<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457</id><updated>2012-02-17T23:18:41.645+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I WATCH WITH MY LITTLE EYE...</title><subtitle type='html'>Some things we see, some we hope to, and some we are probably never even able to conceive of.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>394</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-128019282373002052</id><published>2012-02-17T15:48:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T17:15:51.589+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mateo 22, 37-40</title><content type='html'>Sabe Gu que no soy religioso ni creyente en ninguna doctrina con espónsores. Sin embargo, esta mañana me encontré leyendo un artículo sobre los diez mandamientos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hacía mucho que no los visitaba, y me sorprendió encontrarle sentido a la mayoría. Funcionan perfectamente como llamados al sentido común, si uno no los asocia con los castigos impuestos externamente a quienes no los siguen. Supongo que este énfasis en la disciplina externa, esta negación de la autodisciplina, es uno de los factores que más definitivamente me alejaron del catolicismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, el artículo también mencionaba el hecho de que según el evangelio de San Mateo (Mt. 22, 37-40) los diez pueden resumirse en dos: "amarás a Dios sobre todas las cosas, y al prójimo como a ti mismo." Y yo concuerdo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si por Dios se entiende lo divino y sublime que hay en cada porción del universo, por más pequeña que sea, estoy de acuerdo en que frente a tales maravillas debemos tratar de eternizar esos sentimientos de curiosidad, sobrecogimiento y unidad que todos hemos experimentado alguna vez. Ese amor está sobre todas las cosas porque no compite con ningún otro, y nada compite con él. Es paz, es ahora, es lo que es. Es el amor de esforzarse por ser y saber, sin desesperarnos, lo que sabemos que nunca seremos ni sabremos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luego, amar al prójimo como a uno mismo consiste en darse cuenta de que "yo" sólo es una cuestión de perspectiva.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-128019282373002052?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/128019282373002052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=128019282373002052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/128019282373002052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/128019282373002052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2012/02/mateo-22-37-40.html' title='Mateo 22, 37-40'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8361347537201426780</id><published>2012-01-20T23:03:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T23:03:36.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fact of life</title><content type='html'>De aquí en más tomo las riendas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8361347537201426780?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8361347537201426780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8361347537201426780' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8361347537201426780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8361347537201426780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2012/01/fact-of-life.html' title='Fact of life'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5983244175569607402</id><published>2012-01-19T20:35:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T11:15:41.647+01:00</updated><title type='text'>No titles</title><content type='html'>Last weekend in Førde a woman from Sri Lanka poured gasoline over herself and her 20 month old baby and then set herself and him on fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had been in Norway for 6 or 7 years. Having arrived in the country as refugees, she and her husband had been waiting all that time for their case to be resolved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is how long it sometimes takes for asylum seekers to get a definite answer as to whether they will be allowed to stay or not. In the meantime they are not allowed to work, and it is hard to find ways of personal growth or development. Life is suspended, in a way, but time and events continue to unfold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The woman and her husband, for instance, had conceived a son in this country. The baby had been born here and would have grown up speaking Norwegian, perhaps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally a few months ago a negative reply came for the husband. In the meantime the couple had grown apart, and they'd separated. When appeals failed the man was sent back to Sri Lanka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, sometime last week also the woman's case was turned down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was a very quiet person, said another asylum seeker, a young girl from Uzbekistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She cried a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She'd had a sister in Sri Lanka, a sister who was murdered years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She died at Førde hospital two days after the incident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her son died a day later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5983244175569607402?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5983244175569607402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='html'>Me voy de siesta&lt;br /&gt;en tu sopor de enero.&lt;br /&gt;Chau, pero vuelvo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4651224280501389400?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4651224280501389400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4651224280501389400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4651224280501389400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4651224280501389400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2012/01/despedida.html' title='Despedida'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6741571661319381967</id><published>2011-12-22T06:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T06:56:09.188+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dice Consuelo (19 meses)</title><content type='html'>Estamos jugando con una lata de caramelos en forma de Papá Noel y le digo: "Mirá, Cutu: éste es Papá Noel."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me mira con cara de 'qué me estás diciendo' y repite lo obvio:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Éte no é el papá."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6741571661319381967?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6741571661319381967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6741571661319381967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6741571661319381967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6741571661319381967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/12/dice-consuelo-19-meses.html' title='Dice Consuelo (19 meses)'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6265871527877041440</id><published>2011-12-21T01:38:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T02:25:59.841+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Graffiti</title><content type='html'>Lo leí desde la ventanilla del ómnibus hoy, en la esquina de Rondeau y San Martín en la ciudad de Mendoza:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Metete tu religión en el culo. En el mío sólo entran pijas."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para quien no lo tenga claro, este mensaje, pintado con aerosol rojo sobre un muro, es un tipo de respuesta a la oposición de la iglesia católica en lo referente a la ecualización de derechos civiles entre hetero y homosexueales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es una respuesta trágica, más desalentadora que un drama griego. Ésos, por lo menos, son ficción.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este graffiti significa que quien es odiado y despreciado a veces puede aprender a odiar y despreciar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significa que es difícil salir de ciertos ciclos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significa que para la persona que lo escribió, ventilar su enojo es más importante que el diálogo y la búsqueda de respeto mutuo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significa que ya no cree ni en el diálogo ni en el respeto mutuo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Significa que, al menos en parte, ha decidido asumir el rol que sus opresores le han dado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6265871527877041440?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6265871527877041440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6265871527877041440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6265871527877041440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6265871527877041440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/12/graffiti.html' title='Graffiti'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8378899510220352064</id><published>2011-12-15T01:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T01:32:58.754+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De los simios</title><content type='html'>Si hubiéramos evolucionado de los perros, tal vez en vez de pasamanos en los ómnibus habría tubos acolchados a la altura de nuestras bocas, y nos sujetaríamos a ellos con los dientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero no. Venimos de seres similares a los simios. La postura prevalente de los que viajábamos de pie en el ómnibus, esta mañana, lo ponía de manifiesto: allí estábamos, sujetos con una o dos manos al tubo que se extendía por encima de nuestras cabezas a lo largo de toda la longitud de la cabina, bamboleándonos de un lado a otro con las curvas, frenazos y aceleraciones. Nuestros pies a veces casi no tocaban el suelo, pero nadie daba muestras de gran incomodidad. Definitivamente, en algún momento de nuestra historia evolutiva estuvimos muy cómodos braquiando entre rama y rama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Excepto nuestro conductor, claro está. Sus ancestros deben haber sido alguna clase de seres con las características de un elefante en estampida y un correcaminos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8378899510220352064?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8378899510220352064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8378899510220352064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8378899510220352064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8378899510220352064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/12/de-los-simios.html' title='De los simios'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6080297340411617477</id><published>2011-11-22T13:14:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T10:05:56.028+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Abusus non tollit usum</title><content type='html'>I found this Latin phrase today. Basically it means that rights, even though they may be abused, are still rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see this under two possible lights: someone may abuse their rights, overstepping them, or their rights might be abused by someone else. Both these violations might conceivably become habitual. What this quote says then is that, in any case, the original right should be defended. It continues to be a right, no matter how routinely it has been violated or abused.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6080297340411617477?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6080297340411617477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6080297340411617477' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6080297340411617477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6080297340411617477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/11/abusus-non-tollit-usum.html' title='Abusus non tollit usum'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8011763644910222633</id><published>2011-10-30T02:53:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T22:01:44.345+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pension Plan</title><content type='html'>&lt;style&gt;@font-face {   font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }&lt;/style&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today on top of one another&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;i place my hours.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One by one they heap on higher,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;all mine, none ours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We had our noon,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;the sun was high,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;not ever for a minute&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;were our minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;on a pile:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;all always in a jumble.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Yet even that&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;which is not built&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;can crumble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Since then, &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;to reach again the light&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;i´ve made a ladder&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;with my time,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;screwed together&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;my days&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;to form the ringers,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;my years into the rungs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;All likewise climb &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;around me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;in ladders of their own&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;and from up here&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;the spot on which we stood&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;is not so clear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And so we float&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;and i’ll have lost&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;my eyesight anyway&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;by the time&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;i reach the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8011763644910222633?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8011763644910222633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8011763644910222633' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8011763644910222633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8011763644910222633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/10/pension-plan.html' title='Pension Plan'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5370469442467469110</id><published>2011-10-16T05:59:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:01:55.209+02:00</updated><title type='text'>My thoughts exactly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fNeEn-zH_Dk/TppWvqt9OKI/AAAAAAAAAJo/j6WJ8HSumCg/s1600/_56084510_wagegetty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 171px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fNeEn-zH_Dk/TppWvqt9OKI/AAAAAAAAAJo/j6WJ8HSumCg/s400/_56084510_wagegetty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663934858292705442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A BBC photo of the Occupy protests around the world (in this case in New York). October 15th, 2011. Put an end to greed!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5370469442467469110?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5370469442467469110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5370469442467469110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5370469442467469110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5370469442467469110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-thoughts-exactly.html' title='My thoughts exactly'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fNeEn-zH_Dk/TppWvqt9OKI/AAAAAAAAAJo/j6WJ8HSumCg/s72-c/_56084510_wagegetty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7260567351206834731</id><published>2011-09-03T00:12:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T00:21:55.840+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Has llegado, Federica!</title><content type='html'>Estás aquí, Fede!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naciste hoy, viernes 2 de setiembre del 2011, alrededor de las 11 de la mañana. Pesaste 2,940 gramos, y sos amada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bienvenida al mundo, mi amor!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La materia que sos estuvo un día en el centro de alguna estrella, pero aún es un misterio por qué aparecieron las estrellas. Sos el universo que se mira a sí mismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu nombre viene del germano "Fredrik", que significa "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gobernante pacífico&lt;/span&gt;": "Fred" significa "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;paz&lt;/span&gt;" y "rik", "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gobierno&lt;/span&gt;". Pero yo prefiero tomar el significado latino de la sílaba "rik", y hacer de tu nombre una combinación, tal como lo sos vos: una combinación de todos tus ancestros, de todos los sucesos de sus vidas, destilándose en vos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que deseo esto para vos, Federica: que seas &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;rica en paz&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7260567351206834731?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7260567351206834731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7260567351206834731' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7260567351206834731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7260567351206834731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/09/has-llegado-federica.html' title='Has llegado, Federica!'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5102748002099778232</id><published>2011-08-08T21:54:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:12:15.788+02:00</updated><title type='text'>18 years</title><content type='html'>Simo left this morning. She's travelling through Norway in a motor home, together with her two children, Emile and Thibault, and her husband, Oliver, a handsome and friendly guy whom I felt surprisingly comfortable around. They spent the weekend here. We went on hikes and to the swimming pool all together a couple of times, cooked and ate meals together, drank some wine and bored all her family members senseless, reminiscing our Duino days and gossiping about people they didn't know. After everybody had gone to sleep we stayed up, chatting about our lives, hopes and worries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hadn't seen Simo in eighteen years, since our last day of high school. That day she drove away in her used Renault 4 named "Towanda" (a reference to Green Fried Tomatoes, a movie I later watched because of her excitement in mentioning it to me -- it was high up there for me for a while, together with Forrest Gump and Threesome). I remember her driving away that sunny day of May in '93, Towanda heaped with suitcases and boxes belonging to her and the three other students she was taking along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today it was I who rode along on Simo's motor home for a couple of kilometers. They dropped me in Flekke shop with my bike. We hugged and I pledged a visit of my own to Montpellier, and on they went. Oliver wanted to get to Stadt, to do some kite surfing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moment I lost sight of them behind a curve, I felt this... tug, pulling me heavily down and back in time. I shopped quickly and pedaled back under the momentary sun, soaking it in but somewhat distracted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been missing Simo all day now, but perhaps more than just her. Time passing doesn't usually make me sad. Life has been full and generous to me, and this weekend I've seen first hand the same can be said of Simo. I'm greedy, though, and wish I could have her nearby, a short walk away, like in those carefree days of a lifetime ago, which I of course know, on a different level, were not carefree at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm thankful for this friendship with such deep roots, thankful for the years and the distances of our vastly different lives, that make it so solid... But I also wish it had the thick foliage of experiences shared on an everyday basis, as it once did. Now our confidences only blossoms&lt;br /&gt;infrequently, like one of those plants found in fairy tales, that produce a rare and precious flower once in a shovelful of years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is our time under the sun, though. The only one we are going to get. It's the only magic there is, and it is enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as Oliver Twist said, could I have some more, please.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5102748002099778232?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5102748002099778232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5102748002099778232' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5102748002099778232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5102748002099778232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/08/18-years.html' title='18 years'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1296188574082586594</id><published>2011-07-31T08:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T01:53:29.794+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Laia y Piero</title><content type='html'>Bienvenidos al mundo, chicos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Llegaron los dos con un poco de adelanto el jueves 9 de junio, y si bien estamos felicísimos de tenerlos con nosotros, ha quedado bien demostrado que todo en exceso (incluso la puntualidad!) deja de ser una ventaja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su mamá rompió aguas dos días antes y en el hospital intentaron ayudarla para que los retuviera un poco más, pero no hubo caso: los dos entraron al planeta de sopetón, por cesárea, pesando 1.4 y 1.3 kilos, respectivamente. Esto significa que cada uno de ustedes constituía, al nacer, aproximadamente 1/6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 del peso que tendría este mundo si se lo pudiera poner en una balanza. Antes de convertirse en ustedes la masa que los compone fue plantas, tierra, ganado, nubes, alguna manzana roja brillando bajo el sol... Y antes de eso estuvieron en millones de otros cuerpos, no sólo los de sus antepasados genéticos, sino en tantos otros por donde los átomos de ustedes pasaron. Y antes aún, estaban difuminados en el fondo de una o más estrellas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vos, Laia, lo pasaste particularmente mal: al extraerte del vientre de tu mamá a través de la sección cesárea que le hicieron, te rompieron el brazo; luego, como no respirabas bien solita, te tuvieron que poner un respirador, o sea que te conectaron los pulmones, a traves de una manguera que te cubría la nariz y la boca, a una máquina que te insuflaba aire. Unos días después, en una ecografía rutinaria, descubrieron que habías tenido una hemorragia cerebral bastante severa, y todos nos asustamos mucho... Pero te recuperaste, y venís muy bien, y te queremos mucho... Sé que llegarás a ser una mujer plena y feliz, que dará y recibirá mucho, mucho amor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anteayer, el viernes 29 de julio, llegaste a casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cambio vos, Piero, lo hiciste el lunes 11 de julio, después de un mes en neonatología, en el hospital La Fe, de Valencia, donde ambos nacieron. Cuando naciste eras flaaaaaco como una lagartija, pero ahora se te están rellenando los huesos con la materia de este mundo, que te llega a través de la leche de tu mamá y de la fórmula que tomás para suplementarla. Prontito llegarán ambos a los tres kilos, pero ni aunque pesaran un mundo, podríamos quererlos más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bienvenidos a este sitio y este tiempo, criaturas mágicas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1296188574082586594?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1296188574082586594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1296188574082586594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1296188574082586594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1296188574082586594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/09/laia-y-piero.html' title='Laia y Piero'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-216833787550972992</id><published>2011-04-21T03:21:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:59:25.580+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Estaba la blanca paloma</title><content type='html'>Estaba la blanca paloma&lt;br /&gt;sentada en el verde limón,&lt;br /&gt;su plumaje grisáceo de humo&lt;br /&gt;y enfisemas en cada pulmón.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="st"&gt;"¡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ay, ay, ay!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="st"&gt;¡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Qué contaminación!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El limón no tenía ni dos hojas,&lt;br /&gt;la paloma tosía con congoja.&lt;br /&gt;Torció un ala, torció la otra,&lt;br /&gt;y se estrelló contra las baldosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="st"&gt;"¡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ay, ay, ay!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="st"&gt;¡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Qué contaminación!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-216833787550972992?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/216833787550972992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=216833787550972992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/216833787550972992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/216833787550972992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/04/estaba-la-blanca-paloma.html' title='Estaba la blanca paloma'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6920368710538361696</id><published>2011-03-31T18:57:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T03:23:46.301+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Two of a feather</title><content type='html'>Some days ago I sat in my kitchen, grading some papers, when I heard a soft thud in the living room. It was tiny but, for some reason, I got up to investigate, and saw a few downy feathers, small and gray, sticking against my balcony door, on the outside of its glass pane. And then, almost completely buried in the soft snow, a small, trembling, grey and black and white bird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I opened the door and picked it up in the cup of my hands. Later I looked the species up online and its name turned out to be 'nuthatch', a typical bird of this area. Strange how I see these little creatures around every day, and I don't think to find out how they are called until I'm holding one of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first it was blinking disorientedly and not moving much, but after a few minutes it began to look around and flutter about some. I opened the kitchen window, and I had barely put my hands out when it jumped to the right, still not fully in control of its body. It landed on one of the house's wooden planks and grabbed onto it, perhaps a meter away from me. Perched in there it looked at me for a few moments more, in what I fancied was fear, swiveling its head about in that curious robot-like way birds have. Then it took off, flying up and over the roof, toward the fjord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In contrast, yesterday afternoon Christoffer knocked on my door, and asked if my "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cat could put a bird out of its misery&lt;/span&gt;". He was carrying (what I later found out to be) a yellow breasted tit in his hands, with a story similar to my nuthatch's: Chris had seen it fly into the window of one of the student residences and picked it off the floor, still alive and slightly twitching, but not reacting otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking again of the long minutes it took the nuthatch to recover, I rejected the idea of feeding the tit to Mooshee, and carried it inside, to the warmth of my kitchen. The nuthatch would definitely have died if it had stayed buried in the snow, I thought, so maybe temperature was an important factor for such small bodies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stood for about thirty seconds by my kitchen window, again, but before I even had a chance to open it, the bird, which had been almost completely inert in my hands, shuddered and fluttered for an instant, opening its eyes and moving its head a little, enough to make me think that it was recovering. But then it went completely limp and, though I waited for a few more minutes, eventually I was convinced that the shudder had been death, arriving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never had anything died in my hands, before, other than an occasional ant or other bug, that died at them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I opened the window anyways, and threw the yellow tit up high, into the gray sky. It flew in an arc and landed on the hill behind my house, among the dry brush of winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another soft thud.