Nowadays it is considered one should not teach literature as one teaches English writing or Spanish grammar, and it is an error. It is important to read people with a good style, not just pulp journalists, even if these are more “current.” I have been reading some really bad writing and I need to contemplate … More Francisco de Quevedo
And I will make Cuban pork shoulder in winter. Axé.
Apart from Mr. De Caro, 13 others are charged, including a priest. The full extent of the losses is not known — the Girolamini Library lacks a complete catalog — but prosecutors, with some bombast, have compared it to the destruction of Dresden during World War II. In 2012, the authorities recovered more than a thousand library … More Library noir
1967-1968, at Harvard. Axé.
Julia Kristeva remarks somewhere (my wording may not be exact) that “in every bourgeois family group there is one child who has a soul.” And thus we meet them, in novel after novel: not only those who go literally motherless and fatherless, but also the children “with souls” who, for precisely that reason, will be … More La orfandad
Axé.
I want this on DVD and cannot seem to get it — or find it complete online. Axé.
Si me preguntáis en dónde he estado debo decir “Sucede”. Debo de hablar del suelo que oscurecen las piedras, del río que durando se destruye: no sé sino las cosas que los pájaros pierden, el mar dejado atrás, o mi hermana llorando. Por qué tantas regiones, por qué un día se junta con un día? … More No hay olvido (Sonata)
The first day of Thanksgiving was made up of pork tenderloin, red cabbage, espinacas catalana, and corn and quinoa cake with hints of chocolate and lime. But a real Scandinavian holiday does not have just one dinner. Tomorrow we will have roast organic chicken with apples and prunes, more red cabbage, and orange squash. That … More The menus for fall
Her father received a terminal diagnosis so she pointed out to him that now, not later, was the time to do anything he has wanted to do, while he still could. He said there was a large museum in a palace, in Paris, with beautiful paintings, and he would like to go. He is a … More Musée du Louvre
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