28th December 2010, 10:52 pm
De mi lectura de estas últimas semanas:
Un buen militar no sólo no ha de ser un genio ni ha de poseer cualidades especiales, sino por el contrario debe carecer de las mejores y más elevadas cualidades del ser humano: del amor, de la poesía, de la ternura y de la duda filosófica y analítica. Debe ser limitado y estar firmemente convencido de que es muy importante lo que hace (de otro modo le faltaría la paciencia); sólo en este caso será un valeroso capitán. ¡Qué Dios guarde a este hombre de amar a alguien, de compadecerlo, de pensar en lo que es justo y en lo que no lo es!
Leon Tolstoi, Guerra y Paz
9th May 2005, 09:37 am
‘You needn’t say “actually,”‘ the Queen remarked: ‘I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give YOU something to believe.
I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.’
‘I can’t believe THAT!’ said Alice.
‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’
Alice laughed. ‘There’s not use trying,’ she said: ‘one CAN’T believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
30th April 2005, 05:01 pm
Anoche, sentado frente a las puertas del Reina Sofía, esperando, leía apenas sin luz, forzando mis ojos.
Y, a menudo, rompía a carcajadas.
What do you mean by that? said the Caterpillar sternly. Explain yourself!
I can’t explain MYSELF, I’m afraid, sir said Alice, because I’m not myself, you see.
I don’t see, said the Caterpillar.
I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly, Alice replied very politely, for I can’t understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.
It isn’t, said the Caterpillar.
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland
