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  Mi aspecto era increíblemente desgarbado y ridículo. “Esta foto, ¿la tomaste vos?”, le pregunté a Vignale. “Estás loco. Yo nunca he juntado valor para empuñar una máquina fotográfica o un revólver”.

Hace diez años (tardíamente) descubrí a Porchia. Desde entonces admiro el fragmento como una literatura total. Antonio es un descendiente de Heráclito, otro monástico del fragmento.  Link: Antonio Porchia - Voces  (Material de lectura - UNAM)

  "Men’s greater tendency to violence also probably creates greater public awareness. (Female incels, however grumpy they get, do not generally express their dissatisfaction by shooting up malls.) Nevertheless, Lutkin is surely right that women’s authority over their sexual and romantic fates is not as complete as the popular imagination would have it. Asked to explain why one out of four single American women hasn’t had a sex partner for two or more years (and more than one in ten haven’t had a sex partner for five or more years), researchers have cited women’s aversion to the “roughness” that has become a standard feature of contemporary, porn-inflected sex. In one recent study, around twenty-one per cent of female respondents reported that they had been choked during sex with men; around thirty-two per cent had experienced a man ejaculating on their faces; and thirty-four per cent had experienced “aggressive fellatio.” If, as Stephanie Coontz suggests, women feel freer these da...

  Storytelling is so basic to human art-making. It's so basic to human life. The proof is our dreams. We make art every night when we go to sleep. It's incredible to think about that. No wonder human beings have always made art. We do that in our sleep—literally. One of the things that's so scary is that everyone has access to all the same tools of disseminating their stories, but the stories don't align. We really don't agree on what reality is. That doesn't make me think about fiction. That makes me think about psychosis. Because that is what psychosis is. I find that so frightening. Link:  Jennifer Egan's New Novel Imagines a Dark Digital Future

Uno de mis nuevos fragmentos favoritos de cualquier literatura:  Take heed not to be transformed into a Caesar, not to be dipped in the purple dye, for it does happen. Keep yourself therefore, simple, good, pure, grave, unaffected, the friend of justice, religious, kind, affectionate, strong for your proper work. Wrestle to be the man philosophy wished to make you. Reverence the gods, save men. Life is brief; there is but one harvest of earthly existence, a holy disposition and neighborly acts. * * * Ὅρα μὴ ἀποκαισαρωθῇς, μὴ βαφῇς· γίνεται γάρ. τήρησον οὖν σεαυτὸν ἁπλοῦν, ἀγαθόν, ἀκέραιον, σεμνόν, ἄκομψον, τοῦ δικαίου φίλον, θεοσεβῆ, εὐμενῆ, φιλόστοργον, ἐρρωμένον πρὸς τὰ πρέποντα ἔργα. ἀγώνισαι, ἵνα τοιοῦτος συμμείνῃς, οἷόν σε ἠθέλησε ποιῆσαι φιλοσοφία. αἰδοῦ θεούς, σῷζε ἀνθρώπους. βραχὺς ὁ βίος· εἷς καρπὸς τῆς ἐπιγείου ζωῆς, διάθεσις ὁσία καὶ πράξεις κοινωνικαί. Link   ...

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Han sido intensos los últimos 40 días de esta edad que cargo, jornadas que coinciden con las decenas de años llevados a hombro. Recuerdo de mi genealogía que por sus virtudes se han convertido en nuevos dioses; pasiones, drogas, risas y música compartidas con personas que hacen palidecer cualquier recompensa dada por un Paraíso venidero; un viejo empleo en el que dejo amistades creadas y un nuevo puesto en el que espero me vaya bien, todo bajo el principio de ayudar a los demás y no convertirme en tirano ni en esclavo de nadie; a pesar de estar comprometido con la idea de no tener hijos, revalorar tenerlos tras las interacciones con los hijos de mis amigos; noticias lejanas de bienestar de la descendencia de mi madre; raro en mí, he traducido una frase de Marco Aurelio: ἀγώνισαι ἵνα τοιοῦτος συμμείνῃς οἷόν σε ἠθέλησε ποιῆσαι φιλοσοφία y mi intento ha sido: Persiste para ser así lo que la Filosofía anhela convertirte (la traducción en Gredos es muy seca). Por último he encontrado un...