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6920368710538361696?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6920368710538361696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6920368710538361696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6920368710538361696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6920368710538361696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/03/two-of-feather.html' title='Two of a feather'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2081828907752081686</id><published>2011-03-28T19:28:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-28T19:35:46.565+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Reporte atrasado</title><content type='html'>Hace bastante tiempo que no escribo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quería reportar, de todos modos, un par de datos más que importantes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consuelo tendrá una hermana, según resulta de una ecografía del viernes 11 de marzo... El médico no debería haberse arriesgado a cantar un sexo tan pronto, pero aparentemente lo vio. En fin, que mi nueva sobrina se llamará Federica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Igualmente, los mellizos de C. y L. ya tienen nombre, desde el miércoles 16 de marzo por la mañana. Son nena y nene, y se llamarán Laia y Piero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tres entes nuevos listos para tratar de experimentar la aventura de la conciencia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2081828907752081686?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2081828907752081686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2081828907752081686' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2081828907752081686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2081828907752081686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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han sido clavados:&lt;br /&gt;Pablito clavó un clavito&lt;br /&gt;pero alguien clavó los otros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O no, quizás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puede que un clavo solito&lt;br /&gt;sea el que está clavadito&lt;br /&gt;y que aquello que ignoramos&lt;br /&gt;es de qué tipo era el clavo:&lt;br /&gt;¿de cobre, dorado, largo,&lt;br /&gt;corto? ¿Acaramelado?&lt;br /&gt;Sabemos que era chiquito&lt;br /&gt;pues no es un clavo: es &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;clavito&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luego surgen más preguntas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Por qué clavaba Pablito?&lt;br /&gt;¿En qué ignota superficie&lt;br /&gt;lo clavó al clavo bendito?&lt;br /&gt;¿Lo clavó con compañía&lt;br /&gt;o se ha apañado solito?&lt;br /&gt;¿Era Pablo carpintero&lt;br /&gt;o albañil? ¿Aficionado?&lt;br /&gt;¿Viudo, soltero o casado?&lt;br /&gt;¿Pobrecito o con dinero?&lt;br /&gt;¿Le gustaban los helados?&lt;br /&gt;¿Cuán seguido se lavaba?&lt;br /&gt;¿Clavó un clavo porque quiso&lt;br /&gt;o lo obligaron y lo hizo?&lt;br /&gt;¿Es Pablo esclavo del clavo?&lt;br /&gt;Si un sólo clavo ha clavado,&lt;br /&gt;o no era muy dado al clavo&lt;br /&gt;o uno solito ha bastado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Y después?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Se sentiría orgulloso?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Dónde dejó su martillo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Dijo que clavo clavó?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No&lt;/span&gt; es la presunta respuesta&lt;br /&gt;a tan pródiga pregunta.&lt;br /&gt;¿A qué, si no, el trabalenguas?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5432608549727827401?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5432608549727827401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>Tres tristes tigres</title><content type='html'>Trabados en un trigal&lt;br /&gt;terminan tres tigres tristes.&lt;br /&gt;Tiemblan con hambre terrible&lt;br /&gt;y sueñan cenar cereales&lt;br /&gt;mas no saben cercenar.&lt;br /&gt;Un labrador los libra&lt;br /&gt;de su hambruna naturista&lt;br /&gt;y los tigres se tropiezan&lt;br /&gt;tragando trigo en tropel&lt;br /&gt;y de postre al labrador.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-9216759893344199263?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/9216759893344199263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=9216759893344199263' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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blanched by sun and salt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She shan't truly see what the tourists shall buy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-778386178392586735?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/778386178392586735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=778386178392586735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/778386178392586735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/778386178392586735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/02/she-sells-seashells.html' title='She Sells Seashells'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6819959474352617904</id><published>2011-02-27T02:39:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T07:09:54.205+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How Much Wood</title><content type='html'>The wood a woodchuck would chuck is much wood.&lt;br /&gt;So much it would match a truckful chock-full&lt;br /&gt;of oak chests,&lt;br /&gt;ash benches,&lt;br /&gt;charred cherry hutches,&lt;br /&gt;birch chairs&lt;br /&gt;and brooms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The woodchuck would chuck them&lt;br /&gt;if only he had them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-362678794022143944</id><published>2011-02-26T13:24:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:31:03.497+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Daniel Cassia es un candidato a gobernador de Mendoza, para 2012.&lt;br /&gt;Algunos de sus slogans:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Tolerancia cero para los delincuentes."&lt;br /&gt;"Servicio cívico, social y militar obligatorio para jovenes que no trabajan ni estudian"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto me hace acordar un poco a las novelas de Octavia Butler. Primero creamos una sociedad en la cual sea inescapable la existencia permanente de una minoría desposeída, y luego utilizamos a esa minoría para hacer todos los trabajos sucios a cambio de una remuneración paupérrima, o directamente inexistente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-362678794022143944?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/362678794022143944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=362678794022143944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/362678794022143944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/362678794022143944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/02/daniel-cassia-es-un-candidato.html' title=''/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4275852778933505010</id><published>2011-02-26T13:07:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:58:40.096+01:00</updated><title type='text'>aburridos aguaceros</title><content type='html'>sin rumbo ruedo en mi día&lt;br /&gt;como el trueno por las pampas&lt;br /&gt;relámpagos la alegría&lt;br /&gt;y ya nunca nunca escampa&lt;br /&gt;a un tronco me abrazaría&lt;br /&gt;pero los troncos son trampas&lt;br /&gt;del rayo que en su lascivia&lt;br /&gt;todo cobijo se zampa&lt;br /&gt;ya me doy al fin al rayo&lt;br /&gt;pero tampoco nada hallo&lt;br /&gt;al final de su lujuria&lt;br /&gt;no hay ni cansancio ni furia&lt;br /&gt;ni interés ni algún anhelo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sólo un carbonizado desconsuelo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4275852778933505010?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4275852778933505010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4275852778933505010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4275852778933505010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4275852778933505010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/02/aburridos-aguaceros.html' title='aburridos aguaceros'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5865507318522108620</id><published>2011-02-18T08:29:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T16:01:46.730+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sacrificios humanos</title><content type='html'>En la escuela primaria nos contaron que las religiones de ciertas culturas precolombinas habían realizado sacrificios humanos: inmolaban vidas porque así lo exigían el dogma, o su interpretación de él.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo sólo querría agregar que esas religiones no son las únicas con un tal pasado. Otras, como el cristianismo, también lo tienen, y con data mucho más reciente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me refiero, obviamente, a las inquisiciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comprendo que la Iglesia Católica, al menos, se ha disculpado por la parte que tuvo en esas masacres. Lo que no entiendo es cómo, después de semerendos errores, puede seguir proclamando que es una delegada divina con la capacidad de explicarle al mundo cuáles son los designios de Dios. Tampoco comprendo cómo tanta gente puede mantener su fe en ella después de semejantes fallas y crueldades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algunos católicos con los que he hablado al respecto me han dicho que ellos lo siguen siendo porque perdornar y dar segundas oportunidades es un valor central a las enseñanzas religiosas en las que creen... Yo no soy cristiano ni creo que la piedad sea un descubrimiento del cristianismo, tampoco, pero estoy de acuerdo en que saber perdonar es fundamental en cualquier vida. Vivir sin perdonar las fallas ajenas y las propias significaría vivir odiando, con remordientos, con culpa... Enfocarse en las locuras y debilidades de uno y de los demás haría que nunca pudiéramos percibir lo que es el milagro de cada individuo, de cada pensamiento, de cada acción en este cosmos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero el quid de esta cuestión no pasa por el perdón, me parece. Yo puedo perdonar y no guardarle rencor a alguien por el daño que ha hecho, pero... y si sigue haciéndolo? Puedo seguir sin guardarle rencor, pero significa mi perdón que tengo que cruzarme de brazos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La raíz del daño causado por la iglesia es la creencia central que la mantiene en pie como institución, su auto-imagen de árbitro, de "representante de la palabra divina sobre la tierra". Y, a pesar de que esa imagen ha sido probada falible más de una vez, la iglesia sigue participando e influenciando debates sociales y políticos con el mismo argumento de fondo: "esto es así porque así lo dice Dios." Pero, si en el pasado pudieron errar tan fiero en su interpretación de lo que Dios decía, cómo puede nadie seguir prestándole atención a ese argumento?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sería mejor deliberarlo y discutirlo todo según los efectos que pensemos que uno u otro comportamiento tendrán sobre nosotros, sobre el prójimo, sobre la sociedad? Por qué apelar a la supuesta palabra de Dios, cuando podemos preguntarle a la persona que tenemos al lado por qué piensa lo que piensa, o vive como vive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tratar de ganar debates apoyándonos en la palabra de Dios es una injusticia para con nuestros prójimos. En vez de debatir con ellos, de escuchar sus ideas, de tratar de llegar a un acuerdo, de aguantarnos que los demás no quieran vivir como nosotros, les cerramos la puerta en la cara. Total, "es la palabra de Dios", y ése es el único argumento válido, no?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5865507318522108620?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5865507318522108620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5865507318522108620' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5865507318522108620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5865507318522108620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/02/sacrificios-humanos.html' title='Sacrificios humanos'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3909127643925551572</id><published>2011-01-31T08:30:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T08:44:33.299+01:00</updated><title type='text'>So Long</title><content type='html'>"When you're settled in your ways&lt;br /&gt;love does come, but never stays."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you said&lt;br /&gt;one day&lt;br /&gt;Anne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You drove&lt;br /&gt;and it was spring&lt;br /&gt;and you were kind&lt;br /&gt;and air rushed in&lt;br /&gt;through the window.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1540289111450564553</id><published>2011-01-26T23:34:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:10:47.227+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Monitos perejiles</title><content type='html'>Somos monitos todos&lt;br /&gt;perejiles y salvajes&lt;br /&gt;sumidos hasta los codos&lt;br /&gt;en pueriles nimiedades.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1540289111450564553?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1540289111450564553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1540289111450564553' title='0 Comments'/><link 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sábana y cama&lt;br /&gt;ana que es charco y es rana&lt;br /&gt;ana que es ana en mañana&lt;br /&gt;aunque mañana ya no haya ana&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4141037647317778004?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4141037647317778004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4141037647317778004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4141037647317778004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4141037647317778004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/ana.html' title='ana'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8665119171370502288</id><published>2011-01-25T23:34:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T23:36:31.575+01:00</updated><title type='text'>In The Face of Cool</title><content type='html'>&lt;style&gt;@font-face {   font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }&lt;/style&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;He caulked his skull with bulky words,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;His tongue a swirling sword,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;His mouth a stormy sea he could not cork.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Both conqueror and conquered world,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;He set his sails towards us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Our inner groans and wails at his approach &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Were wind against those sails.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Behind his back blew wild&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;A hurricane of ridicule:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Our air of so called “cool”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8665119171370502288?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8665119171370502288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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Langston</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Young Sailor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;He carries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;His own strength&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And his own laughter,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;His own today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And his own hereafter-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This strong young sailor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Of the wide seas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What is money for?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To spend, he says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And wine?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To drink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And women?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And today?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For joy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And the green sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For strength,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And the brown land&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For laughter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And nothing hereafter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I love this poem. The image of the sailor is youth itself, as it often is: sure of itself, defying conventions, full of energy and life, a little self-centered. My favorite part, though, are the last three verses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And the brown land for laughter, and nothing hereafter."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sublime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7128559814013126974?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7128559814013126974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7128559814013126974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7128559814013126974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7128559814013126974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-one-by-langston.html' title='Another One by Langston'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7080329607174071950</id><published>2011-01-23T02:10:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T02:23:38.055+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New niece or nephew</title><content type='html'>L. &amp;amp; S. are expecting, again. They found out about it last Friday, January 14th, the day before Consuelo turned 8 months old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were both pretty shocked. L. got understandably emotional, and she cried a little, she told me. She was instantly afraid that complications might arise, she would be given absolute rest, and she wouldn't be able to pick up Consuelo. Of course they are both happy and they were planning to get pregnant pretty soon, anyways, but they hadn't really started trying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, two days ago what L. feared happened: she started bleeding and it turns out she has some kind of bruise in her uterus, so she has to have absolute rest. She has to stay in bed and won't be able to pick up Consuelo for a while...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This must be terribly hard on her. Luckily she has her two sisters, her mom and mine who live nearby, plus my brother who can work from home, most of the time. I hope they will all be well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite all of this, I am happy for the new arrival to the family. S/he will be surrounded by our love.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7080329607174071950?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7080329607174071950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7080329607174071950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7080329607174071950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7080329607174071950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-niece-or-nephew.html' title='New niece or nephew'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1207678301786120488</id><published>2011-01-23T01:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T02:03:57.475+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nieve</title><content type='html'>Nieve, no me mueves.&lt;br /&gt;Moverme nadie puede&lt;br /&gt;ya. Un día me fuiste nueva&lt;br /&gt;pero el tiempo rueda&lt;br /&gt;y yo no. No puedo más.&lt;br /&gt;No veo y no vuelvo&lt;br /&gt;atrás. Antes podía y vivía&lt;br /&gt;y volaba con el viento;&lt;br /&gt;hoy es poco lo que siento.&lt;br /&gt;Caí y me asenté y soy tú.&lt;br /&gt;Me veo por la ventana&lt;br /&gt;y no se me mueve nada.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1207678301786120488?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1207678301786120488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1207678301786120488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1207678301786120488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1207678301786120488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/nieve.html' title='Nieve'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5316347707714977873</id><published>2011-01-22T08:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-22T08:13:47.101+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Not exactly a clone...</title><content type='html'>I had a strange dream tonight. Slipping away, but i'll try to write down the part that remains. Setting and plot are all gone, but there was this idea: an unfertilized ovum was emptied of its nucleus, and replaced by the nucleus of a man's sperm. Then the ovum was fertilized by a sperm of the same man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It just occurred to me that if two men wanted to have a child that was genetically both of theirs, this would be the (a?) way to do it... Of course, gene combination would have to be controlled in some way. Otherwise the child might end up with two Y chromosomes and no X, for instance, and I doubt that such combination is viable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strange thoughts to be having this early on a Saturday morning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5316347707714977873?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5316347707714977873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5316347707714977873' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5316347707714977873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5316347707714977873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-exactly-clone.html' title='Not exactly a clone...'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-48625934065579211</id><published>2011-01-21T18:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T18:53:18.974+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Poem by Langston Hughes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif;font-size:85%;"&gt;I                        loved my friend.&lt;br /&gt;                      He went away from me.&lt;br /&gt;                      There's nothing more to say.&lt;br /&gt;                      The poem ends&lt;br /&gt;                      Soft as it began-&lt;br /&gt;                      I loved my friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-48625934065579211?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/48625934065579211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=48625934065579211' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/48625934065579211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/48625934065579211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2011/01/poem-by-langston-hughes.html' title='A Poem by Langston Hughes'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2527276993457113203</id><published>2010-12-20T01:47:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:23:11.177+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Idea para guión cinematográfico o novela</title><content type='html'>Idea general: qué pasa si en vez de ponerse unos en contra de otros, los vecinos y los okupas se ponen de acuerdo y van a protestar juntos frente a la casa de gobierno?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escenas varias:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Un okupa ve todos los días, al volver de su trabajo como encargado de la limpieza en una biblioteca, a un vecino que lee en su balcón. Desde abajo ve el título de los libros, que después busca en la biblioteca y lee él también. Son libros con ideas socialistas y de cooperación. Un día se encuentra con este hombre, cuarentón ya, que está barriendo su vereda. Se le acerca y charlan, y eventualmente surge una relación (cómo desarrollarla?), pero originalmente el vecino tiene prejuicios, a pesar de sus lecturas. Espera que este okupa le robe o lo estafe, o le pida cosas... Todo lo cual no queda completamente descartado por el okupa, al cual le parece injusto que este hombre trabaje tan poco y tenga tanto tiempo libre como parece tener, y pueda darse el lujo de tener sus ideas de mejora social pero no haga de veras nada por ellas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Diálogo (en un bus): "No puedo darte nada porque hay muchos como vos a los que darles, y si les doy a todos, voy a terminar viviendo como ustedes, y no quiero, me he roto demasiado el culo para tener lo que tengo. Son otros los que tienen que dar, y vivir un poco más como vos y yo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La historia debe ser desarrollada del punto de vista de ambos personajes, con todos los estereotipos/realidades sobre ambas clases: que los de abajo son vagos, que no quieren trabajar, que son ladrones y resentidos, etc.; que los del medio no se comprometen socialmente, que son ganado, que no son solidarios, etc.. En algún momento transmitir las ideas de que para trabajar por chirolas, mejor no trabajar; que hay que organizarse; que hay que cooperar. Que hay que ser responsables por la propia vida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2527276993457113203?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2527276993457113203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2527276993457113203' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2527276993457113203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2527276993457113203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/12/idea-para-guion-cinematografico-o.html' title='Idea para guión cinematográfico o novela'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6669802850486289110</id><published>2010-12-15T02:15:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:24:42.756+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spoons</title><content type='html'>I was born with a stainless-steel spoon in my mouth, in 1974. By that time stainless steel was the new silver.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6669802850486289110?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6669802850486289110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6669802850486289110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6669802850486289110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6669802850486289110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/12/spoons.html' title='Spoons'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3732019182508646783</id><published>2010-12-10T13:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:45:08.035+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>En el aeropuerto de Miami se arman colas tremendas para entrar al país. Colas que duran horas. Luego te entrevistan minuciosamente y te toman fotos y tus huellas dactilares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mientras esperas a que llegue tu turno, la distracción principal para tu cuerpo cansado de tanto volar es un video que se recicla constantemente en varias pantallas frente a los mostradores. Imágenes de libertad y maravilla, salpicadas de banderas y multicolores caras sonrientes que te dan la bienvenida a esa tierra bendecida, se suceden una y otra vez ante tus ojos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despista un poco, la verdad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3732019182508646783?