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June 19, 2024 at 10:46 AM Yesterday we watched Murnau’s Sunrise. There is a moment in the film when the rural couple takes the tram into the city, and they get lost in the blaring, bustling streets. It’s a terrifying scene, and I empathize with the way
Poetry
Les llevó más de quinientos años vaciar los cinco profundos lagos. Se robaron mis turquesas joyas, del valle sus ojos cristalinos, abiertos, siempre mirando al cielo, parpadeando estrellas en la noche, testigos de la derramada piel del sol día tras día sacrificada. Se los llevaron, ¿y qué dejaron? Los ajolotes
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September 6, 2023 at 9:55 AM De niño me aterraban las formas de las sombras en mi cuarto, monstruos que veía asomándose en la ventana, arrastrándose sobre la madera hasta las faldas de mi cama. El miedo me hacía prender la luz y la habitación, para mi gran alivio,
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September 6, 2024 at 11:18 AM There are good songs, there are great songs, and there are sacred songs. I often listen to music when I write, but there are songs that when they come on my playlist, I just stop typing. The living dream that is writing fiction,
Politics
When I was young, I must have been eleven, twelve years old, I remember my teachers asked me to make a speech about someone I admired. At the time my childhood self admired above everyone else two men: one was Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter; the other, which I ultimately
Politics
The following post contains descriptions of the atrocities currently unfolding in the Gaza Strip, including the use of rape as a weapon of war. In Ingmar Bergman’s Persona the main character is an actress who suddenly refuses to speak. At the start of the film we don’t know
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July 11, 2024 at 2:17 PM I read how exactly a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly. Inside its body the caterpillar houses special organs called “discs” from which the parts of the new butterfly will develop. The caterpillar creates a chrysalis for itself, and in a state of deep
SÁNCHEZ-CORDERO, SANTIAGO Place of birth: Mexico City 1993. Education: educated in Mexico City, went to film school in Canada. Considers himself largely a self-taught individual by means of the remarkable Vancouver Public Library. Writings: fiction mainly fantastic, non-fiction mainly political, poetry both lyrical and narrative. Political orientation: Libertarian socialist, with