's basement.) But even though typewriters may be fast passing from memory, let's also offer a tip of the hat as these mechanical marvels had an outsize influence on the development of modern office automation.
SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.CBSNEWS.COM
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