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Monday, October 09, 2023

SEGUNDA CONTESTACIÓN "TARDÍA" (CON "TINTES OTOÑALES") A UNA CARTA DEL 15-08-1975 (28-08-2023+9-10-2023)

 
¿POR QUÉ ES TAN DIFÍCIL APRENDER LO MÁS SENCILLO? 

NINGUNA CONTESTACIÓN ES TARDÍA 

PUEDES TRADUCIR UN POEMA CINCUENTA O CIEN O MIL AÑOS DESPUÉS 

SI DECIDES DECIR MÁS 

SI NO RESUELVES NO DECIR NADA MÁS

 
 

CONTESTAS TARDÍAMENTE AQUÍ CON LA TRADUCCIÓN DEL ÚLTIMO POEMA DE THOMAS HARDY 


DECIDE NO DECIR NADA MÁS

¡Alma mía, mantén el resto desconocido!

Es también como un sonido que gime

Cuando la cámara ocular

Del Caballo Pálido ha anochecido

¡Sí, nadie recogerá lo que oculto!

 

Por qué cargar las mentes de los hombres con más peso

¿No ayuda ya tal peso a evitar más?

Desde ahora siempre

Hasta mi último día

Lo que discierna no diré

 

Deja que el tiempo retroceda si quiere;

(Los Magos que conducen la pluma de la noche

Con cerebro brillante

También lo pueden ver)

Lo que he aprendido nadie lo sabrá

 

Y si mi visión llega más allá

De la cegada imagen de otras almas

-liberada por la verdad-

Dejaré que sea

Y no mostraré a nadie lo que veo

TH 

 Hardy aimed for Winter Words to be published on his eighty-eighth birthday in June 1928, although the ellipses from the manuscript that remain in the published forward suggest that he considered a publication on his eighty-ninth or even ninetieth a hopeful possibility.  However, he feel ill in December 1927, although he continued working on the collection, completing ‘Christmas in the Elgin Room’ for publication on Christmas Eve in The Times and adding a final work, ‘He Resolves to Say No More’ (‘I’ll let all be./And show to no man what I see.’) Taken ill with a failing heart, he died on 11 January 1928.

 Winter Words has now been digitised and can be read online via Digital Bodleian.

A stray, ‘He resolves to say no more’, arrived via Hardy’s daughter in the 1950s, and the College arranged for the collection then to be bound at the Bodleian in black leather, with gold tooling and green marbling

 


 

"La visión que llega más allá, que dejamos que sea y que ya no mostramos más" nos obliga, mientras tanto, a decir. ¿Es este el significado de la "resolución" de Hardy"?

Por eso Merwin escribió la elegía más corta:

ELEGÍA/ELEGY

A QUIÉN SE LO MOSTRARÉ

WHO WOULD I SHOW IT TO

 

Este festival de Octubre no cuesta ninguna pólvora, ni llamada de campanas, sino que cada árbol es un estandarte de libertad viva en el cual ondean un millar de brillantes banderas.


HDT (Tintes Otoñales, traducción de Guillermo Ruiz)

 



 

Saturday, October 07, 2023

LAS VIAS Y LOS TRENES SOBRE NOSOTROS DURMIENTES ((II) HEGEL Y RICHARD HOLBROOKE)

“At the end was the european who lost the last two worldwide wars. Should her bear the inverse fate of a mythic character: Saturn devoured by their sons?” Ernst Jünger (“El nudo gordiano” (1953), página 145.Translated from Spanish 

 For now, it looks like the US is being forced to choose between Ukraine and Israel. The UK still wants both conflicts and Europe just wants the US to die. The feeling is mutual in D.C. towards Brussels. If you can’t see that at this point, I can’t help you. 

Watch Russia’s response here as everything that has unfolded so far breaks in their favor with higher oil prices, Arab solidarity with the Palestinians, and real fracturing in Europe over continuing Project Ukraine. 

Unfortunately, for Israel, they have no good options here, and that means they will likely do what is ultimately in their best interests despite the wider consequences. 

I would continue to advise being short Europe as Belgium made the insane error to steal the frozen Russian foreign exchange reserves and hand them to Ukraine. This was a clear provocation by the EU telling Russia there will be no peace between them in the future. 

