Sunday, September 18, 2005

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Guilty by suspicion
(Warning: mixed autobiographical post)

Being about to start a short vacation, I am dam Pheidippides effect, an effect that should be recognized by physicians and social security.
Athenian messenger Pheidippides was that he ran 150 kms. for help to the Spartans before the impending battle between Greeks and Persians would happen in Marathon. After the battle ran another 42 kms. to Athens to announce victory. After fulfilling his mission, to finally rest ... forever. The story is probably one of the many Greek myths is of little importance as I, like many others, I am easy prey Pheidippides effect: while I am working I am in perfect state, but as the holidays start, I get sick. Strictly my holidays have not begun, but before its imminent and I am sneezing and coughing incessantly like a flooded engine.

This reminds me that during the first week of my vacation earlier suffered all kinds of ailments and even small encounters with nature. And since then I have the conviction that only by achieving something similar concentration to the physical. This concentration should be mainly visual and, preferably, linguistics: a written page or computer screen produce the miracle of health. I have even found that in my case, the headache is good for work because such is the concentration needed to overcome the pain threshold that, once achieved, the results are remarkable: the pain is somewhere and I see it but, above or below, think of it.

this will seem horrible to say, not so much. Beyond those who enjoy watching the endless horizon of ocean, or the vast darkness of the night sky. To me, causing me anxiety and something like an offset that some consider enriching but I feel useless and uninteresting.

Last summer I went on vacation to San Francisco, Maldonado. The house was the last of the block, had two neighbors, nearby. The house was on the side of a hill that was all that was visible from there. Cerro, horses and waders. Very nice everything.

As I said, when I'm calm in those situations, I get anxious. Not that I'm afraid, but the quiet fire my imagination into areas unheard. Something like a calm paranoia, an impotent waste delivered to the odds. I look at the clear sky and imagine an alien spaceship that comes to look, or a massive meteorite whose destination says "Piriápolis and Surrounding Areas" or a burning plane going down, down (and I swear that in previous aircraft rental episode was almost true .) And if outside the sound of a cricket becomes extremely insistent, imagine an invasion angry crickets imminent or single cricket giant has decided to take revenge on a massacre of its kind.

I will say that the improbable of situations imagined child gives me a bonus, except for a severe crack in reality, the imagined is not true. Or I think unconsciously imagining unlikely misfortune away the likely trust. But that is what would a psychoanalyst, whose diagnoses are operational simplifications more complex mental mechanisms.

All this reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie I watched for a while. I do not know entirely what it was called that movie, but I remember clearly that she talked about the polygraph test. Of a man who despite being convicted agree to submit to the test and not passing, or a man who despite being innocent not pass the test. And I thought I would not in any way. Yo, before a test, I am always guilty even being more innocent than Heidi.

What do you see my last vacation, anxiety during states of rest and Clint E.? Well, during that vacation was, one night, sitting in the back of the house, Remo, after roasting pieces of meat on the grill with some skill. The night was clear and there was a strong and warm north wind. I said that the heat that brought the breeze was the heat of Artigas, Tacuarembó, a second-hand heat, as when one enters a movie theater and the second function is all breathed air, and gone through countless bellows half outside and everything is awful. So I went to the bathroom. When he returned, Remo was sitting very still, his back to me. On the table was the knife I had used for cooking. And I thought, "if while I was in the bathroom, someone came between the acacias and killed him with the knife, nobody on this earth believe it was not me and I expect many years in prison." Remo was alive was a kind and not just because I hope to live many years. However, that did not stop that for days had the certainty that the possibility, however slight, is one of the most powerful forces to which individuals are subjected and to which, are most vulnerable.

When this happens, reassure me thinking that in my case, the probability is a friendly force, as I am not a person or essentially fortunate or unfortunate, and always applies the average. That is, at least in my case, I hope that it becomes possible not probable. And is that one of the few magical beliefs that I have is that the fortune and misfortune, for some individuals, statistics do not apply. This is a religious statement, the statistics go crazy when to fortune and misfortune are concerned. In these cases, the dealer loses.

