Los largos procesos.
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Etiquetas: elitevisión, macgyver, piloto
Etiquetas: alejandro martín, barcelona
Etiquetas: drown, Fiesta 1980, junot díaz
Etiquetas: anncol=farc, caricaturismo, chistes, gente de mierda, ingrid betancourt
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Late 16th century: From latin speculat- 'observed from a vantage point,' from the verbe speculari, from specula 'watchtower,' from specere 'to look.'
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I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern and appreciate in the far-off times when every trifle of our plain everyday life will become exquisite and festive in its own right: the times when a man who might put on the most ordinary jacket of today will be dressed up for an elegant masquerade.V. Nabokov, A guide to Berlin
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The suggestion that journalism has become more like fiction is a pretty ancient insult but, in the past, was used to accuse reporters of fabrication. Now, though, something deeper and weirder frequently occurs in which, even when facts are accurately reported, they seem, in the proper sense of the word, fabulous. Whereas most news stories follow a grimly recognisable narrative - the sex murder, the drive-by shooting, the inflated expenses claim - recent real-life plots are dense, messy and seemingly insoluble in a way that usually requires the manipulations of a novelist.(link)
Etiquetas: contar, fabular, ficción, narrativas, noticias
I'd been thinking for years all through my early mainstream career about the possibility of producing an extended piece of comic strip narrative that was entirely about sex rather than the odd issue focused upon sex that I maybe worked into Swamp Thing. I wanted to see if it was possible to do an extended narrative that was just about sex, which didn't have a swamp monster in it and which didn't need to have action in the sense of constant violence. It occurred to me that since there are plenty of stories that are based around constant violence, it should be possible to do a story based around constant sex.

At this juncture in human history, we've had approximately 100,000 years to get used to the shock and horror of our own genitalia. All right, I can see it's an upsetting subject. We might need some time to adjust, but we've had these things dangling between our legs for 100,000 years. We've inspected them. We have written treatises upon them. We should be over them by now. This is a normal part of being a human being. The position against this sort of stuff and the outcry against Playboy when that first appeared in the '50s, it's always seen as the end of civilization. If we see a breast or if we see pudenda then Western culture will come crashing down around our ears. We're not supposed to know that such things exist.(link)
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Por lo general la IZQ defiende el aborto, la eutonasia, las uniones homosexuales, las minorías sociales, destacando la sola voluntad del individuo para practicarlas con total respaldo del Estado como financiador. La DER esta en contra de estas como practicas que degeneran a la sociedad, no valoran al individuo y violan los derechos de la vida, la persona y la familia.A mí me encanta eso de degenerar la sociedad (y la redacción coja, por supuesto).
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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.Química

Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn't have passed for Normal if he'd wanted to.
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It's perfectly fine if you don't believe in these "superstitions." In fact, it's better than fine —it's perfect. Because no matter what you believe, fukú believes in you.Junot Díaz, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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Etiquetas: arthur, la verdad, locos, michael clayton, mierda, ochoymedio
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Rejecta Mathematica is an open access, online journal that publishes only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals (or conferences with comparable review standards) in the mathematical sciences.
At Rejecta Mathematica we believe that many previously rejected papers (even those rejected for legitimate reasons) can nonetheless have a very real value to the academic community.(Via Borovik)
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Fact is, among all these multiple voices, Oscar never really appears. We never encounter any of his direct words, and only at the very end do we get a letter from him. He's as big a ghost as his vanished ancestors, but the voice distracts you from that. It's a book about what happens when you are vaporized. Can you exist again? Can we use language to bring back what is gone? There's all these "Dr. Manhattan" jokes because in Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan is a vanished man. He pieces himself together again, but he's not human. When he reconstructs himself, an element is fucking missing. You know? And it's the same thing with Yunior and Oscar: no matter how hard he tries, something is missing. This book is not attempting to give you a real fucking human. It's attempting to give you Dr. Manhattan — this blue, ethereal ghost. In a way, that's as close as we can come as artists to representing the human. We can put the experience together, but it always comes up short.
Etiquetas: allan moore, dr. manhattan, junot díaz, oscar wao, watchmen
They looked at Oscar and he looked at them and then he started to speak. The words coming out like they belonged to someone else, his Spanish good for once. He told them that what they were doing was wrong, that they were going to take a great love out of this world. Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. He told them about Ybón and the way he loved her and how much they had risked and that they'd started to dream the same dramas and say the same words. He told them that it was only because of her love that he'd been able to do the thing that he had done, the thing they could no longer stop, told them if they killed him they would probably feel nothing and their children would probably feel nothing either, not until they were old and weak or about to be struck by a car and they they would sense him waiting for them on the other side and over there he wouldn't be no fatboy or dork or kid no girl had ever loved; over there he'd be a hero, an avenger. Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be.Junot Díaz, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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And in case you think his life couldn't get any worse: one day he walked into the Game Room and was surprised to discover that overnight the new generation of nerds weren't buying roleplaying games anymore. They were obsessed with Magic cards! No one had seen it coming. No more characters or campaigns, just endless battles between decks. All the narrative flensed from the game, all the performance, just straight unadorned mechanics. How the fucking kids loved that shit! He tried to give Magic a chance, tried to put together a decent deck, but it just wasn't his thing. Lost everything to an eleven-year-old punk and found himself not really caring. First sign that his Age was coming to a close. When the latest nerdery was no longer compelling, when you preferred the old to the new.Junot Díaz, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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