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“Antes una aclaración: no hay en este mundo infame comedia que dure tanto ni se enturbie ni se aguante si no hay —cual debe ser— humoradas transgresoras y un sinnúmero de equívocos que vayan de lo ridículo a la sofisticación. En aras de que se cumpla la comedia tal cual es, es mejor apresurar las acciones como sea y ponerle como sea un falso final feliz.”
― Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe
― Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe
“There are sins or (let us call them as the world calls them) evil memories which are hidden away by man in the darkest places of the heart but they abide there and wait. He may suffer their memory to grow dim, let them be as though they had not been and all but persuade himself that they were not or at least were otherwise. Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the most various circumstances, a vision or a dream, or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquility of the evening or at the feast, at midnight, when he is now filled with wine. Not to insult over him will the vision come as over one that lies under her wrath, not for vengeance to cut him off from the living but shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Y Monelle agregó: Te hablaré de los momentos. [...]
Piensa en el momento. Todo pensamiento que dura es una contradicción.
Ama el momento. Todo amor que dura es odio.
Sé sincero con el momento. Toda sinceridad que dura es una mentira.
Sé justo con el momento. Toda justicia que dura es injusticia.
Actúa en función del momento. Toda acción que dura es un reino difunto.
Siente la felicidad del momento. Toda felicidad que dura es desgracia.
Ten respecto por los momentos y no establezcas relaciones entre las cosas. [...]”
― El libro de Monelle
Piensa en el momento. Todo pensamiento que dura es una contradicción.
Ama el momento. Todo amor que dura es odio.
Sé sincero con el momento. Toda sinceridad que dura es una mentira.
Sé justo con el momento. Toda justicia que dura es injusticia.
Actúa en función del momento. Toda acción que dura es un reino difunto.
Siente la felicidad del momento. Toda felicidad que dura es desgracia.
Ten respecto por los momentos y no establezcas relaciones entre las cosas. [...]”
― El libro de Monelle
“It’s not hard to perceive a certain deadening sameness that has begun to blanket the world under the sway of the Stacks, as the planet’s extraordinary diversity of lifeways yield to the unlimited perfect reproduction of the modes of taste, self-expression and subjectivity these new hegemons are tuned to. All of them are headquartered on the west coast of the United States, three of them within a ten-mile radius of Stanford University. They share a set of assumptions about who their user is, how that person lives and what they want; they share a grounding in the Californian Ideology18 and the casual technolibertarianism that has long reigned in the Bay Area; and latterly, they even tend to share a single overarching aesthetic.”
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
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