Memo pad 1 / Notebook 1
To better read the works of...
1. To better read the works of…
[Firstly, you will have to own, buy, borrow, carry, seek in the web, et cetera,
books or e-books, magazines, prints, newspapers… with printed works of the
following authors.]
1.1. José de Espronceda, a Spanish poet born in Extremadura (1808-1842),
you will have to go aboard a twenty-cannon ship and, if possible, sail away
until you cannot see the coast.
Pirate’s Song
With ten cannons on each side,
booming, at full sail,
does not cut the sea, but flies
a sailing brig.
Pirate’s bark, called,
for her bravery, The Dreaded,
in all of the seas, known from
one boundary to the other…
Original
in Spanish:
Canción
del pirata
Con
diez cañones por banda,
viento
en popa, a toda vela,
no
corta el mar, sino vuela
un
velero bergantín.
Bajel
pirata que llaman,
por
su bravura, El Temido,
en
todo mar conocido
del
uno al otro confín…
1.2. José Gorostiza, a contemporary Mexican poet, born in the State of
Tabasco (1901-1973),
you will need to have a hole in your chest to fill it with an orange, go aboard
a boat and then move to another one, and sing certain songs on board the boats.
A few days or a few weeks later you will have to look for the river Styx,
perhaps between Ukraine and Russia, and go aboard Charon's
boat, to A death with no end
(Muerte sin fin).
1.3. Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet and prose writer, born in the
Province of Granada (1898-1936),
you will have to drink a soft drink or a punch (water, pomegranates
[“granadas”], sugar, and, perhaps, ethyl alcohol, or rum, or white tequila, if
you want to turn your soft drink into a punch).
1.4. Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinian poet, essayist and storyteller born in Buenos
Aires (1899-1986),
you will have to learn to read Braille, close your eyes, and read a
Braille-version of a book written by Borges, by using your fingertips.
1.5. Renato Leduc, a Mexican writer and poet, born in Tlalpan, Distrito Federal
(he was a tlalpeño) (1897-1986),
you will have to be close to a cuckoo clock, or pendulum clock, to hear the
ticking, and close to a wall calendar, too.
Time
Wise virtue, of knowing the time,
on time loving, and unleashing on time
as the saying goes, to give time to time,
that of love and pain, relieves the time...
Tiempo
Sabia
virtud, de conocer el tiempo,
a tiempo amar y desatarse a tiempo
como dice el refrán dar tiempo al tiempo,
que de amor y dolor, alivia el tiempo…
1.6. Julio
Ramon Ribeyro, a Peruvian storyteller, novelist, essayist and playwright, born
in Lima (1929-1994),
you will have to smoke several cigarettes, perhaps without filter, light one
after the other.
1.7. Juan Rulfo, a Mexican writer, born in Sayula
(1917-1986),
you will have to turn into a taciturn dipsomaniac at home.
1.8. Ambrose Bierce, American author and journalist (1842-1914?)
you will have to be sharp, lucid, caustic, and slightly less old, only, than
the devil.
1.9. Rosario Castellanos, a Mexican poetess and novelist born in the Distrito
Federal (1925-1974),
you will have to be a feminist and, perhaps, know how to speak, read, and write
Latin.
1.10. Agustín Yáñez, a Mexican writer and politician born in Guadalajara (1904-1980),
you will have to be a practicing Catholic and have political aspirations.
1.11. Juan José Arreola, a Mexican writer, born in Zapotlán el Grande
(1918-2001),
you will have to be born in a dusty town, having attended several village
fairs, and when advanced in years of age and in literary decadence, become a
television lecturer.
1.12. Haruki Murakami, a Japanese author, born in Kyoto (1949 - ),
it is better not to read his works, do not waste your time.
1.13. Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet, writer and essayist, born in the Distrito
Federal (1914-1998),
you will have to open two good dictionaries, one on each side of the book of
Paz you have chosen to read.
1.14. Jorge Ibargüengoitia, a Mexican writer, born in Guanajuato (1928-1983),
you will need to go aboard a night train, in August, travel through areas with
high rainfall, and wait for a thunderstorm. –In Latin America,
a well-known novel written by Ibargüengoitia is Los relámpagos de agosto, August
lightnings.
1.15. Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican writer
(1928-2012),
you will have to read his essays and journalism, at best. He was a bad
novelist.
1.16. Agatha Christie, an English novelist, born in Torquay (1890-1976),
you will have to like cruor and mystery, unsolved murders.
1.17. Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers of Jewish origin, cousins
between themselves, Frederick Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee
(1905-1971),
you will have to love fiction, mystery, crimes,
1.18. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, a Spanish romantic poet, born in Seville (1836-1870),
you will have to be a hopeless romantic, or be in love.
1.19. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright,
born in Complutum (Alcalá de Henares)
(1547-1616),
you will have to be a dreamer, righteous, and ride with your sword sheathed,
but alert.
1.20. Thomas Reid, a Scottish philosopher (1710-1796),
you will have to possess common sense.
1.21. Henri Bergson, a Parisian, French philosopher (1859-1941),
you will have to possess intuition.
1.22. Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher (1788-1860),
you will have to be a misogynistic and stay single.
1.23. Molière, a Parisian, French playwright (1622-1673),
you will have to be some kind of a misanthrope.
1.24. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a French philosopher, politician and
revolutionary (1809-1865),
you will have to agree that "property is theft".
Please see 1.67.
1.25. Ernest Renan, a French writer, philologist, philosopher, and historian
(1823-1892),
you will have to be learned, rationalist, and attempt to deny or deny the
divinity of Jesus Christ, id est, God's Son. Christ is the Second Person of the
Most Holy Trinity.
1.26. Denis Diderot, a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist
(1713-1784),
you will have to be an abolitionist, academic and rationalist.
1.27. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, a French mathematician, philosopher and
encyclopedist (1717-1783),
you will have to show passion for mathematics, equations, and be tolerant.
1.28. Charles Perrault, a Parisian, French storyteller (1628-1703),
you will have to read his stories before going to watch the motion pictures
based on his works, filmed by Disney and other mercantilist and lucratively
voracious companies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding
Hood, Bluebeard, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb…
1.29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher (1770-1831),
you will have to be patient, and also note that he confused epistemology with
metaphysics, as Johannes Hessen, a German teacher of philosophy, says in the
third paragraph on page 22 of his book Teoría
del conocimiento (Theory of Knowledge), Espasa Calpe, S.A., Colección
Austral (Southern Collection), número 107, Madrid, decimosexta edición
(sixteenth edition), 1981, translated from German into Spanish by José Gaos.
1.30. Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian dramatist (1828-1906),
you will have to sit, a quiet afternoon, in the big couch at home, and the next
day watch two films, both British, both made in 1973, both with the same title, A Doll's House, both based on a
work of Ibsen; one of them directed by Patrick Garland, and the other by Joseph
Losey.
1.31. Friedrich Hölderlin, a German lyric poet and novelist (1770-1843),
you will have to be a romantic and amorous, and maybe even mess around with
married women.
1.32. Benito Pérez Galdós, a Spanish novelist and playwright (1843-1920),
you will have to get available a lot of time, because this smoker wrote as an
unleashed one, know something of onomatopoeia, the catlike meow, for example
–even imitate a cat meow– and strive for perfection. Las miau, was one of his
stories.
1.33. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, a Spanish writer and journalist, born in Valencia
(1867-1928),
you will have to be a republican (anti-monarchist), report abuse, socioeconomic
inequalities and injustices; see The Nude Maja in the internet, or at the Museo
del Prado, drink Valencia orange juice, and eat rice.
1.34. Jacinto Benavente, a Spanish playwright, born in Madrid (1866-1954).
you will have to move to a rural area to find The
unloved woman (La malquerida), smoke
cigars, and create interests rather than affection...
1.35. Luigi Pirandello, a Sicilian, Italian playwright and novelist
(1867-1936),
you will have to live close to the sea, be individualistic but also listen to others
and, above all, be original.
1.36. Guy de Maupassant, French writer and novelist (1850-1893),
you will have to give a necklace to a lady, rhinestone albeit, in order she
does not suffer what Mathilde Loisel did, married to a modest employee of
the Ministry of Education of France, who borrowed a necklace from a former
schoolmate, Mistress Jean Forestier. The necklace was of diamonds… false ones.
Mathilde did not know it. She and her husband went to a party, a dance thrown
by the Ministry and she lost the necklace during or after the soiree. Her
husband bought in a Parisian jewelry a necklace almost identical, but made out
with real diamonds, at a price of 36,000 French francs, for which he borrowed
money and fell in debt for ten years. A decade later, Mathilde and Jean de
Forestier found each other on the Champs Elysées in Paris,
saluted, and Mathilde Loisel told Jean that her husband and herself (Mathilde)
had bought a new necklace at a great price, with immense sacrifices. Mistress
de Forestier revealed to Loisel that the necklace she had lent her ten years
ago was made out of fake stones, and cost 500 francs at the most.
And you will have to agree with a part of the story titled The Necklace: "... for women have no caste or
class, their beauty, grace, and charm serving them for birth or family, their
natural delicacy, their instinctive elegance, their nimbleness of wit, are
their only mark of rank, and put the slum girl on a level with the highest lady
in the land.”
A pretty woman can move up in the socioeconomic
ladder, a beautiful woman, even more so.
Sure, a talented, educated, and competent woman can also move up without being
beautiful.
However, the feminine beauty is among the greatest assets or property, since
the world began.
Beauty is subjective, some might say, but in order to define it in some way, in
recent centuries the people have taken as models of beauty, or beautiful faces
and bodies, the ones that appear in oil portraits painted by artists such as Il
Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto, 1454-1513), Raphael (1483-1520), Albrecht
Dürer (1471-1528), Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), portraits of girls and women,
but not of men, by Rembrandt (1606-1669), Camile Corot (1796-1875), and John
William Waterhouse (1849-1917).
1.37. Jules Verne, French author (1828-1905),
you will have to look into the future, imagine, innovate, invent, create
things, new methods and procedures.
1.38. Lucian (not of Samósata [or Samosata] but of Navojoa, Sonora)
pseudonym of a Mexican writer and journalist with an air of poet and
philosopher, born in the State of Sonora, his true name
was Alejandro Román Rivera (c. 1916-1983),
you will need to have a very free spirit.
"I'd rather be a skinny wolf, hungry in the mountains, and not a fat dog
chained." –Lucian.
http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1974/07/21/046.html
http://www.infocajeme.com/noticias.php?id=8927
1.39. Manuel Acuña, a Mexican poet, born in Coahuila (1849-1873),
you will have to be born in a province, being very poor, move to the capital
city and continue being very poor, and persist in an impossible love.
A pullman coach, owned by the Ferrocarril del Pacífico, Pacific Railroad
(Guadalajara-Nogales), bore the name "Manuel Acuña" in the 1970s.
Manuel Acuña committed suicide on Saturday, the
3rd. day of December, 1873.
