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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

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Let the dead bury the dead.


Note: bury (verb) = put (a dead body) in the earth or in the seaPossible interpretation: This is generally taken to imply that we should spend our time and energy on living people, not on dead people. (But see Origin below.)


Origin: This saying has its roots in the Bible, and may originally have meant that the living should serve God rather serve than the dead (though its real interpretation has long been the subject of heated theological debate). Matthew 8: "Another of the disciples said to Him, 'Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.' But Jesus said to him, 'Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.'"

Quick Quiz:
In the saying "Let the dead bury the dead", the word "dead" is
  1. a noun
  2. an adjective
  3. a noun first and then an adjective

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