Friday, November 29, 2013

Intelectuales aburridos

“…era la verdad. Nos aburríamos. Leíamos y nos aburríamos. Los intelectuales. Porque no se puede leer todo el día y toda la noche. No se puede escribir todo el día y toda la noche.”
-Roberto Bolaño

(Nocturno de Chile, Anagrama, 123)

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Toda historia de amor tiene su final

“Las parejas se niegan a verlo, pero toda historia de amor tiene un final. Las uniones que duran la vida entera, son sobrevivientes, luchadores empecinados contra el desmoronamiento. Y una de las raras bellezas de la existencia es el empeño que ponen en no sucumbir. Pero el hecho permanecía: lo amoroso constituye una historia y las historias tienen siempre un desenlace, al final está la muerte física u otras de sus formas.”
-Eduardo Lalo
(Simone, Corregidor, 158)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Desde cierta otredad

“¿Es imposible escribir cuando la identidad no es compartida por nadie, cuando la inmensa mayoría de la gente no puede ni siquiera concebirte?"
-Eduardo Lalo
(Simone, Corregidor, 98

Monday, November 25, 2013

Del simulado populismo intelectual

“Siempre me ha sorprendido el simulado populismo con el que se nombra a muchas actividades intelectuales, como si se estuviera haciendo un compromiso o, peor aún, se sintiera embarazo de que para la inmensa mayoría este tipo de labor resulte innecesaria e incomprensible. Supongo que así se pretende reducir las distancias y mostrar que, pese a las apariencias, los deponentes son como cualquier hijo de vecino. No obstante, los que asisten a estas reuniones están lejos de ser gente común y corriente y en ellas nunca me he topado con los habitantes de mi calle.”
-Eduardo Lalo
(Simone, Corregidor, 54)

Saturday, November 23, 2013

En el cine

“Supongo que la conducta de mucha gente en un cine copia las horas pasadas diariamente ante los televisores y, debido a ello, suponen que es lícito hablar en voz alta, ponerse de pie, dejar que sus hijos toquen el cuello a los vecinos, pateen las butacas y corran por los pasillos.”
-Eduardo Lalo
(Simone, Corregidor, 47)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

There are other ways

“Despite the Bush administration’s claim that the twentieth century ended with a ‘decisive victory’ for tree markets over al forms of socialism, many Latin Americans understand perfectly well that it was authoritarian communism that failed in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia. Democratic socialism, meaning not only socialist parties brought to power through elections but also democratically run workplaces and land holdings, has worked in many regions, from Scandinavia to the thriving and historic cooperative economy in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region.”
-Naomi Klein

(Shock Doctrine, Metropolitan Books, 450)

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Cosas del sol

“¿No será que el sol es una especie de enfermedad que produce desde hace siglos la sensación de lo invivible?”
-Eduardo Lalo
(Simone, Corregidor, 28)

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Write 2 (Next on the blank page…)


In the upcoming months I will have the opportunity to be in a semi-complete state of isolation. That new phase will allow me to just write, and write mostly fiction. I will write fiction because I don’t have an option, like most writers, like the main character of "Simone"....and I will write it because I had it on pause for too much time. Now it is time to write all those things that I left incomplete because I feel incomplete, because my life is if not….and that will allow me to refresh the blog and post some of the upcoming material. So I hope that I will spare you the quotes soon enough. 2014, here we come.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Washington’s Influence

“…in South America, there was real progress toward democracy, which the Reagan Administration generally opposed, later taking credit for it when the process proved irresistible. Where Washington’s influence was greatest, progress was least, and where it occurred, the U.S. role was marginal or negative.”
-Noam Chomsky

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 96)

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Neoliberal Elections

“In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-part communist state than a genuine democracy.”
-Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 10)

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Neoliberalism: Enemy of the State

“…neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
- Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 11)

Monday, October 21, 2013

For those who "don't care about politics"

“The neoliberal system … has an important and necessary byproduct-a depoliticized citizenry marked by apathy and cynicism.”
- Robert W. McChesney

(Profit Over People, Seven Stories Press, 10)

Sunday, October 20, 2013

“Por mucho que el hombre amplíe sus conocimientos y se muestre todo lo objetivo que quiera, el único fruto que consigue no es más que su propia biografía.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

(Humano, Gradifco, 253)

“If artworks are answers to their own questions, they themselves thereby truly become questions.”
-Theodor W. Adorno

(Aesthetic Theory, U of Minnesota Press, 6)

Saturday, October 19, 2013

“It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.”
-Theodor W. Adorno

(Aesthetic Theory, U of Minnesota Press, 1)

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Opposing War

“There are thousand who are in opinion opposed to…war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade…”
-Henry David Thoreau

(On Civil Disobedience, Classic Books America, 6)

Monday, October 07, 2013

Para el autodesprecio

“El remedio más seguro para esa enfermedad masculina que es el autodesprecio consiste en ser amado por una mujer inteligente.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

Saturday, October 05, 2013

De los padres

“Los padres tienen mucho que hacer para expiar el hecho de tener hijos.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

Sunday, September 29, 2013

La mujer perfecta

“La mujer perfecta es un tipo de ser humano superior al varón perfecto, aunque también más escaso.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
(Humano, Gradifco, 209)

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Men

“Men. You all say the same stupid shit. ‘The world is meaningless. We all die alone. Nothing means anything.’”
-Hank Moody

(God Hates us all, Simon Spotlight, 172)