1.40. Alvin Toffler, an American writer and futurist, born in New
York (1928
- ),
you will have to show interest in the future, and hope to be a contemporary
"prophet".
1.41. Judith Krantz, an American novelist, born in New
York (1928
- ),
you will have to read many novels and be worldly.
1.42. Philip Roth, an American writer, born in New
Jersey (1933
- ),
you will have to be tenacious, and a son of unassimilated immigrants who are
doubtful of their identity.
1.43. Ken Follett, a Welsh writer (1949 -),
you will have to be a shrewd investigator and have wit and easy to discover
complex situations yet unrevealed, hidden maneuvers made by influential people
and millionaires in search of excessive profit.
1.44. Thomas Friedman, an American journalist, columnist and writer (1953 - ),
you will have to be in favor of globalization.
1.45. Corín Tellado, an Asturian, Spanish novelist (1927-2009),
you will have to like reading pink novels, and buy the Latin American Magazine Vanidades..
1.46. Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician (1826-1866),
you will have to know about geodesic curves, besides Euclidean and
non-Euclidean geometry, and be an enthusiast of mathematics.
1.47. Protagoras, a Greek sophist (485 B.C.-411 B.C.),
you will have to know he was the first to establish public and compulsory
education* –that great institution aimed at reducing socioeconomic
differences–for Turios colony, when drafting the Constitution for that place,
even though it was on the orders of the ruling Pericles, champion of democracy.
One of his most famous quotes is: "Man is the measure of all things."
* Besides Pericles and Protagoras, another revolutionary education was the
French priest and educator John Baptist de La Salle (1651-1719), who said that teachers
should devote themselves to the education of youth, especially of the
poorest.
There would not be education for the nobles and rich only. Before La Salle, a
preceptor instructed one, two or three brothers, sons of wealthy parents. Since
the implementation of his model, the task of education would be a teacher
lecturing to groups of children, whether parents could pay
or not. He outlined the principles of free and universal education.
The major task of this saint was the removal of many young Frenchmen, from the
leisure, ignorance and laziness. His example was multiplied to everyone in many
parts of the world.
He was the first to create teacher training centers, or normal schools;
training schools for delinquents, technical schools, and language, modern arts,
and sciences schools.
In Mexico, since 1918 Teachers' Day is celebrated
on May 15, when making reminder of Querétaro Capture, on Wednesday May 15,
1867, when the Austrian emperor of Mexico, Archduke Maximilian of Hapsburg,
surrendered and handed his sword to Republican General Mariano Escobedo, but as
a pleasant coincidence, the 15th day of May, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared Saint
John Baptist de La Salle –canonized in 1900– universal patron
of educators, and special patron of all educators of children.
In Colombia,
another predominantly Catholic country, they celebrate Teachers’ Day on May 15,
too.
1.48. Heraclitus of Ephesus, a Greek
philosopher (535 B.C.-c. 484 B.C.),
you will have to know what are the antithesis, oxymoron, the union of
opposites, and the incessant flow (or perpetual flow).
One of the most famous heraclitean phrases goes:
"We both step and do not step in the same
rivers, [because] we both are and are not [the same ones]”, which has been
distorted as: "You can not step twice into the same river."
The philosophy professor José Antonio García Junceda (Madrid, 1929, ibidem, 1986) explains in an
article published in the journal cited below, about Heraclitus:
One and many: The dialectic of opposites
in Heraclitus
Anales del seminario de historia de la filosofía
(Proceedings of the seminar of history of philosophy), Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, ISSN 0211-2337, No. 4, 1984, pages 29-44 [from pages 30 and 31, I have
copied the following paragraphs]:
"... Indeed, the opposites are not a discovery of Heraclitus's philosophy;
before him, Milesians and, above all, the Pythagoreans, conceived opposites in
their opposing and in their individualized permanence facing each other, however, always from a static conception. It was Heraclitus who
provided the radically new idea of the dialectic of opposites.
"In the Heraclitean future, it is not about, although sometimes can be so interpreted, the transmutation of a unique particular
reality in another also unique, but the transition from one form to another
–transit that does not entail the annulment of opposites but their conflictive
coexistence.
"The opposition and the union of opposites is what constitutes the
perpetual motion, is the union of opposites conflict which sets the future and
not, as Axelos thought, the future who moves them. In the fragment 8 is clear
that what is opposed, which tends to remain united conflictively handsome
senses and therefore ephemeral, but to the extent that this binding occurs
arises ephemeral harmony born of contradiction.
"The opposition of opposites was understood differently by Heraclitus and
I would say that your analysis is the most superficial to deep, although it
should be noted, as Calogero did, Heraclitus did not explicitly distinguish
between opposite (white-black) and contradictory (white-nonwhite), which is not
to say that his doctrine of opposites does not end in a dialectical contrariety
that make the being faces the nonbeing.
"He left from an elementary observation that revealed an obvious
contradiction: the same thing can be good or bad, healthy or unhealthy
regarding various subjects. It is the subject of fragment 61 and fragments 9,
13, 37, et cetera.
"He continued highlighting a subjective, axiological contradiction,
according to which each requires an equivalent value. It is the subject of the
fragments 58 and 111. This axiological relativity is uniquely human because, as
he says in the fragment 102, "For the divinity, indeed, everything is
good, beautiful and fair but men believe some things are unfair, and others,
fair." Perhaps we could conclude that for the divinity, that it would be
like saying for the being in itself, there is no contradiction.
"But that subjective, axiological contradiction, which only occurs in man
is not capricious, but has a basis in
re, because values have an objective reality. It is
what he says in fragment 23: "they would not know the name of justice, if
such things (the unfair) did not exist."
"However, the analysis of Heraclitus went further. Against both forms of
contradiction, he considered that any element or constitutive of reality occurs
only because the opposite aspect or constitutive ceases, and of course, vice
versa. This is exactly what he says in the fragment 126, including the adverb
vice versa: "What is cold, becomes hot; what is hot [becomes], cold; the
wet, dry; and the dry, wet." In this sense we must understand the fragment
88: "The same thing are the living and the dead, awake and asleep, young
and old, for these ones, when change, are those ones, and those ones, when in
their turn change, are these ones." This being both the same and the
opposite successively is what constitutes the Heraclitean future, and in this
sense we must read the other fragments that cover the matter, even the most
obscure, such as 48, which takes the name as the thing to oppose, βιος-θάνατος
[bios-thanatos, life-death] and it should be noted that this form of evolution
embraces all Φυσις [physis, nature], which the immortals named in fragment 62
are not beyond from.
"But the deeper contradiction and that somehow encompasses all
contradictions and all other forms of unity of opposites is established between
the one and the many. And I say that the problem of this opposition slashing,
if not fully expressed, the contrariety between the being and the nonbeing, as
a dialectic form of reality, because, as Calogero used to say: "This
mutual implication of opposites, each of which is, with its genesis and its
death, condition of the death and the genesis of the other, can also be set as
its identity or unity."
1.49. Democritus, a Greek philosopher (c. 460 B.C.-c. 370 B.C.),
you will have to be an atheist or at least an agnostic and materialistic
(atomistic), because Democritus –the name means literally "the Chosen of
the People"– along with his teacher Leucippus is considered the founder of
the atomism, whereby the universe is made up of a combination of small
indivisible particles called atoms –the word atom means “indivisible”.
1.50. Archimedes of Syracuse, a Greek
mathematician and physicist (287 B.C.-212 B.C.),
you will have to yearn to learn physics, mathematics and engineering.
This one was the great scientist who discovered the relationship between
diameter and circumference, symbolized by the Greek letter π (pi).
π (pi) = 3.14159265 ...
The Greek letter π (pi) represents: the ratio of the circumference of a circle
to its diameter, id est, a diameter fits pi times in the corresponding
circumference, id est, a diameter fits into the circumference 3.14159265 times,
or this one (the circumference) equals to 3.14159265 diameters of its
respective circle.
For practical purposes / uses, in schools the value of π (pi) is rounded to 3.1416, or even to 3.14.
Furthermore, the principle of Archimedes states that a body immersed arises in
a liquid receives a thrust from below upwards equals to the weight of liquid
displaced.
The legend –unlikely– says that Archimedes discovered the principle in a
bathtub at home, when he was alone, and was so excited, he shouted: εὕρηκα!
- Eureka!,
"(I) have found", and then left out of his house to run naked through
the streets of Syracuse.
1.51. August Kekulé, a German organic chemist of Czech origin, discoverer of
the hexagonal structure of benzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon, a cyclic compound.
He got the vision or idea in his sleep: dreamed about Ouroboros or Uroboros,
the serpent of the alchemists that / who bit its own tail (1829-1896),
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, creator of the periodic table of the
elements (1834-1907),
Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist, defined the physical constant that
bears his name (1844-1906),
Max Planck, a German physicist, defined the physical constant that bears his
name (1858-1947),
Werner Karl Heisenberg, a German physicist, best known for his Heisenberg
uncertainty principle, or Heisenberg indeterminacy principle (1901-1976),
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian physicist who proposed the mental
experiment known as "Schrödinger's cat"
Karl Schwarzschild, a German physicist and astronomer (1873-1916),
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian physicist, astrophysicist and
mathematician (1910-1995),
Albert Einstein, a German physicist, E = mc ^ 2 (1879-1955), –the caret (^) or
circumflex accent is used with an exponential value, especially in computer
programming, so the Einsteinian formula can be read : energy equal to mass
multiplied by the speed of light (c) squared.
Otto Hahn, a German chemist and physicist (1879-1968),
Lisa Meitner, an Austrian physicist (1878-1968),
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist (1885-1962),
James Chadwick, an English physicist, discoverer of the neutron (1891-1974),
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, an Austrian physicist (1900-1958),
Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Catholic priest and astrophysicist (1894-1966),
professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first
person to propose the theory of the expanding universe, wrongly attributed to
Edwin Hubble; he was also the first to conceive what is now called Hubble's
law, and made the first calculation of what is now known as the Hubble constant,
which he published in 1927, two years before the Hubble article. Lemaître was
also the first scientist to propose the theory of the Big Bang on the origin of the universe, which is titled
"Hypothesis of the primeval atom".
Satyendra Bose, an Indian physicist (1894-1974),
Paul Dirac, an English physicist of Swiss descent, created the Dirac equation,
predicted the existence of antimatter, such as the positron (+) or
anti-electron; the positron is the antiparticle of the electron (-)
(1902-1984),
Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist (1918-1988),
Roger Penrose, an English mathematical physicist (1931 - ),
Stephen Hawking, an English physicist and cosmologist (1942 - ),
Shahen Hacyan, an Armenian nationalized Mexican theoretical physicist (1947- ),
you will have to be a passionate about chemistry and physics.
1.52. Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch of Jewish descent philosopher (1632-1677),
have to be pantheistic, unprejudiced, freethinker.
