Sotto la luna Con Maqroll il Gabbiere Ci sono anch’io.
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Sotto la luna Con Maqroll il Gabbiere Ci sono anch’io.
( BaoTzeBao, 08.08.2020 - 7.10, Napoleonica )
FIVE FINGERS, FIVE HANDS You found the five sheets of A3 paper inside an atlas, covering the entirety of Poland. Ever since school, being particularly keen on history, Poland, apart from their poets and footballers, often made you think of bad luck.
Un viaje con Maqroll el Gaviero
Hoy tengo una recomendación literaria para ti y una selección de frases de Álvaro Mutis.
En 2001 Álvaro Mutis murió. Yo no lo conocía y nunca lo había leído antes de esa fecha. Había escuchado algo sobre él pero nada que me llevara a su literatura. En esa ocasión, El País publicó un artículo especial sobre la vida del escritor colombiano y por ese entonces todos los domingos yo leía ese periódico. En fin, que leí el texto y hubo un nombre que quedó grabado en mi mente: Maqroll. El…
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Una tabla de madera, sobre la entrada, tenía el nombre del lugar en letras rojas, ya desteñidas: "La Nieve del Almirante". Al tendero se le conocía como el Gaviero y se ignoraban por completo su origen y su pasado.
-Álvaro Mutis.
ABDUL -- En primer lugar, no hay tal fruto prohibido. Usted lo cita como puro recurso retórico. Luego, queda lo hecho, tal cual, sin calificación ni medida. Lo que se vivió como un fruto mondo, absoluto, devorado en la plenitud de su sabor y de su pulpa, listo para transformarse en el equívoco proceso de la memoria hasta ser puro olvido. Algo vivido así no puede dejar rastros de culpa ni ser sometido a la prueba de la moral. Eso es claro, ¿verdad?
Margins
Sometimes I have the impression that everything that happens in my life comes from a marginal, ominous place no one else knows, a place that has always been meant only for me. I've grown so used to the idea that it seems to me I enjoy my brief moments of happiness and well-being with an intensity unknown to other mortals. Those moments restore me, they are necessary to me, and each time they occur I feel as if the world were just beginning.
From Alvaro Mutis's Amirbar, in The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Inevitabilities
I interrupted to ask if every mine in the area necessarily had a sinister history. "Yes, senor, every mine has its dead. That's the way it is. An Indian who lived around here and told fortunes used to say there's no gold without a corpse, no woman without a secret."
From Alvaro Mutis's Amirbar, in The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
You should always trust Maqroll the Gaviero
I pointed out that the living are often deader than the characters in books, and I was so convinced of this fact that I couldn't even listen carefully to other people anymore, because I was afraid I'd wake them.
From Alvaro Mutis's Amirbar, in The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll