Liar

So, I was wondering: how honest are we to the people around us?

I have seen myselfe faking so many times. Fake smiles, lying every time someone asked "how are you", making people believe I was happy.

Is that the right thing to do? You'd think it would be better to just be honest with people (well, our friends, I mean. Not any stanger...). But if you look well at it... would it really be good to put the weight of your emotions and your problems over someone else? Somehow, I find it just easier and safer to lie.

And what about how we see people? Can we really see through their desguises, distinguish when somebody is lying and when he's telling the truth? Personally, I believe we only see what people want us to see. The rest is sort of invisible.

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is a Book written by Anthony Burgess. It's about a guy, Alex, that goes around with his 3 mates robbing houses, beating up people and raping women. He was also a great fan of classical music, specially Beethoven's Ninth. One day he gets arrested and the government trys on him an experiment, to force him to be good, not by his own free will, but by a excutiaing pain that he feels making wrong. It's a great book, very interestingly written. The author creates a kind of lange, that the teens were supposed to talk at that time in the future, called Nadsat. Nadsat is a mix of regular english, slang and russian.

The film is great too. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick, with Malcom McDowell playing Alex (an amazing performance, I must say!).

"Our pockets were full of deng, so there was no real need from the point of view of crasting any more pretty polly to tolchock some old veck in an alley and viddy him swim in his blood while we counted the takings and divided by four, nor to do the ultra-violent on some shivering starry grey-haired ptitsa in a shop and go smecking off with the till’s guts.

But, as they say, money isn’t everything."

"The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attemptto impose,Isay, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword- pen."

First Post!

Hello!

I'm Magda, from Portugal.

I decided to start blogging - I'm kinda new at this btw. I will use this both as a journal and a place to talk about and discuss things that I find interesting.

I hope you enjoy it. Leaving comments with critics, opinions and suggstions would be nice. Besides the regular comments place, there's that pink & black box on the side, feel free to use it for commenting and chatting.

See you.