Showing posts with label capitolo 16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capitolo 16. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

Il Pirata Baldassarre - capitolo 16 FINE

Questo capitolo segna anche la fine del volume.
Ci stiamo addentrando nell'ultimo volume della storia (anche se il finale vero e proprio sarà nel sesto volume, con gli speciali).
Buona lettura.

Ho dovuto anticipare l'uscita perché oggi sarà un giorno terrrriiiiibilmente lungo per me, ha ha ha, ma a voi non dispiace, vero?

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Il Pirata Baldassarre - capitolo 16 c

Eccoci qua con il nuovo update. Questa volta è arrivato presto, eh?
Buona lettura! ;D

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Flowers and bees curiosities.

This week is a bit frustrating having to write the curiosities. I watched some of the recent TV-shows, that just aired, and found them to be completely flat, simple and rather boring. No brainer, really!

At one point, one realizes, also from comments here and there, that smart writers have it easier than intelligent writers. People will nit-pick at the smallest, most insignificant details and completely loose track of the big picture anyway, so why put a big picture to begin with?

Relying on this lack of memory allows such shows to go on for ever and ever without anybody realizing that the same character is doing one thing in episode 8 and its opposite in episode 12.

Why bother constructing?

Anyways I don't give up because I write essentially for myself and I write because I don't find gratification as a consumer. Nobody has created something fit for my brains or suitable for my emotions in quite a while, therefore I must compensate by drawing and writing the stuff I have always wanted to see.

Ah! Yes. Back to the curiosities.
Callista went to see the doctor because it's the day after and whether she is not feeling alright or she just want to make sure everything went right we must not forget one thing: this ship is under strict doctatorship! Anyways she follows Wes' order of: nobody suffers in silence.

As simple as that.
She is a smart girl and explained what happened. Hence the doctor's surprised reaction: ah!

The joke is old... and she also said it wrong... at the risk of sounding anti-Semite.
Clearly what is the word she was supposed to use? Gentile, precisely.

Funny enough the reaction from Kane and Wes is not on her mistake anymore (it's like they are getting to used to her) but on the joke itself.


Dried figs are supersweet. Like... honey coated dried fruits.

In a way they are saying that the scene is too sweet, diabetes anyone? Duh! But also dried figs have been a well known snack since ancient times. In fact they were sold as snacks in amphitheaters during Greek plays or in Rome during the games in the Coliseums and other Circuses.

Why not the usual phrase: the birds and the bees?
Aside from the fact that the sentence as we know it came to be pretty late, and due to a famous pamphlet, this scene is building towards a silly misunderstanding that will culminate in the next release... hence I will not anticipate too much.

I can only tell you that Kane is to be taken literally: he is talking about flowers and bees.




If he says so it must be true.
Not even his brother, not even his father or his mother... surely this has nothing to do with the literal "full name going in the same sentence with the word love".
This is about actually hearing somebody professing affection openly and with sincere heart to you.
This is Kane being touched and moved. That's the true realization.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Chapter 16 - Curiosities

"If the mountain..." (I think I wrote this sentence the other way around in the Italian version and I shall have to fix that, LOL).
This proverb was chosen because of its being coeval to the story itself in the first place. Although it has always been attributed to the Prophet Mohammad it was actually something that Francis Bacon first mentioned in one of his essays.

The second reason I chose it it's because, being Cat Egyptian (not black African), he was probably raised a Muslim. Chances are that if the butt bucket was not introduced by the previous pirate Balthasar, grandpa Cosimo, it would have been introduced it. Currently there are 3 Muslims on board - although Cat does not really believe, traditions and how you have been raised become habits: Cat, Yusuf (the tall guy with the pointy nose) and Husein (the short guy with the turban).

The third reason I chose this it's because of it's literal meaning... I think it's very direct and to the point. Not to mention poignant.

Somnambulism... is a real disease but it was not taken seriously or not seriously treated until the XIX century.

