Flux

"All he could do now was to try to return to Geneva, however remote the possibility. How strange, to think that the whole of Europe, with all its seriously taken problems, was nothing more than a chance coming-together of random particles! But at least it was home-even if it only existed for a few seconds.
And if he could only rejoin those few seconds, he thought in agonized joyousness, he would be dissolved along with the rest of it and be released from this hideous extension of life he had escaped into. "

-Flux, que se acaba de convertir en una de mis novelas favoritas. (Es una novela sobre un tipo que lo mandan en una máquina del tiempo a arreglar una crisis europea pero se pierde.)

Chapter Fourteen

Another pleasant and uneventful day spent largely in the pursuit of knowledge! I am beginning to feel like some old scholar. I can understand the attraction, suddenly, in the pursuit of information for its own sake. In a way, of course, it is an escape - I can see that even the most sophisticated sort of academic activity is at least in part a rejection of the realities of ordinary living.

-Moorcock en The Dark Corridor.

Hoy fue mi último día en Amazon porque se me venció el contrato, otra vez no sé que hacer con mi vida por si me quieren contratar para fiestas. Es gracioso como siempre que leo Moorcock paso por fases tan raras en mi vida. Aunque por ahora tengo plata :3

Entrada navideña y de fin de año del 2012

-Ésta entrada se la dedico a Ktushaa; porque se acuerda de mí.

Que dura que es la vida (ah pa).

Éste año no pude escribir entrada en navidad ni voy a poder poner foticas del 31 por trabajar (Pero me gusta donde estoy (en la vida)). Ahora me doy cuenta que el año pasado aunque pude no escribí porque tenía miedo de volver a leer una entrada inocente donde celebraba una tesis ya terminada. Tenía razón. Me olía que no me podía confiar en los cerdos de la u.

En fin, el 2012 fue un año bonito (para variar). ¡Y muy largo para mí! Hay que celebrar estar vivos. Éstas son las cosas que yo hice y que no quiero que se me olviden porque en 10 años no van a parecerme triviales. De nuevo, fue un largo pero bonito año:

The Fortress of the Pearl

"This was a court whose energies were not devoted to maintaining itself unchanged for eternity, but to every kind of new idea and lively, humane discussion, which welcomed fresh thought not as a threat to its existence but as a very necessity to its continued well-being, whose wealth was devoted to experiment in the arts and sciences, to supporting those who were needy, to aiding thinkers and scholars. The Bright Empire´s brightness would come no longer from the glow of putrefaction but from the light of reason and good will.
    This was Elric´s dream, more coherent now than it had ever been. This was his dream and it was why he traveled the world, why he refused the power which was his, why he risked his life, his mind, his love and everything else he valued, for he believed that there was no life worth living that was not risked in pursuit of knowledge and justice. And this was why his fellow countrymen feared him. Justice was not obtained, he believed, by administration but by experience. One must give up power if one was to achieve true justice. This was not the logic of the Empire, but it was the logic of one who truly loved the world and desired to see an age dawn when all the people would be free to pursue their ambitions in dignitiy and self-respect."

Maticé. Cuando Elric habla de Justicia se refiere al derecho a estar por encima de los demás (él era rey). Que el reino de Melniboné es un reino decadente y queda en zapote  no me recuerda ningún lugar porque es de un libro de fantasía.