1.53. Martin Buber, an Austrian philosopher and writer of Jewish descent
(1878-1965),
you will have to be tolerant and liberal.
1.54. Nicolai Hartmann, a German philosopher (1882-1950),
you will have to follow his assertion: "the ultimate sense of
philosophical knowledge is not so much solving enigmas but discovering
wonders".
1.55. Wilhelm Dilthey, a German philosopher (1833-1921),
you will have to agree that "philosophy is an attempt of the human mind to
arrive at a conception of the universe through self-reflection on its
theoretical and practical value functions."
The above is not a literal definition by Dilthey, but it is found in the first
paragraph on page 17 of a book authored by Johannes Hessen (1889-1971), a
German teacher of philosophy and a philosopher, Teoría del conocimiento (Theory of
Knowledge), Espasa Calpe,
S.A., Colección Austral (Southern Collection), No. 107, Madrid, decimosexta
edición (sixteenth edition), 1981, translated from German into Spanish by Jose
Gaos, and possibly Hessen reached it by following the concepts of Dilthey, as
Hessen states at the end of the first paragraph on page 12. .
The following phrase is attributed to Dilthey:
English:
The life is a mysterious plot of chance, destiny, and character.
German:
Das Leben ist ein Plot geheimnisvoller Chance, Schicksal und Charakter, or
Das Leben ist eine aus seltsame Mischung Zufall, Schicksal und Charakter.
It turns out that this phrase is indeed in the internet in English, but in
German, the mother tongue of Dilthey, I have not found it. Maybe we are facing
a similar case of a phrase attributed to the vallisoletano,
Spanish poet and playwright José Zorrilla (1817-1893), author of Don Juan
Tenorio, "The dead you slew enjoy perfect health" (“Los muertos que
vos matasteis gozan de cabal salud”), which he did not wrote.
1.56. Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher (1889-1976),
you will have to show an interest in Being
and Time (Sein und Zeit).
1.57. Hermann Hesse, a German novelist and poet of Estonian and Swiss descent
(1877-1962),
you will have to drink German cider, preferably in the Black Forest.
1.58. Albert Camus, a French writer, philosopher,
and journalist (1913-1960),
you will have to smoke French filter cigarettes, even when driving your car,
and spend long periods of time in a desert.
One of his quotes was: "The seventeenth century was the century of
mathematics, the eighteenth that of the physical sciences, and the nineteenth
that of biology. Our twentieth century is the century of fear."
On the business side, the twenty-first century is perhaps the century of innovation
and “easier, better, faster, cheaper”, but, on the side of the man in the
street, ordinary citizens, it is perhaps the century of ignorance, barbarism,
darkness, backwardness, the easy and lazy convenience, the century of the
turning of Homo sapiens sapiens into Homo
ignorantis, thanks, among
other factors,* to the preference that functionally demi-illiterate children, youth and even adults give to
the audiovisual over the written
matter. The abstraction and reasoning abilities are diminishing, the imagination
is less exercised, so there will be few new newtons,
lockes, reids, baudrillards, teslas, and heideggers.
The twenty-first century will be, in a sense, the
return of mankind to the cavemen era, when people did not know how to read or
write, but made rock paintings of their food when it was still alive (cattle
and other quadrupeds). In "our" twenty-first century, people read
little and write less, and rather / instead use their cell phones as photo
cameras and video cameras in order to record personal or family banalities /
intranscendences and then share or upload them to the web. And in their
computers or in their mobile phones they see / will see photos and even watch /
will watch videos, for which is enough not to be a blind.
*And also thanks to guys like Steve Jobs
(1955-2011), a selfish individual, a bad manager/employer, and a seeker of the
spotlight, money and incense.
John Sculley (1939- ) became chief executive
officer (CEO) of Apple on April 8, 1983. Sculley learned that Steve Jobs had
been attempting to organize a boardroom coup, and on May 24, 1985, Sculley and
the Board of Directors of Apple removed Jobs from his managerial duties as head
of the Macintosh division. Jobs resigned from Apple five months later.
John Sculley did see what many individuals did not. He was right when
getting rid of Steve Jobs, indeed an evil genius.
1.59.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961),
you will have to drink absinthe (wormwood liqueur):
http://www.quirkbooks.com/post/how-drink-your-favorite-writer-hemmingway-Bukowski
Well, that must be written with "two m’s", because if you write the
family name of Hemingway with a single “m”, a link will take you to another
page on the same site.
http://drinksociety.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/vermouth/
A large difference between vermouth and absinthe is
that vermouth uses wormwood LEAF, and absinthe uses wormwood ROOT. Anyway, the
origins of vermouth can be traced back many centuries.
Furthermore, in order to properly read, we must demand state-of-the-art
technology, just as the misogynistic and alcoholic Hemingway demanded a good
typewriter to write, in his day. Hemingway wrote:
"To write this sort of thing you need a
typewriter. To describe, to narrate, to make funny cracks you need a
typewriter. To fake along, to stall, to make light reading, to write a good
piece, you need luck, two or more drinks and a typewriter. Gentlemen, there is
no typewriter!" –Ernest Hemingway.
While it is the writer and not the tool who
determines the quality, the experience of writing on computer is different from
typewriting (Remington, Underwood, Olympia, Olympia, Erika, Smith-Corona,
Hermes Baby, Olivetti, IBM , Multiplex Hammond, Royal, Voss, Gossen Tippa),
just as this one is also different from writing by using a pen, pencil,
fountain pen, or quill.
