Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Brainzzz

Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
…every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller…

- George Orwell, "1984", chapter 5


The problem of pain

In your life you meet people.
Some you never think about again.
Some, you wonder what happened to them.
There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you.
And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

- Kevin Arnold, "The Wonder Years", s2e15

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Wise words

"Expectation Is The Root Of All Heartache"

- Falsely attributed to William Shakespeare

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Ode to an ex-friend

O, thou...

Cuánto ha llovido desde aquel "Cuida bien de ella, que vale mucho". Y desde los peluchitos de Winchester, los patos hechos con pajitas en el República con todo el mundo alrededor, tomando palomitas extremadamente saladas regadas con calimochos con mora por las tardes de septiembre.

Aquella sorpresa de maderica en Florencia entregada con desdén, aunque sabías que me hacía mucha ilusión. Dedicatorias interminables en las becas la noche de la graduación, miradas de complicidad en cualquier situación. Tu casa de la huerta y las innumerables cosas que pasaron en sus inmediaciones. Camisetas de Gollum, estuches de Shrek. La tarde en el Fitzpatrick's justo antes de empezar nuestra etapa universitaria...

Y a partir de entonces, todo se vuelve borroso. Exceptuando situaciones como la de aquel Bando de 2007 en el que, caminando ya de noche por la Gran Vía, fuimos abrazados con otra persona un buen tramo.

Pero ahora ya da igual, porque todos esos momentos se perderán como lágrimas en la lluvia. Se disiparán como copos de nieve en el mar.

Y no voy a lamentarme más por este tema.

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Write, write, write

Now I shouldn't... Shalln't.
I see people around me whose adaptive skills improve in time, while mine are stuck in the same place, even worsening.
I see them getting through adversities, caring little or nothing about the things I care. All of us feel in a different way, all of us think in a different way. And still, how can we be so different from each other, when we've been cut from the same pattern? Western society defers from the Asian, and even inside this continent there's a clear difference between Northern and Southern cultures. But regional? What are the determinants?
The rest of the people... They're a mistery to me.

Y ahora, a seguir empollando :)

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Which kind are you?


Great people talk about ideas
Average people talk about things
Small people talk about other people

Monday, 28 May 2012

You can be anything you want to be

Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be...

My silver lining


Sunday, 27 May 2012

"Doubt thou the stars are fire...



Illustration for William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV scene VII, by John Austen (1922)


...Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love"
 - Hamlet, from a letter read by Polonius, scene II