Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Double Vision With Labyrinthitis




find me smiling.

Monday, June 28, 2010

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THE FAMOUS PHRASES COMMENTED

Again with you, dear Chestertonian friends, for these corners of the blogosphere, and once again with another installment of annotated quotations.

This time I picked one of the great "rival" dialectical Chesterton . I mean the author of some of the most famous and witty British science fiction novels of the last century: Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), creator of works like The Time Machine , Wars Worlds, The Invisible Man or The Island of Dr. Moreau , among many others.

Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc were determined opponents of some of the ideas of Wells, who belonged to the Fabian Society, that is, the germ of the Socialist Labour Party, or England. They objected in particular to the political ideas of Wells and its concept of the history of humanity, expressed in the work The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (1920), to which he replied with his Chesterton The Outline of Sanity (1927) where he outlined his theories about Distributism.

But all is not what I wanted to speak. This has been a slight introduction to Wells and his relationship with Belloc and Chesterton that despite the difference of ideas, was always cordial and friendly. I wanted to bring you some of the most famous phrases of Wells for comment. Here they are:

1 .- Our true nationality is mankind . thinking is very successful and certainly would think that even Chesterton agreed with his compatriot. Today we live in times of exacerbated nationalism (indeed, it seems he went out the court's ruling on the ill-fated Constitutional Statute of Catalonia), think that our nationality is just one of humanity is encouraging.

2.-Human history is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe. We can see here some pessimism from Wells, but not without reason: human history, especially twentieth century has been a succession of disasters with some periods peace and enlightenment. This struggle between enlightenment and barbarism may be repeated until the end of the world and is innate to the human species. Do not know how to live without fighting ...

3 .- Success: that thing vulgar, distasteful and irritating that so many envy. All we want to succeed in life, be respected by our peers, to be loved, that we listen. And many, no doubt, want to succeed. Today more than ever, we live in society of the image, it appears that without success you're a nobody. For Wells the success (and he enjoyed by far) was a bit distasteful. In contrast, nowadays many people yearn to have that success in life.

4.-The youth lives on hope, old age, of memory. So it seems. While we're young everything seems hopeful, cheerful, vital. We are full of strength and optimism and we are able to achieve what we set out. Then comes old age and we settled the body and spirit. We are left with memories of what has been achieved and what could be obtained.

5 .- Love is the greatest thing of all, far more than the same fame. I think everyone will agree that there is nothing bigger or more powerful, or more sublime and necessary for man to love. Without love we are nothing. You can be the most famous man and acclaimed the world that if you have not love, has nothing and lacks everything.

Nothing more for now. I hope These phrases you like them. Take care much and God bless.

Yina Coronation Street Boob




Story of occurrences with two subjects and enjoy the third conjugation: to exist, match, discover, collect, share, merge, build, say, converge, join, stir, feel ... live ... flow ...

Monday, June 14, 2010

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SPARKLER CHESTERTON AS ALMOST SUMMER

Just another ten days to officially start the summer, although the weather conditions in recent weeks one can not say whether we are in summer or spring or who knows what . Before we caught the summer with their heat, I wanted to leave a written record here a few flashes of today for comment among all, if it seems right.

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The latest polls, those of the daily El Mundo , El Pais and ABC , among others, indicate that the PP would obtain a comfortable majority, perhaps majority, if during these days the general election. But very recently, these differences between the PSOE and PP were not so bulky. Seems to have been the famous "snip" of the government-imposed by the European authorities, what has precipitated this sudden change in public opinion. There are still two years of Legislature and anything can happen, but the wear on the PSOE is somewhat difficult to reverse. The Government is hereby Take the labor reform and not have it easy, given the union's demands. Just today the unions CCOO and UGT have announced the convening of a general strike, perhaps after the summer. Who knows if they or will not, given the fiasco that was the last strike on 8 officials. We'll see how is everything but a hot autumn is coming.

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Speaking of elections, just meet up results elections in Belgium. Flemish separatists have gained NV-A (New Flemish Alliance) and it seems that the prospects of government are complicated. Furthermore, in July assumes the EU presidency Belgium and then may not have formed a government. It is regrettable that a country as culturally advanced as Belgium is on the verge of disappearing because of the endless concessions to the nationalists. Something similar could happen here if not to stem the cravings of the separatists. So Asterix can be difficult to travel back to Belgium ...

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began on day 11 World Cup in South Africa. The eyes of millions of football fans will be glued to the TV for a month. The English team is already in South Africa and this time there is a kind of confidence and widespread optimism about the possibilities of Spain to win the World Cup. As long as you do not look ridiculous and do a good job, I am content, but hopefully we can scream "Spain, Spain" as a champion of the world on July 11. A friend of ours, the great Alcides blogger and writer of the blog Roads traveler, has written a thought decidedly right: A desire for entertainment, escape, alias Football World Cup 2010: Spain wins and who loses 'red' . So be it.

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And finally, the spark Chestertonian. Today, June 14, exactly 74 years since the death of Chesterton. It was a loss deeply felt by his wife, Frances Blogg , his friends, especially Hilaire Belloc - and even dialectical and literary rivals. I did not want this day pass without a remembrance and a prayer for the repose of the soul of English genius, but I have to me that now lies at the heart of God, next to yours, and will surely continue the dialogue about this, that and the beyond, in an infinite and infinitely animated conversation.

Thanks for your patience in reading these lines. As always, I wish you well. Take care much, God bless and until next time.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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BORGES

Jorge Luis Borges has been, without doubt, the biggest English-language writer influenced by Gilbert Keith Chesterton , as he himself acknowledged on several occasions. This influence can be seen clearly in the style of Borges and some of the themes developed in his stories, common to both authors. It is true that the religious theme, for example, had points of view and very different treatments in each writer, but it is undeniable that the fascination by the police or the desire to achieve an artistic style of writing connects them both.

