Memorial de Walter Benjamin en Portbou. (Created by Israeli artist Dani Karavan, the memorial to Walter Benjamin is on a clifftop by Portbou’s municipal cemetery. It was named “Passages” in remembrance of Benjamin’s final passage from France to Spain, as well as his enormous unfinished work Passagenwerk (Arcades Project) on 19th-century Paris.)
UBI SUNT? (II) (5-08-2012?; 26-09-1940): LET THEM EAT CAOS
"What Are Years": "how does this poem be?"
What Are Years
What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe. And whence
is courage: the unanswered question,
the resolute doubt, —
dumbly calling, deafly listening—that
in misfortune, even death,
encourage others
and in its defeat, stirs
the soul to be strong? He
sees deep and is glad, who
accedes to mortality
and in his imprisonment rises
upon himself as
the sea in a chasm, struggling to be
free and unable to be,
in its surrendering
finds its continuing.
So he who strongly feels,
behaves. The very bird,
grown taller as he sings, steels
his form straight up. Though he is captive,
his mighty singing
says, satisfaction is a lowly
thing, how pure a thing is joy.
This is mortality,
this is eternity.
Marianne Moore
Hoy abundan todavía más los brillantes políticos y todos sus oradores y escritores declamando sobre la guerra y el rearme, entendiendo por ambos el mantenimiento indefinido del statu quo en beneficio exclusivo de las élites beneficiarias de la paz y la guerra internacionales
— Guillermo Ruiz Zapatero (@ruiz_zapatero) June 16, 2025