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Journal d'un homme de 40 ans est une autobiographie de Jean Guéhenno parue en 1934 aux éditions Grasset. Cet ouvrage, dédié à J., raconte comment Guéhenno sent se dérouler le début de sa vie, depuis sa jeunesse à Fougères jusqu'à son début de travail d'instituteur. Il y aborde notamment son ressenti de la Première Guerre mondiale et de la naissance, dans le sang de ce conflit, de la conscience européenne.

Avec Journal des années noires, 1940-1944 (paru en 1947) et Carnets du vieil écrivain (en 1971), cet ouvrage constitue le premier de la trilogie autobiographique de Guéhenno.

Résumé
L'ouvrage de Guéhenno est organisé en chapitres d'importances inégales, dont le titre évoque le contenu d'une manière plus ou moins directe.

I - Roi en sabots. Le récit débute en 1890, année de naissance de l'auteur, à F. (Fougères n'est jamais citée dans le texte). Il raconte son enfance, pauvre, d'abord chez sa nourrice, à la campagne (Saint-Germain-en-Coglès), petit roi innocent au milieu d'une nature complice. Il y fera néanmoins la première expérience de ce qui peut séparer les hommes, en y rencontrant le jeune maître d'un domaine voisin et s'enfuyant sans vraiment comprendre pourquoi il y avait une telle différence entre deux personnes si jeunes.

II - Où je suis initié au système européen. Son retour chez ses parents correspond à la venue du Président de la République à F., en 1896 (il s'agit alors de Félix Faure). Il décrit cet événement, bien qu'il soit sans importance du point de vue politique, comme étant un signal fort de ce qui lui paraîtra relever du sentiment d'appartenance à une nation et de la reproduction de ce schéma dans les autres pays européens.

III - Homme de série. Durant une dizaine d'années, il habite avec ses parents la maison Bruant, sorte de phalanstère mis à disposition des ouvriers d'une usine de cordonnerie. Au-delà de ses aïeux, tous de condition humble, son père, en quelque sorte meneur syndical, et sa mère, extrêmement laborieuse, font forte impression sur le jeune enfant. Ce père, qui n'aura jamais pardonné à sa femme de l'avoir "contraint" à travailler pendant une grève pour subvenir à ses besoins car elle était atteinte de bronchite, maladie des pauvres, lui aura de quelque manière inculqué une certaine façon de questionner l'ordre établi. Quant à sa mère, travaillant sans cesse à sa brouette (sa machine à coudre) en chantonnant "Combien j'ai douce souvenance / Du joli temps de mon enfance", elle lui donne l'impression d'une humilité perpétuelle d'un peuple la tête sur l'ouvrage puisqu'elle ne peut lever les yeux et encore moins réfléchir et aspirer à une condition meilleure. L'enfant, allant à l'école tout en étant apprenti au logis, observe tout cela d'un œil d'ores et déjà critique, constatant que son enfance va déjà s'amenuisant.

IV - L'Europe des enfants ou premiers souvenirs européens. L'auteur décrit ici notamment, non sans critique, une partie des savoirs et jeux inculqués aux enfants européens. C'est aussi le moment pour l'auteur de découvrir le savoir au travers des premiers livres qu'il emprunte à la bibliothèque municipale.

Il constate notamment combien il est facile pour les enfants de jouer à la Seconde Guerre des Boers, d'autant plus qu'entre 1895 et 1912, jamais il n'y a une paix totale sur le globe terraqué (Abyssinie, Chine, Soudan, Afrique australe, Mandchourie, Maroc, Tripolitaine, Balkans). Il questionne à cette occasion le rôle civilisateur du colon mais critique également la valse des coopérations entre pays.

V - Découverte d'un autre monde. Période correspondant à la fois à son passage au collège et comme employé de bureau, il découvre vers 1905, au cours de discussions avec un copain, fils de professeur de physique que même s'il n'est pas doué pour les sciences, c'est par la connaissance que l'on est en mesure de s'extirper de la condition dans laquelle se trouvent par exemple ses parents. La visite de Jean Jaurès, s'adressant aux camarades, lui fait toucher le vrai destin de l'humanité.

VI - Intellectuel. Il est question ici de son arrivée à Paris en 1908 et de ses années de Normale Sup, rue d'Ulm. Il évoque les amitiés qui s'y sont créées, les lectures et la découverte d'auteurs et de maîtres à penser. Il cite notamment André Gide, appelant à .

VII - La jeunesse morte. Début du conflit mondial, marqué par l'assassinat d'« un archiduc dont personne ne sait plus le nom ». L'auteur raille l'élan patriotique, qui prit soudain tout le monde, lui y compris, mais également tous les auteurs, des plus radicaux au plus modérés. Il part comme jeune officier, se retrouve à Vlamertinghe, en Belgique, non loin d'Ypres.

VIII - L'inhumain. L'auteur décrit quelque peu son vécu de première ligne. Il n' y a ni d'actes de bravoure ni de description d'horreurs, simplement le cours des journées d'un homme qui veut survivre. Il y a la première interruption du récit pour une revue de presse, celle du .

Le monde des livres, qu'il s'était construit jusqu'alors, se déconstruit petit à petit au contact de la ligne de front. Souvent à l'arrière, à la santé fragile, il apprend la mort de plusieurs de ses amis. Il raconte l'industrialisation de la guerre et l'utilisation de tous les moyens disponibles. Il en fit les frais, devant notamment haranguer la troupe qui devait partir le lendemain au front, après la reconstitution au centre de préparation.

IX - Le cantique de l'arc. Ce chapitre commence par la citation de ce cantique funèbre composé par David lors de la mort de Saül et Jonathan. Il relate sa blessure en  et son séjour à l'hôpital. Il écrit un passage détaché du reste du récit, intitulé Méditation sur la mort inutile.

Déclaré inapte, il passe le restant de la guerre à s'occuper de la censure postale ou à diriger un établissement de rééducation des soldats aveugles du côté de Tours. Durant l'été 1917, il rend visite à Anatole France.

X - L'occasion manquée. Fin de guerre, Guéhenno regrette qu'essoufflés, las, les hommes n'aient mis à profit ce temps pour remettre en question les systèmes politiques en place mais se contentant de la « prime de démobilisation ». Il évoque le Traité de Versailles comme un accord entre dirigeants qui ne fait pas la part aux aspirations des peuples, durement éprouvés. De plus, il raille le soldat inconnu, pauvre bougre sur qui on rend désormais n'importe quel serment, justifiant parfois les pires initiatives.

C'est également le temps du retour à la vie civile, avec une promenade rue d'Ulm, où il constate, avec un camarade rescapé, que sa jeunesse n'est plus. Dans son village également, on compte les morts, et sa mère travaille toujours sur sa machine à coudre. L'auteur s'établit alors comme maître d'école.

XI - L'occasion retrouvée. Nouvelle revue de presse, la guerre approche. Il y a un bilan simple d'une période mouvementée.

Thèmes
 Le thème principal de l'ouvrage est la Première Guerre mondiale. Évoquée plus que racontée, elle est toujours présente de manière plus ou moins forte. Elle est en effet l'événement majeur qui présida à la vie de l'auteur, des peuples et des nations en ce début de , qui trouve ses racines dans la fin du .
 Tout au long de l'ouvrage, il est largement question de la politique internationale et de ses répercussions sur les classes laborieuses : . Il développe tout au travers de son ouvrage ses points de vue relatifs aux agissements des puissants (chefs de gouvernements, monarques, ploutocrates) et à leur surdité face aux revendications du peuple.
 Comme pendant au thème précédent, il constate qu'il est facile, avec très peu d'argent, de faire taire ce peuple. Toutefois, il garde un œil optimiste sur le progrès continu des hommes qui va vers le bonheur. Notamment, il cite deux événements comme étant des jalons de cette marche vers le bonheur universel, la Révolution française et la Révolution russe.
 Autre thème fortement présent dans l'ouvrage, l'amitié, notamment les amitiés perdues de la guerre.
 Il est également question de la jeunesse et du sentiment qu'elle a été volée à tous les hommes des peuples européens à cause de la guerre.
 L'ouvrage est très fortement imprégné des aspirations européennes de l'auteur. Il voit partout des raisons de se réjouir, de croire que le grand bain de sang n'aura pas été vain, et qu'une conscience forte de la haute valeur de l'homme pourra en naître. Il s'agit un peu de sa manière d'exprimer le "plus jamais ça" des anciens combattants avec lesquels il se trouve beaucoup de sentiments communs.
 Toutefois, ces aspirations sont parfois interrompues par ce qui constitue les prémisses de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il arrête parfois sa narration pour donner une revue de presse des grands titres de 1933. Il cite certains événements qui vont à nouveau plonger le monde, plus particulièrement l'Europe, dans un conflit sanglant. Il est notamment question de l'accession d'Adolf Hitler au pouvoir en Allemagne, de Marlène Dietrich, de Jean Borotra, de l'incendie du Reichstag, de la visite de Pierre Cot à Moscou, de la National Recovery Administration aux États-Unis et de Fulgencio Batista à Cuba.

