"En cuanto uno empieza a leer un libro de John Gray tiene la sensación de que algunas de las convicciones que creía más firmes empiezan a tambalearse, y porque la buena conciencia que suelen depararnos los principios humanistas no resiste los ácidos corrosivos de una lucidez que nos deja inermes frente a los espantos del mundo y a las flaquezas y las frivolidades de la condición humana."
Descrédito de la profecia
Antonio Muñoz Molina en el Pais
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
I feel so humble
Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553). The Golden Age, ca. 1530. Mixed media on wood, transferred to a new panel. 73.5 x 105.5 cm (28 15/16 x 41 1/2 in.).
© Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Alte Pinako
Tell me
Liebliches Kind,
Kannst du mir sagen,
[ Warum einsam und stumm
Zärtliche Seelen ]1
Immer sich quälen,
Selbst sich [betrüben]2,
Und ihr Vergnügen
Immer nur ahnen,
Da, wo sie nicht sind;
Kannst du mir's sagen,
Liebliches Kind?
Lovely child,
Can you tell me,
Why, alone and mute,
Tender souls
Always torture themselves,
Why they make themselves gloomy,
And why they seem to suspect
that their pleasures
will be where they are not;
Can you not tell me this,
Lovely child?
Kannst du mir sagen,
[ Warum einsam und stumm
Zärtliche Seelen ]1
Immer sich quälen,
Selbst sich [betrüben]2,
Und ihr Vergnügen
Immer nur ahnen,
Da, wo sie nicht sind;
Kannst du mir's sagen,
Liebliches Kind?
Lovely child,
Can you tell me,
Why, alone and mute,
Tender souls
Always torture themselves,
Why they make themselves gloomy,
And why they seem to suspect
that their pleasures
will be where they are not;
Can you not tell me this,
Lovely child?
Nothing great
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You know you are down, when you revert to old quotes from dead philosophers...
European elections
Finally this looks like a good idea
Finalmente uma boa ideia na campanha para as Europeias...
(Euro candidate Paulo Rangel(PSD) proposes a cross-european program similar to Erasmus, for people looking for first time jobs, he sugests to name it "Vasco da Gama"...that's an idea)
Finalmente uma boa ideia na campanha para as Europeias...
(Euro candidate Paulo Rangel(PSD) proposes a cross-european program similar to Erasmus, for people looking for first time jobs, he sugests to name it "Vasco da Gama"...that's an idea)
Michael Kohlhaas
"Heinrich von Kleist’s narrative Michael Kohlhaas (1810) is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece in its genre. In the space of some one hundred pages, it unfolds a complex tale of a law-abiding horse trader who launches a campaign of violence against the nobleman Wenzel von Tronka following the illegal confiscation of his horses. The opening paragraph presents the reader with the main interpretative challenge in a particularly acute form, as it describes Kohlhaas as one of the most decent and most dreadful people of his time: a pillar of the community whose sense of right turned him into a robber and a murderer."
Justice is diferent from the rule of law. We are so patronized, this is not even a question we pose to ourselves.
This social democrat society we live in, numbs our perception, we are but lambs, silently grazing...and so on.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
regular housewife
Kate Bush, has been for so long out of the public eye, last year she published a new album and in its promotion maintained she has been living the simple life.
Sage
I found this column by AC Grayling, brilliant.
It reminded me so much, of my neighbour on the village, she's seventy something, but she can work her farm, like I will never could.
She gives us lovely vegetables, the best potatoes and she cooks me a wonderful arroz doce (sweet rice). She is also a genious, she can talk with anybody and she remembers every person that has been through my gate, also she is already well aware of my friends, family and all the buzz about each one...
She also says, one of my favorite phrases : "- Me, going to the grave ?...No, for that you´ll have to carry me..." and smiles her naughty teethless smile.
It reminded me so much, of my neighbour on the village, she's seventy something, but she can work her farm, like I will never could.
She gives us lovely vegetables, the best potatoes and she cooks me a wonderful arroz doce (sweet rice). She is also a genious, she can talk with anybody and she remembers every person that has been through my gate, also she is already well aware of my friends, family and all the buzz about each one...
She also says, one of my favorite phrases : "- Me, going to the grave ?...No, for that you´ll have to carry me..." and smiles her naughty teethless smile.
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