All this comes about because the possibility, however improbable, is the force that is at the root of the absolute tragedy. The probability should be taken by humans as part of the human avatar. The possibility and the exceptions are much more frightening statistics and the mere existence of the human race is an example too obvious to ignore.

Monday, September 5, 2005

How To Make Gps Phone Cheats Work



War on (human)

disasters hard to summon all of us human. And the hurricane that struck New Orleans has exposed the misery of not only people, but fundamentally government and American media. Unfortunately, this natural disaster has reminded me of a book I hated every minute length of his reading: "Blindness" by José Saramago.

Saramago is, like all utopian communist, a moralist. And his book is a moralistic so unbearable that did furious. I assumed that books like these and could not be written. He assumed that because we all know how men behave in cases of extreme need and what writing a book with few literary virtues and excessive doses of obvious moral. I still think that Saramago's book is crap. But do not stop to recognize that it may be a useful book if someday exterminate these natural disasters to humans (and I am convinced that we humans exterminate a natural phenomenon) and is taken as a history book for any alien who falls in these parts. Do not let high literary virtues of the species, but will give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe usual behavior of man to an alien civilization that can not decode more complex literary works. I would like to have saved the complete works of Shakespeare, but if you lucky to be saved on "Blindness" and "Siddhartha", I prefer the first. And hopefully removing all the history books, which as Batlle know, seem to be written by Argentines.

"This disaster that moves the world "has shown several things: the U.S. government's apathy about their own people, the racism that is endemic in American society, the poverty in which much of the population and (again) the world's attention it arouses such a phenomenon when it happens in the U.S..
As obvious as Saramago's novel, but that still surprises many people (my father, for example, thought that there was little poor people in the U.S. and not yet inefficiency can believe the U.S. government to assist its citizens).

To date the disaster I had earned as much attention as in the past some flooding in India, or un terremoto en Turquía. Puede sonar desalmado, pero lo que verdaderamente me preocupa es que aparezca Alex Chilton.

Sunday, August 7, 2005

Real Estate Agent Intorductio Letter



Lo que hago cuando no hago nada

Los selectos lectores de este blog habrán notado la ausencia de posts entre junio y agosto. Los imagino a todos contentísimos suponiendo que ahora sí vale ventar. ¡Pues no!
Ghetta no descansa, sino que entra a veces en modo "por defecto". Y su modo por defecto, es decir lo que hace por amor al arte o porque le divierte -tanto en el ejercicio de sus escasas dotes verbales o lo que haría si tuviera el privilegio de correr en Fórmula 1- es volcar al español. Es decir que cuando no tengo nada que hacer, traduzco. O más Well, when I have no obligation to translate by translating for pleasure. Bread and bread, rains but it pours, after shock sticks, rice again, yeap.

time ago I started to translate one of Salinger's stories appeared in the New Yorker but has not been published in book form. Which completes the saga of the Glass. The only handwriting written by Seymour (although this assertion is problematic).

The story is Hapworth 16, 1924. You can download it in English here. (As this link works somewhat erratically and then try to find a nice free webhosting, I opted for the easiest solution: blogger. It is not easy but at least works )

The preliminary warning is that Hapworth is a story just for fans of Salinger.
Any reader who is unfamiliar with the Glass family will find not only incomprehensible but unfriendly, poorly written, pretentious, false and even ridiculous. Indeed many fans of Salinger think exactly the same. I do not.

