@siellosvieran "I'll stick out here and do my own work. Finish out this page. I feel really very good today. The flow of story is coming back to me. The feel of the people. And the feel of speech and the flow of action." (p.65)
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David Silva Johnson
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David Silva Johnson
@dasijoh
Abogado, Urbanista (PhD UCL), leo y subrayo libros 📚 https://t.co/l53e0rhDdj — https://t.co/XJbxwPtANS
Chile Katılım Mayıs 2012
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"My whole nervous system is battered. Don't know why. I hope I am not headed for a nervous breakdown. Lack of solitude is doing it I think."
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Neil Young, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Santana, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash, The Edge and more performing "All Along the Watchtower" on a Jimi Hendrix tribute, 1992.
It doesn't get any better than this...
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"He shook his head (Armansky). He could not accept that she was an insane mass murderer. Salander never did anything against her will or without thinking through the consequences.
Peculiar -yes. Insane -no."
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"There are no innocents. There are, however, differente degrees of responsibility."
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"Charlotte se pasa semanas pintando, una tras otra, naturalezas muertas.
En alemán, naturaleza muerta se dice Stilleben: vida silenciosa.
La vida silenciosa, esa expresión que le encaja tan bien a Charlotte."
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"Charlotte admiraba profundamente a Walter Benjamin.
Había leído sus libros y le encantaba oír sus crónicas por la radio.
Una de sus frases podría haber sido el lema de la obra de Charlotte:
La auténtica medida de la vida es el recuerdo."
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"Charlotte está delante de la consulta de Moridis.
Llama a la puerta.
Le abre el doctor en persona.
Ah... Charlotte, dice.
Ella no contesta.
Lo mira.
Y le alarga la maleta.
Diciendo es toda mi vida."
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"En sus conversaciones hay muchos espacios en blanco
Son palabras, lanzadas aquí y allá, desordenadamente
¿Por eso se besan las personas?
¿Para romper el silencio?"
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Los libros del año según @ElMercurio_cl, aunque no se destaque, @PenaFletcher arrasó con 5 menciones por su perfil de Mariana Callejas. En lo malo, o más malo, impacta la mezquindad con la literatura chilena, incluso se vota por libros 2023, tan mala está la cosa, no creo
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" ... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I have been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others; just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn´t need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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"So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at."
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"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
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"Motionless, the tall buzzards hang in soaring circles, the clouds giving them an illusion of retrograde."
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"Pa stands beside the bed. From behind his leg Vardaman peers, with his round head and his eyes round and his mouth beginning to open. She looks at pa; all her failing life appears to drain into her eyes, urgent, irremediable. "It´s Jewel she wants", Dewey Dell says."
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"Jewel", I say, "do you know that Addie Bundren is going to die? Addie Bundren is going to die?"
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"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That´s how the world is going to end."
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