The differences affect the writing. If Hemingway was in 1934 in a remote place of Africa, for example, and there was no
typewriter available, he was just not going to write at the same speed with a
fountain pen or a pencil, he, a man of the twentieth century, who was born
after the invention of the typewriter.* He needed a typewriter (and absinthe,
of course).
(*In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine
called the “Typowriter”, which is listed as the “first typewriter”.
(Another kinds of typewriters were invented in the
1860’s, in Denmark, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Austria, Italy,
and Brazil.
(It seems that the first commercially sold
typewriter was the Hansen Writing Ball, which was produced in Denmark
starting in 1865.
(The Remington No. 1 was invented in 1867 by
inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, with the assistance of fellow printer
Samuel W. Soule, who left shortly thereafter, and mechanic Carlos Glidden, in Milwaukee, State
of Wisconsin, United States of
America.
(Soule was replaced by James Densmore, who backed
financially the fledgling enterprise, and turned into the driving force that
pushed the continued development of the device.
(The patent was sold in 1873 to E. Remington and
Sons, a company that used to manufacture firearms and sewing machines. This
enterprise further refined the typewriter, and placed it on the market on July,
1874.)
Even today, in the twenty-first century, typewriter knockers and keyboard
beaters abound, they write very fast, as unleashed ones, do not pause, do not
stop until they reach the end. For the cleaning and proofreading of texts,
there are electronic dictionaries integrated into the writing software, and
also there are proofreaders working in newspapers as well in publishing
houses, government offices, State legislatures, national parliaments,
Executive branch agencies, and so on.
In writings coming from some law firms, notaries public and courts, typos and
errors appear… provided they do not affect the understanding and legal
interpretation, do not harm the spirit of the document...
Hemingway committed suicide, on Sunday, the 2nd.
day of July, 1961.
1.60. Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet (1265-1321),
you will have to learn Italian, perhaps, and have to know counting up to the
number 100, at least. In the Divine Comedy, Hell has 34 songs, Purgatory 33,
and Paradise 33. The sum is ... 100!
Note to pundits (or "health cure"): while Dante wrote in old Italian,
according to some researchers their texts are easily understood today, for
those who understand, read, speak and/or write Italian. However, you can buy,
for example, an edition of The
Divine Comedy in which the
text is in modern Italian. If you do not know Italian, buy or borrow an edit in
the language you master.
1.61. William Shakespeare, an English playwright,
poet and actor (1564 1616),
you will have to drink Scotch whisky and believe you are powerful.
1.62. Carl Woese, an American microbiologist (1928-2012),
you will have to accept that there are three domains of microorganisms,
bacteria, archaea (both prokaryotes, both unicellular) and eukaryotes (which
may be either unicellular or multicellular).
1.63. Jean Baudrillard, a French sociologist and philosopher (1929-2007),
you will have to recognize their affiliation and subscription to the Sartrean
idea of an intellectual independent from political parties and free to talk ...
with anyone. Out of the discussion and dialogue, agreements and even durable
solutions can arise.
Another phrase from Baudrillard: "They [the political opponents of the rightist
Jean-Marie LePen] do not see that good never comes from a purification of evil
(evil always retaliates in a forceful way), but rather from a subtle treatment
which turns evil against itself.”
1.64. John Locke, an English philosopher
(1632-1704),
you will have to remain single and virgin, and be an empiricist.
1.65. Saint Augustine of Hippo, father of the Latin Church (354-430), born and
died in cities located in what is now Algeria,
you will have to live in the City of God, in order to solve three major
problems: to be, to know, to love.
1.66. Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and theologian, Doctor of
the Church (c. 1225-1274),
you will have to start by reading his exegesis.
1.67. Karl Marx, a German communist philosopher of Jewish descent (1818-1883),
you will have to borrow money, when you are young, and then curse because you
cannot afford to pay back, hate your creditors, lenders and capitalists; later
as an exhaust, invent a contrary ideology, the scientific communism, to gain
ground through the dialectic and the class struggle.
Please read only Das Kapital.
The Capital, not the other
books written by Marx.
Surplus value
Please see 1.24.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon had used the term surplus value (plus-value) in a
critical sense, but it was Karl Marx who developed the concept (Mehrwert,
in German language).
1.68. Valmiki, Hindu sage (c. I-III centuries BC)
you will have to wait several days while sitting in the forest, away from the
anthills, until illumination comes, or until the god Brahma speaks to you or
appears to you in a dream and tells you what the perfect day and time are to
start reading the Ramayana.
Of course, it is advisable that you take several picnic baskets (well stocked
with food and beverages, including McDonald's hamburgers and soft drinks from
Coca-Cola) as the ones that were used in the United States of America in the 1940s. If an apsara (or any
dressed or naked woman, by the way) approaches you, please ask her what she is
doing out there.
1.69. Confucius or Kung Fu-tzu, a Chinese philosopher (551 B.C.-479 B.C.),
you will have to travel to the Mexican port of Manzanillo, Colima, and at the
docks, while your containers that have arrived from Shanghai are being
unloaded, read any book of maxims written by this Chinese thinker.
1.70. Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (1884-1969),
you have to buy a bottle of Venezuelan white rum Canaima, some Cokes or Pepsis,
acquire the novel Canaima (1935), by Rómulo Gallegos, and also
buy the Mexican film in digital video disc (DVD) Canaima (the god of Evil) (1945), starring Jorge Negrete (a
macho charro in the role of Marco Vargas), Gloria Marín (Maigualida), Alfredo
Varela (Arteaga), Rosario Granados (Araceli Villorini), Carlos López Moctezuma
(Colonel José Francisco Ardavi), Andrés Soler (Count Giaffaro) Gilberto
Gonzalez (el Sute Cúpira), directed by Juan Bustillo Oro.
