January 2010
80 posts
“I’m resentful, for we’re strangers when we meet…”
– Encuentro el fragmento de una canción de Bowie en el cuento de un amigo.
“Un amigo que deja de serlo, nunca lo fue.”
– Oscar Wilde
“an unreasonable but honest belief…”
– El texto, en el NYT.
“I knew she’d follow me, so I started walking downtown toward the zoo, on...”
– Del mapa interactivo que hoy publicaron en el sitio del NYT, donde se siguen los pasos de Holden Caulfield en Nueva York a partir de The Catcher in the Rye. El mapa, acá.
“In more and more places, machines are running the world.”
– El texto, “Which is more important: politics or technology” de William Saletan, acá.
Aquella parte del zoo estaba completamente inundada: los bombardeos habían reventado la Casa del Mar y los acuarios habían explotado y se habían esparcido por las inmediaciones, soltando toneladas de agua, despedigando por los paseos peces muertos, langostas, cocodrilos, medusas, un delfín jadeante que, tendido de costado, me miraba con ojos inquietos. Avancé chapoteando, rodeé la isla de los...
I passed the zoo, the cages had been ripped open, everything was everywhere, dazed animals cried in pain and confusion, one of the keepers was calling out for help, he was a strong man, his eyes had been burnt closed, he grabbed my arm and asked me if I knew how to fire a gun, I told him I had to get someone, he handed me his rifle and said, “You’ve got to find the carnivores”, I...
“They thought there would be thousands of injured people. Unconscious people. ...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer.
El rencor de los elefantes
De Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, de Jonathan Safran Foer:
“Anyway, elephants can set up meetings from faraway locations, and they know where their friends and enemies are going to be, and they can find water without any geological clues. No one could figure out how they do all of those things. So what’s actually going on?” “I don’t know.” “How do...
“In 1997 a woman claimed she was injured by Zippy the mail robot at Pacific...”
– Acá.
“Williams died instantly in 1979 when the robot’s arm slammed him as he was...”
– Hoy en Wired.
“Yo quería mujeres bonitas y con sentido del humor. Sólo eso.”
– Libreta de nombres, Rubem Fonseca.
“A good marriage is associated with a higher income, a longer, healthier life and...”
– Acá.
“Once, when we were somewhere in Asia, Brian blew his nose into a tissue during a...”
– De “Web Is Bringing Skaters’ Lives Uneasily Close to Fans’ Obsessions”, acá.
“‘Good’ is inextricably bound up with the capacity to punish.”
– Joyce Carol Oates, acá.
“For a second we gasped in admiration of the scene’s unearthly cosmic...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountain of Madness.
“Yo vivo en las regiones polares; cuando me asomo a la ventana, no veo más que...”
– De la primera entrada al cuaderno 4 de los Diarios de Robert Musil.
“Aún me permito soñar con bosques primigenios y la posibilidad de haber nacido...”
– De Hablador, Eduardo Padilla.
“I’m dumping you, my childish things.”
– David Sylvian
“Disaster is both one of the hardest and easiest sights to watch on television;...”
– Alessandra Stanley, acá.
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can...”
– J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), citado por Timothy Ferris en “Seeking New Earths”, en la National Geographic de diciembre 2009.
“When she dances alone in an empty apartment, she is not exactly at peace, but at...”
– A.O. Scott a partir de Fish Tank, acá.
“HPL was himself notoriously sensitive to cold, although the causes for his...”
– S.T. Joshi, en una nota de At the Mountains of Madness, de H.P. Lovecraft.
“At last we were truly entering the white, aeon-dead world of the ultimate...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness.
Más Lovecraft en Spielberg
También de The Dunwich Horror:
“Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where Man rules now”.
Leía Lovecraft cuando recordé este diálogo de la última película de Indiana Jones:
“Indiana Jones: Where’d they go? Space? Professor Oxley: Not into space. Into the space between spaces”.
En The Dunwich Horror, (1928), de Lovecraft, leemos:
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them.
“I was able to talk to a priest in Haiti,” the Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary said. “The...”
– Texto completo, acá.
“As night fell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, fires burned near the...”
– En el NYT.
“Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras -dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies- may...”
– Charles Lamb, “Witches and Ohter Night Fears”, The Essays of Elia, citado como epígrafe por H.P. Lovecraft para The Dunwich Horror.