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Notes et références
Les citations proviennent de l'édition 1966 au Livre de poche, N° 1163.

Autobiographie française
Journal intime
Livre paru en 1934
Ouvrage publié par Grasset
Œuvre littéraire se déroulant au XIXe siècle
Œuvre littéraire se déroulant au XXe siècle


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A bit of this and a bit of that ... with a reminder that Tuesday finds the Lubbock Independent School District holding its 28th annual String Fling at 7 p.m. at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Theatre.
Sixteen separate ensembles will perform, representing all of Lubbock's high schools and middle schools.
Each musician traditionally returns at the end for a massed-orchestra finale. Making it more special for these young musicians, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra conductor David Cho has agreed to conduct them as they play from Jacques Offenbach's 1858 "Orpheus in the Underworld."
LISD orchestra students are selling tickets for $3 in advance; tickets are $5 at the door. Call 766-1062 for more details.
My introduction to the Harlem Globetrotters came via a Saturday afternoon television show on ABC called "Wide World of Sports."
Combining athleticism, theater and comedy, the 'Trotters traveled across the world and usually played well enough to win.
But they came to be known for trick shots, dribbling exhibitions and comedy skits involving buckets of either water or confetti - not to mention team members showing ball-handling skills while in a "magic circle," to the tune of Brother Bones whistling "Sweet Georgia Brown."
Happily, I was able to see several great 'Trotters before their numbers were retired: Marques Haynes, No. 20; Meadowlark Lemon, No. 36; high-stepping Reece "Goose" Tatum, No. 50; and the amazing, bald dribbler Fred "Curly" Neal, No. 22.
New shots continue to be invented.
Female players arrived in 1985, with a few sharp-shooting women on this year's team, as well.
But the spirit of the Globetrotters has remained sweet.
At least, it felt that way when I took my grandson, Gage, to see these world-famous showmen at the United Spirit Arena several years ago. His smiles made the entire evening worthwhile.
I'm sure I was grinning right along with him.
If you have not yet enjoyed these entertainers alongside your children, consider clearing your schedule at 7 p.m. Friday.
That's when the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters return, this time at Lubbock Christian University's Rip Griffin Center, 5502 26th St.
� Bill Woodard saw them for the first time at the Forum in Los Angeles. He said, "My favorite Globetrotter is still Meadowlark Lemon and his famous hook shot."
� Writer Johnny Hughes recalled, "When I was a kid, the all-black Dunbar Panthers football team did routines like the Globetrotters and filled up the Chapman Field stands. Some of (the Globetrotters) did not go to high school, and were 30 or older. They could beat anybody. It was comedy."
� Broadcaster Rick Gilbert recalled, "My dad took my brother and me to see the Globetrotters in the early 1960s at the Sports Arena in Toledo (Ohio). Meadowlark Lemon is still my favorite. I had the pleasure of meeting Trotter all-time great Marcus Haynes several times. When coach Bob Knight was here (Texas Tech), Marcus would come to games and hang out in the media room. Super person."
� Teacher Ira White-Kelly said, "My mom would take us every year when I was growing up. I loved them."
� Jonathan Stilley said, "I saw them back in 1977 at the (Lubbock Municipal) Coliseum. I think I still have Curly Neal's and Meadowlark Lemon's autographs."
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Tickets can be purchased at the Lubbock Christian University athletic office, or by calling (866) 468-7621 or visiting harlemglobetrotters.com.
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� Give referees the authority to punish those who commit fouls by sending them to a penalty box.
� Legalize a 4-point shot for all baskets made from 35 feet or further.
� Force the Globetrotters to play 5 on 6: five Globetrotters vs. six opponents throughout the game.


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Nice Price Or No Dice
At $11,500, Will This Rare 1986 Isuzu Trooper II Have You Trooping To Buy It?
Rob Emslie
Photo: Craigslist
Nice Price Or No DiceIs this used car a good deal? You decide!
Two-door SUVs like today's Nice Price or No Dice Trooper used to be a hot ticket. That's not the case anymore, as four-doors dominate the market. That just makes this Isuzu all the more interesting. We'll have to see how interested you are in what that special appeal would cost.
Yesterday may have been "hump day" but the only downward slide we saw was in the voting in the 1991 Alfa Romeo 164 S that came under our scrutiny. The 164 may have been the last model the company sold in the U.S. before a long break, but at $8,500 few of you welcomed Wednesday's car to the party. That meant a 63 percent No Dice loss, a sad end to a seemingly sweet car.
Hey, a show of hands — who knows who Joe Isuzu was? Yeah, that's what I thought. The actor David Leisure first took on the role of the namesake car huckster for Isuzu's TV and print ads all the way back in 1986. By '88 he was dressing in drag as Joanne Isuzu to sell the company's line of stout SUVs, the Trooper II.
David Leisure is still around and still falls back into the Joe Isuzu character from time to time. Here in the U.S., however, Isuzu the car brand has long been put out to pasture.
Joanne Isuzu would most likely love this 1986 Isuzu Trooper II. It's a rare long-wheelbase two-door edition, and it comes with a style that shamelessly apes that of the original Range Rover. The Trooper one-ups the British off-roader, though, by eschewing a split tailgate with an asymmetric door design. This would become the Trooper's most iconic design element and would carry through to the second generation and on all the badge-engineered (Acura SLX, Opel Monterey, Holden Jackaroo, et al) editions. In a nice touch, the doors are oriented for left-hand drive markets.
The ad for this Gold Metallic-over-beige Trooper says it comes with just 113,000 miles on the clock. It also claims the truck to be rust-free and in excellent condition. It's a one-owner California truck and looks to be mostly original, with just a few notable exceptions.
The most obvious of those is the replacement of the rear bumper with a twin-tube aftermarket unit. The front bumper remains stock and is a bit wonky, giving the round-headlamp nose a bit of an off-kilter smile. Chrome covers adorn the rocker panels and look about as tacky as such things can.
Inside, however, things look impressively tidy. The cloth and vinyl upholstery appears clean and with little to no sign of wear. The boot area in the back looks like it's never seen any use at all. Big sliding windows in the back, paired with wing vents in the doors, give the Trooper lots of airflow. When the temps get to the point that closing those down makes sense, there's also functioning air-conditioning.
On the downside, the center console lid looks to have been drilled through to mount some sort of device — CD audio or compass, perhaps — and that will be a tough part to replace.
Power here is provided by Isuzu's 2.3-litre SOHC four. That's a 109 horsepower mill, and if you think that may prove inadequate for moving so big a box, just keep in mind that even with 4WD this Trooper tips the scales at just 3,400 pounds or so.
A five-speed stick lets you row your way through those ponies and is paired with a two-speed transfer case. The ad notes no mechanical issues at all on the truck, and the engine bay looks as clean as can be.
The title is just as clean as that engine and you get an equally problem-free Carfax with the Trooper's purchase. That purchase will set you back a cool $11,500. The seller claims that East Coasters seek out rust-free examples like this and threatens to put the truck on Bring a Trailer to reach that broader audience should no one jump on the Craigslist ad.
We'll need to help out here and vote on whether that $11,500 price feels like a fair deal for this classic truck. What do you think, could this Isuzu command that kind of cash? Or, does that price make this a less than super Trooper?
San Diego, CA Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
H/T to RevUnlimiter for the hookup!
Help me out with NPOND. Hit me up at rob@jalopnik.com and send me a fixed-price tip. Remember to include your Kinja handle.
Rob Emslie is a contributing writer for Jalopnik. He has too many cars, and not enough time to work on them all.
SaltyIrishman
Watching the early SUV market starting to turn batshit just like all the rest of everything in the world, I'm calling it NP on the condition I can get it down ~$1500 cheaper. I just sold my blown motor, very #3 condition FJ62 for $5,500 and it would have been worth about $12K with a good motor but bad clearcoat, a cracked dash and many imperfections. Of course, the thing started eating coolant just as I was about to put it up for sale after running like a top for 233K miles.
This thing is about perfect and would [and very well might] pull $15K or more on BringAButler or DeMuro's site. This truck is rare as hen's teeth and the market is not going down on clean, honest old SUVs.

