Category Archives: Libros

R.I.P.

13 Marzo 2010 – 0:58
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Cáncer divino.

16 Febrero 2010 – 21:14

In the most extreme characterization, breast cancer is not a problem at all, not even an annoyance- it is a “gift”, deserving of the most heartfelt gratitude. One survivor turned author credits it with revelatory powers, writing in her book The Gift of Cancer: A Call to Awakening that “cancer is your ticket to your [...]

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Felicidad barojiana.

16 Octubre 2009 – 1:13

A los pocos días de frecuentar el hospital, Andrés se inclinaba a creer que el pesimismo de Schopenhauer era una verdad casi matemática. El mundo le parecía una mezcla de manicomio y de hospital; ser inteligente constituía una desgracia, y sólo la felicidad podía venir de la inconsciencia de la locura.
Pío Baroja, El árbol de [...]

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¿Víctimas o verdugos?… o sobre Israel.

21 Septiembre 2009 – 1:07

Time out for a demonstration of power without compassion.
I am reminded of the classic demonstration by an elementary school teacher, Jane Elliott, who taught her students the nature of prejuice and discrimination by arbitrarily relating the eye color of children in her classroom to high or low status. When those with blue eyes were associated [...]

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Family.

25 Agosto 2009 – 12:07

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Artistas españolas.

23 Agosto 2009 – 20:17

The back rows of cinemas, the darker corners of parks and the doorways of streets such as Madrid’s Calle Echegaray, meanwhile, were the working places of women known as pajilleras, literally masturbators. The came equipped with a handkerchief and a vigorous wrist action. Some, according to Rafael Torres, would, for a little extra, sing a [...]

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Baroja, el actor.

22 Agosto 2009 – 0:32

Gracias a youtube , podemos disfrutar de don Pío Baroja en la adaptación al cine de su novela “Zalacaín el aventurero“.

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Islas.

22 Julio 2009 – 0:10

And it is only when I have shut the bedroom door for the third or fourth time on my husband and children in order to find out how Vanessa Bell’s life was better than my own that I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further [...]

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Razonamientos taurinos.

16 Abril 2009 – 1:35

DECLARACIÓN DE INTENCIONES.
La fiesta de los toros es víctima de una doble incomprensión. Los que abominan de ella no entienden su sentido. No aspiramos a que lo compartan o defiendan; sólo a que sepan qué se encierra en el ritual cruento y violentísimo de la lidia. Creen los antitaurinos que el torero y el aficcionado [...]

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Hastío.

13 Abril 2009 – 1:02

L.S. Lowry, “Industrial landscape”.
WALKING AROUND.
Sucede que me canso de ser hombre.
Sucede que entro el las sastrerías y en los cines
marchito, impenetrable, como un cisne de fieltro
navegando en un agua de origen y ceniza.
El olor de las peluquerías me hace llorar a gritos.
Sólo quiero un descanso de piedras y lana,
sólo quiero no ver establecimientos ni jardines,
ni [...]

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