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Notebooks
Selected entries featuring descriptions of long walks, travels, readings, cinephilia, natural beauty, political protests, and other reflections.
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Hoy
“Hoy es el día más hermoso de nuestra vida, querido Sancho. Los obstáculos más grandes, nuestras propias indecisiones, nuestro enemigo más fuerte, el miedo al poderoso y a nosotros mismos. La cosa más fácil, equivocarnos. La más destructiva, la mentira y el egoísmo. La peor derrota, el desaliento. Los defectos
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Orcas
August 10, 2023 at 8:32 AM Orcas yesterday, five of them, their fins obsidian knives slashing the waves. Earlier I had gone for a swim in an outdoor pool. The afternoon was cool and overcast, but strangely it was when the clouds were parting, and the sun was allowed
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Dream
March 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM Fascinating and fleeting dream last night. I was reading Ariosto and dozed off. The dream was more of a vision. I was not participating in it, but just observing its beauty. I was on the ground facing upwards to an immense cherry blossom,
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Insect
August 23, 2023 at 9:58 AM Caught an insect yesterday, quite similar to a mantis in form and color, with great crystal wings. It would comb its antennae like a girl wringing and brushing her hair with long, delicate gestures.
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Sunrise
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
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Miedo a la oscuridad
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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Alexandra Leaving
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,
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Nietzsche
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