lâche

adj.

B. − [En parlant d'une pers.]

2. Qui manque de courage. Synon. couard, craintif, peureux, froussard (fam.). La guerre se déchaîne quand un peuple dégénère et s'avilit, mais elle dévore les derniers justes, les derniers courageux, et sauve les plus lâches(Giraudoux, Électre, 1937, I, 3, p. 41). Un chef a quelquefois le devoir d'être lâche. Mais à condition qu'il éprouve sa fermeté, à l'occasion (Camus, Justes, 1950, III, p. 349).

− Emploi subst. L'existentialiste, lorsqu'il décrit un lâche, dit que ce lâche est responsable de sa lâcheté (Sartre,Existent., 1946, p. 59).

[1] Casa / Home / La maison

Todos los sitios en los que has vivido y cada una de las personas en las que has encontrado un hogar. Cuando vuelvas a ellos, aunque sea de visita, siempre habrá una parte de ti que se sienta como en casa. Es por ese trocito tuyo que dejaste, y sin el que estás algo menos entero y un poco más lleno. Esa cálida sensación de seguridad permanecerá en ellos esperándote para cuando quieras volver. Por un rato.

Y esa es la primera. Tener una casa a la que volver. O mil.

Normas e imposiciones para mi fuerza de voluntad

1. Cuando sientas el impulso irrefrenable de volver, de echar mano, de recordar y recontar, desvíalo a ese algo constructivo.

2. Si eres débil -y lo serás, no te engañes-, con objeto de minimizar el impacto de ésta tu debilidad, permítete volver un máximo de una vez diaria.

3. Recordar está prohibido después de las siete, al igual que los carbohidratos.

4. Ya que debes saltarte alguna norma, olvida la estupidez de los carbohidratos y consume todos los que te pida el cuerpo.

5. Vuelve a ser tú misma lo más rápido que puedas. Eso incluye los buenos hábitos y el saludable nivel de autoestima.

6. Cuida tu caligrafía. "Despacito y con buena letra" tiene su razón de ser, y te hará sentir mejor contigo misma.

7. Intenta desarrollar un complejo de superioridad. Nunca vienen mal.

flaky

also adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Made of or resembling flakes.
2. Forming or tending to form flakes or thin, crisp fragments: flaky pastry.
3. Slang. Somewhat eccentric; odd: "that slightly flakey quality, in joy as well as in grief, that prepares us subtly for the mad scenes to come" (Village Voice).

flakily flak'i·ly adv.
flakiness flak'i·ness n.

Hacker Slang: flaky

(var sp. flakey) Subject to frequent lossage. This use is of course related to the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy, or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of — enough that you are tempted to try to use it — but fails frequently enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you start are low. Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy or wonky.

lame

adj., lam·er, lam·est.

1. Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible: Lame from the accident, he walked with a cane. A lame wing kept the bird from flying.
2. Marked by pain or rigidness: a lame back.
3. Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.

tr.v., lamed, lam·ing, lames.

To cause to become lame; cripple.

[Middle English, from Old English lama.]

asking for the world

aesthetical affectionate appreciative articulate attentive broadminded caring charming clever compatible considerate deserving devoted disarming educated faithful funny gay generous good honest hygenic independent interesting kind knowledgeable literate loving multidimensional nice open-hearted passionate perceptive real reasonable respectful sane sensible sensitive stylish supportive sweet tactful tender true trusting warm well-read whole

(... no wonder I'm self-sufficient)

individualisme

[de individual]

m 1 Qualitat d'individualista.

2 1 Actitud consistent a no pensar sinó en si mateix, a no assumir les pròpies obligacions socials o de solidaritat.

2 Doctrina que propugna aquesta actitud.

3 FILOS Doctrina o teoria segons la qual l'individu és el patró bàsic de la realitat o el fonament de tot valor o norma.

4 SOCIOL 1 Teoria que propugna, contra l'estatisme, la promoció de la iniciativa privada i la supressió parcial o total de la intervenció de l'estat.

2 Teoria segons la qual la societat ha d'ésser ordenada al bé comú dels individus.

in_di_vi_du_a_lis_me.

Marvin' around

Let's face it: deep down, all of us are Marv -the monster, the lesser one-, in our heads. And, deep down, she's always Goldie, isn't she? Does she really wants us? Or is it just convenient? We don't care, as long as she's here. Not really, not deep down.

Perfect score

That's lucky. My first day and it's precisely her turn. It really feels like destiny didn't want me to miss it.

"That's her", he needlesly points her out as we cross paths with her, announced by her partner-in-crime. Not that I'm jealous, that is not exactly what I would like to be to her, but still. I resent yet admire that spot.

The show starts and I wouldn't be able to take my eyes off her if I could keep up. There's tricks of lights, harnesses flying by, extras deviating your eye from the main attraction. She takes on and takes off, juggles and hovers. You think you see her and then she's gone. A hail of sparks calls for attention and there she is, alongside her inseparable companion. They make you believe as almost they come as a pack. They do most of the time, in my mind.

It's unanimous. Her mark is way higher than the other three's convined. Her name and score get off on the board in a much brighter shade and start blinking.

Could it be my subconscious fears what it has always been obvious to me will become obvious to everyone else? But it is happening in front of my very eyes and I can't believe everybody else now knows of her greatness.

I'm not even worried that I'm up next.

why indeed

This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been.

-- about Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go