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The past couple of weeks have been punctuated by intense moments of hilarity and idiocy. The libertarian-values-espousing and self-styled newspaper Economist declared that it was time for Belgium to call it a day as “the country has become a freak of nature, a state in which power is so devolved that government is an abhorred…
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Whenever I set before myself the task of writing, I am unable to proceed. It is as if all inspiration is withdrawn and the opacous dell of my mind, that dark and damp abyss where imagination resides and ideas are generated is razed. Perhaps it would be pertinent to beg inspiration of the Muses, those…
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I am in the process of upgrading to a new ‘grid’ on my web host. The site may not work properly or simply cease to function at all. Bear with me during this transition.
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Stockholm is an amazing place. Known as the Venice of the North, the elegant city embraces fourteen islands, an archipelagic skein strewn where the fresh waters of Lake Mälaren meet the salty waters of the Baltic Sea. On the weekend, the city was alive, vivified by an intense and oblique sun and sense of urgency…
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Actualmente estoy leyendo un libro histórico sobre Cartago, en si ya conozco la historia. El autor se refiere a los fuentes perfunctorias, i.e., Polibio, Plutarco, Livio, etc. en el transcurso de la crónica. Aunque he leído a aquéllos, esta sinopsis moderna, y claro por qué no contemporania, me ha ayudado a nutrir aquella idea que…
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Stevie Nicks reminds me of seventeen, of gratuitously prurient poetry and salacious protruding pelvises that slope downward into jeans and the secrecy they afford. She reminds me of spring, parenthetical season of cool breezes and burning sun kisses. In particular, lazy days spent upon the Santa Fe Prep bleachers, cold metallic structure of dilapidated blue.…
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Los recuerdos empiezan a desvanecer con el tiempo y yo, yo me voy a marchar. Me gustaría existir atrapado eternamente en el oasis que es aquel instante donde vamos por la autopista rumbo a aquella ciudad a distancia. Era un verano brillante y árido y mientras yo frenéticamente buscaba un disco, sentía las rizas sobre…
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Mañana tendré el placer de visitar tres ciudades en tres distintos países. En la mañana tomaré un autobus a Dublín, República de Irlanda; el translado entre el Reino Unido e Irlanda siempre ocurre sin gran celebración — no hay marcador alguno que distinga a un país del otro. De ahí tomaré un vuelo hacia Praga,…
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The Bush administration took the United States to war on false pretenses. Not only had Saddam W.M.D., but he was also aiding Al-Qaeda. Of course there were no W.M.D., after all, America was the one that had armed Iraq when it was fighting Iran; it would have only required an inspection of the arm sales’…