Under Researched Intuitions: El Mercurio es sutil

Friday, October 29, 2010

El Mercurio es sutil

En estos tiempos de duelo para la presidenta argentina, es al menos un alivio que El Mercurio presente su información de manera cuidadosa y seria, sin formulaciones incómodas que pudieran prestarse a un double entendre.

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Anna OOctober 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Y tan sutil que son varios los niveles que alcanza el titular. Aún así, tengo la arrogante sensación de que tanta genialidad no fue con intención.
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Our lives a mimicry; our passions a quotation

La belleza es la ley de todo juego, y nosotros debemos entender esto en el mismo sentido en lo que concierne al juego lógico que en lo que concierne al juego de arte en sentido estricto, a los productos orgánicos del apetito de emoción.

Eugenio d'Ors. La filosofía del hombre que trabaja y que juega.

Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the high boast that I am a medievalist and not a modern. That is, I really have a notion of why I have collected all the nonsensical things there are. I have not the patience nor perhaps the constructive intelligence to state the connecting link between all these chaotic papers. But it could be stated.

G. K. Chesterton. On Gargoyles.

I have drawn from books written by learned experts and also upon my observation of living creatures in whom I have long delighted and with whom I have perhaps more sympathy than some of those who remain austerely scientific. The intuitions of a lover are not always to be trusted; but neither are those of the loveless.

Joseph Wood Krutch. The Great Chain of Life.

A mordant and decadent Youth

Said: "Beauty is greater than Truth.

But by Beauty I mean

The obscure, the obscene,

The deceased, the decayed, the uncouth."

Anonymous.

Nada pertenece a nadie, todo pertenece a todos; y es preciso ser ignorante como un maestro de escuela para forjarse la ilusión de que decimos una sola palabra que nadie haya dicho. Hasta el plantar coles es imitar a alguien.

Alfred de Musset. Namouna.

Usually when I write something like this, it is "inaccrochable." The word translates as "unhangable", referring to a painting that, though perhaps good, an artist would never show in a gallery, and a buyer could never hang on her wall. However, on the Internet, that which is "inaccrochable" is quite possible "tres bloggable."

Zach Weiner. Dimensions.

Un intelectual es una persona que piensa a costa de los demás.

Eduardo Mazo. Autorizado a vivir.

There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

From these social practices it is possible to infer, as a general principle, that the prevention of silence is itself an important function of speech, and that it is completely impossible for us in society to talk only when we "have something to say."

S.I. Hayakawa. Language in Action.

– That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not?

– Yes dear, if you can believe him.

– I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer.

Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest.

Es harto sabido que cuando las personas se aventuran por los confines últimos de la consciencia , arriesgan su cordura, o lo que es lo mismo, su humanidad.

Susan Sontag. La imaginación pornográfica.

Today, whether we are doing algebra or playing with the computer, we are, in effect, benefitting from some inheritance of the quest for a perfect language.

Umberto Eco. For a Polyglot Federation.

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