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3732019182508646783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3732019182508646783' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3732019182508646783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3732019182508646783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/12/en-el-aeropuerto-de-miami-se-arman.html' title=''/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3081594163151809463</id><published>2010-12-10T05:57:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:53:11.432+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Idea for a set of books</title><content type='html'>Scattered&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beginning of 21st century, extrasolar planets discovered. Many that support life. Even evidence of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, unattainable by any kind of rocketry or spaceship: space simply too big, human life-spans extendable, but only to a certain limit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scanned humans already exist in VR medium, but transmission is not possible. Not only uncertainty of reception, but signals degrade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only way found: time travel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not time travel really, but space-time displacements. Became possible when quantum microscopy and therefore quantum wormholes were discovered. Method for sending people through: focus on such a wormhole inside or near a person's body and then revert the polarity of the microscope, which with the due calibrations, will produce the displacement of the defined volume in one direction, and the appearance at the place of transmission of the same volume from the other side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you focus on a destination place too tightly, the time variable cannot be adjusted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you focus on a destination time too tightly, people might end up anywhere in the universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, best possible bet: focus on an area the size and shape of a whole planetary atmosphere, and you get a range of +/- several hundred years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since large masses are not only an aid in calculating this kind of displacement but also an asset when effecting the "jump", this method is the best bet for colonization of extrasolar planets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe first book could be about the development of all of this technology, and the first colonizers. Would have to be a very large group, so that in spite of the scatter effect there is some assurance that some will survive, meet and reproduce on the target planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are all quipped with some kind of stasis equipment (a quantum microscope set on "looping"?) in case they materialize in a non-viable volume of the planet, as well as other gear (nanotechnology for parachuting, digging out, etc.?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Settlement is of minimum impact. As soon as they get there, begin building digital systems and interact with native ecosystem only virtually and only rarely nanorobotically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given this setting, there are several possible dramas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ending up underground.&lt;br /&gt;Ending up alone for centuries.&lt;br /&gt;Arriving millennia after first colonization.&lt;br /&gt;Alien life.&lt;br /&gt;Digital system failure, must interact with real universe.&lt;br /&gt;Interpersonal conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Must give it more thought!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3081594163151809463?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3081594163151809463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3081594163151809463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3081594163151809463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3081594163151809463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/12/idea-for-set-of-books.html' title='Idea for a set of books'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3352801133432051888</id><published>2010-12-10T04:23:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-10T21:07:25.260+01:00</updated><title type='text'>What We Do</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/TQGu7CSaT5I/AAAAAAAAAJU/c9cYiD8Qs9g/s1600/throne2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 315px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/TQGu7CSaT5I/AAAAAAAAAJU/c9cYiD8Qs9g/s400/throne2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548908545146769298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's 4:24 a.m. and i'm sitting in Oslo airport, waiting for time to pass. At 7:25 a plane will erase me from here and rematerialize me in Spain a few hours later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lay down on a hard bench and managed to sleep for a few hours; then discomfort overcame tiredness, i suppose, and i got up and went for a walk. Now i've been sitting on a lounge chair in the arrivals hall for the last hour and a half, reading and chatting with friends on facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chair is right in front of a cordoned-off area, inside which a guy is polishing the floor, sitting atop a machine that looks like a massive, movable throne. He controls it with a joystick under his right hand and the throne inches forwards at about a meter per minute, trailing behind it a thick power chord. Once in a while the guy climbs off, repositions the chord so as not to have to drive over it, and then climbs back up again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The floor is covered in a beige dust that looks very fine, and i wonder how much of it is getting into my lungs. The guy is not wearing a mask, though, so it's probably alright. His face is impassive as stone, and he yawns once in a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My job drives me crazy sometimes: too much excitement, too much personal drama, too many crises. But looking at this guy i feel grateful for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or maybe i don't. The previous comment may be interpreted as disparaging under a certain light, but i don't mean it to be. Apart from the fact that everything would eventually crumble to pieces if jobs like this weren't done, i see on a day to day basis that maintenance people are some of the unsung heroes of the modern world. They work hard, and we others tend to take what they do for granted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This last is a bad habit i've observed in a great many areas: only obvious innovations or novelty projects are celebrated, but the everyday, all-pervading and absolutely indispensable struggle against inertia goes unnoticed. This is a great flaw in our educations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, what i meant to comment on is the seeming boredom and repetitiveness that pervade this man's job. Granted, it's nighttime and we humans do tend to feel naturally sleepy at this time, but the machine he is driving goes so slowly that sometimes he closes his eyes for many seconds at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, imagine all that time to think and build new worlds in your head, listen to music, chew over an idea...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3352801133432051888?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3352801133432051888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3352801133432051888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3352801133432051888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3352801133432051888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-we-do.html' title='What We Do'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/TQGu7CSaT5I/AAAAAAAAAJU/c9cYiD8Qs9g/s72-c/throne2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1957806836832751226</id><published>2010-11-25T23:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-26T01:48:33.573+01:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the way</title><content type='html'>L. and C. called me this afternoon and gave me the news: the in vitro insemination of November 11th was a success, according to a trusty Evatest. The result became visible extremely quickly, said L., which might even indicate a multiple pregnancy... Thing is, these home pregnancy tests are sensitive to the presence of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) in the mother's urine, where its concentration can grow much faster if there is more than one embryo present. We will know for sure on Monday, when C. has an appointment at the clinic. I haven't asked them what kind of examination will be given her (I imagine some kind of ultrasound) but they have been told that they will be able to see exactly how many of the implanted embryos --originally three-- took root.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only reason I am being able to force myself to write about my future nieces and/or nephews using the word "embryos" is that we don't even know how many they are, yet. Otherwise I would find it even more fake and impossible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there they are now, growing inside C., this very instant: mis sobrin@s. I accompanied L. &amp;amp; C. to the clinic the day they were conceived, so I will truly be able to tell them, someday, that I was there the day they were conceived... I suppose &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;, coming from an uncle, would have seemed more than a bit out of place in times past, but of course, technology changes even this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These babies spent the first two days after their conception in glass containers, outside their mother's body! At the time of transference they were each already made up of two to four cells... No more, but no less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, time of arrival: August 11, 2011... But probably before!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1957806836832751226?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1957806836832751226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1957806836832751226' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1957806836832751226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1957806836832751226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-on-way.html' title='More on the way'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3385311954109948602</id><published>2010-11-20T22:13:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T07:29:35.838+02:00</updated><title type='text'>pUniversing again</title><content type='html'>A chilly -5.5C outside, went out to the balcony anyways, for a breather (been writing records of progress all afternoon). Hazy sky tonight, and the moon is full or thereabouts but still, the Big Dipper came through. Pointed pUniverse at it and up came the names: Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak and Phecda. Alkaid I already read about some weeks ago, so my eyes landed on Alioth, somehow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a summary of what wikipedia had to say about it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Alioth or Epsilon Ursae Majoris (ε UMa, ε Ursae Majoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major (despite its Bayer designation being merely "epsilon"), and at magnitude 1.76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky. Its traditional name Alioth comes from the Arabic word alyat, which means "fat tail of a sheep".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;It is known as 北斗五 (the Fifth Star of the Northern Dipper) or 玉衡 (the Star of Jade Sighting-tube) in Chinese.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;It is the star in the tail of the bear closest to its body, and thus a star in the handle of the Big Dipper, the one closest to the bowl. &lt;sup class="reference" id="ref_1728.5E"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Ursae_Majoris#endnote_1728.5E"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Alioth is 81 light years from Earth. Its spectral type is A0p, where"p" stands for peculiar, as the spectrum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;of its light is characteristic of an Alpha Canum Venaticorum variable &lt;/span&gt;(must figure out what that is!)&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alioth, as a representative of this type, may harbor two interacting processes. First, the star's strong magnetic field &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;separating different elements in the star's hydrogen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'fuel'. In addition, a rotation axis at an angle to the magnetic axis may be spinning different bands of magnetically-sorted elements into the line of sight between Alioth and the Earth. The intervening elements react differently at different frequencies of light as they whip in and out of view, causing Alioth to have very strange spectral lines &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that fluctuate over a period of 5.1 days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;With Alioth, the rotational and magnetic axes are at almost 90 degrees to one another. Darker (denser) regions of chromium form a band at right angles to the equator.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;A recent study suggests Alioth's 5.1-day variation may be due to a substellar object of about 14.7 Jupiter masses in an eccentric orbit (e=0.5) with an average separation of 0.055 astronomical units.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Alioth has a relatively weak magnetic field, fifteen times weaker than α CVn, but it is still 100 times stronger than that of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3385311954109948602?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3385311954109948602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3385311954109948602' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3385311954109948602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3385311954109948602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/11/puniversing-again.html' title='pUniversing again'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7295017081376163380</id><published>2010-11-20T11:59:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T12:13:22.186+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lo dijo Aura:</title><content type='html'>"Es bueno tener cara y acento de serranitos, porque la gente se cree que eres un ignorante y puedes salirte con la tuya." (no descontectualizar)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A quién descartaría de la competencia por las becas? Pues a mí misma, porque no puedo hablar por los demás, pero de mí sé que, me la den o no, algo voy a hacer con mi vida."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Se habla mucho del respeto, pero siempre del respeto que les debemos a otros, o que los demás nos deben a nosotros, pero poco se habla del respeto que nos debemos tener a nosotros mismos."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Que qué haría si me tocara compartir la habitación con un ateo? Pues nada, no se lo creería a menos que me lo jurara por dios."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aura viene de un pueblo bastante aislado y conservador en medio de los Andes. Con 10 años logró que un oficial del gobierno lo visitara para que se les hicieran los DNI a más de 500 chicos del lugar. Con 8 le puso una demanda a un profesor que le pegó (práctica muy común en la zona, menos común desde entonces), y tuvo que enfrentarse al ostracismo no sólo de sus maestros, sino de sus compañeros, cuyos padres la consideraban "una mala influencia". Con 13 se fue a vivir a la capital, con un tío, para poder ir a la escuela secundaria. Con 17 se buscó su propio cuarto desde el que asistir a la universidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su padre nunca la obligó a hacer nada, pero siempre la impulsó para que creyera en sí misma y tuviera el valor de hacer lo que ella creía correcto. Le narró la historia de un político al que le tiraban tomatazos, pero que igualmente iba sonriendo y sacudiendo las manos en símbolo de victoria. "Ese tipo de confianza en uno mismo hay que tener", le decía.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7295017081376163380?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7295017081376163380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7295017081376163380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7295017081376163380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7295017081376163380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/11/lo-dijo-aura.html' title='Lo dijo Aura:'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5677074385735753470</id><published>2010-11-14T08:05:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T08:07:39.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Time Traveler's Wife</title><content type='html'>Beautiful vision of lifetimes embedded in time, like bits of a forest in amber.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5677074385735753470?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5677074385735753470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5677074385735753470' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5677074385735753470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5677074385735753470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/11/time-travelers-wife.html' title='The Time Traveler&apos;s Wife'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8406848742527079774</id><published>2010-10-13T16:20:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T17:24:26.429+02:00</updated><title type='text'>On the terrible ambiguity of religion</title><content type='html'>Most of the Christians and Muslims I know maintain that their Gods are all about love. They say only extremists who misinterpret The New Testament and the Quran are intolerant and violent. Yet here we go:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="c"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in     this world, neither in the world to come.&lt;/span&gt;" (The New Testament, Matthew 12:32)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="i"&gt;He that believeth     and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="c"&gt;" (The New Testament, Mark 16:16)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;style&gt;@font-face {   font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Sectio&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"&gt;"He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="c"&gt;" (The Quran, Yunus 3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How can one interpret this as the pronouncements of a god of love? And if we are going to pick and choose what we like from these books, why not make our own principles, and leave the holy books aside once and for all???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8406848742527079774?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8406848742527079774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8406848742527079774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8406848742527079774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8406848742527079774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/10/on-terrible-ambiguity-of-religion.html' title='On the terrible ambiguity of religion'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7445524304792268190</id><published>2010-10-05T19:56:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:56:56.785+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A beginning</title><content type='html'>When the bubble formed I happened to end up too close to its outer edge, which sliced through both my legs and part of my right arm. I had a computer on my lap and was sitting on a sofa, typing away, and so I lost the outer half of the arm, including most of the shoulder and elbow joints, with my humerus being almost perfectly halved along its length. The curvature of the bubble wall meant that the upper part of my ulna was left behind, too, although my wrist was not compromised. As for my legs, I lost part of the right hip, most of the right leg except for a flap of flesh in my inner thigh, and my left leg, some five centimeters below my knee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cocoon I was in was one of six that contained human genetic material, albeit minus a few parts. That's because w&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7445524304792268190?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7445524304792268190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7445524304792268190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7445524304792268190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7445524304792268190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/10/beginning.html' title='A beginning'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6544514402065487799</id><published>2010-10-05T19:29:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T19:45:08.701+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Al-Fatiha</title><content type='html'>Copied from wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Al-Fatiha Foundation is an organization which advances the cause of gay, lesbian &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;and transgender Muslims. It was founded in 1998 by Faisal Alam, a Pakistani American, and is registered as a nonprofit organization in the United States. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The name means "the Opening". The organization was an offshoot of an internet listserve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; that brought together many gay, lesbian, and questioning Muslims from various countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Fatiha_Foundation#cite_note-0"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; Al-Fatiha has 14 chapters in the United States, as well as offices in England, Canada, Spain, Turkey and South Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In 2001, Al-Muhajiroun, an international organization seeking the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate, issued a fatwa declaring that all members of Al-Fatiha were &lt;/span&gt;murtadd&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, or apostates, and condemning them to death. Because of the threat and coming from conservative societies, many members of the foundation's site still prefer to be anonymous so as to protect their identity while continuing a tradition of secrecy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;"  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, after that introduction, what I wanted to write in here is a transcription of this beautiful and fitting fragment of a speech given by Al-Fatiha's leader, Faisal Alam:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"           &lt;style&gt;@font-face {   font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Secti&lt;/style&gt;There was a companion of the prophet that came to the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, and said: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Oh, prophet of Allah, what do you do when someone is being oppressed, when you see suffering in front of your own eyes? What should you do?&lt;/span&gt;'  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The prophet replied: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Stop it with your hands.&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;So the companion replied: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What if I can’t stop it with my hands? What if my hands are tied?&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The prophet replied: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Speak out with your tongue.&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;So the companion replied: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What if our tongues are also tied? What if we cannot speak out?&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And the prophet replied: '&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Then, at least, feel in your heart that the injustice that is being done is wrong.&lt;/span&gt;' "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I do feel it in my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6544514402065487799?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6544514402065487799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6544514402065487799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6544514402065487799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6544514402065487799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/10/al-fatiha.html' title='Al-Fatiha'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5415661249862781136</id><published>2010-09-28T17:23:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T19:53:22.843+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Versito pa' juguetear!</title><content type='html'>Póngase su tanga en Tonga&lt;br /&gt;y ponga su pinga en mi tanga.&lt;br /&gt;Tóqueme un tango y tenga&lt;br /&gt;su pinga con mi poronga.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5415661249862781136?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5415661249862781136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5415661249862781136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5415661249862781136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5415661249862781136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/versito-pa-juguetear.html' title='Versito pa&apos; juguetear!'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8603297706873651359</id><published>2010-09-28T17:15:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T16:54:57.858+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Full Circle</title><content type='html'>There is a student this year who is half P and half G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was born and grew up in P, and is a practicing muslim. It is tragic to think that, 70 years ago, her two grandparents lived in a country that persecuted and oppressed a people that later constituted themselves into a nation that now persecutes and oppresses her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What kind of a species are we? Or what kind of life? For the same could be asked about insects that prey on the tadpoles that later, as frogs, prey on those insects.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8603297706873651359?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8603297706873651359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8603297706873651359' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8603297706873651359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8603297706873651359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/full-circle.html' title='Full Circle'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-910577009653371418</id><published>2010-09-20T23:55:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T19:47:54.586+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Alkaid</title><content type='html'>Am catching or have caught a flu, apparently. Snotty nose, chills and joint aches. Still, had to return a projector I'd borrowed from the Administration building to show a movie at my place. This time it was "Drop Dead Gorgeous". Not all of the residence came over, but there was much laughter among the ones that did, so the movie was enjoyed. Not least by me, flu or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, on the way to Admin. i noticed the sky has finally cleared a little and some stars were shining. Perfect opportunity to use pUniverse. Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, Bootes... All there. And then the stars: Arcturus, Vega... Those are the ones I know more or less, or at least of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I've decided that from now on, every time I get the chance to use pUniverse I'll focus on a star, learn its location, and then read about it. I've started with Alkaid. This is what I read about it, taken from &lt;a href="http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/alkaid.html"&gt;http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/alkaid.html&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ALKAID (Eta Ursae Majoris).  Though the name  may not be so well known, the star known as Alkaid is the end star in the handle of the Big Dipper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, the great asterism that makes most of the grand constellation Ursa Major&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, the Greater Bear.  Just fainter than Dubhe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;,  the front bowl star of the Dipper, second magnitude (1.85) Alkaid is the third brightest star in the constellation and places number 35 in the list of the brightest stars.  Though Johannes Bayer generally listed stars by Greek letter names in order of brightness within a constellation, the stars of the Dipper are named from west to east, rendering Alkaid Eta Ursae Majoris rather than Beta.  Different cultures see the sky differently as well.  Alkaid's Arabic name means "the leader," and appears to refer to the "daughters" (the handle of the Dipper) that stand by a funeral bier made of the Dipper's bowl.  Alkaid is also known as Benetnasch, which also refers to the daughters.  Alkaid is almost exactly 100 light years away.  With a surface temperature of about 20,000 degrees Kelvin, it is one of the hotter stars that can be seen with the naked eye, and therefore glows to us a soft blue-white.  