At some point I thought to write something about Hapworth. It's almost ridiculous, but at this stage know this better than any other text of Salinger. Clear that the text alone does not deserve that relevant, but I've come to understand things I can not explain, because I dare to say that not even fully in the text. I also know that there are many parts that must be translated into a slight or even mistakenly. I can not fix a conscience, because it translates back and then conclude by leaving it in original language. Fall in what Borges tale, so this is a map Hapworth translated, not the territory. The pathetic translation we used to have make any errors that may have made at most come to join in the universal history of infamy, but at least I have not taken a good sum for not making them.

is impossible for me to reconstruct the various levels of sympathy and antipathy Hapworth has caused me. I believe this to translate has given me a clear sign of the ease with which one approaches a text in a simple reading. If you have translated each book I've reviewed would review each of my legs up. Eventually
have come to love and enjoy Hapworth sling. I think this text is in no way the best of Salinger, but obviously could not be. I also think it would be a very significant act of Salinger if it ever publish a book (from 1997 announcing its publication in Orchid Press and over and over again is delayed now until 2006. I believe that publication date is the one that Salinger thinks he will die).
I have read several reviews Hapworth, I've been salingeritas fan forums and I think no one has understood a lot this story. Almost everyone makes fun of it or refuse to consider it part of the corpus salingeriano, which is terribly stupid. Oh, of course, the only one I understood ME. Well, you may well be that this is the only act of total arrogance to commit in my life, so no longer comical and banal. It is almost honorable and may be a good epitaph: "The only act of pride he made in his life was believed to have been the only one who understood Hapworth 16, 1924."

There are many aspects to a story again Hapworth fundamental. The most important is to supplement the Glass saga, though I suspect JDS has written much about them (some say that Salinger has not stopped writing since she published her last book. You appear to have a huge amount of manuscripts classified colors: what is to burn with a color, to be published posthumously with another, which must be donated to other libraries, and so on).
Another interesting thing about this story is that, except for brief intervention of Buddy's first, is the only one that is written almost entirely by the pen of Seymour. While this aspect is important is not to the extent that critics have pointed JDS. Back in 'Seymour, an introduction' Buddy Seymour reproduced letters and 'Lift, carpenters' There are long passages from his diary. There is great consistency between Seymour Hapworth the letter and the other examples of your writing and while Hapworth, Seymour expands on the theme of the embodiments, this theme is also present in other of his letters. What just might be new is that Hapworth, Seymour reveals not only a child can see the past and the future but realize their visions. But in truth, the visionary Seymour has already been discussed before: see, if not all of the first part of "Raise ..."

I do not want to spoil the reading talking too much about the story. And you read it, but from my point of view, one of the most beautiful is when Hapworth Seymour referred to his vision of Buddy writing a story in the future and their hopes for the approach of the narrative. In fact, it is this vision that leads to transcribe Buddy Seymour's letter to us. And I can not resist the temptation to say that the episode of the rabbit at the end of the letter made me laugh to tears. Do not know what I mean? Well stop right here reading this post and go to dive into Hapworth.

Salinger has been achieved with a rather small and work extremely limited what other talented writers has led them to having to build an entire world. Stop a minute to Tolkien. Not for me to diminish the obvious talent behind his work but will work! He invented things, worlds, alphabets, languages! He has written thousands of pages to provide a framework for the fight between good and evil! However, Salinger has created an equally or more fascinating universe in a grain of sand, has put the universe at the top of a salt shaker. And indeed, Hapworth are more than 25,000 words open up a world of possibilities. Each piece in the series changes all this, even stories that do not refer to Glass. I know that from now reread all Salinger and in that sense I say that the story is just for fans. But back to Hapworth ...

