Inglês - Dia 55

" Poirot wandered gently onward down the starboard deck. As he passed round the stern of the boat he almost ran into a woman who turned a startled face towards him - a dark, piquant, Latin face. She was neatly dressed in black and had been standing talking to a big burly man in uniform - one of the engineers, by the look of him. There was a queer expression on both their faces - guilt and alarm. Poirot wondered what they had been talking about."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

" Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution." Anthony J.D. Angelo

Word of the day:
Anatine - (adjective) resembling a duck; of or pertaining to the family Anatine, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.

* I took refuge in wild theorizing - if Angels be the next higher being from Man, perhaps the Duck had morphos'd into some Anatine Equivalent, acting as my guardian...

Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon: A Novel, 1997

* I did not particularly like her, though she did once bring me a chick and a duckling as an Easter present, and it may reveal something about anatine psychology that the duck grew up and became fixtated upon the chicken in the pen my father made for them.

George Davison Winius, The Brats of Briarcliff, 2008

Imaginary Place of the day:
Adam's Country - (...) On arrival, the pioneers took to the mountais to protect themselves from the natives. Slowly they grew confident and ultimately they became the masters of the entire population. (...)

Paul Adam, Lettres de Malaisie, Paris, 1898