Like the Sun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; it is a "main-sequence" star that shines by fusing hydrogen into helium in its core.  However its mass of six times that of the Sun renders it both hotter and over 700 times more luminous.  Were Alkaid our Sun, we would have to be 25 times farther away to survive, almost to the orbit of Neptune.  It is one of the two renegades of the Dipper.  The five middle stars are all moving through space together as part of a loosely bound cluster.  Alkaid and Dubhe, however, are moving in their own directions, ultimately dooming the Dipper's shape.  The star is just below the temperature limit at which stars produce strong X-rays as a result of shock waves in their winds, and is therefore only a weak source of X-rays.        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-910577009653371418?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/910577009653371418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=910577009653371418' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/910577009653371418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/910577009653371418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/alkaid.html' title='Alkaid'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3299047383376808239</id><published>2010-09-13T17:43:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T09:54:41.368+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Canción de cuna para Consuelo</title><content type='html'>Hace un par de días volví a ver "El laberinto del fauno". El comentario de esta película merece una entrada a parte, pero lo que me ha estado rondando por la cabeza estas últimas cuarenta y tantas horas es la nana que el personaje de Mercedes le tararea al de Ofelia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"¿Sabes alguna nana?" pregunta Ofelia a Mercedes.&lt;br /&gt;"Sólo una", responde Mercedes. "Pero no recuerdo la letra."&lt;br /&gt;"No me importa. Quiero escucharla."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es una &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iJFu2v9x0"&gt;melodía bellísima&lt;/a&gt;, y súper pegadiza. Hoy volvió a cruzárseme por la mente mientras corría y, pensando en Consuelo y sintiéndome autorizado por la desmemoria de Mercedes, se me ocurrió esta letra, para ponérsela a la parte 'tarareable' de la melodía:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nena te querés dormir&lt;br /&gt;y el sueño ya va a llegar&lt;br /&gt;para llevarte a volar&lt;br /&gt;a don&lt;br /&gt;de quie&lt;br /&gt;ras ir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y después al despertar&lt;br /&gt;vas a ver que sonreís&lt;br /&gt;porque para bien vivir&lt;br /&gt;hay que&lt;br /&gt;saber&lt;br /&gt;soñar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sí,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mucho soñar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;y al despertar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;aún más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3299047383376808239?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=89a8ac8cb73235f1&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3299047383376808239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3299047383376808239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3299047383376808239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3299047383376808239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/cancion-de-cuna-para-consuelo.html' title='Canción de cuna para Consuelo'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8927370729948999306</id><published>2010-09-07T18:13:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T18:42:13.771+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Veganos: viven sin consumir productos de origen animal</title><content type='html'>Tal es el título de un artículo aparecido ayer en el periódico Vox Populi. Se trata de una entrevista a gente de Red Animalista Mendoza, una organización vegana mendocina a la cual pertenece mi prima Tatiana. Hace tiempo que vengo siguiendo de lejos su lucha por los derechos de los animales, la cual me ha inspirado y dado fuerzas para volverme más cuidadoso con mi propia dieta (ya no tomo leche ni compro huevos, por ejemplo, pero todavía me tientan muchísimo productos como la creme fraiche y el cottage cheese). En fin, que a veces casi siento un tironcito de envidia por el apoyo mutuo que obviamente estos chicos de Red Animalista representan unos para otros. Aquí los únicos otros vegetarianos (que no veganos) que conozco son Angela y Edmundo, y como vivo en medio de una comunidad agrícola la visión de la gente en lo referente a animales de granja no es para nada compatible con la ética vegana...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, quizás podría armarme de un poco de valor y empezar yo mismo algún movimiento como este por aquí. Dada la trayectoria que tiene Noruega en lo que concierne la explotación de animales...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, he aquí el texto del artículo: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No consumen carne ni derivados de los animales por una cuestión 'ética'. En Mendoza tienen un grupo que lucha por dar a conocer sus derechos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'¿Vos te comerías a tu perro? les dice Soledad Moretti a sus amigos cuando les intenta explicar por qué decidió convertirse en vegana. Este estilo de vida no muy comprendido por gran parte de la sociedad, consiste en dejar de comer carne y todos los productos provenientes de los animales para luchar por sus derechos. No está sola, ya que pertenece a un grupo que se llama Red Animalista Mendoza que tiene como fin primordial la educación en la no explotación de los animales en todas sus formas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Nosotros llevamos este estilo de vida de veganos por una cuestión ética, porque los animales poseen sistema nervioso central y sienten como nosotros, tienen emociones complejas, necesidades, preferencias e intereses. Tienen interés en vivir su vida en sus propios términos, en no ser explotados, en no ser privados de su libertad y desarrollarse naturalmente', explica Soledad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La explotación de la que habla se basa en cuatro áreas principales: animales que son explotados para alimentación, para vestimenta, para experimentación y para entretenimiento humano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'El vegano rechaza esa cosificación de los animales, vemos que no son medios para nuestros fines porque son seres que sienten y merecen ser respetados', continúa relatando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su medio de lucha es empezar por ellos mismos y de a poco concientizar a la población. 'Nosotros no nos dirigimos al explotador porque sería inútil, sino que apuntamos al consumidor, a generar conciencia sobre el hecho de que, si la demanda cambia, la oferta va a tener que cambiar inevitablemente', agrega.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soledad comenzó a ser vegana en el año 2007, luego de haber visto videos documentales sobre cómo la industria ganadera trataba a los animales. 'Ya era vegetariana desde los 18, pero sólo a los 30 me di cuenta de que el poder lo tiene uno como individuo.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alejandro Prieto también está dentro de la organización Red Animalista y es vegano desde hace dos años. 'Yo llevaba una vida normal. Comía carne y fumaba. Una vez me enfermé y no pude fumar por 10 días y me di cuenta de que me sentía mejor. Eso me llevó a hacer deporte y luego a dejar de comer carne. Se vegano no me convencía del todo hasta que visité un tambo y vi el nivel de crueldad que significa extraer leche de la vaca.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno de los mitos que rodean tanto al vegetarianismo como al veganismo es el de la falta de los nutrientes que supuestamente se pierden por no consumir carne, a lo que Soledad replica: 'La nutrición se puede suplir en un 100%, las proteínas, el calcio, el hierro, el zinc... Todos se pueden conseguir en productos que no vienen de los animales. Es más, uno se siente más saludable que antes.'"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8927370729948999306?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8927370729948999306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8927370729948999306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8927370729948999306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8927370729948999306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/veganos-viven-sin-consumir-productos-de.html' title='Veganos: viven sin consumir productos de origen animal'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4705968242009793195</id><published>2010-09-04T23:44:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T00:09:22.525+02:00</updated><title type='text'>On Internationalization, by Cristovam Buarque</title><content type='html'>Cristovam Buarque, Professor of the Universidade Nacional do Brasil and ex-governor of Brasilia, D.F., as reported in the Brazilian Daily &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;O Globo&lt;/span&gt; on the 23rd of October, 2000:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"During a recent discussion, in the United States, someone asked my opinion regarding the internationalization of the Amazon Region. The youngster asserted that he expected the response of a humanist, not of a Brazilian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the first time anyone had established the humanist viewpoint as the starting point for my response. In fact, as a Brazilian I would have responded simply against internationalization of the Amazon Region. Even if our governments have not given the attention that this treasure deserves, it is ours. I responded that, as a humanist, realizing the risk of environmental destruction that threatens the Amazon Region, I could imagine its internationalization, just as for everything else that is important to humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Amazon Region, from a humanist΄s point of view, has to be internationalized, then we should internationalize the oil reserves of the entire the world as well. Oil is just as important to the well being of humanity as the Amazon Region for our future. Nevertheless, the owners of oil reserves feel it is in their right to increase or decrease oil production and to raise or lower the price. The rich of the world, feel they have the right to burn this valuable possession of humanity. Similarly, the financial capital of the wealthy nations should be internationalized. If the Amazon Region is a natural reserve for every human being, then it could not be burned down by the decision of a landowner or a country. To burn down the Amazon Region is as tragic as the unemployment provoked by the arbitrary decisions of world-wide speculators. We cannot permit that the world΄s financial reserves serve to burn down entire nations according to the whims of speculation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the (internationalization of the) Amazon Region, I would like to see the internationalization of all the world΄s great museums. The Louvre cannot belong only to France. Museums around the world are guardians to the most beautiful works produced by human genius. These cultural patrimonies, as the Amazon Region is a natural patrimony, cannot be dependent on the whim of owners or single countries, who may alter or destroy them. Recently, a Japanese millionaire decided to have a painting by a grand master buried with him in his grave. This painting should have been internationalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the time of the meeting in which this question came up, the United Nations had convened the Millennium Forum and yet the presidents of several countries were not able to attend due to barriers they faced at the border. Therefore, I contend that New York, as the base of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all of humanity. Similarly Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia, Recife, and every city with its own beauty, its own history, should belong to the whole world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the United States want to internationalize the Amazon Region, due to the risk of leaving it in Brazilian hands, then we should internationalize all the nuclear stockpiles of the United States. Particularly since this country has already shown that they are capable of using these weapons, causing a destruction thousands of times greater than the sad fires taking place in the Brazilian forests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During their debates, some of the current U.S. presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world forest reserves in exchange for the foreign debt. We could begin to use this debt to guarantee the right of every child in the world to attend school. We could internationalize children, making sure they are all treated fairly, regardless of their birthplace, as a patrimony which deserves the care and attention of the entire world. Even more so than the Amazon Region. When the world leaders attend to the world΄s poor children as a patrimony of Humanity, they will no longer permit that these children work when they should be studying, that they die when they should be living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a humanist I accept to defend the internationalization of the world. But so long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight so that our Amazon Region continues to be ours. And only ours."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say I absolutely understand the guy, and agree with him, mostly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4705968242009793195?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4705968242009793195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4705968242009793195' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4705968242009793195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4705968242009793195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-internationalization-by-cristovam.html' title='On Internationalization, by Cristovam Buarque'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2834125478341429377</id><published>2010-09-03T22:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T22:55:38.279+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cansancio</title><content type='html'>Desidia me asedia&lt;br /&gt;Envidia me invade&lt;br /&gt;Desgana me gana&lt;br /&gt;Lujuria me aleja &lt;br /&gt;de mi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2834125478341429377?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2834125478341429377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2834125478341429377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2834125478341429377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2834125478341429377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/09/cansancio.html' title='Cansancio'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5398179861744138696</id><published>2010-08-31T18:53:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-31T19:06:08.913+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vuelo barrilete</title><content type='html'>en un momento vuelo barrilete&lt;br /&gt;y hermano de nubes me remonto&lt;br /&gt;aunque como ellas leve pues de pronto&lt;br /&gt;tu mirada me arroja en el retrete.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5398179861744138696?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5398179861744138696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5398179861744138696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5398179861744138696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5398179861744138696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/08/vuelo-barrilete.html' title='Vuelo barrilete'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7629507500488666165</id><published>2010-08-28T22:13:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:33:08.487+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Familia y familiares</title><content type='html'>¿Has visto que, al abrir facebook, aparecen debajo de tu foto miniaturas de las imágenes que algunos de tus amigos tienen en sus perfiles?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues bien, precisamente hace un momento me llamó la atención una tal miniatura, perteneciente al perfil del hijo de una de mis primas. Al ampliarla, la imagen resultó ser ésta:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/THl4ywRRKLI/AAAAAAAAAJE/Gu2VsnIm9EQ/s1600/4c1a4fc5c679d__292%21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/THl4ywRRKLI/AAAAAAAAAJE/Gu2VsnIm9EQ/s400/4c1a4fc5c679d__292%21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510568432410634418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notá el eficiente uso que se hace de las dos Oes de la palabra &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;MATRIMONIO&lt;/span&gt;, así como lo acogedor de la imagen en el globo de la izquierda: mamá, papá y bebé están solos sobre una superficie que, a juzgar por su curvatura, tal vez sea una colina idílica y cubierta de césped en algún paraíso pastoral. Mamá lleva una minifalda que, aunque peligrosamente corta y algo discordante para alguien que defiende el matrimonio tradicional, flamea en el viento acentuando su feminidad. Papá, aparentemente desnudo, es por supuesto mucho más macizo y cerebrudo que ella, aunque quizás no por ello deba interpretarse que ella es menos cabezona.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los brazos de ambos se unen para formar una casita que protege a un bebé sorprendentemente levitante acurrucado en posición fetal. Es esta postura la que nos lleva a sospechar que en realidad nos encontramos ante un niño que aún está siendo gestado y, entonces, pasamos a preguntarnos cuál puede haber sido el objetivo del artista al presentarnos esta imagen. ¿Por qué, por ejemplo, no dibujar un niño algo ya mayor y con los pies en la tierra? Una explicación más que probable es que lo que se trata de transmitir, de forma algo oblicua, es la idea de que los niños no sólo deben contar con un padre y una madre, sino que deben ser concebidos por ellos en el seno de una familia bien establecida y cimentada en la estabilidad y el amor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De lo oblicuo de la transmisión pasamos a maravillarnos ante lo obtuso del concepto en su negación de la realidad. Que todo niño debería ser planeado y acogido en armonía absoluta es ciertamente una meta digna de guiar nuestra vida personal pero, ¿qué sentido puede tener como lema político? ¿Qué hay de los millones y millones de niños que viven hoy y que NO han sido concebidos en esas circunstancias? ¿Qué hacer con ellos? Parece que no son tan importantes como &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tu momento&lt;/span&gt; y &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tu voz&lt;/span&gt;, ¿no? Aquí es donde quedan al descubierto la verdadera intención de este grupo, que es mantener el estátus quo, y el verdadero motor de sus acciones, que es el miedo. Para ellos el bienestar de los niños es obviamente secundario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo con esa cantilena del bienestar se llenan la boca y, lo que es peor, se la llenan a sus niños. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;QUEREMOS MAMÁ Y PAPÁ&lt;/span&gt;, reza el cartel, pretendiendo representar la voz de los niños a través de este pedido. Por eso se utilizan los infantiles "mamá" y "papá" en vez de los más adultos "padres" y "madres".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Una interpretación demasiado tirada de los pelos, decís? ¿No creés que alguien sea capaz de tanto abuso de menores y de tanta insidia en público? Si hubieras estado frente a la legislatura de Mendoza el sábado 19 de junio a mediodía te habrías quitado la duda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para entonces el grupo que se había congregado a las 11:00 en Garibaldi y San Martín se había desplazado tres cuadras hacia el oeste y se encontraba ya apiñado detrás de una valla instalada por la policía a un lado de la legislatura. Los asistentes a esta concentración eran varios cientos y contaban con una tarima, micrófonos y la presencia de un par de furgonetas pertenecientes a emisoras de radio o televisión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Del otro lado, más allá de una "tierra de nadie" frente a la legislatura, se hallaba otra valla, tras la cual un grupo mucho más reducido agitaba carteles apoyando el matrimonio homosexual. Casi se oía el canto de los grillos, de tan pocos que éramos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En un momento dado subió a la tarima una niña de 9 ó 10 años que empezó a leer un texto ¡tan triste en su boca! acerca de cómo ella, como representante de los niños del país, no quería tener dos papás o dos mamás, sino un papá y una mamá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No recuerdo exactamente cuáles fueron sus palabras. Sentí una pena tremenda por ella.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - o - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, que me he puesto a leer los comentarios que los amigos del hijo de mi prima han dejado debajo de esta imagen y resulta que él asistió a este mitín "para proteger a la familia", ese sábado 19 de junio. Debe haber estado a menos de 50 metros de donde estaba yo, tal vez con su padre y con su madre. Yo no vi a ninguno de los tres pero allí estaban, probablemente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi prima es una mujer amable, de buen corazón, dedicada a su familia, sacrificada por los demás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y sin embargo, en esto no ve claro, y le ha transmitido a sus hijos su miopía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro, esto no significa que sea mala madre. Supongo que todos los padres deben tener dificultad a veces en discernir si están transmitiendo valores morales o defectos de carácter. Peor aún, confundir estos por aquellos tampoco debe ser algo tan fuera de lo común.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7629507500488666165?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7629507500488666165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7629507500488666165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7629507500488666165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7629507500488666165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/08/extended-family.html' title='Familia y familiares'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/THl4ywRRKLI/AAAAAAAAAJE/Gu2VsnIm9EQ/s72-c/4c1a4fc5c679d__292%21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-616380252403268815</id><published>2010-08-21T18:24:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T07:36:12.134+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Earthseed</title><content type='html'>In my darkest moments I believe we as a species cannot pull ourselves out of our tightly closed circles of pettiness and egoism and lack of forethought. What little bit of conscious thought and reason and sensitivity we have managed to amass are weighed down by mountains of other evolutionary baggage, and so the circles will just go on, repeating each other in tighter or looser versions of themselves, until finally some circumstance or other will put an end to our species, be it by extinction or, in the best case scenario, by turning us into something else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is always this last ray of light to hope for, which is only such if we somehow could manage to direct the direction of our change. Perhaps if our strengths alone are not enough to carry us where we want to go in the long run, maybe we can use our weaknesses, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One such weakness is our vulnerability to doctrine, be it religious or political. I think our tendency to fall under its spell is indeed biologically dictated, hearkening back to either the blind obedience due to alpha males when we used to run around in packs on the savanna, or to the time when mind was born, alone and frightened and without any explanation in the face of an incredibly complex and immense universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout history we have certainly demonstrated over and over again that we are capable of believing our doctrines to ridiculous extremes, even in the face of the most contradictory evidence. We lack flexibility. We prefer to follow recipes rather than think on our own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mind is not very strong in us, yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway. All these preoccupations are kind of an eco of what Octavia Butler expressed through her novels "Parable of the Sower". If we could somehow secure incorruptible leaders, who were at the same time flexible enough to seize opportunity, and they promoted a doctrine of kindness and security for all, guided by adaptability and respect for nature... If we could get people to believe in these philosophies with religious fervor, then maybe we'd have a chance, I think in these dark times of mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT NO. I know the solution does not lay there. More and more of us are learning to reason and think. We have to work for that, to make sure we can work and cooperate with each other not out of unquestionable dogma, but because we try to figure what is best for us and for each other at each different time, and because we care, because we can see ourselves in one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kindness, security, adaptability&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-616380252403268815?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/616380252403268815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=616380252403268815' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/616380252403268815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/616380252403268815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/08/earthseed.html' title='Earthseed'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7939274560929929086</id><published>2010-08-14T20:01:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:35:08.602+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Consuelo en yoruba</title><content type='html'>Desde que supe que Consuelo venía en camino he estado leyendo mucho acerca de los nombres proprios en las distintas culturas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este momento acaba de cruzárseme por el camino EKUNDAYO, un nombre yoruba que significa "tristeza que se transforma en alegría". La capacidad de efectuar tal transformación &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;en sí misma&lt;/span&gt; es el significado &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;exacto&lt;/span&gt; que me gustaría que tuviera para Consuelo su nombre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ekundayo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7939274560929929086?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7939274560929929086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7939274560929929086' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7939274560929929086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7939274560929929086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/08/consuelo-en-yoruba.html' title='Consuelo en yoruba'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2357514301613492455</id><published>2010-08-05T01:18:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T01:26:27.762+02:00</updated><title type='text'>José Cibrián a su hijo</title><content type='html'>Esto se lo oí narrar a Pepito Cibrián en la tele:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cuando yo a mi padre le conté, a los 18 años o 19, que tenía grandes angustias con mis tendencias, llamémosles 'homosexuales', mi padre, quijotesco, un hombre de ética profunda, un hombre que había peleado en la batalla del Ebro, exiliado, me dijo: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Pepe, pará. Se es hombre en la vida, no en la cama. Así que selo al 100%, porque si no, no te respeto.&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si esto no es inspiración y ejemplo para la vida, no sé qué lo es.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2357514301613492455?