Blind

A literary personage is neither the psychological outcome of an eery aery fluke, which may be termed “fiction”, nor bread swelled by merely leavening dough with the sour sweat of our foreshadowing brows, which can be named “mimesis”. Writers of the world, we’ve a bunch of easy techniques to hoist plausible personages. In my sight, for instance, Roland Barthes’ Mythologies has been a top-notch well of aesthetic wisdom. Furthermore, it contains, in a buttonholing way, some well wrought literary tricks.

Ten years have elapsed since I resolved to plunge into my memory the ensuing noserag-like fourteen sonnets written by Garcilaso de la Vega (1503, Toledo, Spain; 1536, Nice, France), with which one can palliate the snotgreen begotten by the wrack-monger blind Hap, by stubbornness, by the bedeviled industrial Romanticism swilled in Germany and France, by the stilted deaf Providence philosophised by Christianity, and by the uncouth ever-seething heathenism concocted by the warp of our wits. Such are the main themes of his poetry, by the way.

This piebald comparative inquiry is the kernel of two experiences with two wenches. As I was gallivanting across a rut of kennels of a street of New York, I saw a hairlanked black woman, and I wooed her by using my most poetical and knightly resources and polite letters. Amid that hectic cityscape she accepted my words, which at that moment were only an echo of a line of a poem written by Lord Byron: “She walks in beauty, like the night” (1). She smiled, and we are good records of love now. I did the same thing in Mexico with another coloured lass. Decorum does not permit me to describe her barbarian reaction.

I pretend to teach how I perused public opinion and caused social conflicts when I was a political propagandist. I will not do this anymore. I am repented. Our mind displays three fundamental operations, which could be called, for the sake of simplicity, “unions”, “separations” and “comparisons”. These mental movements carry two paradigms, namely: monism and atomism.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica poorly affirms that Melville's Moby Dick (1) admits “numerous, if not seemingly infinite, readings” (2), and that the keys to understand it are the biblical verses and names. This suggestion is based in the old hermeneutics, whose three mainstays are: “mystice”, “allegorice”, “symbolice”.

In the last days I read the American press, and I remembered an old, classic problem between the Humanities and the Natural Sciences, which I can formulate in the next fast question: are the Humanities useless for Natural Sciences? Leon Wieseltier says^[1] (1) that the Humanities, in the technocratic world, without solid reasons have been accused of having a “nonutilitarian character”. With criticism he remarks, besides, “the essential inability of the natural sciences to offer a satisfactory explanation” of human concerns, such as Soul, God, World, Freedom, abortion, euthanasia, etc. He argues that “the character of our society cannot be determined by engineers”. He says that “no distinction between human and machine”, as a director of engineering at Google wants, is nonsense.

Los predicados usuales en matemáticas, es decir, en geometría y en aritmética, dice Kant que son útiles al estudiar objetos físicos, que se “conocen”, mas no al hablar de ideas, que sólo se “piensan” y que carecen de objeto sensorial correspondiente. Aplicar dichos predicados en ideas, sugerimos, es causa de supersticiones, que provocan o contradicción moral, es decir, hipocresía, o indiferentismo cultual.

Ha abandonado temporalmente su hermosa casa del 'Triball' madrileño para vivir, por razones de salud, en un pueblo pequeño del noreste de la Comunidad de Madrid. Desde allí se ha desplazado Lara López para conversar en una terraza del barrio de La Latina, vestida de negro en pleno verano, aunque el modelo sin mangas que ha elegido permite ver la libélula que lleva tatuada en el brazo. Una potente carta de presentación para hablar de su poemario "Insectos", publicado por papelesmínimos.

El regreso de Gore Verbinski al terror luego de la recordada La Llamada (The Ring, 2002), sin duda el mejor y más interesante exponente de la multitud de remakes y exploitations hollywoodenses de la década pasada en torno al J-Horror, es una de las películas más alucinantes y extrañas que haya entregado el mainstream de los últimos años.

The following topics constitute the structure of the digital reputation of a public figure, and are either solid props to ameliorate or sustain it or accursed arms to destroy it. The young technocratic masses of our age feel they do not have some place in our modern economical and political structure, and that they are foredoomed to material poverty and invisibility, and by reason of this they eagerly applaud social media personages who appear before them relishing lyrical pleasures, e.g., a costly goblet of wine, a pied dash, a Cuban cigarette, or a bottle of whiskey with more peripeteias than them.

Jorge Luis Borges asseverates in scarce, arid lines, that F. S. Fitzgerald, whose vital mission was “to be brave”, represents, more than other authors of the American Jazz Age, the World War I´s post-days^[1]. The Great Gatsby^[2], ergo, is a historic document. H. L. Mencken declares that the Gatsby´s plot is just a “glorified anecdote” developed in “bawdy house parties”, in colorful fallacies that are inhabited by “marionettes”. Such an anecdote is valuable, he affirms, due to “the charm and beauty of the writing”, due to the sentences, which “roll along smoothly, sparklingly, variously”^[3]. We will test these three adjectives.

Distribuida por Warner Bros Pictures Spain, se estrena el viernes día 28 de febrero “Cuestión de Justicia”, coescrita y dirigida por Destin Daniel Cretton, interesante película basada en una historia real.

Distribuida por Sony Pictures Releasing de España, se estrena el viernes día 6 de octubre “Blade Runner 2049”, dirigida por Denis Villeneuve, secuela de la aclamada película de 1982.