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El objetivo es la verdad
¿Cuáles son los objetivos de los escritores de literatura? Ah…Una de nuestras autoras, Jamaica Kincaid menciona en varias entrevistas su “insistencia de la verdad”, incluso si, y especialmente si, la verdad es dolorosa. Contar las cosas tal cual, despertar, sacarnos los lentes color de rosa y obligarnos a ver y sentir la realidad. No es…
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Exophony 3
In Exophony 1 and 2, I blabbed about what exophony is and reviewed a short list of writers who found themselves in a different language. Which means I’m not all lost writing in this terrible language. Today I’ll only quote a bit of Chantal Wright’s essay «Exophony and literary translation. What it means for the…
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Perfection is a sea rounded pebble
WHAT’S PERFECTION? Does perfection exist? We’re not machines and nowadays there’s GPT chat and others to write haikus, tv scripts and Phyton code. Are we going to stop writing just because of that? The better stories and jokes, the simple ones told around a camp fire… I correct myself from this idea for the sole reason…
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Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure
If you take a look at a circle missing a little bit of the whole perimeter line, your brain will do the rest and you will perceive the shape as a full circle. Whether there is no circle in a way that is called closure in Gestalt and might not be related to the usual…
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Why are comics and poems alike 7: closure p1
OR AS A SECOND TITLE: A WORD I COULDN’T FIND ANYWHERE SPEAKING ABOUT POETRY AND THE LESS ABOUT COMICS WHEN I WROTE ABOUT THIS IN SPANISH However, I’m not that great looking things ups and it has been enough about why poems and comics are alike in this series of copyist entries (since Adolfo Ballesteros…