 Amo mucho el trabajo editorial de GQ desde hace un año, con el nuevo manejo editorial con el que cuenta ahora. Olivia Rodrigo, a quien ya he mencionado en este blog, ha sido entrevistada por GQ.  What was your first brush with celebrity once things started to reopen? Someone came up to me the other day and was like, “Sorry if this is weird, but I had sex to the entirety of your album.” And I was like, “What the fuck? That's crazy.” That was the weirdest experience I've ever had. I was flattered, of course. También yo he tenido sexo con las canciones de Olivia Rodrigo. Which is a pretty aesthetic experience, I must say.  Link:  Olivia Rodrigo Was Built 4 This

Escéptico. In 2006, the late writer David Foster Wallace profiled a then-25-year-old Federer for The New York Times. What resulted from a less-than-30 minute conversation in a cramped ATP office was an essay so transcendent, so instantly canonical, that it has made further literary attempts to capture the beauty of Federer’s game in words somewhat redundant (even as the profile itself faced scrutiny for the liberties it might have taken with accuracy). A 2019 New Yorker review of Wallace’s body of work remarked how “The greatest tennis writer of his generation was writing about the greatest player of his generation. The sentence needs no qualifiers.” Fifteen years later, memories of the conversation with Foster Wallace still linger. “I remember where we were when we did the interview,” he says. “It was in an office on the side, like sort of by the green grass they have there. It was an area where we always say, ‘I'll meet you at the grass’ … So I went to speak there for like, half ...

La muerte del autor de novela policiaca Eugene Izzi fue catalogada como un suicidio. Pero hay elementos que no encajan: Izzi was wearing a bulletproof vest when he died and had been carrying a .38-caliber revolver for weeks. The fully loaded gun was found on his office floor when Chicago police and firemen recovered his body. They also discovered other items in his trouser pockets and in the pockets of his blue winter overcoat: brass knuckles, a can of Mace, three computer diskettes, a couple of threatening notes containing the words danger and beware, and the transcript of a phone call that had been left on his voice mail. In the days before his death, Izzi had played the message for anyone whose ear he could grab. At least half a dozen people had heard the halting female voice say that Izzi’s infiltration of the Indiana militia had been discovered; he’d been tried by a kangaroo court and sentenced to die by “a flaming rope.” ...

  OK, hay que hablar y dejar algo muy en claro: el mayor fenómeno de la música en 2021 es Olivia Rodrigo. Ha sacado tres sencillos y cada uno de ellos hace que sus escuchas vivan el angst adolescente del amor.  En The Guardian le hicieron un perfil ahora que saldrá su primer disco Sour y previo a su aparición en los Brits Awards y en en SNL. Released in January, Drivers License sprang (almost) out of nowhere like a heaved sob. Four days later, it broke Spotify records for the most single-day streams (Christmas songs exempted). The next day, it broke that record again. After 10 weeks at No 1 in the US and nine in the UK, it has been streamed 1.9bn times. Next Tuesday, the California-born songwriter makes her live debut at the Brits; the following weekend, she does Saturday Night Live; a week later she releases her debut album, Sour, a grippingly well written – all by her – collection of balladry, pop-punk, bitter diatribes and euphoric taunts that dwells on this romantic treac...

Hay personas que se han vacunado y que andan horny. Hay otros que siempre han estado horny incluso durante la pandemia y el siguiente enlace ya les sea meh. Link:  Is oral sex more Covid-safe than kissing? The expert guide to a horny, healthy summer

  Me gusta el concepto que maneja J. Cole para el título de su más reciente álbum: The Off-Season no se refiere a la temporada baja sino al trabajo de sombra que se hace antes de la verdadera campaña.  Junto con el lanzamiento de esta producción se anunció en estos días que J. Cole se integraría a un equipo de baloncesto en África: Rwanda Patriots. Ya tuvo su primer partido. Anotó tres puntos y tuvo más asistencias y rebotes.

  El primer track de la nueva producción de St. Vicent “Daddy's Home”, me hizo recordar a ‘Debra’ en el Midnite Vultures de Beck.  Ya he escuchado el Daddy's Home en dos ocasiones este fin de semana. Siento que Beck realizó el mejor disco setentero fuera de la misma década de los 70s hasta el momento.  

Utilicé herramientas de AI (Inteligencia Artificial) para hacer este collage con fotografías de mi madre cuando fue una niña. El duelo para mí es una herramienta creativa.  

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  Por Harold Bloom tengo conocimiento, sin poderlo constatar, que “En Busca del Tiempo Perdido” de Marcel Proust es la gran obra de la envidia sexual. Un tema tremenda profundo dentro de la condición humana. Los siguientes son fragmentos que rescato del articulo publicado en el New Yorker “What We Find When We Get Lost in Proust”. The son of a half-Jewish Parisian grand-bourgeois family, Proust was known, before the 1913 publication of “Swann’s Way,” as a malicious, amusing, slightly absurd society boy, with a vaguely pathetic literary hobby. He had written some standard-issue aesthetic essays and stories, which no one read, and had translated Ruskin’s study of the Amiens cathedral. (He was an inveterate Anglophile: his favorite novelist was George Eliot, and his favorite novel “The Mill on the Floss.”) A charming society hanger-on, he was admired by his close friends for his literary dedication and the extraordinary flow...

  El PDF del día. Por supuesto, la manera de presentar esto en una columna de opinión dentro de un periódico es prender la indignación por la pérdida de un espacio público para fines privados. [ PDF: Quitan a juarenses ‘Los Hoyos’ de El Chamizal , diario.mx] Para aquellos que conocemos Monterrey como una segunda casa, mi equivalente es la presentación adecuada.