But we know from Shakespeare that people knew it existed!

Most of the time the action done during the condition of sleep walking is not connected to subconscious will at all. In fact, if you consider for example, La Sonnambula by Bellini... Amina really does not have reason to walk in the sleep, she is not guilt ridden and she does not care for Rodolfo either... she simply walks. Most modern cases are completely not connected to the person's wishes either.

In our case is Callista driven by the"troubled heart" sentence she overhears in her sleep or did she miss Cat so much that she went to see him? Was she simply so sleep deprived that the sleepwalking condition kicked in or was she only half asleep? Who knows... it went well anyways.

Remember the line: outside of danger everyone acts cool?
I think it also applies to love advise. How many times you go to a friend to ask: what should I do? - and they tell you: you should tell him.

Which is something they would never do themselves. LOL There you have it!
Lio has had a nice conversation with Foxy but much like Kes she has not said the "L" word yet, neither has Castalia. Ironically enough all these emotionally constipated and clueless women are pushing the little sister to go ahead and confess. Turns out Callista really is the bravest girl on Earth! Ha ha ha.

Pudic. Funny enough while other online dictionary don't have a clear definition except the one related to pudendal... wikitionary has the same definition as my old Oxford Dictionary.

Clear proof that old books and paper still are better than the web, when it comes to content (also proves that the web needs to go semantic and that the google engine is getting worse and worse day by day).

Btw I just came out of class where I told my students: If I say a complicated word and you don't know what it means... please stop me and ask me so that I may answer: go get a dictionary!!! - that's what my teacher always told me when I was a kid XDD it was the best thing that ever happened to me, let me return the favor. (honestly, I think it makes people more proactive).

The contemporary version of it would be: do not panic, google it! Ha ha ha.

As somebody already noticed on Smack Jeeves, Cat and Callista's story is a palindrome (go get your dictionary, now XD). But while Cat was physically giving things to Callista to help her metaphorically, Callista is emotionally giving help to Cat to raise him up psychologically.
Starting with the key point that these two are the same, share the same view and see each other like a reflection in the mirror, Cat develops immediate understanding and thinks: I have been there, I can help.
Callista, by reaction, enters as a round and does the same in return: I have been there, I can help.

So if he physically gave her shoes of the same size - metaphorically gave her legs to walk.

She gave him a feeling of the same size - metaphorically gave him legs to walk too.

The whole thing is also about them walking - hand in hand - without tripping (Callista on tongue and feet and Cat on low self esteem). He gave her his hand first, the second time, on the island, when he did not know what to do... she was the one who reached out and stretched her hand out to him.

Of course when you get comfy shoes, no matter how comfy they are you still have to get used to the fact you have comfy shoes, especially if you did not have them before. So it might take a few days to adjust (but luckily the shoes - in this case Callista - know how to put you at ease by being at ease) Cat is still a bit out of it, actually not a bit... he is so much out of it that he forgets his most important headband!!!

In short his waking up and rushing to work is the most gigantic "HUH?" he ever uttered.

But Callista, being the smart girl she actually is, since she understands that what they have been through is a delicate moment in life for both of them bur requires adjustment, decides to remove any form of embarrassment and puts the blame on the hair being too long. Isn't she a cutie?

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Il Pirata Baldassarre - capitolo 16 A

Buona lettura,
ora che abbiamo finalmente messo mano sul capitolo 16 posso mettere nella sezione Plunder il capitolo 15.


Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Hype~! Cover chapter 16!

Take this!

Muah ah ah ah! Is this spoiler? Is this hype? No, it's sheer cruelty (and after this post I will receive tons of phone calls from WWF and Greenpeace!).

Who knows what this really means though.... maybe I am just teasing you, maybe I am cheating... can you trust a smiling pirate? Never trust a smiling pirate!

I gotta go and fix the google calendar now, for some reason it got messed up again (I think it doesn't like being synchronize with outlook).