Mes: junio 2025
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Je veux de être le renard.
Je veux de regarder la mer et pensant que je regard ton yeux.
Noirs? La profondeur mere.
Bleus? La couleur de la surface.
Vertes? Le changeume eau.
Le couleur est rien.
Je veux de être apprivoiser.
Je veux de savoir que tu est ici.
Une heure de toujours.
Un toujours de les jours.

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¿qué tiene de malo la lectura? Nada, por supuesto. Pero una vez que asignamos un valor intelectual al acto en sí, no solo pasamos por alto la naturaleza del propio texto, sino que convertimos en universal y unidimensional algo que en esencia es un proceso de participación privado.
Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)].
Asignar un valor intelectual a una actividad, la que sea, constituye ir en contra de la idea de la libertad de expresión. Condenar o apreciar una actividad más que otra sólo porque le asignamos una etiqueta, es ir en contra de la individualidad y la diferencia. ¿Escribes pensando cómo tu escritura afecta la idea de las actividades individuales y sus etiquetas?
Pasto kalo.
Storytelling good and decent

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The female of the species. Mindy McGinnis. Harper Collins.
I get it. Decent guys backslide into meth and gang rape. Good guys knock up their girlfriends and flip burgers.

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Rain came upon,
I was aware cold was to follow.
Hence I was waiting blossoms to pop.
What I got was rotting,
nothing more.
Am I strong enough to keep sending seeds to the wind?
To patiently seek them sprouts?
Shouldn't I just declare defeat and about?

Lo topo [traducción del español al español: Entiendo]. Los tipos decentes recaen con la metanfetamina y violan en manada. Los chicos buenos embarazan a su novia y se vuelven responsables volteando hamburguesas.
The female of the species. Mindy McGinnis. Harper Collins.

ALWAYS HORIZONTAL
Safeguarded by a really strict monk order, horizontality is, rarely broken in text with exception of a few covers and titles. Graphic editorial design won’t allow that much. Either because of tradition or because we; the readers can be really particular about what’s comfortable when reading. Europeans say sans serifs are the ultra comfort. Me, short sighted and astigmatic to top; I can’t read anything without serifs. It is easier for me to complete by Gestalt a shape that has bolder strokes in a side than a series of lines my mind will confuse with a block1.
BALANCE
I have already started talking direction. Horizontality. Verticality. It all starts with balance. What’s the most usual position for a human body to be in balance?
Standing up! Or asleep in bed. Horizontal or vertical, balance is all about what we do without falling. And yes, I’m speaking strange terms in a blog about writing fiction. No arches, no genres, no metaphors. Visual direction.
… Then, the most stable shapes out there are | y _. Any shape deviating some grades from that and we will have unbalance. Unbalance is a disaster! It means STRESS. Consequently, it creates an illusion: movement. Shapes breaking this convention seem to be about to fall, therefore, we think they’re moving. Unbalance is the trick to create movement whenever we’re dealing with image.

That can’t happen in poetry? By creating spaces, we create movement. Spaces can break the balance if we know how to break it. Of course, the rest of literature media is not as forgiving when altering the balance. Text is boxed into a “text frame” with blank spaces called margins —oh, we’re seeing the contour—or columns.

Text, text has to be encased into balance or we will panic.
Remember, this is nonsense and “Together, the physical and the psychological are relative and not absolute2”.
Have fun thinking if you’re to use straight, wavy or broken lines. Have fun breaking balance. Pasto kalo.
- And I challenge anyone who says I’m crazy to read in a smartphone Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. The typography is gray and sans serif. If any of you can really read that in the default size given by Google Drive… Otherwise, start respecting the dull Times. ↩︎
- Donis A. Dondis. A primer of visual literacy. 1973, MIT press. ↩︎
¿Famosa?
No cuestiono si es famosa o no (fue embajadora en tres países distintos, incluído el mío). La interrogante corresponde al hecho de que yo no la conocía… ¿¡Por qué?! Bueno, ahora ya sé quién fué ( incluyo el link por si acaso).

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Listen to the night,
Chirping high,
Ultrasonic engulfing buzzing b's.
Go to sleep to its lullaby,
The darkness fresher than the scorching light.
Good bye.
Dream about me,
Feet into the star stream.
Mind wandering.
Empleos de alto riesgo

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El trabajo de bibliotecario mágico, quien tiene que pasarse los días en esta clase de ambiente sobrecargado, es un empleo de alto riesgo.
La luz fantástica. Terry Prattchet.
Suele pensarse que los empleos de mayor riesgo en las historias de fantasía son: bárbaro, rey, princesa, héroe o… Cazador. Pero, ¿ser bibliotecario o tesorero? El bibliotecario puede quedarse atrapado entre una reyerta de libros mágicos y cambiar de forma. El tesorero, tener que perseguir a alguien a quien no le importa firmar nada en absoluto [ si bien la papelería burocrática es inútil] y, encima, te grita todo el tiempo.
¿Qué empleos de alto riesgo tendrás tú en tu próximo trabajo de ficción?Pasto kalo.