February 2012
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Interviewer: Is your literature moving away from Colombia? Perder es cuestión de método, for instance, is a very Colombian story, but lately even if you preserve the Colombian characters, your novels take place very far away, they are more globalised.
Santiago Gamboa: I think that is an achievement of my generation: to be able to write novels in other countries. The idea that the Peruvian wrote only about Peru, the Mexican about Mexico and the Colombian about Colombia, stayed behind. Nobody asks a French writer to write about France, so to get that freedom as a Latin American is a great achievement. My literature can get away from Colombia in terms of geography, but not emotionally. Many Colombians travel, live things that were not previously lived.
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January 2012
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bike-onomics →
Infographic: Mgmt Design, courtesy of the National Building Museum
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Watchsnoqualmie falls, wa
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December 2011
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“In a well-written drama, the story comes out of the characters. The characters...”
– Sidney Lumet, from a 2007 interview with Charlie Rose:
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/8815
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"The Lost Labors," by Álvaro Mutis, from the 1963...
This is a difficult and cryptic poem for all those fans of the Maqroll books out there…
Through a dark tunnel where cities, smells, rugs, rages, and rivers get mixed up there grows the plant of the poem. A dry and yellow leaf pressed between the pages of a forgotten book is the vain fruit offered up.
Poetry replaces,
The word replaces,
Man replaces,
The winds...
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ninfomania, by rosario castellanos
Te tuve entre mis manos:
La humanidad entera en una nuez.
¡Qué cáscara tan dura y tan rugosa!
Y, adentro, el simulacro
de los dos hemisferos cerebrales
que, obviamente, no aspiran a operar
sino a ser devorados, alabados
por ese sabor neautro, tan insatisfactorio
que exige, al infinito,
una vez y otra y otra, que se vuelva a probar
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I had you in my hands:
All mankind in one nut
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“But, quite apart from the person who wields power and knows how to concentrate...”
– Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, p210
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“But, quite apart from the person who wields power and knows how to concentrate...”
– Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, FSG edition, p.210
November 2011
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Watchkayaking with MV at the pier in santa barbara, ca, on an exceptionally warm thanksgiving day. thanks global warming!
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“In a well-written drama, the story comes out of the characters. The characters...”
– http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/8815
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“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.” Kurt Vonnegut, “composite self-interview,” in The Paris Review, 1977
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“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “composite self-interview,” in The Paris Review, 1977
October 2011
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New Zealand Green Party proves to be first... →
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VIEWER’S CHOICE
animalsbeingdicks:
By EXTREMELY popular demand. Thanks for everyone who sent this in. Please stop now. Please.
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human interest story for bike-interested... →
September 2011
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an amazing photoessay about the spectacular Mass... →
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