I find it interesting to find interesting people. But these dark glasses season has got to stop, a little sunlight and suddenly non-vampires turn vampires, the sun turns into an anathema and the curses begin. Maybe it’s all in the squinting. Sweden…
Read MoreLa verdad sea dicha, y conste que no digo que la diga, me gusta ver a las mujeres. No, me encanta. Son hermosas, me gusta, y siempre veo algo hermoso en ellas. Aquí en Escandinavia me llaman la atención por la frialdad esa que muestran, parece que no,…
Read MoreWell, being a writer is far more difficult than expected, and this at the Creative Writing level. It occurred to me the reason, the possible raison d’íªtre, that many writers lead a life that is tumultuous is because to many this is the only source…
Read MoreWent out for a stroll and decided to take a book with me, so I took David Lodge along. I started reading Consciousness and the Novel (2002) in the beginning of the term. I found it in the New Books section of Stockholms Library. Of eleven essays, two I…
Read MoreBueno, me acuerdo de las hormigas de mi niñez allá por la calle tercera, en casa de Doña Toyana. Nos entreteniamos con las rojitas, unos esquivandoles el paso, otros maltratandolas, causando así estragos éticos de que si era “bueno” matarlas…
Read MoreWent out for a stroll and decided to take a book with me, so I took David Lodge along. I started reading Consciousness and the Novel (2002) in the beginning of the term. I found it in the New Books section of Stockholm’s Library. Of eleven essays,…
Read MoreThe soft velvet fabric of the sofa invited relaxation. The bar atmosphere was soothing and not too many people smoked. Chris and Licia sat by one of the sofas, ordered some red wine and began talking. They spoke of mundane things like the horoscope, what…
Read Morea regañadientes
Bueno, el ejercicio este de escribir diario algo tiene sus resultados, el flujo de las palabras se me salen sin mayor esfuerzo, ahora sólo tengo que controlar las teclas. Si viesen los errores que cometo antes de corregirlos, es una verdadera lata esto…
Read MoreEminent Victorians
I’ve read thus far in this term several auto/biographies/memoirs from the Victorian period, Edmund Gosse, Robert Graves, Strachey, Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, Oliphant, Autobiography. Ed. Elizabeth Jay, and Virgina Woolf, The Art of…
Read MoreThe metereologist had predicted sunny weather with partial clouds during and only in the afternoon. The city’s only meteorologist had a reputation to keep and almost all of his weather instruments, financed by the city’s coffers, were…
Read MoreHe talks about being a puritan and a Catholic at the same time, and while he has puritan behavior he is a catholic. The real mother and father of the likes of him, an orphan whose real mother shuns. Brown is understandably a book about the many myths…
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