–Another character: Cholo Parima.
1.71. Fernando Benítez, a Mexican writer, editor, and anthropologist
(1912-2000),
you will have to walk along the hills and valleys of the Mexican tropics.
1.72. Alcides Arguedas, a Bolivian writer, politician and historian
(1879-1946),
you will have to belong to the Race
of bronze, id est, be a mestizo or an Amerindian, and sometimes show
resentment toward creoles and Spaniards, white people. If it happens that you
cannot read, look for an "audiobook".
1.73. Miguel Ángel Asturias, a Guatemalan writer and journalist (1899-1974),
you will have to go to Guatemala (Guate-bad), return to the country where you
live, and eat a lot of maize, as tortilla, corn, cornmeal, tamales, et cetera.
Then travel fantastically to the nonexistent country of Guatepeor (Guate-worse)
then laugh with an anecdote: at a meeting of literature, Asturias railed against a Spanish writer: your
ancestors came to plunder our continent, to submit ... indigenous peoples ...
The Spaniard replied "They were the ancestors of you, because mine stayed
in Spain". Asturias, the very
fool, got angry and said: "I am an Indian!, I am an Indian!", and the
Spaniard answered, "So, why do you dress as an European?" Asturias was wearing at the time, a long sleeve
shirt, suit and tie.
1.74. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian novelist and short story writer (1927
- ),
you will have to be a "radish" pseudo-leftist.
1.75. Andres Bello, a Venezuelan philologist, essayist, poet, translator and
philosopher (1781-1865),
you will have to show an interest in grammar, style and elegance.
1.76. Rufino José Cuervo, a Colombian philologist, humanist, and scholar
(1844-1911),
you will have to possess a genuine interest in grammar, and especially in what
in grammar is called government, or rection. His most important work was a Diccionario de construcción y
régimen de la lengua castellana (Dictionary
of Castilian language construction and rection).
1.77. Julio Casares, a Spanish writer,
lexicographer, lexicologist, philologist, linguist, translator, interpreter,
literary critic, academic, lawyer, diplomat and violinist (1877-1964), author
of numerous books, including the Diccionario
ideológico de la lengua española, desde la idea a la palabra, desde la palabra
a la idea (Ideological
Dictionary of the Spanish Language: from the idea to the word, from the word to
the idea).
you will have to show an interest in onomasiology.
1.78. Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, a Mexican poet, translator and classicist, born in
Córdoba (1923-1913),
you will have to drink several cups of coffee La Flor de Córdoba to not fall asleep, because
the books he translated from the Latin have so many pages.
1.79. Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist (1936- ),
you will have to be a rightist, even when walking down the sidewalk, and aspire
to become a full member of some Academy.
1.80. José Revueltas, a Mexican novelist, short story writer, playwright and
poet, born in the State of Durango (1914-1976),
you will have to get off the boat, sleep in land and be an anti-establishment,
bohemian and socialist one.
1.81. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American writer, essayist, philosopher and poet
(1803-1882),
you will have to compensate.
1.82. Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer, poet, and dramatist (1854-1900),
you will have to make an artist to paint an oil portrait of you.
1.83. John Steinbeck, an American author (1902-1968),
you will have to get on a bus and wait for the driver takes a wrong road.
1.84. Tennessee Williams, an American playwright (1911-1983),
you will have to travel to a city where there are still streetcars, and have
the desire to get on board one.
1.85. Sinclair Lewis, an American author, critic of the bourgeoisie
(1885-1951),
you will have to be a babbitt, id est, a businessman or a professional who
meets the standards prevailing in the upper middle class, with no social
conscience.
1.86. Upton Sinclair, an American writer (1878-1968),
you will have to eat a lot of beef hamburgers, T-bone, sirloin, beef steak, et
cetera.
1.87. Henry Ford, American an industrialist, anti-Jewish writer, author of the
book The International Jew (1863-1947),
you have to choose not to ignore that there has been a Jewish dominance in all
areas, economic, industrial, commercial, financial, political, technological,
scientific, intellectual, artistic, medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, et
cetera, worldwide, for centuries –exempli gratia, Bauer family; circa 1760,
Mayer Amschel Bauer changed his family name to: Rothschild ("Red
Shield" in German language), a powerful and influential dynasty of bankers
today; Warburg family, and Bernard Baruch, in the first half of the twentieth
century, and so on.
In January 2005, Prince Harry, grandson of Elizabeth II or Windsor, monarch of
the United Kingdom, caused a scandal
when using an armband with a swastika (a Nazi symbol) on his left arm, in a
costume party.
The coat of arms of his father, the Prince of Wales, Charles, at the bottom
holds a legend in German: Ich dien (I serve). The maternal grandparents of
prince consort Philip of Greece and Denmark, Duke
of Edinburgh, were from the German Battenberg family. He is a part of the House
of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
On July 17, 1917, the German family Battenberg changed his surname to an
Anglicized one: Mountbatten.
Prince Philip is the paternal grandfather of Prince Harry.
1.88. Mauricio Carlavilla, an Spanish policeman, ideologue, writer and editor,
anti-marxist, anti-anarchist and anti-Mason (1896-1982),
you will have to be interested to see or know about some unveiled secrets of
powerful groups worldwide.
1.89. Salvador Borrego Escalante, a Mexican writer and journalist (1915 - ),
you have to be aware that Jewish persons have managed and acquired immense
powers to dominate the world, but could not conquer it completely.