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2357514301613492455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2357514301613492455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2357514301613492455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2357514301613492455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/08/jose-cibrian-su-hijo.html' title='José Cibrián a su hijo'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2022490930883713988</id><published>2010-07-26T06:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-26T06:22:17.681+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Carta de opinión II</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Todos a la escuela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tal es el título de una campaña solidaria emprendida recientemente y del folleto a través del cual supe de ella, recibido este mes de julio en el sobre de la boleta de la luz. La idea consiste en instar a la gente a donar “un par de zapatillas nuevas para que ningún chico de la provincia deje de ir a la escuela por falta de calzado”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La idea en sí me parece excelente. Es sólo con solidaridad que una sociedad puede crecer y desarrollarse, y si en nuestra provincia hay niños que se ven incapacitados de ir a la escuela por falta de recursos, el futuro que se ve afectado no es sólo el de ellos, sino el de todos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo que me sorprende y, francamente, me parece deplorable, es que la campaña haya sido promovida por el Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano, un órgano gubernamental de la provincia. ¡La educación de nuestros niños no debe jamás quedar a merced de la caridad de potenciales donantes! La caridad es y sólo puede ser una iniciativa de partes privadas ante la injusticia y la desigualdad, ya sean estas causadas por la sociedad o por catástrofes más allá de nuestro control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un gobierno, por otra parte, debe hacer de la educación una de sus prioridades primeras. Si no hay zapatillas para que todos los niños vayan a la escuela, entonces deberá revisar los presupuestos, o recaudar más impuestos. No apelar a la caridad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2022490930883713988?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2022490930883713988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2022490930883713988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2022490930883713988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2022490930883713988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/07/carta-de-opinion-ii.html' title='Carta de opinión II'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2349180921549212395</id><published>2010-07-24T18:32:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T18:33:12.776+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Carta de opinión en un periódico argentino</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;La justicia no es finita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“¿No hay cosas mucho más importantes de las cuales deberían estar ocupándose los políticos?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En varias conversaciones y artículos anteriores y posteriores al 15 de julio me ha parecido particularmente desinformada y capciosa esta pregunta, con frecuencia precedida de un preámbulo tembleque que se las da de comprensivo y respetuoso: Yo no tengo nada en contra de los homosexuales, pero… &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La respuesta que uno no siempre tiene la oportunidad de dar es que la actual modificación de la ley de matrimonios y la discusión que la circundó, aunque llegaran a su cúlmine en estos días, fueron el resultado de décadas de brega en demanda de derechos fundamentales de los cuales esta sociedad nos excluía a los homosexuales. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sé que en nuestro país hay mucho más que clama arreglo: la corrupción de dirigentes y la viveza criolla que le hace de espejo; la pobreza de millones frente a la indiferencia de otros tantos; las mineras extranjeras a las cuales una ley absurda (la 24.228) nos manda que les paguemos por llevarse toda la riqueza de nuestro suelo, que luego nos dejan lleno de venenos. Y la lista sigue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo, la justicia no es una cantidad finita. Si los homosexuales nos hacemos de una porción, no queda menos para los demás. Al contrario, mientras más justicia se demande, más habrá, porque verla hecha inspira. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Sabe qué? De las cosas importantes ocupémonos usted y yo, que los políticos tendrán que seguirnos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2349180921549212395?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2349180921549212395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2349180921549212395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2349180921549212395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2349180921549212395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/07/carta-de-opinion-en-un-periodico.html' title='Carta de opinión en un periódico argentino'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1191693375704612600</id><published>2010-07-24T00:37:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T00:49:52.973+02:00</updated><title type='text'>To Family</title><content type='html'>You have known me since I was a child. You probably have some ideas about who I am as a person. Now you know I am also homosexual. You most certainly have some ideas about homosexuality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, I would say that you know more about me than about homosexuality, wouldn't you? After all, you have had first hand experience of me for years, you have seen me grow. And about homosexuality, you know only some things you have heard, and others you have seen on TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So please, don't draw conclusions about me based on what you know about homosexuality. Instead ask me questions, challenge me with what you think you know about it. Maybe you will get answers that will change your views on homosexuality instead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1191693375704612600?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1191693375704612600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1191693375704612600' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1191693375704612600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1191693375704612600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-family.html' title='To Family'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8655051008569961078</id><published>2010-07-15T14:34:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T14:44:57.765+02:00</updated><title type='text'>NIEVE Y NUPCIAS</title><content type='html'>Esta mañana me he levantado con dos novedades: nieve en Mendoza y equidad matrimonial para homosexuales en Argentina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si! No es una nueva ley, sino la modificación de la ley ya existente! Se reemplaza "hombre y mujer" por "contrayentes".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto es justicia, caracho!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8655051008569961078?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8655051008569961078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8655051008569961078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8655051008569961078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8655051008569961078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/07/nieve-y-nupcias.html' title='NIEVE Y NUPCIAS'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8867611628836392875</id><published>2010-07-03T17:17:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-03T17:47:49.116+02:00</updated><title type='text'>On The Bus</title><content type='html'>A middle-aged woman got up from her seat with her daughter behind her, a girl of about 7 or 8 dressed primly in her white school uniform, black hair pulled back tightly and held in place by a white hair-band and two black, long braids down her back. "Come here, grab the handrail", said the mother in a flat, stern voice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl moved forward, purposefully or not getting ahead of her mother and perhaps, in the opinion of the latter, not grabbing the handrail with a solid enough grasp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Where do you think you're going, Ana?" she yelled, shrilly. "I told you to grab on!" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She then proceded to shake Ana by the shoulder and shove her against the handrail. Ana didn't say a word and looked on, without much expression on her face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mother pressed the button by the door to signal the driver to pull up at the next stop. He did so to let some people on, who came on board through the doors up front, but he forgot to open the door in the middle of the bus, where Ana and her mother were waiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mister, could you please open the door?", said the woman calmly, sweetness in her voice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He did so, and then the mother grabbed her daughter's hand and they both got off the bus.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8867611628836392875?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8867611628836392875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8867611628836392875' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8867611628836392875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8867611628836392875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-bus.html' title='On The Bus'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3365216608319450928</id><published>2010-06-19T20:04:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T22:29:44.502+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Matrimonios y derecho de adopción para homosexuales, otra vez</title><content type='html'>Hoy bautizan a mi sobrina. Escribo esto habiendo comenzado ya los aprontes para partir hacia la iglesia. Me he bañado y estoy aquí, envuelto en mi bata, esperando a que se haga la hora de vestirme y acicalarme para mi rol de padrino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta mañana temprano mi madre y yo salimos al centro para comprarle a la maravilla que es esta niña de 34 días algún regalo. Íbamos tomados del brazo, caminando por la peatonal Sarmiento, cuando una mujer joven se desprendió de un grupo de otras, unas seis o siete de todas las edades, y se nos acercó con un papel en mano. Cuando estuvo al lado nuestro pude ver que el papel estaba dividido en casilleros horizontales, los superiores ya ocupados con los nombres, firmas, y números de documento de varias personas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Buenos días. Estamos juntando las firmas de la gente que piensa que todos los niños deben tener un papá y una mamá. ¿Quieren firmar?" nos dijo, sonriendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lamento haber sentido una gran rabia levantárseme por dentro. Digo que lo lamento porque, si esa emoción no me hubiera empañado la razón, podría haberle respondido a esta muchacha que me parece más importante que los niños tengan amor, apoyo, protección y posibilidades de desarrollo, sobre todo aquellos que por cualquier razón no pudieron tener una mamá y/o un papá que les ofrecieran estas cosas. Tal vez esa verdad, articulada sosegadamente, me hubiera permitido entablar un diálogo con ella y las otras mujeres que estaban allí. Estoy convencido de que la mayoría de la gente que hace campaña en contra del matrimonio homosexual y la adopción por parte de homosexuales nunca ha tenido la oportunidad de hablar al respecto con ningún homosexual; por el contrario, lo más probable es que estén actuando de acuerdo a la opinión de algún líder social, religioso o político que tampoco lo haya hecho. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero no, fue un abordaje que me tomó desprevenido y me dejé llevar por las emociones. Me di cuenta al instante de que estas mujeres eran miembros de una manifestación que estaba por formarse frente a la legislatura más tarde en la mañana. Yo sabía ya que tal manifestación ocurriría porque ayer vi varios carteles anunciándola. Luego, sentí las palabras y la sonrisa de esta muchacha como ataques personales. Y lo son, pero igualmente, tonto de mí, por no controlar mis arrebatos. Para colmo estaba allí mi madre, y me dolió que tuviera que presenciar eso. Sé bien cuánto se preocupa por sentirme el blanco de la discriminación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No, no voy a firmar, porque pienso que todo el mundo tiene el derecho de ser padre", dije, y seguí caminando, con mi madre al lado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Palabras vacuas y falsas! ¡No es verdad que todo el mundo tenga el derecho de ser padre! ¡No lo tiene quien no está dispuesto a poner las necesidades de sus hijos por delante de las propias! ¡No lo tiene quien inculca odios! ¡No lo tiene quien abandona a sus hijos, ni aquel para quien la paternidad es sólo la procreación! Y lo mismo vale para las madres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero no dije nada de esto ni aún después, cuando podría haberme vuelto y tratar de expresarme mejor. Quizás alguna de estas mujeres, en algún momento de su futuro, podría haber cambiado de opinión si yo hubiera intentado con más ganas tener una conversación constructiva. En vez de aprovechar la oportunidad seguí mi camino, con todo esto dándome vueltas por la cabeza pero dejándome distraer por las vidrieras y los precios. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para colmo, ironía de las ironías, en hora y media estaré colaborando en la inducción de mi sobrina, uno de los seres que más amo, a la iglesia católica, tal vez la organización que más poderosamente contribuye con sus enseñanzas a la eternización de los prejuicios en contra de los homosexuales en mi país. Por culpa de la iglesia católica muchos hombres verán frustrados sus deseos de paternidad, y muchos niños crecerán sin el amor que esos hombres podrían haberles otorgado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Políticos católicos utilizarán luego el acta de bautismo de esta niña como una justificación de sus políticas retrógradas: "X porcentaje de los constituyentes que represento son católicos bautizados, y por lo tanto esta sociedad exige que..." etc., etc..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personalmente, después de esta mañana no estoy seguro de estar listo para ser padre. Aún soy demasiado inmaduro e impulsivo, poco comprometido con mi sociedad. ¿Cómo voy a proteger a un niño, si no soy capaz de proteger mis propios derechos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, definitivamente no es mi homosexualidad la responsable de tal falencia. Todos los días veo como la gente mayormente heterosexual de nuestras sociedades se deja arrastrar por las preocupaciones del día a día en vez de exigirle a los políticos que nos representan que acaben con la corrupción que dificulta nuestras vidas, o las inequidades e iniquidades que dañan el medio ambiente y crean pobreza y violencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bajo esta luz, entonces, tengo tanto derecho a ser padre como la mayoría de mis conciudadanos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cuanto a mi padrinazgo... He visto antes otros ritos de bautismo, y sé que pueden ser hermosos, si uno logra despojarlos de su marco católico. El significado original de este tipo de ceremonia, en la profundidad de los tiempos, debe haber sido el de dar la bienvenida a un nuevo ser en el seno de su familia y su comunidad. Intentaré enfocarme en eso, y obviar la complicidad con la iglesia que mi participación implica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algún día le hablaré de todo esto a mi sobrina o, mejor aún, le pediré que lo lea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3365216608319450928?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3365216608319450928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3365216608319450928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3365216608319450928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3365216608319450928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/06/matrimonios-y-derecho-de-adopcion-para.html' title='Matrimonios y derecho de adopción para homosexuales, otra vez'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1143148122419047279</id><published>2010-05-26T01:31:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T08:35:09.954+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo</title><content type='html'>El inglés es una lengua interesante. Consideren la siguiente oración, tomada de un libro de Steven Pinker:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si, leyeron bien: esta es una oración, una construcción gramaticalmente correcta en la lengua inglesa. Se la podría traducir al español como:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Los búfalos de Buffalo que son intimidados por búfalos de Buffalo también intimidan, a su vez, a otros búfalos de Buffalo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto se explica porque en inglés la palabra "buffalo" tiene tres significados:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- buffalo: un sustantivo que designa al animal llamado búfalo o bisonte en español. La forma "buffalo" es tanto singular como plural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- buffalo: un verbo, "to buffalo", que significa asustar, intimidar o confundir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Buffalo: la ciudad de Buffalo, en el estado de Nueva York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviamente, incluso en inglés, una forma más común y más coloquial de expresar la información contenida en esta oración podría ser:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Buffaloes from Buffalo that buffaloes from Buffalo buffalo, also buffalo other buffaloes from Buffalo" or, better yet, "Buffaloes from Buffalo that are buffaloed by buffaloes from Buffalo also buffalo, in turn, other buffaloes from Buffalo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo interesante aquí, sin embargo, es el hecho de que el inglés permita la construcción que enunciamos al principio, que es simplemente un juego de homónimos (palabras que se pronuncian igual, pero significan cosas distintas). En español también pueden realizarse tales juegos, pero no a este extremo, porque es una lengua que no puede prescindir de preposiciones y conjunciones del mismo modo que puede hacerlo el inglés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este último, por ejemplo, es posible acoplar dos sustantivos juntos para formar frases en las que el primero funciona como adjetivo. Es así que "Buffalo buffalo" es una construcción tan válida como "Buffalonian buffalo" o "buffalo from Buffalo" (respectivamente equivalentes a "búfalos 'bufalenses'" o "búfalos de Buffalo", únicas opciones disponibles en español, ninguna de ellas homónima). Igualmente, el "que" subordinativo es inescapable en español, mientras que en inglés uno puede utilizar "that" si quiere, y si no, no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, creo que en inglés se puede obviar más fácilmente, en oraciones como ésta, el uso de palabras como "los", "también", "a su vez" y "a otros", debido a la importancia de la entonación para implicar la existencia de tales palabras. Quiero decir que la oración&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Búfalos de Buffalo que intimidan a búfalos de Buffalo intimidan a búfalos de Buffalo"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;es casi ininteligible en español, porque tener que llevar cuenta de las preposiciones dificulta un poco el seguimiento de las estructuras recursivas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O quizás no. Tal vez esto es un prejuicio mío, nada más. Algo totalmente subjetivo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1143148122419047279?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1143148122419047279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1143148122419047279' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1143148122419047279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1143148122419047279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/05/buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo.html' title='Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6295887905177975581</id><published>2010-05-26T00:49:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T23:58:55.913+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Debajo del ala</title><content type='html'>Debajo del ala de &lt;br /&gt;un gorrión habrá &lt;br /&gt;un dejo tibio y leve a polvo &lt;br /&gt;o polen, seguro, &lt;br /&gt;y será cero el sudor,&lt;br /&gt;ciertamente. Quizás &lt;br /&gt;viva allí alguna pulga&lt;br /&gt;privilegiada&lt;br /&gt;por los paisajes vertiginosos &lt;br /&gt;visibles más allá &lt;br /&gt;de las copas algodonosas &lt;br /&gt;del bosque de plumas &lt;br /&gt;agitadas por el viento raudo&lt;br /&gt;del vuelo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6295887905177975581?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6295887905177975581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6295887905177975581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6295887905177975581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6295887905177975581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/05/debajo-del-ala.html' title='Debajo del ala'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4872934546993444758</id><published>2010-05-15T23:20:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T23:26:15.909+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Llegó Consuelo</title><content type='html'>Hoy a las 12:52 pm nació, en el Hospital Español de Mendoza, mi sobrina Consuelo. Pesó 2,430 kilos y midió 46 cm, habiendo llegado al mundo con 22 días de adelanto. Me entristece no haber estado allí para recibirla, pero por otro lado grabé todas las conversaciones que tuve hoy con sus papis, los míos y con su tío Leo, como regalo para cuando crezca. Seguramente de aquí a un par de décadas le gustará oir qué dijo y pensó la gente el día en que nació.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4872934546993444758?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4872934546993444758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4872934546993444758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4872934546993444758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4872934546993444758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/05/llego-consuelo.html' title='Llegó Consuelo'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4640111440586486808</id><published>2010-05-08T09:22:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T09:48:45.971+02:00</updated><title type='text'>pUniverse</title><content type='html'>pUniverse es un programita maravilloso que funciona con el iphone. Básicamente uno apunta la parte posterior del teléfono al sitio del cielo que se está mirando, y en la pantalla aparecen señaladas las estrellas que uno tiene frente a los ojos, con sus nombres y el de las constelaciones a las que pertenecen. Asimismo, el programa ofrece información sobre los horarios en los que salen y se posan los distintos astros de acuerdo al lugar del planeta en que uno se encuentra, y otros datos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta noche, por ejemplo, es el apogeo de la lluvia de meteoros Eta Acuáridas, así llamada porque se la ve en la zona del cielo ocupada por la constelación de Acuario. Esta lluvia se produce todos los años cuando La Tierra atraviesa la nube de polvo, gas y hielo que queda como consecuencia del tránsito del cometa Halley. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qué maravilla tener toda esta información tan disponible, en todo momento. Qué triste que la tecnología que permite tales avances esté al alcance de tan pocas manos. Qué tragedia que vivamos en un mundo con inequidades e injusticias tan tremendas que a su sombra todas estas expresiones de la curiosidad humana se conviertan en meras frivolidades.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4640111440586486808?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4640111440586486808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4640111440586486808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4640111440586486808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4640111440586486808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/05/puniverse.html' title='pUniverse'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3587993539756366162</id><published>2010-05-02T14:17:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T09:22:07.819+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Du må ikke sove (1936)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Esta semana en la clase de noruego hemos leído un poema de Arnulf Øverland, un autor políticamente interesantísimo. Encuentro mucha resonancia no sólo en sus opiniones, sino en cómo las fue desarrollando: en determinado momento, por ejemplo, fue miembro del partido comunista, pero Stalin lo llevó a la desilusión y sus puntos de vista terminaron tiñéndose de un socialismo mucho más moderado. Luego, en 1933, lo juzgaron por blasfemia debido a una charla que dio, titulada "El cristinamismo: la décima plaga" (¡tengo que leerla!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El poema en cuestión, que incluyo aquí abajo en noruego y con una traducción al español, fue escrito en 1936. Describe muy certeramente los movimientos populistas que fueron el nacionalsocialismo y el fascismo, y predice con casi dos años de antelación la Segunda Guerra Mundial ("¡Europa se quema!")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Du må ikke sove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg våknet en natt av en underlig drøm,&lt;br /&gt;det var som en stemme talte til mig,&lt;br /&gt;fjern som en underjordisk strøm -&lt;br /&gt;og jeg reiste mig op: Hvad er det du vil mig?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Du må ikke sove! Du må ikke sove!&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke tro, at du bare har drømt!&lt;br /&gt;Igår blev jeg dømt.&lt;br /&gt;I natt har de reist skafottet i gården.&lt;br /&gt;De henter mig klokken fem imorgen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hele kjelleren her er full,&lt;br /&gt;og alle kaserner har kjeller ved kjeller.&lt;br /&gt;Vi ligger og venter i stenkolde celler,&lt;br /&gt;vi ligger og råtner i mørke hull!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi vet ikke selv, hvad vi ligger og venter,&lt;br /&gt;og hvem der kan bli den neste, de henter.&lt;br /&gt;Vi stønner, vi skriker - men kan dere høre?&lt;br /&gt;Kan dere absolutt ingenting gjøre?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ingen får se oss.&lt;br /&gt;Ingen får vite, hvad der skal skje oss.&lt;br /&gt;Ennu mer:&lt;br /&gt;Ingen kan tro, hvad her daglig skjer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du mener, det kan ikke være sant,&lt;br /&gt;så onde kan ikke mennesker være.&lt;br /&gt;Der fins da vel skikkelig folk iblandt?&lt;br /&gt;Bror, du har ennu meget å lære!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man sa: Du skal gi ditt liv, om det kreves.&lt;br /&gt;Og nu har vi gitt det - forgjeves, forgjeves!&lt;br /&gt;Verden har glemt oss! Vi er bedratt!&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke sove mer i natt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke gå til ditt kjøpmannskap&lt;br /&gt;og tenke på hvad der gir vinning og tap!&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke skylde på aker og fe&lt;br /&gt;og at du har mer enn nok med det!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke sitte trygt i ditt hjem&lt;br /&gt;og si: Det er sørgelig, stakkars dem!&lt;br /&gt;Du må ikke tåle så inderlig vel&lt;br /&gt;den urett som ikke rammer dig selv!&lt;br /&gt;Jeg roper med siste pust av min stemme:&lt;br /&gt;Du har ikke lov til å gå der og glemme!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tilgi dem ikke; de vet hvad de gjør!&lt;br /&gt;De puster på hatets og ondskapens glør!&lt;br /&gt;De liker å drepe, de frydes ved jammer,&lt;br /&gt;de ønsker å se vår verden i flammer!&lt;br /&gt;De ønsker å drukne oss alle i blod!&lt;br /&gt;Tror du det ikke? Du vet det jo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du vet jo at skolebarn er soldater,&lt;br /&gt;som stimer med sang over torv og gater,&lt;br /&gt;og opglødd av mødrenes fromme svig,&lt;br /&gt;vil verge sitt land og vil gå i krig!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du kjenner det nedrige folkebedrag&lt;br /&gt;me heltemot og med tro og ære -&lt;br /&gt;du vet, at en helt, det vil barnet være,&lt;br /&gt;du vet, han vil vifte med sabel og flag!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Og så skal han ut i en skur av stål&lt;br /&gt;og henge igjen i en piggtrådsvase&lt;br /&gt;og råtne for Hitlers ariske rase!&lt;br /&gt;Du vet, det er menneskets mening og mål!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg skjønte det ikke. Nu er det for sent.&lt;br /&gt;Min dom er rettferdig. Min straff er fortjent.&lt;br /&gt;Jeg trodde på fremgang, jeg trodde på fred,&lt;br /&gt;på arbeid, på samhold, på kjærlighet!&lt;br /&gt;Men den som ikke vil dø i en flokk&lt;br /&gt;får prøve alene, på bøddelens blokk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg roper i mørket - å, kunde du høre!&lt;br /&gt;Der er en eneste ting å gjøre:&lt;br /&gt;Verg dig, mens du har frie hender!&lt;br /&gt;Frels dine barn! Europa brenner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg skaket av frost. Jeg fikk på mig klær.&lt;br /&gt;Ute var glitrende stjernevær.