jueves, 22 de octubre de 2009

Let's face the music and dance



HAPGOOD: Just a moment here. George - do you ever wonder whether you're real?
GEORGE: Oh, no, sir. I know I'm not.

('Simple', Anyone Can Whistle, by S. Sondheim).


viernes, 29 de mayo de 2009

En defensa del gineceo



VIEJA: Aunque debía haber Dios, aunque fuera pequeñito, para que mandara rayos contra los hombres de simiente podrida que encharcan la alegría de los campos.

Federico García Lorca: Yerma. Acto I.


jueves, 28 de mayo de 2009

Lovers are believers



Every lover was, in his way, a philosopher: nature saw to that. A lover had to believe in the world, in the value of birth. Contraception didn't alter that. The act of desire remained an act of faith [...]

Graham Greene: The Confidential Agent.
London: Vintage Classics, 2006, p. 174