Inglês - Dia 56

" They came out of the temple into the sunshine with the sand yellow and warm about their feet. Linnet began to laugh. At their feet in a row, presenting a momentarily guesome appearance as though sawn from their bodies, were the heads of half a dozen Nubian boys. The eyes rolled, the heads moved rhythmically from side to side, the lips chanted a new invocation: (...)"
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

" Great man are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Word of the day:
Gapeseed - (noun) British Dialect. A person who gapes or stares in wonder; specially a rustic or unworldly person who is easily awed; a daydream or reverie; an idealistic, impossible or unreal plan or goal; something that is gaped at; anything unusual or remarkable.

* I'm retired: sort of a gapeseed, a daydreamer, you know.

D. Keith Mano, Take Five, 1982

* The first time Jessalyn attended a racing meet, Gram had accused her of behaving like a gapeseed, staring open-mouthed at every sight.

Penelope Williamson, Once in a Blue Moon, 1993

Imaginary Place of the day:
Aepyornis - (...) The island is famous for being the only known habitat of the aepyornis, a curious especies of bird. The salt water around the island contains a substance wich smells like cerusite and keeps things from decaying, protecting the eggs which the birds lay in the water. (...)

H.G. Wells, "Aepyornis Island", in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, London, 1894