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So Much Water So Close to Home ✅

Este me ha resultado un pelín más interesante que los otros (el estándar estaba bajo, también os digo).

Pues mira, lo uncanny de este relato me está gustando (a saber cómo termina... porque el resto de relatos eran muy sin más)

After the denim ✅

Tell the Women We're Going ✅

Just two men going out to cheat on their wives.

The Bath ✅

El niño: en coma.
La narración: el médico era guapo.

Sacks ✅

(I feel like those who appreciate this book and Carver's minimalist narrative style are the same type of people who consider the banana with tape on a wall or Yoko Ono's screams a f*cking masterpiece, no offense. Well, maybe not to that extent, but in some way).

En plan, no sé, no me sale empatizar con hombres blancos americanos del siglo XX que por algún casual ya más de uno le ha puesto los cuernos a su mujer y que no paran de beber y/o fumar y no saben lo que hacen.

Ngl finding this compilation of short stories a bit mid. Should I be finding this narrative style groundbreaking and innovative? Because I consider it too simple.

I Could See the Smallest Things ✅

Comenzamos beteo yay

Gazebo ✅

Gazebo

In the old days I used to say things about her green eyes, and she’d tell me it was because of them she knew she was meant for something special.
And didn’t I know it!

I’d open my eyes and look at the ceiling and listen to it ring and wonder at what was happening to us.
But maybe I should be looking at the floor.

Gazebo

That morning she pours Teacher’s over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

Mr. Coffee and Mr Fixit ✅

Viewfinder ✅

Why Don't You Dance?

She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying.

Already she is adapting herself, as she will adapt herself to every new régime. [...] She is merely acclimatizing herself, in accordance with a natural law, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town.

‘The problem is not so simple. I’m afraid that most of them, if they cannot get work, will take to crime. After all, people cannot be ordered to starve.’

‘Sometimes I almost despair,’ he added. ‘It seems as if there were a kind of badness, a disease, infecting the world today.’

‘The Nazis may write like schoolboys, but they’re capable of anything. That’s just why they’re so dangerous. People laugh at them, right up to the last moment . . .’
Uy, a quién me recordará... sobre la gente que parece tonta y graciosa, pero luego ideológicamente es muy peligrosa... empieza por i y termina por sabeldíazayuso...

Over there, in the city, the votes were being counted. I thought of Natalia: she has escaped – none too soon, perhaps. However often the decision may be delayed, all these people are ultimately doomed. This evening is the dress-rehearsal of a disaster. It is like the last night of an epoch.

I didn’t flatter myself that Natalia had ever wanted me as a lover, but she had certainly begun to behave towards me as a kind of bossy elder sister, and it was just this rôle – absurdly enough – which Sally had stolen from her.
QUé egocéntrico este tío, onvre tenía que ser.

I found myself getting increasingly annoyed with both of them – with Sally for her endless silly pornographic talk; with Natalia for being such a prude.

Es que a vaya dos has juntado.

Dios mío qué pesada es Natalia Landauer.

‘Your dramatist Oscar Wilde . . . this is another case. I put this case to you Mr Isherwood. I should like very much to hear your opinion. Was your English Law justified in punishing Oscar Wilde, or was it not justified? Please tell me what you think?’

‘This is a very interesting problem. ... Shall we allow that the man of genius [Lord Byron] is an exceptional person who may do exceptional things? Or shall we say: No—you may write a beautiful poem or paint a beautiful picture, but in your daily life, you must behave like an ordinary person, and you must obey these laws which we have made for ordinary persons? We will not allow you to be extraordinary’