On Wednesday January 12, 2005, the then leader of the National Front,
"nationalist right-wing" or far right Jean-Marie Le Pen, was quoted
as saying the Nazi occupation of France "was not particularly inhumane,
even if there were blunders" , which caused a stir in that country.
Something similar to what Le Pen said, had been written and explained around
1953 by Salvador Borrego in a chapter of his book Derrota mundial (World Defeat),
prefaced by the Mexican intellectual, educator and politician José Vasconcelos
(1882-1959).
1.90. Ramiro Villaseñor y Villaseñor, a Mexican researcher and writer, born in Guadalajara (1911-1988),
you have to walk and walk the streets of the city where you live.
He published books including: Las
calles históricas de Guadalajara, The historic streets of Guadalajara and Epigrafía
del Panteón de Belén, Epigraphy about Belen Cemetery.
He left unpublished works, for example: Directorio
Cultural de las Calles de Guadalajara hasta 1980, Cultural Directory
of the Streets of Guadalajara until 1980, Haciendas y propiedades rurales de
Jalisco, Farms and rural properties in Jalisco, Guadalajara la buena y la mala,
Guadalajara, the good one and the bad one, Anuario
biográfico de Jalisco Biographical
Directory of Jalisco, Diccionario
biográfico de Jalisco, Jalisco Biographical Dictionary.
1.91. François Rabelais, a French writer (1494-1553),
you will have to eat in a pantagruelian way.
1.92. William Faulkner, an American author and poet (1897-1962),
you will have to create long names for non-existing places.
1.93. John Kenneth Galbraith, a Canadian-born American economist (1908-2006),
you will have to be critical of American liberalism, a Keynesian and
iconoclastic.
1.94. Richard Buckminster Fuller, an American designer, engineer and inventor
(1895-1983),
you will have to know that he invented the geodesic dome by using hexagons and
pentagons, and that there are forms of carbon called fullerenes (one of them,
buckminsterfullerene), besides graphite, diamond and graphene.
1.95. Melvil Dewey, an American librarian (1851-1931),
you will have to show an interest in the bibliotheconomy and in the Dewey
Decimal Classification (DDC), patented by him in 1876.
1.96. Marcial Lafuente Estefanía
(Toledo, 1903-Madrid, 1984), Spanish creator of American Westerns Estafanía
(Stephanie), printed by Ediciones Cíes, S.L, Calle Málaga 4, El Campello,
Alicante. And/or: comic books called Red Ryder, Hopalong Cassidy,
Gene Autry (he existed in the real life), Roy Rogers (he existed in the real
life), The Lone Ranger, the Mexican comic book El Libro Vaquero (The Cowboy
Book), or watch on television series like Gunsmoke (CBS,* 1955-1975), Laramie
(NBC,** 1959-1963), Bonanza (NBC, 1959-1973), a series in which the Cartwright
family owned the farm The Ponderosa, in the State of Nevada: Ben Cartwright and
his sons, Adam, Eric "Hoss", and Joseph "Little Joe"), The
High Chaparral (NBC, 1967-1971), televised advertisements (in Mexico) of
Marlboro cigarettes, which portrayed the “Marlboro cowboy”.
you will have to show a lot of fondness for westerns, Wild West or Far West,
and adventures of cowboys.
* Columbia Broadcasting System, Columbia Broadcasting System.
** National Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company.
1.97. Read lying in the bed
you must have a good pillow, and sometimes hold the book inverted,
1.98. Read on the beach
you will have to sit in the shade, and drink a beer or two, preferably Corona or Miller, ah, and you have to know
how to read the sea, too.
1.99. Read other people's minds,
you must have supernormal powers.
1,100. Read people's faces,
you will have to learn this from a Chinese teacher.
1.101. Read fine print
sometimes you will have to wear glasses, lenses or a magnifying glass.
1.102. Read the heart of a woman,
you will have to know how to give her the truest love
That was, supposedly, a mini paraphrase of a part of the lyrics of a song called
"There's a place in the world for a gambler".
This part says: "There's a song in the heart of a woman, That only the
truest of loves can release.".
The song, written and performed by the American
soft rocker and country musician Dan Fogelberg (Peoria, Illinois, 1951, Deer
Isle, Maine, 2007), was used as background music in televised transmissions of
the XII Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, from the 4th to the 15th day of February,
1976, maybe it was selected due to another part of the lyrics, just the part that
gives title to the song, and says: "There's a place in the world for a
gambler ..."
1.103. Read yourself,
this is the most difficult thing to do.
"Fighting against oneself is the most difficult battle and, along with it,
to conquer oneself is the biggest win."
–Pedro Calderon de la Barca, a Spanish baroque
writer of the Golden Age (1600-1681).
About this paper:
Where: Guadalajara,
Gvadalaxara or ... Arriaca, Jalisco (or Sancta Provincia de Xalisco), Mexico.
When: year of Our Lord 2013.
What: juxtaposed information about famous people who wrote books, essays,
poems, novels, scientific treatises, quotes, et cetera.
.
How: through a blog. In Castilian or Spanish, and perhaps also in: Latin,
Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Galician,
Swedish, Greek and Russian.
Why: entertainment, disclosure and perhaps recombination of data, information
or knowledge, which may be true, useful, false, implausible, useless, and / or
time-wasting to the readers.
Who: Alejandro Ochoa G., former proofreader (in Spanish only); English-Spanish
translator, bureaucrat (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1958 - ).