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Staff Recommendations, Part 1: Best Gatlinburg Attractions During 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit Week!
Since the 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit host city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee is so close to the System Improvements' home office in Knoxville, Tennessee (it's just 50 miles away), our staff has plenty of experience visiting this fantastic mountain resort city.
Cades Cove is a valley full of wildlife and history nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Abandoned homesteads from early settlers who lived there until the formation of the national park still remain. Smoky Mountain wildlife roam free in Cades Cove including black bears, bobcats, red wolves, coyotes, foxes, skunks, deer and more.
My favorite thing about Gatlinburg is Ripley's Aquarium because I like the sharks exhibit.
I agree with Cathy. I've been to several aquariums around the U.S. and this one is my favorite by far. Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is also one of TripAdvisor's top picks for U.S. aquariums. The aquarium boasts a variety of live sharks and over 30 hands-on interactive displays.
My favorite thing about Gatlinburg is the food and candy because there are so many great restaurants and candy shops all within walking distance of the main drag! The variety and quality of candy and delicious steakhouses or legendary pancake houses allow for good eating at any time of the day!
I love hiking in the Smokies right outside Gatlinburg. There's nothing like climbing to the top of a peaceful mountain for an amazing view, then coming back to civilization for some comfort food at the Pancake Pantry. You've also got to check out the antique shops that line the streets. I've found so many interesting pieces of history there!
Here are a couple of the irresistable candy stores Garrett referred to: Ole Smoky Candy Kitchen (Yelp review) and Aunt Mahalia's Candies.
What about fresh fudge that Benna loves? Check out Kilwin's.
Here are two great Gatlinburg steakhouses: The Peddler Steakhouse and Park Grill Restaurant.
As well as a couple of popular pancake houses: Log Cabin Pancake House and The Pancake Pantry (recommended by Megan).
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The Village Shops of Gatlinburg: You'll find The Day Hiker plus 26 unique boutiques, clothiers, eateries & galleries in a quaint Old World setting in The Village Shops.
And as Megan mentioned, there are many interesting antique shops to browse through in this area, including Morton's Antiques.
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How America's 'creative class' learned to love conformity
In 2000, columnist David Brooks wrote Bobos in Paradise, hailing the dawn of a new phase in America's longstanding story of meritocracy. The "bobos" were a peculiar breed — part bohemian, part bourgeoisie — blurring class divides in a way that would introduce a new form of enlightened, activist citizenship in a country with an otherwise ambivalent middle class. Continue Reading...
Welcoming the stranger: The dignity and promise of Afghan refugees
The Taliban has rapidly retaken Afghanistan, just weeks before the final withdrawal of U.S. troops. With the country bracing for another wave of oppression, thousands of Afghans have fled to the airport in Kabul, hoping to escape the return of sectarian violence and tyrannical rule. Continue Reading...
In Afghanistan, our war with truth concludes
The situation in Afghanistan deteriorated even further over the weekend, as the Taliban, driven from power twenty years ago, overtook the capital city of Kabul. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has now fled to Uzbekistan, claiming he wishes to avoid more bloodshed. Continue Reading...
In celebrating American liberty, let's not forget the role of religion
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress officially endorsed the Declaration of Independence. Parades, public readings, and bonfires ensued. These spontaneous celebrations developed into the Independence Day traditions that Americans still enjoy today. Continue Reading...
Tyranny, by any other name
Many of us have noticed a trend toward the political misuse of words, both in legacy media and on social media. This isn't a modern trend. In the 6th century B.C., Continue Reading...
The 'man of public spirit': Politics as art, not science
Politicians have given us many occasions to be critical of their actions. Politics, like all sausage making, is rarely palatable. Nevertheless, Aristotle observed that man is by nature a political animal, drawn into association with others in order to satisfy inherently social needs. Continue Reading...
Sen. Tim Scott's message of redemption resonates
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden offered a renewed vision of America, claiming a revitalizing economy, a growing distribution of vaccinations, and efforts to end injustice against race and gender identity. Continue Reading...
Sen. Raphael Warnock on Easter: Socialism is 'more transcendent' than Jesus' resurrection
The most insightful critics of Marxism said that socialism's greatest failure comes not from economics but anthropology and theology. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., put that reality on display on Easter Sunday, when he tweeted that collective social action "is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ." Continue Reading...
Emanuel Cleaver: People get 'saved' through government spending (video)
The Bible says that salvation cometh by hearing, but some believe salvation cometh by earmarks. One congressman has compared government spending with eternal salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ. Earmarks are dedicated spending amendments that congressmen often attached to larger, "must-pass" legislation. Continue Reading...
What to expect in Joe Biden's first 100 days
Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, a president's first 100 days have served as a benchmark for his presidency. Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden has already made history by signing an unprecedented number of executive orders on his first day and pledging a flurry of legislation which will greatly expand the size, scope, and cost of government while reversing protections for people of faith and the unborn. Continue Reading...
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Art on the BeltLine
Some of the most exciting public art opportunities in the Atlanta area are currently on the Atlanta BeltLine, the redevelopment project that encircles portions of intown Atlanta on the site of long-abandoned rail lines. The BeltLine website (beltline.org) describes the project as, ". . . rails, trails, greenspace, and transit."
One of the metro area arts community's major accomplishments in recent years has been to assure that art is also part of the equation. If you've ever wondered how public art is selected, IIDA (International Interior Design Association)'s Georgia chapter worked through the process over a matter of years and succeeded in commissioning and following to impressive completion a new art landmark for the BeltLine.
The Concept:
Early in the development of the massive BeltLine project, IIDA seized the concept and made an opportunity to plan for a contribution to this facet of what has become a major city greenspace. Vision in the early days was based entirely on faith, but the organization's annual Trash to Treasure event raised the funds over the years to commission a sculpture.
The process of public art is always interesting (and often different from previous projects). Michele Lyden (Lyden Design Studio) was president of IIDA-Georgia when the process began, and invited me to serve as art advisor for the process. Guided by Fred Yalouris, design director for the BeltLine, and Elan Buchen, project coordinator, a call for proposals was issued nationally. The specifications for a sculpture were that the piece should reference the history of Atlanta and its railroads, and must be constructed from railroad artifacts retrieved from the 22 miles of BeltLine corridor—and, must conform to the budget! Proposals were received, a selection panel was appointed—with Michele and myself representing IIDA—and proposals were reviewed and evaluated on several levels. These included aesthetic appeal, historic interpretation, and feasibility. Atlanta sculptor Phil Proctor's proposal, referencing the Corinthian columns from Atlanta's classic Union Station demolished in 1972, was selected from more than 20 applications.
Proctor's massive and graceful column (23' in height), completely accurate in its classical details and composed entirely of rusted rails, anchors, plates, switches, and other long-buried relics, was dedicated last week (November 8, 2013). IIDA's vision has made possible a permanent and important landmark along the Eastside Trail, located just east of the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark. It has become an instant place maker on the trail, and its important reference to the historic built environment of the city is especially appropriate for IIDA's work with the contemporary built environment.
Success:
Congratulations to IIDA-Georgia, Phil Proctor, and the Atlanta BeltLine for this important contribution to the visual environment of the metro area!
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http://www.iidageorgia.org/
http://www.iidageorgia.org/index.php?route=index/gallery
http://philproctor.com/www.philproctor.com/HOME.html