&lt;br /&gt;Bare en ulmende stripe i øst&lt;br /&gt;varslet det samme som drømmens røst:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dagen bakenom jordens rand&lt;br /&gt;steg med et skjær av blod og brand,&lt;br /&gt;steg med en angst så åndeløs,&lt;br /&gt;at det var som om selve stjernene frøs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg tenkte: Nu er de noget some hender.&lt;br /&gt;Var tid er forbi - Europa brenner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;No debes dormir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desperté una noche de un extraño sueño;&lt;br /&gt;era como si una voz me hablara,&lt;br /&gt;lejana como un río subterráneo.&lt;br /&gt;Me levanté y dije: ¿Qué quieres de mí?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes dormir! ¡No debes dormir!&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes creer que simplemente has soñado!&lt;br /&gt;Ayer me condenaron.&lt;br /&gt;Esta noche han construído la horca en el patio.&lt;br /&gt;¡Mañana a las cinco me vienen a buscar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este calabozo está completamente lleno&lt;br /&gt;y todo el cuartel es calabozos y más calabozos.&lt;br /&gt;Estamos echados, esperando, en celdas frías como la piedra,&lt;br /&gt;estamos echados y pudriéndonos en hoyos umbríos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ni nosotros sabemos qué es lo que esperamos, echados,&lt;br /&gt;ni quién será el próximo al que vendrán a buscar.&lt;br /&gt;Gemimos y gritamos, pero ¿podéis oírnos?&lt;br /&gt;¿No hay absolutamente nada que podáis hacer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A nadie se le permite vernos.&lt;br /&gt;A nadie se le permite saber lo que nos sucederá.&lt;br /&gt;Más aún:&lt;br /&gt;¡Nadie puede creer lo que aquí pasa a diario!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piensas que no puede ser verdad,&lt;br /&gt;que los seres humanos no podemos ser tan malvados.&lt;br /&gt;Habrá por ahí alguien decente, ¿no?&lt;br /&gt;¡Ay, hermano, cuánto te queda aún por aprender!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alguien dijo: darás tu vida, si es necesario.&lt;br /&gt;Y eso es lo que hemos hecho, ¡en vano, en vano!&lt;br /&gt;¡El mundo nos ha olvidado! ¡Hemos sido engañados!&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes dormir más esta noche!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes resguardarte en tus asuntos&lt;br /&gt;ni pensar solamente en ganancias y pérdidas!&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes culpar a los campos y al ganado&lt;br /&gt;ni decir que con ellos tienes ya suficientes problemas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No debes quedarte sentado en la seguridad de tu hogar&lt;br /&gt;ni decir: ¡Qué pena! ¡Pobre gente!&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes tan descuidadamente tolerar&lt;br /&gt;las injusticias que no te tocan directamente!&lt;br /&gt;Lo aullaré hasta con el último aliento de mi voz:&lt;br /&gt;¡No te está permitido olvidar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No hagas la vista gorda. ¡Ellos saben lo que hacen!&lt;br /&gt;¡Respiran las brasas del odio y la maldad!&lt;br /&gt;¡Les gusta matar, les alegra la miseria,&lt;br /&gt;desean ver al mundo en llamas!&lt;br /&gt;¡Desean ahogarnos a todos en sangre!&lt;br /&gt;¿No lo crees? ¡Pero sabes que así es!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Sabes que hay niños soldados&lt;br /&gt;que cantan en cardúmenes en plazas y avenidas,&lt;br /&gt;que, alimentados con el pío forraje de sus madres,&lt;br /&gt;están dispuestos a defender su tierra e ir a la guerra!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sabes de la despreciable obsesión popular&lt;br /&gt;para con el heroísmo, el dogma y el honor.&lt;br /&gt;¡Sabes que el niño desea ser héroe,&lt;br /&gt;sabes que quiere blandir el sable y la bandera!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Está dispuesto a exponerse a una lluvia de acero&lt;br /&gt;y a quedar colgado sobre un ovillo de alambre de púas&lt;br /&gt;pudriéndose por las razas arias de Hitler!&lt;br /&gt;¡Ésa es la razón de ser del hombre, después de todo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo no sabía nada de todo esto. Ahora es demasiado tarde.&lt;br /&gt;Mi condena es justa. Mi castigo es merecido.&lt;br /&gt;¡Yo creía en el progreso, creía en la paz,&lt;br /&gt;en el trabajo, en la solidaridad, en el amor!&lt;br /&gt;¡Pero los que se rehúsan a morir en una tropa&lt;br /&gt;lo harán a solas, bajo el hacha del verdugo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo grito en la oscuridad. ¡Ah, si pudieras oírme!&lt;br /&gt;Sólo queda una cosa por hacer:&lt;br /&gt;¡Protégete, mientras tus manos sigan libres!&lt;br /&gt;¡Salva a tus hijos! ¡Europa se quema!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Temblaba de frío. Me vestí.&lt;br /&gt;Afuera brillaban las estrellas.&lt;br /&gt;Hacia el este una única franja incandescente&lt;br /&gt;me advertía de lo mismo que la voz del sueño:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Desde el mismo borde de La Tierra&lt;br /&gt;ascendía el día con un tinte de sangre y llamas,&lt;br /&gt;ascendía con una angustia tan sin aliento&lt;br /&gt;que era como si las mismas estrellas se estuvieran congelando!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pensé: Ahora sucederá algo.&lt;br /&gt;Se nos ha acabado el tiempo. ¡Europa se quema!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Algunos de estos versos me parecen verdaderamente inspiradores:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No debes quedarte sentado en la seguridad de tu hogar&lt;br /&gt;ni decir: ¡Qué pena! ¡Pobre gente!&lt;br /&gt;¡No debes tan descuidadamente tolerar&lt;br /&gt;las injusticias que no te tocan directamente!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A otros los encuentro algo violentos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"los que se rehúsan a morir en una tropa&lt;br /&gt;lo harán a solas, bajo el hacha del verdugo"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Tropa" es la palabra que me hace objetar aquí. Creo que sí es importante rebelarse contra el prejuicio y la opresión, incluso morir si es necesario, pero hacerlo en una tropa implica la opción militar, o sea que uno debe estar dispuesto no sólo a morir, sino también a matar, y a esto último yo me niego rotundamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Igualmente, me parecen un poco extremistas los siguientes versos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"¡Ellos saben lo que hacen!&lt;br /&gt;¡Respiran las brasas del odio y la maldad!&lt;br /&gt;¡Les gusta matar, les alegra la miseria,&lt;br /&gt;desean ver al mundo en llamas!&lt;br /&gt;¡Desean ahogarnos a todos en sangre!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No lo creo. Esto es una generalización, y una exageración. La gran mayoría no sabe lo que hace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3587993539756366162?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3587993539756366162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3587993539756366162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3587993539756366162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3587993539756366162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/05/du-ma-ikke-sove-1936.html' title='Du må ikke sove (1936)'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8446110029342836022</id><published>2010-04-16T07:02:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T08:44:38.724+02:00</updated><title type='text'>7:02</title><content type='html'>It's 7:02 am, and i have to get up to attend a Global Concerns session on education. I hope i hear something in it to enrich or change my views about it, or to inspire me to get involved in changing the educational system somewhere. I doubt it, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point of view now is that education should be much more individually tailored. People should have their interests discovered and stimulated from the tenderest age, and then elementary skills should be taught to them in function of those interests, and in the order that the development of those interests allows and/or requires. This should apply particularly to that set of skills necessary to be able to function in a society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is an inescapable reality that such a set must exist, but young people would have an easier time learning them if they could always keep in sight how these skills are necessary to develop their passions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what if someone does not have any passions?, asks the skeptic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the majority of passion-deprived people I have met (which is the majority of the people I have met, including me), seem to have arrived there by being told their true dreams are unachievable. Our passions lay abandoned by the roadside, like forgotten toys. We were made to believe toys is all  they were.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to be an astronaut.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8446110029342836022?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8446110029342836022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8446110029342836022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8446110029342836022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8446110029342836022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-702-am-and-i-have-to-get-up-to.html' title='7:02'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1103765626921578555</id><published>2010-04-15T20:55:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T21:07:51.569+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mis nonitas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S8djVEfzHDI/AAAAAAAAAI8/io7UphYOGx8/s1600/mis+nonas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S8djVEfzHDI/AAAAAAAAAI8/io7UphYOGx8/s400/mis+nonas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460442286845533234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ésta es una foto de mis abuelas, Margarita (a la derecha) e Iride (a la izquierda). Fue tomada en la ciudad de Resistencia, Chaco, en julio de 1982. Estábamos allí en una de esas vacaciones tipo caravana que solíamos hacer con mis tíos paternos y sus familias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Observen esas posturas: ilustran muy bien las personalidades de mis abuelas. Iride con las manos en los bolsillos, una pequeña bomba energética pero totalmente filosófica y relajada; Margarita sólida y embalada como una locomotora, fortísima, pero siempre un poco socialmente incómoda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Margarita vivía con nosotros, así que crecí teniendo dos madres. Iride era la abuela sabia, calma y siempre lista a defendernos, a la que visitábamos casi todos los fines de semana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cómo las extraño...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1103765626921578555?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1103765626921578555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1103765626921578555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1103765626921578555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1103765626921578555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/mis-nonitas.html' title='Mis nonitas'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S8djVEfzHDI/AAAAAAAAAI8/io7UphYOGx8/s72-c/mis+nonas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5147305450135141965</id><published>2010-04-14T23:05:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T08:45:55.116+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Evanesco!</title><content type='html'>I'm tired of being in most everything I write. I should vanish, be gone. Describe and narrate actions of others I am not.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5147305450135141965?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5147305450135141965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5147305450135141965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5147305450135141965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5147305450135141965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/im-tired-of-being-in-most-everything-i.html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2783803668108117631</id><published>2010-04-10T18:07:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T08:47:30.674+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku</title><content type='html'>In featureless gray&lt;br /&gt;the windowpane absorbs me.&lt;br /&gt;Skates roll down the street.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2783803668108117631?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2783803668108117631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2783803668108117631' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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continente,&lt;br /&gt;Y cada calle era un camino a la aventura.&lt;br /&gt;En cada esquina una memoria inolvidable,&lt;br /&gt;En cada cuarto una esperanza, ya madura.&lt;br /&gt;En nuestros viajes de ida y vuelta a los luceros&lt;br /&gt;Fuimos piratas, saltimbanquis y vaqueros.&lt;br /&gt;Nuestra pobreza nunca conquistó al dinero,&lt;br /&gt;Pero en las casas nunca se rindió el "¡Yo puedo!"&lt;br /&gt;Me iba a la cama con la fe del que ganó.&lt;br /&gt;Me despertaba con la paz del que aprendió&lt;br /&gt;Que lo importante en esta vida es el tratar,&lt;br /&gt;Que lo que cuesta es lo que no voy a olvidar.&lt;br /&gt;Crecí luchando, como los otros,&lt;br /&gt;Los que crecieron como yo,&lt;br /&gt;De humilde cuna, con su fortuna hecha de sueños,&lt;br /&gt;Como yo, como yo.&lt;br /&gt;Mi adolescencia no fue fácil de llevar:&lt;br /&gt;Como tratar de atar un zapato al caminar.&lt;br /&gt;Nuestra inocencia retrocede al comprender que,&lt;br /&gt;En la vida real,&lt;br /&gt;La injusticia puede golear a la verdad.&lt;br /&gt;Muere familia, se nos va el primer amor,&lt;br /&gt;Se confunde lo que una vez se afirmó,&lt;br /&gt;Una mudanza deja al viejo barrio atrás,&lt;br /&gt;Crece el bigote y la responsabilidad...&lt;br /&gt;Trabajaba y pensaba si otros, como yo,&lt;br /&gt;Siendo tan jóvenes sentían mi soledad,&lt;br /&gt;Si aún compartían nuestras almas la ilusión&lt;br /&gt;De que el muchacho siempre triunfará al final.&lt;br /&gt;Me preguntaba si aún habría otros,&lt;br /&gt;Como nosotros, como yo,&lt;br /&gt;Aún resistiendo, aún sin rendirse,&lt;br /&gt;Aún recordando, como yo, como yo.&lt;br /&gt;Y en la curva de los años me encontré&lt;br /&gt;Con los muchachos con los que solía jugar,&lt;br /&gt;Con los que senderos de estrellas caminé,&lt;br /&gt;Cuando el horizonte era un atajo sobre el mar.&lt;br /&gt;Y recobramos las memorias con café,&lt;br /&gt;Y nos tratamos aún de tú, y no de usted,&lt;br /&gt;Y reafirmamos la lección que el tiempo da:&lt;br /&gt;¡Que cuando hay vida siempre hay posibilidad!&lt;br /&gt;La lucha sigue, y sobrevive como nosotros,&lt;br /&gt;Como yo,&lt;br /&gt;Y en otros barrios hay otros niños como nosotros.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5248020502974078942?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5248020502974078942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5248020502974078942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5248020502974078942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5248020502974078942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/como-nosotros.html' title='Como nosotros'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8362744188028974560</id><published>2010-04-05T10:02:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T11:31:17.007+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Thin Songs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;This is a poem written by Cameroonian anglophone writer Mbella Sonne Dipoko. It may seem a bit grandstanding but, at the same time, i find it very fresh and direct, from the heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I identify completely with this poetic voice (except for the altar bit towards the end; when i give up, the only one i need forgiveness from is myself). Our songs may be thin, but they will spread and thicken. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, this is a song about the power of getting up again when we fall, of where that power comes from, of perseverance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mister Dipoko died last year, and I have only read of him this one poem. I will try to find more of his stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am giving up&lt;br /&gt;For the world is ruled by lies&lt;br /&gt;Against which thin songs&lt;br /&gt;Stand no chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel so frustrated&lt;br /&gt;For history says&lt;br /&gt;It's always the same thing,&lt;br /&gt;The same monster of money dressing himself up&lt;br /&gt;Differently as the occasion demands.&lt;br /&gt;And it is the same in all countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still one's conscience complains&lt;br /&gt;Cured of its own weaknesses&lt;br /&gt;As it limps to the altar&lt;br /&gt;Asking there for forgiveness&lt;br /&gt;Because sometimes one got so near to giving up&lt;br /&gt;The struggle for a better world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And here is the Spanish translation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me doy por vencido&lt;br /&gt;Porque al mundo lo gobiernan mentiras&lt;br /&gt;Contra las cuales las flacas canciones &lt;br /&gt;No tienen ninguna oportunidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me siento tan frustrado&lt;br /&gt;Porque la historia dice&lt;br /&gt;Que es siempre lo mismo,&lt;br /&gt;El mismo monstruo del dinero disfrazado&lt;br /&gt;De forma diferente, según requiera la ocasión.&lt;br /&gt;Y es lo mismo en todos los países.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo la conciencia se queja&lt;br /&gt;Curada ya de su propia debilidad&lt;br /&gt;Mientras renguea hacia el altar&lt;br /&gt;Para pedir perdón&lt;br /&gt;Por haber a veces llegado tan cerca de rendirse &lt;br /&gt;En la lucha por un mundo mejor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8362744188028974560?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8362744188028974560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8362744188028974560' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8362744188028974560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8362744188028974560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/thin-songs.html' title='Thin Songs'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4055035975557698416</id><published>2010-04-03T15:26:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T11:27:24.365+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Qué vachaché</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Otro de Discepolo. Supongo que el título es una deformación de "¿Qué vas a hacer?", que según la letra del tango (jamás lo he escuchado - ¿será que se lo considera demasiado realista o desmoralizador para los tiempos modernos?) debería ser pronunciado con desesperación, manos al aire y ojos al cielo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al darle voz a una mujer harta del idealismo de su marido, Discepolo nos refleja a una sociedad cínica, que no sólo ha aceptado el status quo, sino que se burla de cualquier intento por cambiarlo. Luego, hasta cierto punto, la mujer tiene razón: ¿qué espacio queda para las ideas, cuando no hay nada qué comer?: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piantá de aquí, no vuelvas en tu vida.&lt;br /&gt;Ya me tenés bien requeteamurada.&lt;br /&gt;No puedo más pasarla sin comida&lt;br /&gt;ni oírte así, decir tanta pavada.&lt;br /&gt;¿No te das cuenta que sos un engrupido?&lt;br /&gt;¿Te creés que al mundo lo vas a arreglar vos?&lt;br /&gt;¡Si aquí, ni Dios rescata lo perdido!&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué querés vos? ¡Hacé el favor!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo que hace falta es empacar mucha moneda,&lt;br /&gt;vender el alma, rifar el corazón,&lt;br /&gt;tirar la poca decencia que te queda...&lt;br /&gt;Plata, plata, plata y plata otra vez...&lt;br /&gt;Así es posible que morfés todos los días,&lt;br /&gt;tengas amigos, casa, nombre...y lo que quieras vos.&lt;br /&gt;El verdadero amor se ahogó en la sopa:&lt;br /&gt;la panza es reina y el dinero Dios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Pero no ves, gilito embanderado,&lt;br /&gt;que la razón la tiene el de más guita?&lt;br /&gt;¿Que la honradez la venden al contado&lt;br /&gt;y a la moral la dan por moneditas?&lt;br /&gt;¿Que no hay ninguna verdad que se resista&lt;br /&gt;frente a dos pesos moneda nacional?&lt;br /&gt;Vos resultás, -haciendo el moralista-,&lt;br /&gt;un disfrazao...sin carnaval...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Tirate al río! ¡No embromés con tu conciencia!&lt;br /&gt;Sos un secante que no hace reír.&lt;br /&gt;Dame puchero, guardá la decencia...&lt;br /&gt;¡Plata, plata y plata! ¡Yo quiero vivir!&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué culpa tengo si has piyao la vida en serio?&lt;br /&gt;Pasás de otario, morfás aire y no tenés colchón...&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué vachaché? Hoy ya murió el criterio!&lt;br /&gt;Vale Jesús lo mismo que el ladrón...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And the English translation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the hell out of here, never come back in your life...&lt;br /&gt;I'm absolutely sick of you.&lt;br /&gt;I can't not eat anymore,&lt;br /&gt;nor hear you like this, saying so much crap.&lt;br /&gt;¿Don't you realize you're just being stuck up?&lt;br /&gt;¿Do you think &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; are gonna fix the world?&lt;br /&gt;Not even God rescues what's lost, here!&lt;br /&gt;What do you want? For goodness' sake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you need is to pocket tons of dough,&lt;br /&gt;sell your soul, raffle your heart,&lt;br /&gt;throw away the little decency you have left...&lt;br /&gt;Money, money, money and money once again...&lt;br /&gt;Then you can eat every day,&lt;br /&gt;have friends, a house, a name... and whatever you may want.&lt;br /&gt;True love has drowned in soup:&lt;br /&gt;the belly is queen and money, God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't you see, you little conceited jerk,&lt;br /&gt;that reason is on the side of whoever has more money?&lt;br /&gt;That honesty is sold if one pays cash&lt;br /&gt;and morals are given away for a few coins?&lt;br /&gt;That there is no truth that can resist&lt;br /&gt;two pesos, hard cash?&lt;br /&gt;By playing the moralist you turn out to be&lt;br /&gt;a clown... without a carnival...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go jump into the river! Don't bother me with your conscience!&lt;br /&gt;You're tiresome and don't make anyone laugh.&lt;br /&gt;Give me stew and keep your decency...&lt;br /&gt;Money, money and money! I want to live!&lt;br /&gt;Why should it be my fault that you've taken life so seriously?&lt;br /&gt;You play the fool, eat air and have no mattress...&lt;br /&gt;What can you do? Good judgement is dead, today!&lt;br /&gt;Jesus is worth the same as the thieve...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4055035975557698416?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4055035975557698416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4055035975557698416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4055035975557698416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4055035975557698416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/que-vachache.html' title='Qué vachaché'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4717582325918155768</id><published>2010-04-03T14:33:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-03T15:17:49.583+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Saddest Tango Ever</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Lyrics written by Discepolo, of course:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno busca, lleno de esperanzas,&lt;br /&gt;el camino que los sueños&lt;br /&gt;prometieron a sus ansias...&lt;br /&gt;Sabe que la lucha es cruel y es mucha&lt;br /&gt;pero lucha y se desangra&lt;br /&gt;por la fe que lo empecina...&lt;br /&gt;Uno va arrastrándose entre espinas&lt;br /&gt;y en su afán de dar su amor&lt;br /&gt;sufre y se destroza hasta entender&lt;br /&gt;que uno se ha quedao sin corazón...&lt;br /&gt;Precio de castigo que uno entrega&lt;br /&gt;por un beso que no llega&lt;br /&gt;a un amor que lo engañó...&lt;br /&gt;¡Vacío ya de amar y de llorar&lt;br /&gt;tanta traición!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si yo tuviera el corazón...&lt;br /&gt;(¡El corazón que di!...)&lt;br /&gt;Si yo pudiera como ayer&lt;br /&gt;querer sin presentir,&lt;br /&gt;es posible que a tus ojos&lt;br /&gt;que me gritan tu cariño&lt;br /&gt;los cerrara con mis besos,&lt;br /&gt;sin pensar que eran como esos&lt;br /&gt;otros ojos, los perversos,&lt;br /&gt;los que hundieron mi vivir.&lt;br /&gt;Si yo tuviera el corazón...&lt;br /&gt;(¡El mismo que perdí!...)&lt;br /&gt;Si olvidara a la que ayer lo destrozó &lt;br /&gt;y pudiera amarte,&lt;br /&gt;me abrazaría a tu ilusión&lt;br /&gt;para llorar tu amor...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero Dios te trajo a mi destino&lt;br /&gt;sin pensar que ya es muy tarde&lt;br /&gt;y no sabré cómo quererte...&lt;br /&gt;Déjame que llore&lt;br /&gt;como aquel que sufre en vida&lt;br /&gt;la tortura de llorar su propia muerte...&lt;br /&gt;Pura como sos, habrías salvado&lt;br /&gt;mi esperanza con tu amor...&lt;br /&gt;Uno está tan solo en su dolor...&lt;br /&gt;Uno está tan ciego en su penar....&lt;br /&gt;Pero un frío cruel&lt;br /&gt;que es peor que el odio&lt;br /&gt;-punto muerto de las almas-&lt;br /&gt;tumba horrenda de mi amor,&lt;br /&gt;maldijo para siempre y me robó&lt;br /&gt;toda ilusión…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And here, the English translation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One searches, full of hope,&lt;br /&gt;the road that dreams&lt;br /&gt;promised to our yearnings...&lt;br /&gt;One knows the struggle is cruel and hard&lt;br /&gt;but struggles anyway and bleeds to death&lt;br /&gt;for the faith rooted in us...&lt;br /&gt;One crawls through thorns&lt;br /&gt;and, in the eagerness to give our love,&lt;br /&gt;suffers and is torn apart until one understands&lt;br /&gt;that we have no heart left...&lt;br /&gt;Price of punishment that we hand over&lt;br /&gt;for a kiss that never arrives&lt;br /&gt;to a love that lied to us...&lt;br /&gt;Empty now, for loving and for crying&lt;br /&gt;over so much betrayal!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I had the heart...&lt;br /&gt;(The heart I gave away!...)&lt;br /&gt;If I could, like yesterday,&lt;br /&gt;love without dread,&lt;br /&gt;I might close with my kisses&lt;br /&gt;your eyes &lt;br /&gt;which scream their love for me, &lt;br /&gt;without thinking they are like those&lt;br /&gt;other eyes, the wicked ones, &lt;br /&gt;the ones that sunk my life.&lt;br /&gt;If I had the heart...&lt;br /&gt;(The same one I lost!...)&lt;br /&gt;If I could forget the one that yesterday&lt;br /&gt;destroyed it and could love you,&lt;br /&gt;I would embrace your illusion&lt;br /&gt;to cry for your love...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But God brought you to my fate&lt;br /&gt;without thinking that it was too late&lt;br /&gt;and that I won't know how to love you...&lt;br /&gt;Let me cry&lt;br /&gt;like one who suffers, still alive,&lt;br /&gt;the torture of crying for his own death...&lt;br /&gt;Pure as you are, you would have saved&lt;br /&gt;my hope with your love...&lt;br /&gt;One is so alone in pain...&lt;br /&gt;One is so blind in mourning....&lt;br /&gt;But a cruel cold&lt;br /&gt;much worse than hate&lt;br /&gt;(deadlock of souls),&lt;br /&gt;horrid tomb of my love,&lt;br /&gt;cursed for ever and stole from me&lt;br /&gt;all illusion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4717582325918155768?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4717582325918155768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4717582325918155768' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4717582325918155768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4717582325918155768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/saddest-tango-ever.html' title='Saddest Tango Ever'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1677423144523826833</id><published>2010-04-03T13:04:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T08:59:51.664+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Malas influencias</title><content type='html'>Durante Rainbow Week el año pasado, los chicos del Gender And Sexuality group me pidieron ser uno de los panelistas en una sesión de preguntas y respuestas que habían preparado: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ask A Gay&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Su idea era darle a la comunidad la oportunidad de preguntarle a 4 ó 5 gays/lesbianas/bisexuales cualquier pregunta que se les ocurriera sobre el tema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo el mundo estuvo muy ubicado. Nadie hizo, por ejemplo, preguntas relacionadas con el acto sexual ni con nuestras vidas íntimas. Por el contrario, todos parecieron entender que la idea era tratar de averiguar más sobre nuestras experiencias como seres sociales en una minoría.