Borges thought several times about the figure and the author's work was in English but a short essay entitled "On Chesterton, written in the forties, which better addressed the issue. In this essay we read some very interesting views of the Argentine master of Chesterton.

Thus begins by contrast the detective fiction of Edgar Allan Poe with Chesterton "Every piece of Saga of Father Brown presents a mystery, offers explanations of such magical and demonic or replaced, at last, with others that are of this world. "Observation is true, since the crimes that appear in stories of sometimes presented Father Brown stories full of magic and impossible fantasies, but the good priest in charge of giving a rational explanation for what we showed to be impossible or unreasonable.

Borges was also correct to point an indisputable fact: that Chesterton is often judged by the creed that became: "[...] Catholics exalt Chesterton deny freethinkers. Like any writer who professes a creed, Chesterton is judged by it, it failed or acclaim him. "Even today many people are being tried as a Catholic, forgetting that it ever was and in many instances demonstrated an understanding and a breadth of view lacking in other authors.

Later, Borges says that the English author had resisted being classified as a creator nightmares, but it was Argentina, "asked whether a man has three eyes, or a bird three wings, speech against the pantheistic view of a dead man in paradise that the spirits of the angelic choirs have no end to his face and speaks in a prison of mirrors, speaks of a maze with no center, speaks of a man devoured by automatons of metal; speaks of a tree that eats birds and leaves instead of feathers da ... "The presence of the hazard, terrible, monstrous, is in Chesterton, Borges was very wise and knowing stands as one of hallmarks of the English genius.


Borges acknowledged Chesterton's influence on numerous occasions, even in his fiction. Thus, the famous story of "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" begins with these words: "Under the notorious influence of Chesterton (discurridor and ornamented with elegant mysteries) [...], I imagined this argument." And the stories in the book Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi , written in tandem, with both hands, with his close friend Adolfo Bioy Casares , can be seen the shadow of the British author, both in the style of the narrative and the arguments of the stories. Needless to say, these influences do not detract Chestertonian one iota of originality to the narrative of Argentine author.

Ultimately, as noted elsewhere Borges, Chesterton it may have been a writer like Edgar Poe or Franz Kafka , with whom he contrasts the end of that short essay, but preferred to be Chesterton and we thank them. Could be an author whose work was full of obsessive worlds, atrocious, perverse and devastating, but rather, a kind of hope or faith in the human and the divine, something strange, wonderful and always flashed conciliatory in his thoughts and his prose, and that something distinguishes it from both authors, so tormented by their ghosts.

Jorge Luis Borges unravel knew perfectly the personality and work of Chesterton, so that we can read their stories, stories he deemed immortal, even if the genre died in police- Borges the right prism. It is worth to read the works of two writers: under no circumstances leave us indifferent, because they are two masters of twentieth century fiction. The prospect of Borges's work clarifies and clears Chestertonian. Therefore, we are grateful to the Argentine as artistic genius and clearly knew how to give us his vision of Chesterton.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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THE TEST OF BOOKS

few days ago that my wife, who is a real lover of books, as I suggested I make a very appealing test on books I found on Facebook. Well, I did and here I leave the results.

now being held in Madrid Book Fair can be a good time to do this test. If you interesting, you can do it too. Copy the questions and write your own answers. Funny how the books we read and we like somehow define us and draw our way of being or thinking.

Hope you like it and I contéis your opinions. Here are the questions and my own answers.

1) What author has more books? Gilbert K.
Chesterton.

2) What book have more copies? Del Quijote
of Cervantes.

3) What fictional character are you secretly love?
of Sherlock Holmes.

5) What book have you read most often in your life?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

6) What was your favorite book at age 10?

Some of "Choose Your Own Adventure."

7) What was the worst book you read last year?
do not remember, I think there were any really bad.

8) What was the best book you read last year?

What I saw in America , GK Chesterton.

9) If you were to force someone to read a book what would it be?
El Quijote
, or perhaps Hamlet.

10) Who do you think should win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
I do not know. Before he died, I thought of Miguel Delibes. Now give it to Mario Vargas Llosa. And plays a English or English-American Nobel, eh.

11) What book would you most like to do a movie?

Ulises Del Joyce, although it would be difficult to adapt.

12) Does it describe the strangest dream involving a writer, a book or a character?
A dream in which I chatted with Borges.

13) What is the book more educated you have read in your life?
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy , Jacob Burckhardt.

14) What is the least religious book you read in your adult life?
I have read many comics and graphic novels, but books seem uneducated.

15) What is the most difficult book you've read in your life?
The Critique of Judgement, Kant.

16) Would you rather French authors or the Russians?
For the French poetry to the Russian novel.

17) Will Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, certainly, but also Chaucer.

18) What is the most embarrassing of your reading?

The lack of time.

19) What is your favorite novel?
The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton.

20) How Minicuento?
Apart from the classical or Arreola Monterroso, I'm with Max Aub.

21) Is not fiction? Books
test unless, as some of Umberto Eco

22) What is your favorite author?
Do I need to write it? Of course, Chesterton. Although hundreds my favorite authors.

23) What is the most overrated writer in the world?

This what my wife answered: Dan Brown.

24) What book would you take to a desert island?

what Chesterton might answer that to a desert island I would take a manual on how to build boats, but I would be more correct and say that the Bible .

25) Do Y. .. What are you reading now?

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, a very entertaining thriller, with detectives Nick and Nora Charles.