January 2008
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You can go anywhere if you're someone else
Dylan and his music have become so ingrained in American pop culture that it’s easy to forget what a weirdo he was, personally and musically. Drawing from a folkie predilection for overstatement, he wrote tons of verses per song, in oblique and impenetrable metaphors, words collapsing upon words, barbed with inside jokes, private accusations, and masked characters. He sang these songs in a...
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Couldn't care less
Because we need something to look forward to. We need the dream. Once, long long ago, there were two types of people: those who could fool themselves into thinking life was worth living, and those who couldn’t. Needless to say, the second group died out really quickly. And the first group has had millions of years to perfect its technique for overlooking the bad in life....
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E' finito
It’s really, really deep,” said Naoko, choosing her words with care. She would speak that way sometimes, slowing down to find the exact word she was looking for. “But no one knows where it is,” she continued. “The one thing I know for sure is that it’s around here somewhere.” Hands thrust into the pockets of her tweed jacket, she smiled at me as if to say...
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Simulacros
Justamente es eso lo que atemorizaba a los iconoclastas, cuya querella milenaria es todavía la nuestra de hoy. Debido en gran parte a que presentían la todopoderosidad de los simulacros, la facultad que poseen de borrar a Dios de la conciencia de los hombres; la verdad que permiten entrever, destructora y anodadante, de que en el fondo Dios no ha sido nunca, que solo ha existido su simulacro, en...
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Requiescat In Pace
Corría el año 77 cuando los Hewlett decidieron celebrar por todo lo alto sus 25 años de casados. Invitaron a su hija menor, la soltera, a pasar con ellos dos de los diez días que iban a tomarse de vacaciones. Y esta foto fue tomada en la piscina del precioso hotel en que se alojaban, el Mirage Grand Hotel. Tres días después, la señora Hewlett descubría a su marido en actitud comprometida con una...