March 2006
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Me Encargaría De Que Fuera La Última Vez
Si tuviera que besarte me encargaría de que fuera la última vez. De hecho evitaría cualquier primera vez.1 I keep finding these words coming to mind lately. I’m not really sure why and, to be honest, I find it a little disturbing. María García-Puente : Vademecum Para La Vida : Bésame Mucho (Raquel)↩
An Irony
One’s sense of isolation increases with the number of people one knows.
Hybris
The Greek relationship with hybris — there is a thing we as modern Americans simply lack entirely. Caught up as it is with the conception of the deinos, this should come as no surprise. The sense of stepping beyond the bounds of safety and acceptable behavior, of leaping beyond sophrosyne, of daring what the Gods [...]
Political Correctness, n.
Combining La Rochefoucauld with Bierce, we get the following: Political correctness, n. An attempt at virtue made by the vicious so lacking in substance that it is itself a vice.
Love, n.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. [...]
Amid The Mountains
When in Austria last year, my love for mountains was born simply by being exposed to mountains for the first time in my life. Driving through California approaching San Diego has reawoken that love and reminded me that I need to spend more time among the mountains because they are among the most beautiful things [...]
A Beast Or A God
Who could endure solitude? to live among the enormity of nature where there is no one else? Anyone who, having felt this solitude even as a remote image for a day, believes himself truly capable of it seems slightly mad — if not fully mad. Men are not meant to be alone. Those who always [...]
Right In Front Of You
Not seeing what is in front of you — this is stupidity. The opposite — seeing more than is in front of you — is insanity — and for this reason insanity is so often coupled with intelligence. A world with too much meaning is preferible to a world with too little meaning.
Goodheartedness In Essentia
I won’t take a single smile for granted.1 With Honor : This Is Our Revenge : You Always Said↩
Death
I find myself thinking about death a great dealy lately. I think it started as a recurring theme of my thoughts after I realized that I am turning 25 in six months. 25 is an age I think I never really imagined reaching. I imagine getting old, but it’s indefinitely old — there’s never a [...]