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Particolored Books
Author: Liza
writing is like brushing your teeth
or: get ready for an overly-explained metaphor that you'll have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the post to read.
My new laptop has been up and running again for just over a week now, and in that time I have written nearly 28,000 words — today I'm hoping to cap it off at a neat 35,000. On Goodreads the other week I mentioned that using the Writeometer app is a good way of making writing fun, because the neat little bar graph and line graph show my progress (and the bright green graphics certainly make it nice, and the little inspirational writing quotes on the main app page are super cute).
But what it also does is it keeps me honest in not only how much I write, but how long it takes me to do it. What it comes down to — and I can't claim that it makes sense, all I know is that that's how it works — is that if I don't time myself to write as much as I possibly can within 20 minutes, and do so multiple times a day, then I waffle around a bit and at most I'll write 5,000 words.
The week before my old laptop died, I clocked almost 12,000 words, none of those using timed sessions.
Between yesterday and the day before, I clocked nearly twice that amount. By timing myself, 20 minutes at a time, for nine hours yesterday and six hours the day before.
Now, that wasn't all in one go each day. I had to get coffee and eat food and take out the recycling and water the plants and get the mail and sleep. And what I found is that I naturally fell into a rhythm of 4 sessions in a row, then getting up and stretching my legs and running errands as needed, then getting back in the saddle.
And waking up this morning, I knew very well that doing marathons like that isn't sustainable: because my wrist hurt, and because my eyes felt like they'd been dried with a blow torch. I normally spend my days staring at a computer screen, but not quite in such a concentrated manner, and dang if it doesn't make a physical difference.
So: writing is like brushing your teeth. If you're anything like I was as a teenager (and college student), and you forget to brush for days at a time until finally about a week later you realize your teeth are absolutely covered in gross slimy fur, then when you finally do brush your teeth (taking five minutes to excavate and floss and all the rest) your teeth feel so shiny and slick and clean that you wonder why you don't do this every day.
I do brush my teeth regularly these days. And (knock on wood) I haven't gotten a cavity yet. But the procrastination to the point of discomfort, and then the mad rush to do a week's worth of time in a matter of hours, is the exact same whether you're brushing your teeth or whether you're writing.
And frankly, it's healthier to write 3,000 words a day for eight days than it is to write 24,000 words in the space of 48 hours.
The long and the short of it is that by the end of the day today, the rough draft of my first romance novella will be going up for edits — and by the end of next week (given a more reasonable pace rather than a marathon), so will the fourth Iron Gentry novel.
Author LizaPosted on March 22, 2019 Categories book updates, writingTags iron gentry, life update, romances, writing process
Les Mis BBC, a review
or: the one where I'm tempted to use capslock, and must manfully refrain, otherwise it would be all capslock.
I wrote a post almost a year ago mentioning the BBC adaptation of Les Mis, and made a lot of placating noises about how adaptations are never exactly like the book, and how in some cases I actually prefer adaptations that are wildly different from their origins. And in some cases, yes, that is still true. But with Les Mis BBC …
Oh boy, how do I put this.
Wicked the musical has some of the character tropes from the book, and has the same basic plot beats, but is completely different from the book in terms of tone and outlook. The book is nihilistic and pessimistic; it speaks of terrorism as the only way to combat a totalitarian regime, it speaks of death as inevitable, none of the characters (and I do mean none of them) are sympathetic, and there is so much weird R-rated stuff going on that it's frankly amazing my parents let me read it in middle school.
Wicked the musical is about none of that. Wicked the musical is about finding meaning in life even when it's easier not to, and about friendship and love saving people even at the eleventh hour; its characters are all sympathetic, except for the main antagonist, and nobody dies. And yeah, there's a suggestive scene, but it's nowhere near as raunchy as something from Heathers or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Frankly, it barely hits the PG mark.
Transforming a pessimistic book into an optimistic show, that's something I'm fine with. More than fine. Enthusiastic about, even.
But what Andrew Davies did with Les Mis was the opposite.
Continue reading "Les Mis BBC, a review"
Author LizaPosted on March 4, 2019 March 4, 2019 Categories moviesTags les misérables
update roundup
or: the Case of the Over-Caffeinated Laptop.
First off, an extremely belated happy 2019! LTUE was two weeks ago now, and the con crud has run its due course. I have several sparkly new ideas to either turn into new projects or add to existing projects, and a whole bunch of new reading material. Shoutout to Natalie Whipple, whose book The Vengeance Code is first up on my to-reads, and who had some great insights in the "Pantsing: Making the Most of Draft 0" panel.
In terms of actual writing, the fourth Iron Gentry book is still on Draft 0. For the last few months – well, basically, up until a week ago – it had been extremely slow going. Then all of a sudden, something in my brain went click and I was averaging nearly 1700 words a day (the same as a NaNo daily word count). Everything coming up roses, all was well, one of those days I clocked over 5000 words –
– Then yesterday the great coffee spill of 2019 occurred.
Reader, I wept. I bawled like a little baby. That laptop has everything on it, not just my writing, and there was only one viable USB port left on it – and the last time I backed it up was back in September.
If nothing else, this has hammered in the lesson that I really, really ought to do weekly hard drive backups.
According to the various tech support sites, for liquid in the keyboard the device is supposed to air out for 96 hours before you should even try to revive it. So for the next three days, it's mobile devices only. Thank God for tablets, right? I would hate to be typing this up on my smartphone.
If everything goes well, I should be back in business Monday evening. At which point it's full steam ahead, and aiming (ideally) for a mid-April release.
I've decided, in the interim, to work on some projects that I can't sell for money (aka fanfiction). That way I can try to keep the high productivity going and maybe even turn it into a habit. It makes sense to me to have links to all of my writing in the same place, too, not just some of it – so as I update fanfic, I'm going to post links to them on here as well.
A Harry Potter/Les Misérables crossover fanfic is a very different subgenre of fantasy than Iron Gentry, considering the time period if nothing else. And I find that my writing style changes a little between original stuff and fanworks. (For one thing, I would never dream of selling something written in the present tense. But that might just be me.) But it's really fun as a hobby, honestly; and fanfic lets me do crazy whackdoodle crossovers that I can't use to turn a profit, too. And since original flash fic isn't working out for me as well as I'd hoped, fanfic seems like the best way for me to get free writing samples out there.
Wish me luck on my laptop – and see you soon!
Author LizaPosted on March 1, 2019 Categories book updatesTags fanfiction, iron gentry, life update, ltue
The Tree's Gossip
"Perhaps it's time to teach you summoning."
This was completely out of nowhere, in the middle of lunch, a thin vegetable soup that Yarrow had spent almost the entire morning poking at. Yarrow nearly dropped her spoon; as it was, she could not contain herself from gaping at her teacher like an idiot.
"Summoning? As in, spirits? D-demons?"
" 'Demon' is a very broad term," the old woman said dryly. "And most of them look on it as an insult, so maybe pick another word to call 'em by."
"Alright. But — well — summoning!" Yarrow tried to collect her thoughts. The first truly witchy thing since she'd come up the mountain! "What — can I ask what brought this on?"
Nettle gave a gusty sigh. "Anthracite's gone and stuck his beak in fey business. It's only a matter of time until Her Royal Nibs decides to interfere aboveground. And that means getting backup from other places. You might as well learn it now, before you have to."
It was gibberish, all of it, as far as Yarrow was concerned. But she wasn't about to look a gift horse in the eye, or however the saying went.
Especially since it looked like some of her questions might finally be answered.
Continue reading "The Tree's Gossip"
Author LizaPosted on November 29, 2018 Categories flash fictionTags anthracite and the witch
Yarrow first met Anthracite as a mistake.
She was still getting used to answering to the name "Yarrow," which was the first of her problems, because any witch worth her salt never answered to the name she was born with. Names were powerful things, more powerful than nail clippings or strands of hair. Only blood came close. If one of the long-leggedie-beasties of the forest got ahold of your real name, you could say goodbye to sense and wit and freedom.