 By doing this it ends any illusions that we can return to the pre-war state of international finance. Trust will have to be restored in the global system. If any countries in the EU follow Belgium’s lead, and I expect that they will, it will stop dead cold all foreign investment into the EU, ensuring a complete collapse of their stock and bond markets beginning next year. 

In this case I’m talking about the hectoring bunch of virtue signaling fools running the European Union. They are all in Israel this weekend to pledge their support for Israel goading them to go to full war with the entire Arab world. 

The reason they are doing this is to force the US to fight that war for Israel, the same way their anti-diplomacy picked the fight with Russia over Ukraine. Notice how the US didn’t, in the end, commit fully to Ukraine. What happens if they don’t fully commit to Israel? 

What happens to Europe at that point? How many friends do you think they have left? The short answer is none. So, a sovereign debt crisis in Europe thanks to political fallout from ruinous foreign and monetary policy. Gold goes to new highs, if not extreme highs. Oil explodes on tightened supply from OPEC+ as a response to European mendacity, inflation returns with a vengeance, forcing interest rates even higher. 

 Commercial debt markets seize up and we have a real global crisis. There will be a margin call on the entire global Ponzi scheme. And I hate to break it to everyone, but the US is the biggest of the Ponzi schemes and the Fed has both the liquidity ($1.1 trillion in reverse repos) and the collateral (US Treasuries on its balance sheet) to provide the US banking system (not the world, this time!) whatever it needs to muddle through.

 Let’s Look at the Financial Flight to Quality from Israel/Hamas TOM LUONGO

Friday, October 06, 2023

LAS VIAS Y LOS TRENES SOBRE NOSOTROS DURMIENTES ((I)VICTOR DAVID HANSON, WENDELL BERRY Y THOREAU)

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

"We're In The Middle Of A Revolution" - VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Warns: "The Next 12 Months Will Be The Most Explosive In History"

INDICT ONE-AND ALL ? (VICTOR DAVIS HANSON)

 

Historian Victor Davis Hanson sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss his perspective on the current political climate in the US, asserting that American liberalism is characterized by dishonesty, and warning about what he sees as liberal efforts to introduce a highly intolerant age.

"It's hard for most Americans to comprehend the total dishonesty of American liberalism."

VDH says Trump represents a significant threat to the specific vision held by liberals, who are employing a "critical legal theory," in which traditional moral values are abandoned in favor of whatever gains power.

 

 

Hanson emphasizes that the traditional boundaries and norms are being renegotiated, from the Senate filibuster and the Electoral College to societal understandings of gender and language, raising concerns that:

"We're in the middle of a cultural, economic, political revolution," but "we think that we’re still playing within the same sidelines or parameters, and we’re not. Everything’s under negotiation.”

Hanson argues that the legal actions against Trump are politically motivated and biased and designed to send a message to the half of America that will not simple 'comply':

“The idea is now that we now have the power to do this, and because we have the power to do it, it’s moral and right, and if you don’t like it, what are you doing to do about it?”

Finally, Hanson issues a call to action of sorts, noting that “There are legitimate efforts to rectify and stop this madness and let’s see what happens in 2024."

"You need leaders who will tell people we are in a Jacobin takeover of this country, and the old get along at any cost does not work,” Hanson said.

"I hope everybody can keep their head because I think the next 12 to 18 months are going to be the most explosive in our history since the Great Depression."

 

 

 

EL PADRINO (CONSPIRANOICO: LEY Nº 19) Y CAT STEVENS ("O Cáritas")


LEY Nº 19: CUANDO UN ACCIDENTE SE REPITE, ES MEJOR SER SUPERSTICIOSO


"Pero quiero que sepan que entre mis defectos se cuenta el de ser un hombre supersticioso. Es ridículo, lo sé, pero no puedo evitarlo. Y si ..., mi superstición me haría creer que ello se habría debido a la mala voluntad de alguno o algunos de los aquí presentes. Quiero decirles más; si ...mi ridícula superstición me hará creer  que la culpa la tienen ustedes. Esa mala voluntad, esa mala suerte, no podría perdonarla jamás"

 

 

Monday, October 02, 2023

2-10-2023: SAN SATURIO (SORIA)Y LA GENTUALLA DE TOLEDO

Sunday, October 01, 2023

BUFFET, MUSK, ZELENSKI Y FRIEDRICH ENGELS (EL PRIMER MILLÓN DE DÓLARES)

