Dean Stockwell

Lores del sith

Que peligroso; opinar con certeza, sin ningún lugar para la duda.
Peor aún creyendo tener la razón, dejando de ser opinión; convirtiéndose en declaración: en absoluto.

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Luis García, como por lo general, hace gala de sensatez:

Lecturas que no soportan atajos.

At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away.

“I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress.

“We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied.

The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end. The seats were for whites. The snack bar was for blacks. Another employee, a black woman who worked at the steam table, approached the students and tried to warn them away. “You’re acting stupid, ignorant!” she said. They didn’t move. Around five-thirty, the front doors to the store were locked. The four still didn’t move. Finally, they left by a side door. Outside, a small crowd had gathered, including a photographer from the Greensboro Record. “I’ll be back tomorrow with A. & T. College,” one of the students said.

By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. The men were dressed in suits and ties. The students had brought their schoolwork, and studied as they sat at the counter. On Wednesday, students from Greensboro’s “Negro” secondary school, Dudley High, joined in, and the number of protesters swelled to eighty. By Thursday, the protesters numbered three hundred, including three white women, from the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina. By Saturday, the sit-in had reached six hundred. People spilled out onto the street. White teen-agers waved Confederate flags. Someone threw a firecracker. At noon, the A. & T. football team arrived. “Here comes the wrecking crew,” one of the white students shouted.

By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The day after that, students at Fayetteville State Teachers College and at Johnson C. Smith College, in Charlotte, joined in, followed on Wednesday by students at St. Augustine’s College and Shaw University, in Raleigh. On Thursday and Friday, the protest crossed state lines, surfacing in Hampton and Portsmouth, Virginia, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee. By the end of the month, there were sit-ins throughout the South, as far west as Texas. “I asked every student I met what the first day of the sitdowns had been like on his campus,” the political theorist Michael Walzer wrote inDissent. “The answer was always the same: ‘It was like a fever. Everyone wanted to go.’ ” Some seventy thousand students eventually took part. Thousands were arrested and untold thousands more radicalized. These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.

Así comienza este artículo de Malcom Gladwell -de 5 hojas- en The New Yorker.

E en algún momento le dice a Shauna: "The guy has a website that gets a millon hits a day; he can sink a movie faster than Stephen Dorff".

Y hace ya tres años que salió Californication.

Contaba hoy Fernando Palomo que por Xavi, cuando Guardiola era titular en el Barcelona, preguntó el AC Milán. Que ofrecía cuatro veces lo que ganaba en el Barcelona, y que aparte claro, sería titular. El padre de Xavi le aconsejaba irse; que si no, se le iría la carrera siendo suplente de Pep.

Y decía también que cuando Guardiola vio a Iniesta jugar, le dijo a Xavi: "ése nos retirará a los dos".

Y contó, que un responsable de lo que se produce en La Masía, le dijo: "No nos preocupamos, Jonathan Dos Santos, es nuestro próximo Xavi".

Ofelia, por Ambulancia Limitada.

Aún hay vida en el corazón.
Tu estas cayendo; yo voy contigo.
Es mas fácil en la suave luz del trémulo, resplandor de las ventanas.

Y nena, quiero que conozcas a alguien,
cuando la conozcas, por favor, estate seria.
Ella cree que no importa si te portas familiar con sus hermanas,
y su enfermedad.

Odio la única cosa que necesito.
Solo no confío en ti por ahora.
Sobre las hojas en la tierra,
doy vueltas.

Voy tarde para cientos de cosas.
Las paredes son delgadas, pero un así no alcanzo a través de ellas.
Estoy persiguiendo dragones en la calle.
Mis ojos son débiles, y llenos de veneno.

Y nena, soy lo mejor que le podría pasar,
pasar a alguien.
Ahora hiervo desde dentro, echandolo hacia afuera,
alcanzando un costado de tus mejillas.

Odio la única cosa que necesito.
Solo no confío en ti por ahora.
Por las calles del pueblo,
doy la vuelta.

(Ophelia - Ambulance Ltd.)

Les flâneurs.

Para complementar la idea de Villoro, este poema de Vivian Abenshushan.