Anthracite wasn't just a long-leggedie-beastie, though, and more's the pity: he was the crow-headed ferryman of the dead.
The second of Yarrow's problems was connected to her first, and it was this — that she had only been a witch for three weeks. Where other young people in the village her age were taking on apprenticeships as chandlers, carpenters, spinsters, and blacksmiths, Yarrow had taken up an apprenticeship with the forest witch. She was an old woman, her hair pure gray and her face as wrinkled as a walnut, her clever fingers gnarled and spindly-long; and when she had knocked on the door and settled by the fire, Yarrow's parents had taken the news … reasonably well, all things considered.
"Reasonably well" included such behaviors as turning pale (her mother), turning bright red (her father), making angry comments about how the witch ought to get out of the house before her hide got tanned (her mother), and pleas for the witch to reconsider (her father).
The witch Nettle had been undeterred. And Yarrow, after the initial shock of having someone tell her that she had the knack for magic, had been intrigued. It was the curiosity in her: once you got Yarrow by the curiosity, then she had you, and she'd not let go for love nor money 'til she found the answers to her questions.
(That was her third problem. But we'll get to that shortly.)
Continue reading "The Apprentice"
Author LizaPosted on September 29, 2018 Categories flash fictionTags anthracite and the witch
the name's the thing
Well, so I've talked about linguistics, now I guess it's time to talk about names. Or rather, how names matter. This time, we'll be scrutinizing Tolkien's Silmarillion.
When I was in middle school I bragged about reading the dictionary for fun, I think mostly to establish my nerd cred. A sham, naturally. I think I was still mainlining Eragon, Redwall, Artemis Fowl, and Harry Potter instead of actually studying anything. (Probably reading the books under my desk, too. Actually I think I did get in trouble for that in my ninth grade biology class. Whoops.) But the dictionary my parents have – not the huge, unabridged, old one with pages so yellowed they're orange, but the slightly new-ish one with the gray cover – has a section in the back with male and female names, alphabetized, and their name meanings, and that I did read.
Buddy, that name section of the dictionary was like heroin for my little developing writer brain. I went on a streak, in middle school, where I spent nearly every day after school feverishly typing at my dad's old Dell desktop, and I crammed it full of half-finished drafts with heroes called Danae and Romulus and all sorts of things. I've posted a few of those half-finished ideas before – I don't have any of the files saved, un/happily, but some of them stuck in my brain quite vividly. Rest in peace, Tess and James, my Pirates of the Caribbean rip-off. I'll never forget how I had one of you climb up to the crow's nest of the ship and then jump off and land on the main deck, upright, without breaking a single bone in your body. Truly it was a miracle of illogic.
Anyway! Even if you don't painstakingly curate the names of your characters the way twelve-year-old me did, the names of characters matter. A Jim and a James and a Jamie might have the same base name, but James is more formal, and Jamie is more gender neutral, and Jim is solidly masculine, possibly even lumberjack-like.
And if a character goes by James, but his mom keeps calling him Jamie even after he's repeatedly asked her not to, that right there matters – especially if the author treats that as a symptom of a bigger plot point. A coming-of-age story is the first thing that comes to my mind with that example. But there are any number of other possibilities you could explore.
And when a character changes their name … or someone else gives them a new name … then it gets even more interesting.
Continue reading "the name's the thing"
Author LizaPosted on May 10, 2018 May 11, 2018 Categories reading, writingTags lord of the rings, the silmarillion
I thou thee!
Time to talk about linguistics as it pertains to literature — specifically Les Mis, and even more specifically Valjean and Javert. This is going to get pedantic and also very passionate, so buckle up, y'all, it's gonna be a fun ride.
Several languages — French, Dutch, German, Russian, just to name a few — use two forms of address when speaking to another person (2nd person). French has a handy flowchart here which explains the difference pretty succinctly.
Basically, if a stranger bumps into you on the street, and you don't want to get into a fistfight, you call them "vous." But if you do want to get into a fistfight, you call them "tu."
The nouns and verbs in French to describe this phenomenon, of addressing people in/formally, are tutoyer/tutoiement and vouvoyer/vouvoiement. The same way that gender is hammered into every single part of speech in French (even the chair has a gender, which, that doesn't make sense to me but you do you, chair), so is in/formality. It's not something they really emphasize in written literature because to them it's just as natural as swimming is to a fish. For native English speakers, though, it's a struggle to convey that cultural and linguistic difference without a couple paragraphs' worth of explanation.
English used to have an in/formal dichotomy in the 2nd person address. "You" used to be the way a person addressed their teacher or king or possibly their parents, and "thou" was the way they addressed their friends, their children, and their underlings.
The interesting bit about English in/formality is that nowadays the "thee" form is only actively consistently used in places like Rite One of a Christian Protestant church service. We call God "thee" — we address Him informally.
(Yeah, there's a theological reason for that, but I am not anywhere near qualified to answer that question.)
But in modern media depicting ye olde days, the "thee" form is used pretty haphazardly, addressing any old person any which way, when back in the 1600s that really wasn't the case. If a princeling talked to some commoner on the street, the prince used "thee" on the commoner; if the commoner used "thee" back at the prince, he would probably have been beaten for the impertinence. There's a reason all the best Shakespearean insults start with a "thou" — it's purposefully conveying, through the dang pronoun even before you get to the good part of the insult, that the speaker is the hearer's superior in every possible way.
With that in mind …
… Javert calls Valjean "tu" throughout the entire book — when he knows it's Valjean he's addressing.
Continue reading "I thou thee!"
Author LizaPosted on April 27, 2018 Categories readingTags les misérables, linguistics
oh, the horror
Full disclaimer: I'm not, nor have I ever much been in my life, a horror fan. Coraline and Over the Garden Wall is about as spooky as I get, and that's mild-kiddie-Halloween level. Just like the occasional sprinkling of paprika is about as spicy as I get: it's not spicy in any way that actually counts.
Gore? Humungously not my thing. Jump scares? Nope. Psychological shenanigans? If it's got cannibals/incest/people turning into mindless monsters and losing all their humanity? Yeah, that's a no.
Hey, I watch Game of Thrones for the politics, not … that other stuff. And I can always plug my ears and take off my glasses when the going gets grody. But I won't read Poe's "The Black Cat" more than once, and there's an episode of Doctor Who that I will not watch because of the whole humans-losing-humanity-unwillingly thing. Yeah, the water on Mars one. That one. Awful. Does it technically count as horror? Maybe not to veterans of the horror genre, but it gives mid-twenties me the same willies that a cartoon brain-eating alien gave seven-year-old me.
Actually, that brain-eating alien still gives me the willies.
So take what I say with a big old honking grain of salt.
On the other hand, I freakin' love the Resurgam trilogy by Joan Frances Turner, which is from the point of view of a zombie and absolutely involves the whole cannibalism thing, and goes into meticulous and nearly poetic detail about the process of corpse decay. It even has the personification of death as this eldritch non-being that is everywhere and everything, and – spoiler alert – is about to swallow the entire planet into nothingness.
But despite the whole zombies-and-existential-dread thing, I don't think that Dust, Frail, and Grave count as horror books. Because even with the apocalyptic setting, there's always a shred of hope, and – spoiler alert – the characters we care most about make it out unscathed. Or, if not unscathed, at least scathed in a way they can accept.
In the horror panel at LTUE, they talked about the horror genre as a loss of control, as something horrible and irrevocable happening, as fear being present and inescapable throughout the story.
In a horror story, even victory counts as a failure. It is impossible to win.
… Huh. I guess that one Doctor Who episode does count as horror after all.
But all of that only means that the dressing of the story, the setting and the species and the time period, are very nice and indeed important things to pay attention to — and must be integrated with the plot — but they do not drive the plot. The Resurgam trilogy takes place in a world where mind-numbing hunger razed society to shreds, but it is never hopeless, and the characters' victories matter. Zombies and all, they cannot be horror books.
Meanwhile, a story with no supernatural trappings whatsoever can be the worst living hell a body can imagine. Have you looked at the battered women statistics recently?
