August 2010
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About the nature of The People
There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who’d had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called ‘the...
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TORTUGAS Y CRONOCOPIOS
Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural.
Las esperanzas lo saben y no se preocupan.
Los famas lo saben y se burlan.
Los cronocopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.
(Julio Cortázar|Historias de cronocopios y de famas)
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I met a Genius | Charles Bukowski
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.
it was the first time I’d realized that.
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