Friday, September 17, 2010

Masquerade Dresses For Juniors

did you say, Holden? José Hernández

What did you say, Holden?, Said the black.
That in your country you did not have a habit of shaking hands.
before that. What did you say before that?
Holden
The judge smiled. It is not necessary, he said, the parties hereto are in possession of the facts concerning this case, because ultimately their actions conform to the story with or without their consent. But it fits with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe principle that the facts just question (to the extent that they can force it) are depositary third person acting as witness. Sergeant Aguilar is just that person and any doubt about the position he holds is only a secondary consideration compared to the damage to the broader agenda protocol imposed by the inexorable fate of all. Words are objects. In the words he holds can not be stripped. The power of words beyond the ignorance that he has of his meaning.

The black sweating ...


(Judge Holden is head of the panda slayer of Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy
, 1985 -. Thus began his splendid novel interventions, with a devastating speech on the words that troubled him loose with a black as ignorant as him-hence the irony. It's amazing the change of linguistic register now conducting McCarthy with this character. Hits you, you stunning, but not seduced by Having A conceptual linkage with that absolutely fatuous. Then comes what is coming. It is brilliant, no doubt.)

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Modern Contemporary Costumes



met José Hernández's work more than twelve years ago when we illustrate with several of his creations, one of the numbers of Bazar. Literature review , the magazine that I then ran with Emilio Chavarria. I was fascinated from then those grotesque images of humans, those misshapen creatures of the animal kingdom, some architecture impossible ... the earthy, haunting and very personal color, shadows and veils of all those pictures visionaries who so generously allowed us to play. Now I've had the opportunity to meet him in person. He invited me a few days ago to his home in Villanueva del Rosario, an oil mill of the eighteenth century in which he lives six months a year for thirty. That also works all day from early morning until late at night almost without interruption, he said, except for food and daily walks among olive trees at sunset. Very slowly. Making numerous sketches of projects then move onto the canvas. Watching and watching the layers of color and allowing them to dry days and days to follow, to get those unusual range of blacks and browns that have earned him much fame. During the tour we did for the study, explained to Carmen and me pictures with astonishing ease, two or three large format that was there and had been ongoing for four years! I approached reverential look at them. He, however, hands, passing the palm of your hand through the fabric, caressing with the same astonishing ease and disaffection with which he spoke of them. "You see, already dry, he said, will continue tomorrow. It's an order. Maybe next year it delivered." I nodded dumbfounded. Another Antonio López, Víctor Erice another, but the dream and the overflowing imagination this time, I thought. I felt privileged indeed there may admire the author with those few pictures prodigious. Others had small form factor and I did not resist to ask, naively, for its price. I do not know, I said mischievously, that talk it over with my daughter who is who handles calculate their value.
After the study tour, we sat in the courtyard of the mill along with other friends who had arrived in the meantime. There we ate a wonderful lamb Tallinn and we drank several bottles of wine and some more of Johnny Walker. We parted at dawn with the tongue stuck almost to the palate. Unforgettable encounter, it goes without saying.

Jose Hernandez, also a painter of difficult approval, with a world of their own and absolutely unique technique (not me, they say the best specialists: Serraller Calvo, Juan Manuel Bonet, Martinez Sarrión, Corredor Matheos) also passes through be one of the best English writers in the period and a book illustrator of the first order (are excellent, but great, editions for bibliophiles of Kafka's Metamorphosis, or Borges' The Aleph, or The tunnel Sabato,
illustrated by him). It has also signed some memorable sets for plays by Francisco Nieva, above all, and many posters for movies. The Bunuel, among others, so close, on the other hand, the hallucinatory world of José Hernández (or vice versa). Here I give you the link to your website, will not exaggerating.

Jose Hernandez, also is married to Sharon Smith, whom I knew before him at a gathering dedicated to Muñoz Rojas in which we intervened and was included later in the documentary about the bard antequerano timeless poet. Our co-host and author of several collections of short stories delicious. One of them will soon see the light in our editorial. I'll give news.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Wish You Well Chapter Summary

The Researchers' Night ...


Science, debate and music. The union of the three elements will play a lively dialogue that five researchers Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) remain with all those who wish to approach the Royal Botanic Gardens, Madrid the night of September 24. The evening will be enlivened by the strains of a jazz band very particular.

From the eight in the evening and for three hours, we have the opportunity to see first hand the latest advances in science and convey our concerns about scientific issues interest in a relaxed atmosphere.

limits of physics and the universe, the chemistry of life and perception biological art are subjects that scientists have chosen to discuss with the audience, which will be divided into groups of 30 people.

The papers, arranged under the Researchers' Night Madrid 2010 , run by Alberto Casas of Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bernardo Herradón , Institute of Organic Chemistry General , Luisa Lara of Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia , Rosina Lopez Fandino of Institute of Industrial Fermentations and Luis Miguel Martinez, the Institute of Neurosciences Alicante.

The jazz band Within experimental error, made by scientists from Institute of Materials Science (CSIC), accompany participants at the beginning and end of meeting, which will be moderated by José Antonio López of Molecular Biology Center (CSIC).

The purpose of this meeting is to contribute to the enrichment of the view that society has on various fields of science and the work of researchers.