 

EN LA LAGUNA DEL REY (RUIDERA) CON DON QUIJOTE, LORD BYRON Y LA ESCRITURA DEL AGUA (Febrero 1972+16-09-2023)

 

En el mar interior verde sedoso de la Lagunas de Ruidera, nadado en el Campeonato de Castilla-La Mancha Open (Aguas Abiertas)

De Carlos Bousoño:

Poeta en un abordaje con el mar en calma (siglo xvi)

La vida, el mar, tumulto y honda seda inmóvil (Cervantes)

Guerreaste en mar sedoso,

Te hiciste, te rehiciste,

Te creciste en el acoso,

Y, al luchar, te malheriste.

Y luego, ¿qué es lo que queda?

En la memoria cruel

del lector, el verso aquel

Que hablaba de aquella seda…

 

¿Quién dejará, del verde prado umbroso,
las frescas yerbas y las frescas fuentes?
¿Quién, de seguir con pasos diligentes
la suelta liebre o jabalí cerdoso?

¿Quién, con el son amigo y sonoroso,
no detendrá las aves inocentes?
¿Quién, en las horas de la siesta, ardientes,
no buscará en las selvas el reposo,

por seguir los incendios, los temores,
los celos, iras, rabias, muertes, penas
del falso amor que tanto aflige al mundo?

Del campo son y han sido mis amores,
rosas son y jazmines mis cadenas,
libre nací, y en libertad me fundo.

autógrafo
 La Galatea (1583) (Soneto)  

La vida que no hemos vivido existe. Pero no la podemos honrar. Solo podemos honrar la que hemos vivido. Con la que vivimos todavía

THERE IS PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS;
THERE IS RAPTURE IN THE LONELY SHORE;
THERE IS SOCIETY, WHERE NONE INTRUDES,
BY THE DEEP SEA, ANS MUSIC IN ITS ROAR:
I LOVE NOT MAN THE LESS, BUT NATURE MORE

LORD BYRON

Lord Byron cruzó los Dardanelos a nado el 3 de mayo de 1810 ( "El fantasma del monje negro" en Libro de Réquiems (Mauricio Wiesenthal), página 560)

Byron was an accomplished – and proud – swimmer. The club foot which prevented him from succeeding at most sports was no handicap in the water. This particular feat was also mentioned in Canto II of Don Juan, and in an entertaining letter to his friend, Henry Drury. Byron told Drury that the swim took an hour and ten minutes.

If, in the month of dark December,
Leander, who was nightly wont
(What maid will not the tale remember?)
To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont!

If, when the wintry tempest roar’d,
He sped to Hero, nothing loth,
And thus of old thy current pour’d,
Fair Venus! how I pity both!
For me, degenerate modern wretch,
Though in the genial month of May,
My dripping limbs I faintly stretch,
And think I’ve done a feat to-day.
But since he cross’d the rapid tide,
According to the doubtful story,
To woo,—and—Lord knows what beside,
And swam for Love, as I for Glory;
’Twere hard to say who fared the best:
Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drown’d, and I’ve the ague. 

 

¡Si en el mes del negro diciembre
Leandro fue requerido cada noche
(¿Qué doncella no recordará la escena?)
Para cruzar tu corriente, ancho Helesponto!

Si cuando la ventosa tempestad rugió
Se apresuró hacia Hero, nada involuntario,
Y así tu vieja corriente atravesó
¡Justa Venus, cómo yo pobre por partida doble!
Moderno y degenerado miserable,
en el propicio mes de mayo,
Mis brazos chorreantes débilmente extiendo,
Y pienso que he hecho una gesta hoy

Puesto que el cruzó la rápida corriente,
Según la historia dudosa,
Para cortejar, y Dios sabe qué más,
Y nadó por Amor, como yo por Gloria
Sería difícil decir quién fue el mejor

¡Pobres Mortales! Porque los Dioses todavía os perturban con sus demandas
El perdió su trabajo, yo mi entretenimiento:
El se ahogó y yo tengo las fiebres

Lord Byron, Canto II of Don Juan
 


 

 
 
 Ni vientos adversos ni mares furiosos podrán jamás parar a aquel a quien Amor ordena

(Ovidio)