Horror lives wherever it can. It isn't where and when you are that counts — it's what you do.
Author LizaPosted on April 20, 2018 Categories reading, writingTags genre fiction, resurgam trilogy
rainy day movies
Today was the kind of rainy Monday that makes you wish you were still in bed. The kind of day that makes you want to camp out on the couch with a mug of hot-beverage-of-choice (in my case, coffee) and watch a movie.
My rainy day movie tends to be Coraline. Yep, the stop-motion animated film with the creepy button eyes. Somehow the combination of stop-motion and the lullaby soundtrack music and all the loving care put into production — did you know that all of the dolls' clothing was handmade, and Coraline's tiny sweater was hand-knitted with miniature needles? — just makes for a lovely comfort movie. I can probably recite 90% of the dialogue from memory, I've seen it so many times. The animation is phenomenal, the script is tightly written, the music is alternately soothing and just the right amount of discordant. Laika puts care into all of their productions, and it shows.
Keith David as the voice of the cat doesn't exactly hurt, either.
I know it's a creepy kind of movie, with a few images (like the Other Father's distorted face as he seems to become more candle wax than person) being a bit disturbing. If I had seen it as a kid, it probably would have given me nightmares. Disney's The Black Caudron certainly did, and I didn't see that one until I was ten. But as a teenager when I first read Coraline the book and delved into Neil Gaiman's oeuvre, I found a little more horror in stories like "The Last Temptation," which was also sort of designed with young readers in mind, and which I still enjoyed … unlike "24 Hours" in Preludes and Nocturnes, which was very much not for youth consumption, and if I never read it again it will still be too soon.
This begs a question about what exactly constitutes horror, and how different people see it as different things. But that's probably a question for another post.
The book Coraline is stark and lonely and it's got its fair share of existential dread along with the eldritch monster to be beaten. The movie Coraline still has all its teeth — it hasn't been tamed or tamped down in any way — but it's less about the existential dread and more about the relationships people build with each other. It makes for a brighter, warmer story — a comfort story — a well-used story, at least in my case. I can't think of a single rainy morning or afternoon where I haven't thought, "hum, I want to put on Coraline in a few minutes." And maybe there's another movie I'd rather watch instead, but my default for rainy days will always be Coraline.
What's your rainy day default?
Author LizaPosted on April 16, 2018 Categories moviesTags coraline
Superstar!
It's Easter Monday – happy Easter, by the way – which means it's time to go over NBC's live broadcast of their version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ, Superstar!
I've had opinions about this musical for two years longer than I've had opinions about Les Mis, so buckle up.
Norm Lewis as Caiaphas was perfect of course. The Annas was pretty good too. Backstory: the reason I ended up actually wanting to see this particular version of JCS was because of Norm Lewis as Caiaphas. Norm played Javert in the 25th Anniversary Concert for Les Mis, and also on Broadway; the guy is fantastic. So whatever else went on with JCS Live, I knew that the Caiaphas would be perfect. And I was right; and Annas and the other Pharisees were excellent too. "This Jesus Must Die" is the best number in the whole production.
Alice Cooper was … eh, he was alright as King Herod. Fumbled a line, didn't have as much flair as I expected actually. I mean, come on. It's Alice Cooper. I expected a bit more vocal diva. He wasn't horrible, he wasn't bad, he was just kinda alright. And that in and of itself isn't a bad thing – not every cast member can be a powerhouse – but if the guy's one of the three people you're putting on the marquis to sell the show, you kind of expect him to be a powerhouse. Sorry, buddy. I like your cover of "This is Halloween," though.
Sara Bareilles was great, as expected. She made a really wistful Mary Magdalene, balanced the sweetness and the belting very well, which of course is her calling card. And man, she delivered. The few trills and embellishments she made didn't detract from her songs. They reminded us that, oh yes, this is Sara doing the singing. Nice. Solid performance, 10/10 good Mary Magdalene.
Erik Grönwall as Simon the Zealot was .. really good. Really, really good. Strong belt, lots of passion, hit a nice high note at the end, sustained his notes well. So … why wasn't this guy cast as Judas instead? I'm just asking. This guy has potential. He was a strong member of the ensemble, but he could have been a real powerhouse if he'd been given the opportunity.
Jason Tam as Simon Peter was also a nice solid member of the ensemble, again, lots of passion. His final denial (in a song titled "Peter's Denial", who'd'a thought it) was a desperate frightened scream, and man, it worked. I wanna see more of these guys.
Ben Daniels as Pontius Pilate was pretty decent. He's no David Burt, but I'm pretty sure only Anthony Warlow would be able to match David Burt for sheer British snarly menace. Ben Daniels is also a tenor, as far as I can tell, and the Pilate role was definitely written for a baritone. But he put his all into it, and the result is a Pilate who genuinely wants to be good but ends up doing evil anyway.
John Legend was .. wait for it … legendary.
The actor for Jesus I'm most familiar with is Steve Balsamo of the original cast album. That dude had a pair of pipes – he hit the high notes as hard as possible, and held them longer than is normally possible for human lungs. He also didn't embellish the notes at all, just sang them straight, no trills and no frills. John Legend hits it from the other direction – he keeps to the lower register for the most part, and does trills almost every line, and he holds his notes a reasonable amount of time. But here's the thing, though: Trills and frills and dipsy doodles can be annoying if that's all you do, and you don't put any power behind your notes; but John Legend puts power into everything he does, so they weren't annoying at all. His "Gethsemane" is a very different kettle of fish from Steve Balsamo's, but it's just as good, because they both put all of their passion into it.
Meanwhile, Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas was … sweet.
Which is an extremely weird adjective to associate with Judas Iscariot, the ultimate traitor.
He went for the Zubin Varla riffs, the same ones from the original cast recording, which … I don't know, it's a bit odd considering how far John Legend deviated from Steve Balsamo's performance in the original cast. This Judas is very pop-y, if that makes any sense. I mean, JCS is a rock opera, but he doesn't belt the way you'd expect in a rock opera. In fact he doesn't belt at all. For contrast just look at Drew Sarich as Judas in Amstetten 2005, who super leaned into the rock aspect and belted every line he could. – and actually, Brandon Victor Dixon doesn't even lean into the rock aspect as much as Zubin Varla did either. On the one hand, the way he did "Damned for All Time/Blood Money" does a damn good job of making Judas reluctant to betray Jesus, and there's a solid ten seconds' silent hesitation before he actually does so. And for "Judas' Death" he's impressively torn up about it. But on the other hand …
… Where's the anger? There's no anger! And not even a hint of spite! You're telling me that Judas Iscariot, ultimate traitor, isn't even a little bit angry at the man he betrays?
The point of JCS is to portray both sides of the betrayal, and to explain that Judas had reasons for what he did. The lyrics do indicate a certain level of not only frustration but anger and vindictiveness that Judas feels towards Jesus. Brandon Victor Dixon is a decent vocalist, but the way that he delivered the lines didn't exactly say "anger" to me. There's despair and love and anguish in there, sure, but those are nuances that I look for to balance out the anger. It's like putting all the garlic and onion and celery you could ever want into a chicken soup, but leaving out the dang chicken.
And this is exhibited the best in "The Last Supper." John Legend is pouring all his passion into his lines, but with a sad-sweet-despairing Judas, what's usually almost a fight scene is instead … really vocally unbalanced. "To think I admired you – well, now I despise you!" are words that should be hurled like arrows, like daggers, like a freaking fireball. Instead they're almost whispered. "The Last Supper" is the opening number in Act Two, and it should start off with a punch! And with John Legend as Jesus, it does! But then Brandon Victor Dixon opens his mouth and … it kind of falls apart. I'm sorry, buddy, I really am. I'm sure you'd make a wonderful Peter. But I'd pick somebody else as Judas.
And honestly – if you're gonna pick a guy from Hamilton to play Judas, why not pick Leslie Odom Jr? Or do you not think he'd work as well in the glittery shirts?
Or Erik Grönwall would look pretty good in the glittery shirts too. Just saying.
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La cosmología física es la rama de la astrofísica que estudia la estructura a gran escala y la dinámica del universo. En particular, trata de responder las preguntas acerca del origen, la evolución y el destino del universo.

