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Just yesterday, tolling bells announced the death of the pope. He had died in the course of the night. The Lord had beckoned, and he faithfully answered. The death not only liberated the pope from his suffering, but also liberated the Church from the predicament it had been forced into, i.e., if the pope were…
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An Internet address; everyone has one now. It’s nothing special. I remember shelling out $72 to register my first .com, mind you I already had a ccTLD! And then there were the costs of renewing! It was all a tad expensive, thanks to the monopoly Network Solutions had on the .com and .net at the…
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At 4:21 am I set out for Bangladesh. It was the 14th of the December 2004. I did not sleep through that night, choosing to dedicate what hours remained to washing my dorm room’s floor, manically forcing what clothes remained into my suitcases, or walking up and down campus, staring at the stars and the…
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Hola, no sé donde empezar. Quizá con mi nombre, aunque éste ya no importa; he cambiado de identidad una infinidad de veces; ¿aún lo recuerdo?. Soy anarquista; todos en mi familia lo han sido; llámemosle profesión hereditaria. También, todos han padecido de problemas del corazón; entonces, sólo es cuestión de tiempo para que el médico…
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Communism is truly a humanist movement, a result of rampant and unrestrained industrialization. Early industrialization was highly exploitive; it was a period of extensive misery. Workers, especially women and children, were exploited under the pretense of ‘equal and free competition for all’. It was not uncommon for children to work 15 hour days, something that…
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El tiempo se acelera y yo, ¿a caso me voy quedando atrás? Alguna vez, en aquel pasado cuya lejanía no es aún significante y, entonces, le rinde intimamente palpatible, soñaba con mudarme a Europa. El lugar exacto no importaba en sí y cuando llegase la oportunidad, entonces dedicaría unos segundos en decedirlo; no era netamente…
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Life moves apace, the paucity of stories is inexplicable. Each day is a new experience; the same old degenerate and consumed world is presented anew but always unfolding uniquely. In a sense, I have ceased to be myself – temporarily. I am working on this small essay. It is nothing extraordinary and I seem at…
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Tengo una lista de todas aquellas cosas que debo de hacer. Sólo falta agregar el deseo a todo ello; tan sólo. Es cuestión de dedicarme a ello, las ganas vendrán después. La historia es un tema interesante, aunque sería correcto decir historias porque ‘Historia’ no existe en sí; la humanidad ha sido progenitora de una…
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“The advent of Christianity had a profound effect on the minds of men; especially its belief in a brotherhood of man. The vulgar rabble was elevated to the level of the noble. And of a sudden, everyone felt compelled to speak his mind, i.e., share his opinion, after all, it was right!” In the end,…
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Te tengo en la mente; te pienso y en occasión, te siento. No es nada placentero, algo singularmente repulsivo. Existes sólo en imagen, en aquel ícono enigmatico y agotado; eres el edificio que pretende a rascacielos, mas es insignificante y su pantomina de manos estrechadas hacia lo subliminal se ensucia en el fango, en lo…