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“Of course I forgive you. I don’t know anything about genre theory, but I can learn.”

"Are most people able to face the past and have normal sex lives?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I think they are. Anyway, if anyone is, it should be me. Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it."

“One day can humble and exalt again / the whole of human life.”

“so far as the West was concerned during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an assumption had been made that the Orient and everything in it was, if not patently inferior to, then in need of corrective study by the West. The Orient was viewed as if framed by the classroom, the criminal court, the prison, the illustrated manual.”

[the illegal and unsactioned imperial invasion and occupation of Iraq by Britain & the US] is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilizations, unending, implacable, irremediable. Nevertheless, I think not. (...) I have no "real" Orient to argue for. I do, however, have a very high regard for the powers and gifts of the peoples of that region to struggle on for their vision of what they are and want to be.

"The best player at Los Alamos was Oppenheimer, but I got pretty good, pretty quick. (...) Later I read that when they dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, two famous Japanese grandmasters—Hashimoto Utaro, the national champion, and Iwamoto Kaoru, the challenger—were in the third day of a Go tournament, about three miles away from ground zero."

“And I’m talking a lot of rubbish generally, but you’re not stopping me. Stop me more often; when I’m talking to you I want to express absolutely everything. I lose all form.”

odio a varias personas de aquí !!!!!!! visceralmente’!!!!!!!!!

“My chest as it rose and fell, the sound of my breath, and my hands and legs swinging back and forth, all of them started feeling less and less real—as if I might float into the air at any moment. No matter how I planted my feet on the asphalt, it didn’t seem like they were making contact (…). I wasn’t sure that I would ever arrive anywhere at all.”

“Pero Luarmina no lo sabe: los que bailan se quedan sin cuerpo.”

‘I haven’t lived yet and I want very much to live.’

hay un personaje re bueno que dice "No potato, I'm afraid. There is a temporary shortage of potato" y también "it is not fashionable to quote Stalin"

"do you know how a year and a half ago he astounded me and gave me a shock that nearly killed me?" siempre aplica no matter the place the time the parent

“We’ve grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colours.”

“stop! you queer fish. stay a minute, you sweep.” razumihin flash of light

“extractivism is the modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery. (…) Indeed, one of the factors that defines being part of the Global South is being a net provider of raw materials to the global economy.”
global economy siendo global north lol me
imagino, prácticamente indistinto

precursor de dungeon meshi

Odysseus encounters him in Hades later on, and he asks him why on earth he died in such a foolish manner. Paniotis smiled. I always found that a charming detail, he said.

me gusta mucho granta

amo los diálogos y las relaciones!!!!!!!!!!!! sentí la emoción de conocer alguien con quien te llevas super bien cuando se empezó a llevar mucho con j.a.

"There was the world of the woman on the special, and the world set forth in the available literature. Which of these worlds did I belong to? Did either of them overlap with my reality?"

“o cuando se van por un tiempo largo, en este caso para siempre” / “piensa que si hubiera escuchado esa voz en otro lugar la habría reconocido”

El silencio como agresión y “no me hablaste de esto porque quieres ir solo.” En una nota más sunny, descubrí la combinación de palabras “lámpara espantacuco.”

me está mamando

Amo el de Funes. Me recuerda (ja) a otros tiempos en los que lo leí y también al primer cuento por el desagrado de Funes de nombrar “perro” al perro de las 3:14 de perfil y al de las 3:15 de frente—otra vez la idea de qué nos hace ser lo que somos y qué nos hace ser los mismos y cuándo dejamos de serlo. Me siento torpe describiendo, feliz leyendo. Trataré de explicarme mejor después.

mi soundtrack de la biblioteca de Babel: *sonidos de explosiones, asombro creciente y expansivo, risas, más sonidos de explosiones que quizás son fuegos artificiales, ¿Borges habrá estudiado matemáticas?, le voy a mandar un mail a mi profesor de álgebra*

HQ: "Le parecía que la buena literatura es harto común y que apenas hay diálogo callejero que no la logre."

por q no habrán puesto el acercamiento a Almotásim en la edición de debolsillo? me gusta eso de "perciben que ellos son el Simurg y que el Simurg es cada uno de ellos y todos" / "Todo, en el cielo inteligible, está en todas partes"... y la última oración también. y: "Almotásim quiere decir etimológicamente 'el buscador de amparo.'" todxs buscamos a alguien.

De El acercamiento a Almotásim: “una biografía que parece agotar los movimientos del espíritu humano” y q bonito lo de gente bonita por todos lados

me encantó la lotería de babilonia - “yo mismo, en esta apresurada declaración, he falseado algún esplendor, alguna atrocidad.” la gente que juzga eterna a la Compañía, la que dice que nunca existió ni existirá… qué bello bello cuento. yo falsearía esplendores y atrocidades por azar, por falta de memoria, por gusto, por qué?