La cosmología física, tal y como se comprende actualmente, comienza en el siglo XX con el desarrollo de la teoría general de la relatividad de Albert Einstein y la mejora en las observaciones astronómicas de objetos extremadamente distantes. Estos avances hicieron posible pasar de la especulación a la búsqueda científica de los orígenes del universo y permitió a los científicos establecer la teoría del Big Bang que se ha convertido en el modelo estándar mayoritariamente aceptado por los cosmólogos debido al amplio rango de fenómenos que abarca y a las evidencias observacionales que lo apoyan, aunque todavía existe una minoría de investigadores que presenten otros puntos de vista basados en alguno de los modelos cosmológicos alternativos.

La cosmología física trata de entender las grandes estructuras del universo en el presente  como las galaxias, agrupaciones galácticas y supercúmulos, utilizar los objetos más distantes y energéticos (cuásares, supernovas y brotes de rayos gammas) para entender la evolución del universo y estudiar los fenómenos ocurridos en el universo primigenio cerca de la singularidad inicial (inflación cósmica, nucleosíntesis primordial y radiación de fondo de microondas).

Historia de la física cosmológica

La cosmología física se desarrolló como ciencia durante la primera mitad del siglo XX como consecuencia de los acontecimientos detallados a continuación:
 1915-16. Albert Einstein formula la Teoría General de la Relatividad que será la teoría marco de los modelos matemáticos del universo. Al mismo tiempo formula el primer modelo matemático del universo conocido como Universo Estático donde introduce la famosa constante cosmológica y la hipótesis conocida como Principio Cosmológico que establece que universo es homogéneo e isótropo a gran escala, lo que significa que tiene la misma apariencia general observado desde cualquier lugar.
 1916-1917. El astrónomo Willem de Sitter formula un modelo estático de universo vacío de materia con la constante cosmológica donde los objetos astronómicos alejados tenían que presentar corrimientos al rojo en sus líneas espectrales.
 1920-21. Tiene lugar el Gran Debate entre los astrónomos Heber Curtis y Harlow Shapley que estableció la naturaleza extragaláctica de las nebulosas espirales cuando se pensaba que la Vía Láctea constituía todo el universo.
 1922-24. El físico ruso Alexander Friedmann publica la primera solución matemática a las ecuaciones de Einstein de la Relatividad General que representan a un universo en expansión. En un artículo de 1922 publica la solución para un universo finito y en 1924 la de un universo infinito.
 1929. Edwin Hubble establece una relación lineal entre la distancia y el corrimiento al rojo de las nebulosas espirales que ya había sido observado por el astrónomo Vesto Slipher en 1909. Esta relación se conocerá como Ley de Hubble.
 1930. El sacerdote y astrónomo belga Georges Édouard Lemaître esboza su hipótesis del átomo primitivo donde sugería que el universo había nacido de un solo cuanto de energía.
 1931.Milton Humason, colaborador de Hubble, dio la interpretación de los corrimientos al rojo como efecto Doppler debido a la velocidad de alejamiento de las nebulosas espirales.
 1933. El astrónomo suizo Fritz Zwicky publicó un estudio de la distribución de las galaxias sugiriendo que las galaxias estaban permanente ligadas por su mutua atracción gravitacional. Zwicky señaló sin embargo que no bastaba la cantidad de masa realmente observada en la forma de las galaxias para dar cuenta de la intensidad requerida del campo gravitatorio. Se introducía así el problema de la materia oscura
 1948. Herman Bondi, Thomas Gold y Fred Hoyle proponen el Modelo de Estado Estacionario donde el universo no solo tiene las misma apariencia a gran escala visto desde cualquier lugar, sino que la tiene vista en cualquier época.
 1948. George Gamow y Ralph A. Alpher publican un artículo donde estudian las síntesis de los elementos químicos ligeros en el reactor nuclear que fue el universo primitivo, conocida como nucleosíntesis primordial. En el mismo año, el mismo Alpher y Robert Herman mejoran los cálculos y hacen la primera predicción de la existencia de la Radiación de fondo de microondas.
 1965. Arno Penzias y Bob Wilson de los laboratorios Bell Telephone descubren la señal de radio que fue rápidamente interpretada por el grupo de teóricos de Princeton liderados por Robert Dicke como la Radiación de fondo de microondas. Esta observación descartó Modelo de Estado Estacionario y afianzó el modelo del Big Bang
 1981. Alan Guth propone el escenario de universo con una tasa tremenda de expansión en sus primeros instantes conocido como inflación cósmica.
 1990. Los resultados preliminares del satélite COBE muestra que el espectro de la Radiación de fondo de microondas es el de un cuerpo negro a 2,7 kelvin con una precisión de una parte en cien mil.
 1998. Un grupo de astrónomos liderado por Adam Riess y Saul Perlmutter descubren la Aceleración de la expansión del universo mediante el estudio de supernovas de tipo Ia, lo que constituye la primera evidencia observacional de la existencia de una constante cosmológica o de un campo escalar más general conocido como energía oscura.
 2003. La sonda WMAP --sucesora de COBE-- obtiene un espectro de la Radiación de fondo de microondas más preciso, que confirma las observaciones que se habían realizado hasta la fecha por numerosos experimentos que favorecen con gran precisión un universo de materia oscura fría dominado por una constante cosmológica y con una edad de 13700 millones de años, con una precisión de 200 millones de años arriba o abajo.
 2013. La misión Planck publicó los resultados preliminares más precisos hasta la fecha, con una estimación de un 68,3% de energía oscura, un 26,8% de materia oscura y un 4,9% de materia ordinaria, y una edad del universo de unos 13810 millones de años, con una precisión de 50 millones de años arriba o abajo.
 2018. La misión Planck publica sus resultados finales y definitivos, que en combinación con las medidas de la Oscilaciones Acústicas de Bariones, dan como resultados que la energía oscura tiene un ratio de densidad , la materia (oscura más bariónica) un ratio de , la constante de Hubble  y que la edad del universo es de  millones de años.

Áreas de estudio
Debajo se describen algunas de las áreas más activas de investigación en cosmología, en orden cronológico. Estas no incluyen todo sobre la cosmología del Big Bang, que se presenta en la cronología del Big Bang

Nucleosíntesis del Big Bang

La Nucleosíntesis del Big Bang es la teoría de la formación de los elementos en el Universo primigenio. Acaba cuando el Universo tiene tres minutos de edad y su temperatura cae lo suficiente como para que cese la fusión nuclear.  Este tiempo en el que ocurrió la nucleosíntesis del Big Bang fue tan corto, que solo se produjeron los elementos más ligeros, a diferencia de la nucleosíntesis estelar. Empezando desde los iones de hidrógeno (protones), se produjo principalmente deuterio, helio y litio. Los otros elementos se produjeron en solo pequeñas cantidades. Mientras que la teoría básica de la nucleosíntesis ha sido aceptada durante décadas (fue desarrollada por George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher y Robert Herman). es una prueba física extremadamente delicada del Big Bang en la actualidad, ya que la teoría de la nucleosíntesis conecta la abundancia de los elementos ligeros primordiales con las características del universo primigenio. Específicamente, se puede utilizar para comprobar el principio de equivalencia, la materia oscura y la física del neutrino. Algunos cosmólogos han propuesto que la nucleosíntesis del Big Bang sugiere la existencia de cuatro especies "estériles" de neutrino.

Radiación de fondo de microondas

El fondo cósmico de microondas es la radiación sobrante del desacople, cuando los átomos se formaron por primera vez, y la radiación producida en el Big Bang parada por la difusión de Thomson de iones cargados. La radiación observada por primera vez en 1965 por Arno Penzias y Robert Woodrow Wilson, tenía un espectro de cuerpo negro térmico perfecto. Tiene una temperatura de 2.7 kelvins y es anisótropo en una parte de 105. La Teoría perturbacional cosmológica, que describe la evolución de ligeras inhomogeneidades en el universo primigenio, ha permitido a los cosmólogos calcular de manera precisa la densidad espectral angular de la radiación y ha sido medida por los recientes satélites de experimentación (COBE y WMAP) y muchos asuntos y experimentos basados en globos (como el DASI, el CBI y el Experimento BOOMERanG). Uno de los objetivos de estos esfuerzos es medir los parámetros del Modelo Lambda-CDM con un incremento de precisión, así como comprobar las predicciones del modelo del Big Bang y las búsquedas de los nuevos físicos. Las recientes medidas hechas por WMAP, por ejemplo, han acotado la masa del neutrino.

Los nuevos experimentos, como los del Telescopio Cosmológico de Atacama están intentando medir la polarización del fondo cósmico de microondas, que proporcionará más confirmaciones de la teoría así como información sobre la inflación cósmica y las conocidas como anisotropías secundarias, como el efecto Siunyáiev-Zeldóvich y el efecto Sachs-Wolfe, que son causados por la interacción entre galaxias y agrupaciones galácticas con el fondo cósmico de microondas.

Formación y evolución de estructuras a gran escala

Comprendiendo la formación y evolución de las estructuras más grandes y primigenias (p.ej. cuásares, galaxias, agrupaciones galácticas y supercúmulos) es uno de los mayores esfuerzos en cosmología. Los cosmólogos estudian un modelo de formación jerárquica estructural en el que las estructuras se forman desde el fondo, con pequeños objetos primero, después con grandes objetos, como los supercúmulos se siguen formando. El camino más sencillo para estudiar la estructura del universo es observar las galaxias visibles, para construir un dibujo tridimensional de las galaxias en el Universo y medir la densidad espectral de materia. Esta es la aproximación del Sloan Digital Sky Survey y del 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.

