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, FSG edition, p.210
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“But, quite apart from the person who wields power and knows how to concentrate...”
– Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, p210