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mayoría de las preguntas fue del tipo "&lt;span class="st"&gt;¿cómo te diste cuenta de que eras gay?" o "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;¿qué dijeron tus padres?". Algunas nos llegaron anónimamente, habiendo sido submitidas a través de una caja que para ese propósito habíamos habilitado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La verdad es que aprecio mucho la oportunidad de ser parte de estas sesiones. En mi caso, fue precisamente oir hablar a otra gente de sus experiencias lo que me permitió siquiera empezar a considerar que mi condición de homosexual podía no ser tan tremenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, llevo aún en la cabeza el leve aleteo de lo que sé pensarían al respecto los mayores de mi infancia, los educadores que me sometieron:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Malas influencias."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1677423144523826833?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1677423144523826833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1677423144523826833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1677423144523826833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1677423144523826833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/malas-influencias.html' title='Malas influencias'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5881328191929795786</id><published>2010-04-02T01:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-10T17:16:45.183+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Si en el espejo me miro</title><content type='html'>si en el espejo me miro&lt;br /&gt;me le estoy poniendo a tiro&lt;br /&gt;al mismísimo asesino&lt;br /&gt;de mi propio destino&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5881328191929795786?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5881328191929795786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5881328191929795786' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5881328191929795786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5881328191929795786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/si-en-el-espejo-me-miro.html' title='Si en el espejo me miro'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-830194588618172037</id><published>2010-04-02T01:23:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-10T17:37:34.804+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tu ausencia</title><content type='html'>El cuarto en que vivo es un cuadrado&lt;br /&gt;y mis días giran en redondo;&lt;br /&gt;tu ausencia es un camión blindado&lt;br /&gt;y mi desgana un pozo,&lt;br /&gt;no sé si sin fondo, pero bastante hondo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-830194588618172037?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7578150419242274722</id><published>2010-04-02T01:23:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-02T10:20:13.885+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Soneto en mendocino</title><content type='html'>No digo "mu" porque te me enojá&lt;br /&gt;y si me callo te jode el silencio,&lt;br /&gt;por eso aquí, querido, me licencio:&lt;br /&gt;que venga a aguantarte tu mamá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿La gente? Y bueno, mal me mirará,&lt;br /&gt;pero con su mirada me potencio,&lt;br /&gt;que si hay algo en que me diferencio&lt;br /&gt;es que exijo o chicha, o limoná.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me gusta mucho que un hombre sea fuerte&lt;br /&gt;y fue por eso que creí quererte.&lt;br /&gt;Ahora veo que era fuerza trucha,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fuerza de un matón que ni me escucha.&lt;br /&gt;¿Que podé cambiar? Lo he esperao bastante;&lt;br /&gt;ya va siendo hora que siga adelante.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7578150419242274722?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7578150419242274722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7578150419242274722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7578150419242274722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7578150419242274722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/04/soneto-en-mendocino.html' title='Soneto en mendocino'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3513581656980480230</id><published>2010-03-30T12:20:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-02T01:33:19.862+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The gayness of celebrities</title><content type='html'>Today I read about Ricky Martin coming out. I saw it on bbcmundo, and then read the public letter he wrote on his website. It seems really heartfelt and sincere. The guy explains a little bit the fears that kept him from coming out before, and the reasons that ultimately allowed him to overcome them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am happy for him but, like him, I would be happier still if "coming out" didn't exist, if we lived in a society where a celebrity's sexual orientation was never something that could make news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that it is makes me see what a long way we still have to go, and discourages me a little.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, the visibility of people like Martin is one of those things that may just contribute towards reaching the old aim: demystify sexual orientation, let it become a non-issue.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3513581656980480230?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3513581656980480230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3513581656980480230' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3513581656980480230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3513581656980480230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/gayness-of-celebrities.html' title='The gayness of celebrities'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6640473642913999</id><published>2010-03-27T23:34:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T07:49:02.915+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Two Worlds</title><content type='html'>Stella introduced me to the amazing Danish film "To Verdener", based on the true story of Tabita, a 17 year old girl who was expelled from the Jehova's Witnesses when she fell in love with a boy from outside the sect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite part of the movie is a dialogue the ficitionalized Tabita (who in the film is called Sara) has with her father towards the end. She has come to church to attend the funeral of a friend, who incidentally has died after an accident, by refusing a blood transfusion. Everybody ignores Tabita, of course, but after the service her father follows her out and tells her off for being so selfish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Don't you realize how much you're hurting me and your brother and sister by being here?"he says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She answers by asking "Do you love me?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-"How can you even ask me that? Of course I do!"&lt;br /&gt;-"And do you love god more than me?"&lt;br /&gt;-"Yes."&lt;br /&gt;-"Why?"&lt;br /&gt;-"Because he created me. He is my heavenly father. He will give me eternal life."&lt;br /&gt;-"You know what, dad? I think that is very selfish of you" she says, and walks away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND THAT IS JUST IT! It couldn't be put clearer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To love god above everyone and everything is perforce a selfish kind of love. If we love someone because we expect from them something in return, isn't that just selfishness and fear, rather than love? Even if there were a god that had made us and was super sage, wouldn't he want us to love each other more than we love him? Love is really love when it is felt as a full appreciation of its object, when it is given not because of perfection, but because of imperfections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why the question of whether god exists becomes irrelevant. It's so much more important that we're able to love each other, rather than worry about the existence of a creator!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, here's a videoclip in Spanish, not a part of the movie itself but another true story of someone who grew up with the Witnesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VgH7SaQOmTA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VgH7SaQOmTA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to talk with Ruth next time I'm in Argentina, see how things have been for her, as a child of witnesses. Ruth's in her 20s now, the daughter of my cousins; she's living with a married man and away from her parents, as far as I know. Throughout most of her life I have been outside the country, which means I've only met her a couple of times... Still, I wonder what her relationship with her family and their religion is like these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morbid curiosity, perhaps?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6640473642913999?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6640473642913999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6640473642913999' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6640473642913999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6640473642913999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/two-worlds.html' title='Two Worlds'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-3709007012597254236</id><published>2010-03-23T14:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T14:18:11.575+01:00</updated><title type='text'>World Hunger Map</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S6i_gZN466I/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ne_eD_Iqg_M/s1600-h/world_hunger_map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S6i_gZN466I/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ne_eD_Iqg_M/s400/world_hunger_map.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451817912177847202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visual aids help, but it's obvious we still don't get it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3709007012597254236?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3709007012597254236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3709007012597254236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3709007012597254236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3709007012597254236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-hunger-map.html' title='World Hunger Map'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S6i_gZN466I/AAAAAAAAAI0/Ne_eD_Iqg_M/s72-c/world_hunger_map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5602384334220771886</id><published>2010-03-21T09:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T09:10:19.522+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Debate: un abogado de la iglesia contra un abogado de la homosexualidad</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PDgdqLLKBM0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PDgdqLLKBM0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5602384334220771886?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5602384334220771886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5602384334220771886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5602384334220771886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5602384334220771886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/debate-un-abogado-de-la-iglesia-contra.html' title='Debate: un abogado de la iglesia contra un abogado de la homosexualidad'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8307593343138408437</id><published>2010-03-20T09:41:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-20T15:04:29.258+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Otra vez Consuelo</title><content type='html'>¡Qué nombre mágico tenés, Consuelo! Un recordatorio constante de tu capacidad de aliviar y reponerte de tus propias aflicciones y ayudar a alivianar las ajenas. Esa capacidad es una parte inseparable de tu ser, un poder sanativo que todos tenemos pero que mucha gente olvida a lo largo de su vida. Vos, en cambio, no lo olvidarás nunca, porque te bastará pensar en el significado de tu nombre para recordarlo: ese poder de volverte a levantar y seguir adelante es imperdible, algo que nadie ni nada te puede quitar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Querete siempre y queré a los demás, y todo el resto vendrá solito.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8307593343138408437?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8307593343138408437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8307593343138408437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8307593343138408437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8307593343138408437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/otra-vez-consuelo.html' title='Otra vez Consuelo'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2922576928420865484</id><published>2010-03-20T02:50:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-02T00:15:29.373+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Dulce Et Decorum Est</title><content type='html'>Wilfred Owen es un poeta inglés que escribió varios poemas acerca de su experiencia como soldado durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Entre ellos, mi favorito es "Dulce et Decorum Est", aquí presentado en su versión original en inglés:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, &lt;br /&gt;Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, &lt;br /&gt;Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs &lt;br /&gt;And towards our distant rest began to trudge. &lt;br /&gt;Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots &lt;br /&gt;But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; &lt;br /&gt;Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots &lt;br /&gt;Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! –  An ecstasy of fumbling, &lt;br /&gt;Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; &lt;br /&gt;But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, &lt;br /&gt;And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . . &lt;br /&gt;Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, &lt;br /&gt;As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.&lt;br /&gt;In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, &lt;br /&gt;He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If in some smothering dreams you too could pace &lt;br /&gt;Behind the wagon that we flung him in, &lt;br /&gt;And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, &lt;br /&gt;His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; &lt;br /&gt;If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood &lt;br /&gt;Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, &lt;br /&gt;Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud &lt;br /&gt;Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, &lt;br /&gt;My friend, you would not tell with such high zest &lt;br /&gt;To children ardent for some desperate glory, &lt;br /&gt;The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est &lt;br /&gt;Pro patria mori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" es una frase latina que significa "Es dulce y correcto morir por la patria". Es triste que Owen haya tenido que atravesar una guerra para darse cuenta que era una mentira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, aquí va una traducción (muy libre) al español:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;En dos doblados, como viejos mendigos bajo el peso de sus bolsas, &lt;br /&gt;Patizambos, tosiendo como arpías, maldiciendo avanzamos por el fango,&lt;br /&gt;Dándole la espalda a las bengalas inquietantes&lt;br /&gt;Un pie tras el otro hacia nuestro refugio distante.&lt;br /&gt;Hombres que marchan dormidos. Muchos han perdido hasta sus botas&lt;br /&gt;Pero siguen rengueando, en sangre calzados. Vamos todos cojos, todos ciegos.&lt;br /&gt;Borrachos de fatiga, sordos hasta para con el ulular&lt;br /&gt;De los cansinos y ya superados morterazos que han quedado atrás. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Gas! ¡Gas! ¡Rápido, muchachos! – Un ajetreo extático,&lt;br /&gt;Toscos cascos calados justo a tiempo;&lt;br /&gt;Pero alguien aún grita y se revuelca,&lt;br /&gt;Debatiéndose como lo haría una persona en llamas o en cal viva…&lt;br /&gt;Borroneado, a través de los cristales empañados y la densa luz verde,&lt;br /&gt;Como en el fondo de un verde mar, le veo ahogándose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En todos los sueños, frente a mis ojos desvalidos, &lt;br /&gt;Se lanza hacia mí este hombre, gorgoteando, asfixiándose, ahogándose.&lt;br /&gt;Si en un sueño sofocante pudieras tú también marchar&lt;br /&gt;Detrás del carromato en el cual le confinamos&lt;br /&gt;Y verle el blanco de los ojos hirviéndole en la cara,&lt;br /&gt;La cara colgante, como la de un demonio ahíto de pecado;&lt;br /&gt;Si pudieras oír, con cada sacudida, la sangre&lt;br /&gt;Subirle gorgoriteando desde los pulmones infectados de espuma,&lt;br /&gt;Obscena como el cáncer, amarga como un bolo&lt;br /&gt;De bilis, llagas incurables en lenguas inocentes,&lt;br /&gt;Entonces, amigo mío, no repetirías con tan alto afán&lt;br /&gt;A los niños que arden por conseguir algo de gloria&lt;br /&gt;La vieja Mentira: Dulce et Decorum est&lt;br /&gt;Pro patria mori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2922576928420865484?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2922576928420865484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2922576928420865484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2922576928420865484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2922576928420865484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/dulce-et-decorum-est.html' title='Dulce Et Decorum Est'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5222018948960876732</id><published>2010-03-19T02:33:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T03:09:24.800+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ké pasaría si en Amérika Latina nuestra ortografía fuera más konsekuente kon nuestra pronunsiasión?</title><content type='html'>Kisás las frases sigientes no nos pareserían ekstrañas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estoi kansado de trabajar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta gerra ya me a artado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La jente dise ser buena i sin embargo se kome a las pobres bakas, a los serdos, a las obejas y a los peses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mis ijos son intelijentes i kreo ke, teniendo en kuenta su edad, sus abilidades físikas i destresas akadémikas no son en absoluto despresiables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kiero tomar un elado kontigo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beses me siento mui frustrado kuando buelbo a Arjentina. Siento ke aí ai demasiada korrupsión i poko respeto por las leyes en jeneral. Obiamente, komo en todo, ai eksepsiones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jorje a desidido komprar jeranios para su jardín, y sanaorias para su uerta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akel chiko será un jigante kuando kreska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dudo ke los aksiomas de la jeometría moderna bayan a kambiar mucho en los próksimos sien años.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo no soi eksepsional i él no lo es tampoko.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerardo dise ke puede enbiarme la karta kon el pakete de sigarriyos ke resibió en Kuba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Ké puedo desirte? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi filosofía es ke mientras menos se preokupe uno, más felís será en la bida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desearía no bolber a berte nunka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿As bisto las yabes de María Eujenia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sesilia a deklarado ke akel día abía beintisinko basos sobre la mesa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aora ya no tienes ekskusas para no bisitarnos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tal bes Ibán kiera ayudarte a kosechar los igos el miérkoles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Kómo es posible ke tus sentimientos ayan kambiado tanto en tan poko tiempo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las gindas no me gustan, pero las seresas sí, porke son más dulses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El supuesto desarroyo internasional se sentra en el desmedido kresimiento ekonómiko de siertas minorías kon poder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La brecha entre los ke tienen i los ke kasi no tienen nada se parese kada día más a un oséano i menos a una brecha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me fasina el echo de ke ya no nesesites kreer ni en un dios ni en ánjeles para tener konfiansa en ti mismo y esperansa para el futuro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ya kasi se me sierran los ojos, de tanto sueño ke tengo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La konstelasión de Sajitario se enkuentra entre la del Eskorpión (al oeste) i la del Kaprikornio (al este).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La moderasión es el proseso de eliminar o disminuir los ekstremos, en buska del ekilibrio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Son kasi las tres de la mañana; si no me akuesto ya mismo, korro el peligro de no despertar a tiempo para mi primera klase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo ke pasa es ke kuando no duermo lo sufisiente, simplemente no oigo la alarma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kreo ke mi personalidad tiene algo de kompulsibo. No puedo dejar de eskribir, así komo no podía fumar menos de un pakete diario kuando fumaba. Me kuesta mucho kontrolar mis bisios.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5222018948960876732?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5222018948960876732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5222018948960876732' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5222018948960876732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5222018948960876732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/ke-pasaria-si-en-amerika-latina-nuestra.html' title='Ké pasaría si en Amérika Latina nuestra ortografía fuera más konsekuente kon nuestra pronunsiasión?'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5162817304743174042</id><published>2010-03-18T14:41:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T15:42:17.599+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I am still a male chauvinist</title><content type='html'>Malina's parents are visiting her here at school, so they are staying at my place. They are a handsome couple from Swedish Finland, both in their forties: him slim and short and dark haired, her blond and plump and all smiles. They arrived yesterday evening. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tidied up the house a little before then (it really needed it, and more than just a little), but it got kind of late and so some dirty dishes remained unwashed up in the kitchen. They were still waiting there this morning, a few by the sink and some others deep in it, soaking in soap water. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My intention was to attack them this afternoon, but when I got back from my classes I decided to enter some grades on the computer first. Malina's parents sort of walked into the house with me; we exchanged a few pleasantries and then I came here into my room, and they went upstairs. Not long afterwards I heard water running in the kitchen, accompanied by the tinkling of cutlery on crockery. It went on for quite a while, so I knew they were washing everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I continued to type away, but I felt ashamed, of course. Guests coming into my house and having to do my dirty dishes! Not very nice. Thus, when I heard them coming down I went out and met them at the front door. They were going for a hike, apparently. I addressed myself to Malina's mom and said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Thank you so much for doing my dishes. I should have done them before. How shameful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They both smiled and she replied:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Actually, I didn't do them. It was my husband. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I laughed, thanked him, and apologized for the assumption, and they made nothing of it. I appeared to do the same, but took it more seriously, in my heart of hearts. I have always prided myself of having few prejudices, you see. Sexism, genderism and homophobia, in particular, I have experienced from the receiving end so I've made a special effort to take them out of me. I thought I had, mostly, and prided myself on that, but obviously I still make assumptions such as "if there's a man, a woman, and dirty dishes, it must be the woman who washes them." How shameful and despicable I find this, and yet what an opportune call to be careful about complacency. Particularly in ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I grew up in an environment that was sexist, genderist, homophobic, racist, classist and anti-environmentalist to varying extents. I will have to fight against the mechanical assumptions I learned back then all my life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5162817304743174042?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5162817304743174042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5162817304743174042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5162817304743174042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5162817304743174042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-am-still-male-chauvinist.html' title='I am still a male chauvinist'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-5837918854475443935</id><published>2010-03-16T13:31:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T09:01:49.933+02:00</updated><title type='text'>sul tua</title><content type='html'>ye comans a me perdre. ye se pa si ye vu vivre comsa. it a pa creativite, it a pa yua i rian ke ye fe. ye dua m inventre tu; ce sui pa moro. ye sui sul og abitue a etre sul. rian tien sens. sul tua, mia sobrinit, e tru tua, tu lotro tambia l avra. fors.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-5837918854475443935?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/5837918854475443935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=5837918854475443935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5837918854475443935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/5837918854475443935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/sul-tua.html' title='sul tua'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2146875992853748584</id><published>2010-03-12T18:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T18:41:56.119+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Milonga del Moro Judío (de Jorge Drexler)</title><content type='html'>These lyrics are something. Here's them in Spanish, and then my attempt at an &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;English translation&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por cada muro un lamento&lt;br /&gt;en Jerusalén, la dorada,&lt;br /&gt;y mil vidas malgastadas&lt;br /&gt;por cada mandamiento.&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy polvo de tu viento&lt;br /&gt;y aunque sangro de tu herida,&lt;br /&gt;y cada piedra querida&lt;br /&gt;guarda mi amor más profundo,&lt;br /&gt;no hay una piedra en el mundo&lt;br /&gt;que valga lo que una vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy un moro judío&lt;br /&gt;que vive con los cristianos.&lt;br /&gt;No sé que Dios es el mío&lt;br /&gt;ni cuáles son mis hermanos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No hay muerto que no me duela,&lt;br /&gt;no hay un bando ganador,&lt;br /&gt;no hay nada más que dolor&lt;br /&gt;y otra vida que se vuela.&lt;br /&gt;La guerra es muy mala escuela&lt;br /&gt;no importa el disfraz que viste.&lt;br /&gt;Perdonen que no me aliste&lt;br /&gt;bajo ninguna bandera.&lt;br /&gt;Vale más cualquier quimera&lt;br /&gt;que un trozo de tela triste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy un moro judío&lt;br /&gt;que vive con los cristianos.&lt;br /&gt;No sé que Dios es el mío&lt;br /&gt;ni cuáles son mis hermanos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y a nadie le di permiso&lt;br /&gt;para matar en mi nombre.&lt;br /&gt;Un hombre no es más que un hombre&lt;br /&gt;y si hay Dios, así lo quiso.&lt;br /&gt;El mismo suelo que piso&lt;br /&gt;seguirá, yo me habré ido;&lt;br /&gt;rumbo también del olvido&lt;br /&gt;no hay doctrina que no vaya,&lt;br /&gt;y no hay pueblo que no se haya&lt;br /&gt;creído el pueblo elegido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy un moro judío&lt;br /&gt;que vive con los cristianos.