Una herramienta importante para comprenden la formación estructural son las simulaciones, que los cosmólogos utilizan para estudiar las sumas gravitacionales de materia en el Universo, como se agrupan en filamentos, supercúmulos y vacíos. Muchas simulaciones contienen solo materia oscura fría no bariónica, que debería ser suficiente para comprender el Universo en las escalas más grandes, ya que hay mucha más materia oscura en el Universo que materia visible bariónica. Muchas simulaciones avanzadas están empezando a incluir bariones y estudiar la formación de galaxias individuales. Los cosmólogos estudian estas simulaciones para ver si concuerdan con sus investigaciones y comprenden cualquier discrepancia.

Otras técnicas complementarias permitirán a los cosmólogos medir la distribución de materia en el Universo distante y probar la reionización. Estas técnicas son:

 El bosque Lyman-alfa, que permite a los cosmólogos medir la distribución de un átomo de gas hidrógeno neutro en el universo primigenio, midiendo la absorción de luz desde cuásares distantes debido al gas.
 La línea de adsorción de 21 centímetros de átomos de hidrógenos neutros también proporciona una prueba sensible en cosmología.
 Lentes débiles, la distorsión de una imagen distante por lentes gravitacionales debido a la materia oscura.

Esto ayudará a los cosmólogos a decidir la pregunta de cuando se formó el primer cuásar.

Materia oscura

Las pruebas de la nucleosíntesis del Big Bang, la radiación de fondo de microondas y las formaciones estructurales sugieren que el 23 % de la masa del universo consiste en materia oscura no bariónica, mientras que solo el 4 % es materia bariónica visible. Los efectos gravitacionales de la materia oscura están bien comprendidos, ya que se comporta como un polvo frío sin interacción ni emisión electromagnética que se distribuye como halos alrededor de galaxias. La materia oscura nunca ha sido detectada hasta ahora en laboratorio: la naturaleza de la física de partículas de la materia oscura es completamente desconocida. Sin embargo, hay varios candidatos, como una partícula supersimétrica,  una WIMP, un axión, un MACHO o incluso una modificación de la gravedad con pequeñas aceleraciones (MOND) o un efecto de la cosmología de branas.

La física en el centro de las galaxias (ver Galaxia activa y Agujero negro supermasivo) puede dar algunas pistas sobre la naturaleza de la materia oscura.

Energía oscura

Si el Universo fuera plano, tendría que haber un componente adicional formando el 73% (además del 23% de materia oscura y el 4% de bariónica) de la densidad del universo. Este componente es llamado energía oscura. Para no interferir con la nucleosíntesis del Big Bang y la radiación de fondo de microondas, no puede agruparse en halos como los bariones y la materia oscura. Hay fuertes pruebas observacionales para la energía oscura, como la masa total del universo es conocida y se mide que es plano, pero la suma de materia agrupada es medida ajustadamente y es mucho menor que esta. El caso de la energía oscura fue reforzado en 1999, cuando las medidas demostraron que la expansión del universo estaba acelerando, más rápido que durante la inflación cósmica.

Sin embargo, aparte de su densidad y sus propiedades de agrupación, nada se conoce sobre la energía oscura. La teoría cuántica de campos predice una constante cosmológica junto con la energía oscura, pero 120 órdenes de magnitud más grande. Steven Weinberg y varios teóricos de cuerdas (ver paisaje de cuerdas) han usado esta prueba para el principio antrópico, que sugiere que la constante cosmológica es tan pequeña porque la vida (y de esta manera los físicas que hacen observaciones) no pueden existir en un Universo con una gran constante cosmológica, pero mucha gente encuentra que esta es una explicación insatisfactoria. Otras posibles explicaciones para la energía oscura son la quintaesencia o una modificación de la gravedad en escalas grandes. El efecto en cosmología de la energía oscura que estos modelos describen es dada por la ecuación de estado de la energía oscura, que varía dependiendo de la teoría. La naturaleza de la energía oscura es uno de los problemas más desafiantes en cosmología.

Una mejor comprensión de la energía oscura nos permitiría resolver el problema del destino último del universo. En la época cosmológica actual, la expansión acelerada debida a la energía oscura que se inició hace 6145 millones de años  previene la formación de estructuras más grandes que los supercúmulos. Si la energía oscura corresponde realmente a la constante cosmológica de Einstein (ecuación de estado w=-1) entonces la expansión acelerada continuará indefinidamente. Mientras que si no es así, pueden darse dos situaciones, que la ecuación de estado sea -1/3>w>-1 y entonces la aceleración se reducirá, o que la ecuación de estado sea w<-1 (Energía fantasma) en cuyo caso la aceleración se incrementará, causando un Big Rip.

Otras áreas de investigación
Los cosmólogos también estudian:
 Si los agujeros negros primordiales se formaron en nuestro Universo y qué les ocurre.
 El límite GZK para rayos cósmicos de alta energía y si señala un fallo de relatividad especial de alta energía.
 El principio de equivalencia y si la Teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein es la teoría correcta para la gravedad y si las leyes de la física fundamentales son las mismas en cualquier parte del universo.

Cosmología física alternativa
Se entiende por cosmología alternativa todas aquellas teorías, modelos o ideas cosmológicas que contradicen el modelo estándar de cosmología:

 Ambiplasma, una cosmología de plasma
 Expansión cósmica en escala de C. Johan Masreliez
 Luz cansada
 MOND de Mordehai Milgrom
 Cosmología de branas
  Modelo de Randall-Sundrum
 Modelo cíclico

Referencias

Lecturas populares

Libros de texto
  La cosmología es introducida en el marco de la relatividad general, pero sin los tensores al completo, que son presentados en la última parte del libro.
  Publicado poco antes de los resultados del WMAP, este es el libro de texto introductorio más moderno.
  Un libro de texto con pocas matemáticas.
  Un libro de texto de introducción a la astronomía.
  Clásico de referencia para los cosmólogos.
  Una introducción a la cosmología sin relatividad general.
  Una introducción a la cosmología con una discusión sobre inflación.

  Describe la formación de estructuras de gran escala en detalle.
  Una introducción con más fondo en relatividad general y teoría cuántica que otros.
  El libro de Peebles tiene un gran enfoque histórico.
  El trabajo clásico en estructuras de gran escala, en particular la discusión de las funciones de correlación.

  Un libro antiguo, pero sigue siendo una referencia estándar para un montón de formalismos matemáticos.

Enlaces externos

Grupos
En Español:
 Modelo Cosmológico Estándar

En inglés:
 Cambridge Cosmology - de la Universidad de Cambridge
 Cosmology 101 - del grupo WMAP de la NASA
 Origins, Nova Online - Proporcionado por el PBS.
 Cosmología -- Cosmología del universo
 Centro de Cosmologís Física. Universidad de Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
 Dictionario de la Historia de las Ideas:
 Imágenes Cósmicas
 Cosmología desde la Antigüedad hasta 1850
 Cosmología desde 1850
 Cosmos - un Periódico Dimensinal Ilustrado desde el microcosmos hasta el macrocosmos - de la DNA Digital Nature Agency
 Buscador AstroFind - Motor de Búsqueda para Cosmología y Astronomía
 'El Matemático que no Podía Sumar por Emma King Cosmóloga video del Vega Science Trust.

Páginas personales
En inglés:
 Carroll, Sean. "Cosmology Primer". Instituto de Tecnología de California.
 Gale, George, "Cosmología: Debates Metodológicos en los años 1930 y 1940", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
 Hoiland, Paul, "Examen de la Cosmología Moderna"Meditando sobre la evolución del cosmos Gouldsboro, Maine.
 Jordan, Thomas F., "Cálculos cosmológicos casi sin relatividad general". (arXiv.org)
 Madore, Barry F., "Level 5 : Una base de conocimiento para Astronomía Extragaláctica y Cosmología". Caltech y Carnegie. Pasadena, California, USA.
 Smith, Tony, "Cosmología  -- En el Millennium, las observaciones Experimentales nos dicen mucho sobre Cosmología".
 Tyler, Pat y Phil Newman "Más allá de Einstein". Laboratorio para Astrofísica de Alta Energía (LHEA) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
 Wright, Ned. "Tutorial de Cosmología y FAQ". División de Astronomía y Astrofísica de UCLA.
 Scientific American Magazine (febrero de 2004) Four Keys to Cosmology Sobre aceleración.

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