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Sweet Days of Discipline

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“Las Grandes Historias son aquellas que ya se han oído y se quiere oír otra vez. Aquellas a las que se puede entrar por cualquier puerta y habitar en ellas cómodamente. No engañan con emociones o finales falsos. No sorprenden con imprevistos. Son tan conocidas como la casa en la que se vive. O el olor de la piel del ser amado. Sabemos cómo acaban y, sin embargo, las escuchamos como si no lo supiéramos. Del mismo modo que, aun sabiendo que un día moriremos, vivimos como si fuéramos inmortales. En las Grandes Historias sabemos quién vive, quién muere, quién encuentra el amor y quién no. Y, aun así, queremos volver a saberlo.”

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Book:The God of Small Things
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“La vida estaba en el espejo, en el espejo de la pantalla de cristal líquido, pues ambos escribíamos también en el ordenador (palabra de Nisisen: Lo que esos viejóvenes o vejestorios que aún escriben a mano o con máquina de escribir no entienden de escribir a ordenador es que nosotros podemos editar una frase diez veces en un minuto y ellos no, chapuceros).”

LiteraturaEscribirEscrituraRoberto BolañoBolañoSensiniNisisenAlexandre AlphonseOrdenador
Book:Nisisen
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“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”

ReligionManReasoningAnimalsFoxesMonkeysDogsCatsGeeseSquirrelsDoves
Book:Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
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