&lt;br /&gt;No sé que Dios es el mío&lt;br /&gt;ni cuáles son mis hermanos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Milonga of the Muslim Jew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For each wall a lament&lt;br /&gt;in Jerusalem, the golden,&lt;br /&gt;and a thousand wasted lives&lt;br /&gt;for each commandment.&lt;br /&gt;I am dust of your wind&lt;br /&gt;and although I bleed from your wound,&lt;br /&gt;and every dear stone&lt;br /&gt;holds my deepest love,&lt;br /&gt;there is no stone in the world&lt;br /&gt;worth what a life is worth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Muslim Jew&lt;br /&gt;who lives with Christians.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know who my God is&lt;br /&gt;nor who my brothers are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There isn't death that won't hurt,&lt;br /&gt;there isn't a winning side,&lt;br /&gt;there is nothing but the pain&lt;br /&gt;and one more life that blows away.&lt;br /&gt;War is a terrible school&lt;br /&gt;no matter what its disguise.&lt;br /&gt;Forgive me if I don't enlist&lt;br /&gt;under any flag.&lt;br /&gt;Any pipe dream is worth more&lt;br /&gt;than a piece of sad fabric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Muslim Jew&lt;br /&gt;who lives with Christians.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know who my God is&lt;br /&gt;nor who my brothers are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I gave nobody permission&lt;br /&gt;to kill in my name.&lt;br /&gt;A man isn't more than a man&lt;br /&gt;and if there's a God, so he wanted it.&lt;br /&gt;The selfsame ground I stand on&lt;br /&gt;will continue; I myself will be long gone.&lt;br /&gt;There is no doctrine that won't share&lt;br /&gt;the same fate,&lt;br /&gt;and there is no people that haven't&lt;br /&gt;believed they were the chosen people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Muslim Jew&lt;br /&gt;who lives with Christians.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know who my God is&lt;br /&gt;nor who my brothers are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2146875992853748584?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2146875992853748584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2146875992853748584' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2146875992853748584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/2146875992853748584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/milonga-del-moro-judio-de-jorge-drexler.html' title='Milonga del Moro Judío (de Jorge Drexler)'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-8970465776703249442</id><published>2010-03-11T09:20:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T09:28:00.483+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Documentary</title><content type='html'>On the screen, a gay man who has been forced to have a sex-change operation, tells of how he now sells himself in the streets of Tehran, by entering into "trial marriages" sanctioned by the Sharia (all women who for one reason or another can't reproduce may enter into such marriages). One marriage an hour, all legal (is this truly possible? Must research).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the darkness of a classroom-turned-projection room, by a frozen fjord in Norway, a teenaged Danish girl begins to cry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-8970465776703249442?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/8970465776703249442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=8970465776703249442' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8970465776703249442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/8970465776703249442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/documentary.html' title='A Documentary'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-7670025552014501599</id><published>2010-03-05T20:18:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T20:36:07.918+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Maravillosamente intraducible</title><content type='html'>Me gusta Sabina. Sus canciones tienen siempre algo de universal y, sin embargo, a veces están tan minuciosamente ancladas en su tiempo, su lengua y su cultura que, más que una traducción, lo que necesitan es una reseña (algo que yo no voy ni a intentar).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ejemplo en cuestión: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nietos de toreros disfrazados de ciclistas,&lt;br /&gt;ediles socialistas, putones verbeneros,&lt;br /&gt;peluqueros de esos que se llaman estilistas,&lt;br /&gt;musculitos, posturitas, cronistas carroñeros,&lt;br /&gt;divorciadas calentonas con pelo a lo Madonna,&lt;br /&gt;trotamundos fantasmas, soplones de la pasma,&lt;br /&gt;pintorcillos vanguardistas, genios del diseño,&lt;br /&gt;camellos que te pasan papelinas contra el sueño,&lt;br /&gt;marcadores de paquete en la cola del retrete,&lt;br /&gt;escritores que no escriben, vividores que no viven,&lt;br /&gt;jet de pacotilla, directores que no ruedan,&lt;br /&gt;más chorizos que en Revilla con corbatas de seda.&lt;br /&gt;"Muera la locura, viva el trapicheo."&lt;br /&gt;Tontopollas sin cura, estrategas del magreo,&lt;br /&gt;petardeo de terraza, pasarela, escaparate.&lt;br /&gt;"Archy, Joy, Stella, ¿cómo vais de chocolate?"&lt;br /&gt;Tiburones de la noche con teléfono en el coche y con fax,&lt;br /&gt;caballeros en oferta, señoritas que se quieren casar,&lt;br /&gt;caraduras, obsesos, gualtrapas, lameculos,&lt;br /&gt;azafatas de congreso del brazo de sus chulos,&lt;br /&gt;superman en camiseta, y en la pista dando brincos&lt;br /&gt;la colección de tetas que hacen bulto en telecinco,&lt;br /&gt;mulatonas caribeñas que ponen a la peña de pie,&lt;br /&gt;Blancanieves en trippie, amor descafeinado,&lt;br /&gt;Cenicienta violando al príncipe encantado,&lt;br /&gt;Cicerones de la ruta del mal, mercachifles del vacío total,&lt;br /&gt;especialistas en nada, inventores del tebeo,&lt;br /&gt;Julietas demacradas que no encuentran a Romeo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaban todos menos tú,&lt;br /&gt;todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;Y yo marcando el 3-6-9-2-2-30&lt;br /&gt;como un idiota para oirte repetir&lt;br /&gt;en el contestador que te has largado de Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y una tribu de repatriados de Ibiza&lt;br /&gt;que dejaron de ser hippies, pero no de ser palizas;&lt;br /&gt;filósofos con caspa, Venus oxidadas,&lt;br /&gt;apóstoles del SIDA, lengua envenenada,&lt;br /&gt;motoristas hitlerianos con guantes en la mano,&lt;br /&gt;guitarristas de loquillo, kubalas de banquillo,&lt;br /&gt;doctores en chorradas, triunfadores con mosca,&lt;br /&gt;yuppies que esta temporada no se comen una rosca,&lt;br /&gt;equilibristas del tedio, un gorila armando gresca en el bar,&lt;br /&gt;vampiros al asedio de sangre fresca para chupar,&lt;br /&gt;paparazzis, reinonas, skins, perdonavidas,&lt;br /&gt;y un notario de Pamplona que viene a la movida.&lt;br /&gt;Muertos que no se suicidan, niñatos, viejos verdes&lt;br /&gt;y un cuñado de una querida del Marqués de Villaverde.&lt;br /&gt;Pinchadiscos que te dejan k.o.&lt;br /&gt;con la cosa del bacalao,&lt;br /&gt;morenazos de balcón y rayos u.v.a.,&lt;br /&gt;futurólogos borrachos como cubas,&lt;br /&gt;un tal Pepe que te puede contar&lt;br /&gt;doce mil de Lepe sin respirar,&lt;br /&gt;naricillas de saldo, tabiques de platino&lt;br /&gt;y un psicólogo argentino mostrándote el camino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaban todos menos tú,&lt;br /&gt;todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;Y yo marcando el 3-6-9-2-2-30&lt;br /&gt;sin escuchar lo que me cuentan.&lt;br /&gt;Todos menos tú,&lt;br /&gt;todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;Y yo más triste que un pingüino en un garaje,&lt;br /&gt;como un borrón en el paisaje de la multitud&lt;br /&gt;de todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y yo marcando el 3-6-9-2-2-30&lt;br /&gt;sin escuchar lo que me cuentan.&lt;br /&gt;Todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;Y yo con manchas de carmín en la memoria&lt;br /&gt;igual que un perro en el tejado de mi juventud&lt;br /&gt;entre todos menos tú.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y yo marcando el 3-6-9-2-2-30&lt;br /&gt;pasando de lo que me cuentan.&lt;br /&gt;Todos menos tú.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-7670025552014501599?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/7670025552014501599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=7670025552014501599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7670025552014501599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/7670025552014501599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/maravillosamente-intraducible.html' title='Maravillosamente intraducible'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-2891413557796358952</id><published>2010-03-05T19:51:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T20:12:46.265+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Amor e sexo (de Rita Lee)</title><content type='html'>Esta es una canción de Rita Lee, una cantautora brasilera de sesenta y tantos pirulos, que mantiene en sus letras una frescura y una juventud verdaderamente deliciosas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Amor é um livro, &lt;br /&gt;sexo é esporte.&lt;br /&gt;Sexo é escolha,&lt;br /&gt;amor é sorte...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é pensamento, teorema...&lt;br /&gt;Amor é novela; sexo é cinema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo é imaginação, fantasia...&lt;br /&gt;Amor é prosa; sexo é poesia...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O amor nos torna patéticos.&lt;br /&gt;Sexo é uma selva de epiléticos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é cristão, sexo é pagão;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é latifúndio, sexo é invasão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é divino, sexo é animal...&lt;br /&gt;Amor é bossa nova; sexo é carnaval!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é para sempre;&lt;br /&gt;sexo também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo é do bom;&lt;br /&gt;amor é do bem...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor sem sexo é amizade;&lt;br /&gt;sexo sem amor é vontade...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é um, sexo é dois...&lt;br /&gt;Sexo antes, amor depois...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo vem dos outros e vai embora;&lt;br /&gt;amor vem de nós e demora...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor é isso,&lt;br /&gt;sexo é aquilo...&lt;br /&gt;E coisa e tal,&lt;br /&gt;e tal e coisa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai, o amor!&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, o sexo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y la traducción:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es un libro, &lt;br /&gt;sexo es deporte.&lt;br /&gt;Sexo es escuela,&lt;br /&gt;amor es suerte...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es pensamiento, teorema...&lt;br /&gt;Amor es novela; sexo es cinema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo es imaginación, fantasía...&lt;br /&gt;Amor es prosa; sexo es poesía...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El amor nos vuelve patéticos.&lt;br /&gt;Sexo es una selva de epilépticos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es cristiano, sexo es pagano;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es latifundio, sexo es invasión.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es divino, sexo es animal...&lt;br /&gt;Amor es bossa nova; ¡sexo es carnaval!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es para siempre;&lt;br /&gt;sexo también.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo es algo bueno;&lt;br /&gt;amor es algo bien...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor sin sexo es amistad;&lt;br /&gt;sexo sin amor son ganas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es uno, sexo es dos...&lt;br /&gt;Sexo antes, amor después...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexo viene de los otros y se marcha;&lt;br /&gt;amor viene de nosotros, y se queda...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amor es eso,&lt;br /&gt;sexo es aquello...&lt;br /&gt;Y así y asá,&lt;br /&gt;y asá y así...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Ay, el amor!&lt;br /&gt;¡Hmm, el sexo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-2891413557796358952?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/2891413557796358952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=2891413557796358952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S5D-ZutaUbI/AAAAAAAAAIs/FlGWJE2OBfY/s1600-h/bergen+1880s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S5D-ZutaUbI/AAAAAAAAAIs/FlGWJE2OBfY/s400/bergen+1880s.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445131667479613874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up in Jølster, at Vassenden, where we spent ski week this year, I found this copy of a painting by some famous Norwegian artist of the 1880s. Someone had put it up on a wall in the reception area of the hotel we were staying at. Does anybody know the name of the painter? I didn't think to write it down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the things I like about this image is how much of the city is still recognizable 130 years later. Next time I travel to Bergen I will try to take a picture from the same perspective (it will have to be from the boat!), to compare more directly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-3087209267964405399?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/3087209267964405399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=3087209267964405399' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3087209267964405399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/3087209267964405399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/03/bergen-1880s.html' title='Bergen, 1880s'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dU0UbXuLt7c/S5D-ZutaUbI/AAAAAAAAAIs/FlGWJE2OBfY/s72-c/bergen+1880s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-872977745556052944</id><published>2010-02-19T14:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T16:10:05.197+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Orals</title><content type='html'>Since yesterday at 2:00 p.m. and all of today i have been listening to oral presentations and having short conversations with my twenty two second year Spanish ab initio students. They have been coming to my house to do this, which is part of their evaluation process for the International Baccalaureate program, which i teach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately on Thursday it was Danae's birthday, and so yesterday evening she invited me and some other friends to dine with her. Without that little social respite my brain might have exploded by now, leaving eight students without a grade to testify their oral skills in Spanish. (while i type this, student number nine is quietly preparing her presentation in my living room; she might have had to deal with the gore).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't get me wrong. I love these kids, and on the whole, they are brilliant students: alive, sincerely curious, struggling to find their way. Some of the conversations turn out very natural and there is even some sincere communication going on. It's just three things that frustrate me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) the repetitiveness of it all. They come, choose two images at random from among seventeen, prepare a presentation based on one of them, spill it out; i then ask them some questions, record everything, fill in forms, assign grades to them. Over and over and over, 22 times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) the fact that some of them could have done a much better job if they'd worked just a little more consistently in these past 18 months. Some of them are sincerely keen to learn Spanish, yet don't seem to grasp the idea that, in order to truly develop a skill, a certain amount of self-discipline is required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) the guilt i feel at my participation in a process that basically amounts to having teenagers jump through hoops, so that they can better fit into an unbalanced society. A society that, rather than teaching young people to discover what they really love and feeding their passion for whatever that may be, simply prepares them to function within predefined roles many of them will spend great chunks of their lives trying to squirm out of.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-872977745556052944?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/872977745556052944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=872977745556052944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/872977745556052944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/872977745556052944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/orals.html' title='Orals'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-6219074859705680549</id><published>2010-02-10T05:11:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T09:07:21.149+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Yira, yira</title><content type='html'>&lt;span id="ctl00_Main_lbl_Letra" class="texto"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Este tango es el más oscuro que conozco. Si existiera la República del Pesimismo, éste sería su himno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando la suerte qu' es grela,&lt;br /&gt;fayando y fayando&lt;br /&gt;te largue parao;&lt;br /&gt;cuando estés bien en la vía,&lt;br /&gt;sin rumbo, desesperao;&lt;br /&gt;cuando no tengas ni fe,&lt;br /&gt;ni yerba de ayer&lt;br /&gt;secándose al sol;&lt;br /&gt;cuando rajés los tamangos&lt;br /&gt;buscando ese mango&lt;br /&gt;que te haga morfar...&lt;br /&gt;la indiferencia del mundo&lt;br /&gt;-que es sordo y es mudo-&lt;br /&gt;recién sentirás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verás que todo el mentira,&lt;br /&gt;verás que nada es amor,&lt;br /&gt;que al mundo nada le importa...&lt;br /&gt;¡Yira!... ¡Yira!...&lt;br /&gt;Aunque te quiebre la vida,&lt;br /&gt;aunque te muerda un dolor,&lt;br /&gt;no esperes nunca una ayuda,&lt;br /&gt;ni una mano, ni un favor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando estén secas las pilas&lt;br /&gt;de todos los timbres&lt;br /&gt;que vos apretás,&lt;br /&gt;buscando un pecho fraterno&lt;br /&gt;para morir abrazao...&lt;br /&gt;Cuando te dejen tirao&lt;br /&gt;después de cinchar&lt;br /&gt;lo mismo que a mí.&lt;br /&gt;Cuando manyés que a tu lado&lt;br /&gt;se prueban la ropa&lt;br /&gt;que vas a dejar...&lt;br /&gt;Te acordarás de este otario&lt;br /&gt;que un día, cansado,&lt;br /&gt;¡se puso a ladrar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-6219074859705680549?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/6219074859705680549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=6219074859705680549' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6219074859705680549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/6219074859705680549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/yira-yira.html' title='Yira, yira'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1832948883089521119</id><published>2010-02-07T11:10:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T11:11:32.728+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Atheist Delusion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://atheistdelusion.cf.huffingtonpost.com/"&gt;Superb!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1832948883089521119?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1832948883089521119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1832948883089521119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1832948883089521119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1832948883089521119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/atheist-delusion.html' title='The Atheist Delusion'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-648587780430624704</id><published>2010-02-06T12:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T12:01:45.144+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Murió Picho</title><content type='html'>Picho murió ayer, viernes 5 de febrero, alrededor de las 11 de la mañana. Estuvo viviendo con nosotros desde octubre de 1993, cuando lo encontré en un montón de escombros con una pierna trasera quebrada. Entonces tendría 1 ó 2 meses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca supimos cómo se quebró la pierna ni quién lo abandonó, y no importa. No podía contarnos esas cosas, pero no eran esenciales para quererlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Murió naturalmente; aparentemente, se le colapsaron los pulmones. Durante la última semana, mis padres habían estado debatiendo si llamar o no a un veterinario para que lo pusieran a dormir, pero siempre que se decidían, Picho mejoraba un poco, y hasta el final, nunca pareció sufrir. Sus últimas dos horas, sin embargo, fueron aparentemente muy difíciles. El veterinario no pudo venir, y Picho murió sin ayuda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es difícil decir "creo que fue mejor así", pero soy consciente de que probablemente sería igual de difícil decir lo mismo si la decisión hubiera sido otra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quién más le ha dolido todo esto es a mi mamá.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-648587780430624704?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/648587780430624704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=648587780430624704' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/648587780430624704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/648587780430624704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/murio-picho.html' title='Murió Picho'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-4807140854938121964</id><published>2010-02-05T00:22:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T12:04:46.348+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Skuleplikt</title><content type='html'>Also from the Norwegian class:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found out tonight that Norway (or rather, the then kingdom of Denmark-Norway) passed a law for compulsory education for &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; children as early as 1739. There were several nations that had compulsory education programs before then, but none were so thoroughly put into practice, nor as inclusive. The aztecs, for instance, had compulsory education until age 16, but only for males; in Scotland, the Education Act of 1496 obliged the children of noblemen and freeholders to attend school, but this law was impracticable, due to tax problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until these ideas of obligatory school (&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;skuleplikt&lt;/span&gt;, in Norwegian) became established, most people in Europe were illiterate. Interestingly, the seed of these changes was the protestant priests' idea that everybody should be capable of reading and understanding first-hand the contents of the Bible. What a contrast with the Catholic church, that stuck to obsolete Latin for the longest time and still insists, even today, that the only authorized interpretation of the Bible is that made by the Church! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the Norwegian school system of the 18th century was really interesting, particularly in rural areas. Rather than investing money in building schools, king Christian VI decided to train as teachers those men who, for one reason or another, were not able to join the military service. They would be assigned to a certain locality of the kingdom throughout the school year, and farmers in the area were supposed to set up a rota by which the teacher would be put up in each farm for a certain number of weeks. All boy and girl children in the district, aged 7 to 12,  would attend classes at the farm where the teacher was staying, which in effect resulted in a kind of "roaming school" maintained by all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it was their turn, it was the obbligation of all host farmers to ensure a) the teacher's room and board; b) that some food was made available to students while at school and c) that the stove was turned on for lessons, so that the air was warm enough for lessons to be held.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know any of this. Must read more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-4807140854938121964?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/4807140854938121964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=4807140854938121964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4807140854938121964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/4807140854938121964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/skuleplikt.html' title='Skuleplikt'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9801457.post-1574261435828676624</id><published>2010-02-04T23:41:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T00:21:45.261+01:00</updated><title type='text'>RULLE RUNDT (OG RUNDT OG RUNDT)</title><content type='html'>I den tekniske byen&lt;br /&gt;hvor alle ruller rundt på hjul,&lt;br /&gt;så de kan bli glade fort&lt;br /&gt;og få penger så de kan kjope allt&lt;br /&gt;der kjenner ingen hverandre mer&lt;br /&gt;for de har ikke tid&lt;br /&gt;for de skal rulle rundt på hjul&lt;br /&gt;og kjope morsomme ting&lt;br /&gt;så de kan bli glade fort&lt;br /&gt;så alle barn må passe på seg selv&lt;br /&gt;og alle gamle må legge seg og do&lt;br /&gt;for ingen har tid og ingen vet levende råd,&lt;br /&gt;for det gjelder å glemme det gjelder å bli glade fort&lt;br /&gt;mens lysene blinker rodt og blinker gront&lt;br /&gt;ruller alle rundt på hjul&lt;br /&gt;ruller rundt&lt;br /&gt;og rundt og rundt&lt;br /&gt;og rundt...&lt;br /&gt;og så vidare, og så vidare...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;This is a poem by Rolf Jacobsen. We read him today in Norwegian class. Loved him. Here is the English translation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOING ROUND AND ROUND (AND ROUND AND ROUND)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this technological city&lt;br /&gt;where all go round and round in circles&lt;br /&gt;so that they can get happy fast&lt;br /&gt;and get money so they can buy everything&lt;br /&gt;nobody knows each other anymore&lt;br /&gt;for they don't have time&lt;br /&gt;for they must go round and round in circles&lt;br /&gt;and buy amusing things&lt;br /&gt;so that they can get happy fast&lt;br /&gt;and all children must look after themselves&lt;br /&gt;and all the elderly must lie down and die&lt;br /&gt;for nobody has time and nobody knows how&lt;br /&gt;for it is about forgetting it is about getting happy fast&lt;br /&gt;while the lights blink red and blink green&lt;br /&gt;all go round and round in circles&lt;br /&gt;go round and round&lt;br /&gt;and round and round&lt;br /&gt;and round...&lt;br /&gt;and so on, and so forth...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Finalmente, la traducción al español: un poema de Rolf Jacobsen, a quien leímos hoy en la clase de noruego. Me encantó, y me hizo acordar al tango aquel (ya saben al que me refiero):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GIRANDO Y GIRANDO (Y GIRANDO Y GIRANDO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En esta ciudad técnica&lt;br /&gt;donde todos giran y giran en círculos&lt;br /&gt;para alcanzar rápidamente la felicidad&lt;br /&gt;y obtener dinero para comprarlo todo&lt;br /&gt;ya nadie conoce a nadie&lt;br /&gt;pues no tienen tiempo&lt;br /&gt;pues deben girar y girar en círculos&lt;br /&gt;y comprar cosas divertidas&lt;br /&gt;para alcanzar rápidamente la felicidad&lt;br /&gt;así que todos los niños deben cuidar de sí mismos&lt;br /&gt;y todos los viejos deben echarse a morir&lt;br /&gt;pues nadie tiene tiempo y nadie sabe cómo&lt;br /&gt;pues se trata de olvidar y se trata de alcanzar rápidamente la felicidad&lt;br /&gt;mientras las luces parpadean rojas y parpadean verdes&lt;br /&gt;todos giran y giran en círculos&lt;br /&gt;giran y giran&lt;br /&gt;y giran y giran&lt;br /&gt;y giran...&lt;br /&gt;y así sucesivamente...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9801457-1574261435828676624?l=marinosanpieri.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/feeds/1574261435828676624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9801457&amp;postID=1574261435828676624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1574261435828676624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9801457/posts/default/1574261435828676624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marinosanpieri.blogspot.com/2010/02/rulle-rundt-og-rundt-og-rundt.html' title='RULLE RUNDT (OG RUNDT OG RUNDT)'/><author><name>MARIANO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13039017410465853243</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