There is a critical, petty, which has been made regarding Hapworth Salinger. It has been said that the whole saga of the Glass is an attempt to mystify Buddy and his brother Hapworth is the result of complacency and Machiavellian Salinger, considered as the real person behind Buddy Glass, and Seymour not does nothing but praise for his younger brother and also because writing Hapworth Seymour in the distance too the myth built by Buddy. According to these critics Hapworth reading should be: "All credit goes to Buddy" or "Buddy is the real genius." However I think it is Hapworth becomes plausible story that Seymour and Buddy is a gesture aimed at his brother put in perspective. That's why this story can not be one of the best in Salinger: is a letter from a child without the intervention of Buddy as a storyteller. The relevance of the story is not on your bill and literary critic or the reader will not see this should not understand anything. Criticism is fun (in the sense of distraction) discussing whether Buddy is the alter-ego of Salinger and, as you well know, this is an absolutely irrelevant. Best would make a stop in analyzing the great sense of humor Salinger to publish this letter to Seymour. It is, in all cases, the Seymour most immediate and most poignant, at times almost ridiculous. Seymour's prose is pretentious, yes it is, but uh, right! Is it that they are all blind? There's nothing funnier that Seymour, or more tragic, or more tender, no more problematic. It is in this letter where Seymour is terribly human, more fully divine. Seymour is in every sense of the vehicle, equally shaken by the passions and visions.

Here I go back to that saying that this text is not one of the best of Salinger. I would say it is very difficult to establish because it would have to completely redefine the literature as such. Perhaps Hapworth excellence is in the Salinger will be less good in order to complete the portrait of a character. No longer a gift and an act of literary masters be less teacher when the text demands. In that sense, Hapworth masterfully fulfills its purpose. The result is not palatable to the common readers is understandable because this story is dedicated to those who are willing to see literature not only as a text. Or remove the pleasure of the text of the altar of the saga. It is not literature, is practically metaliterature.

OK, all this would make me expelled from the Faculty of Humanities (not required, and pressed the autoeject). I hope you will forgive me when I say that is almost metaliterature Hapworth or no intervention of a narrator and is obviously not metaliterature and if there is a narrator or two may be the subject of endless discussions. That's what I mean when I say it is difficult to judge the literary quality of Hapworth or must be judged taking into account the different levels that move the categories of author and narrator and there is even a third category, which is that of writer. And if all this were not enough, the story has its little mysteries that my limited understanding could not figure out and maybe you can. For example, the name of the story. Why Hapworth 16, 1924? Ah, I can not bear to think that perhaps the meaning is crystal clear and I am simply in the dark (Tom Lantern help me!). OK, Hapworth is the place, maybe it's 16 days and 1924 is undoubtedly the year. But what month? Is it wrong to Seymour due to the structure of the header of your letter?. Another interesting aspect has to do with the vision of Seymour about his death or for Buddy since he said that one of the two will be present at the death of another. We know that Buddy was not in the suicide of Seymour. Is it wrong vision of Seymour? Or is this somehow Seymour when Buddy die? Okay, no answers, but I can not stop thinking about these issues ... And we can still discuss what Buddy says "Lift up ...", that Seymour committed suicide in" A Perfect Day ... " is much closer to Buddy than Seymour or even discuss if, when Buddy said that readers of the novel only published tell you that the protagonist has a lot of Seymour-less readers who have actually met Seymour, is valid to assume you're talking about Holden Caulfield. Go to the genius of JD Salinger! Take off your hat, JRR Tolkien!

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Emu Bronte Or Emu Stinger



When neither death equals

Interestingly, the missing were more equal when they ruled who do not draw the ethical superiority of its ideology of equality among men.
the manner of class genocide, there are missing class A.
Let the dead bury the dead.

Today I did a survey on the government. I asked

a) Do you think the government is fulfilling its promises?
b) Do you think this government is like the previous?
c) Do you think this government is worse than previous ones?

not know what to say. I believe this government is unreadable because it reads wrong. Even can not distinguish between fiction and reality. Cree Seagal's film is true, in the same way he thinks is true that is bringing some justice for the disappeared, when in fact, is perpetrating the worst injustices. Much more unfair to leave all the same on earth. Or all missing and all wanted. Will there ever a victim of human injustice renounce individual justice for the sake of education ethics of all mankind? I think that's the plot of a historical novel, somewhat cubist in its structure, called the New Testament. But you can not be chosen if the difference is not accepted. We are all equal but some are more equal than others.

While this government is to write, I will be illiterate. Include me out.