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- Book review: The Notebook by Agota Kristof I’m Reading a book called The Notebook (El Gran Cuaderno, Spanish title). I started last night and gave it up when I got half way through. At that time I was very tired, and this book deserves to be read paying full attention. I went to bed really stunned by the theme. The story is about the cruelty and is writing in a literary way. It’s by someone called Agota Kristof. She was born in Hungary on October,1935. At 21 years old, she moved to Switzerland, where she started learning French and written novels in that language. The first one was the Notebook. It haven’t too much pages (ninety or so, depend on the kind of edition or the size of the words). It has had a great impact and has been translated into many languages. It’s taken part of a trilogy. It has been built adding very short tales (two page more o less each one), which is good to think and take a breath before going into the next one. It has a twin’s life in it. Both of the children look at the cruelty of the world and they try to protect themselves training into the bad with an unemotional look. The writing style is nude, accurate, without adjectives. You run into the story through short phrases made of the right words. No feelings on it, anyone is attempting to explain us what is happening, Things just happen and no one can understand why the cruelty is. I find the book devastating and the great beauty. I advise it for readers who like good literature.June 6, 201410
Hacer mandados
Yo suelo hacer mandados todos los días. Es muy escaso raro el día en que no siento el peso de las responsabilidades, el cual cargo que cargan sobre mis hombros. Hoy en día las personas son juzgadas por sus acciones, no por lo indirecto (?). Uno hace (a) para llegar a (b), y hay un resultado directo, comprobable por datos. De hecho, las compañías telefónicas saben donde estás en cualquier momento, por medio del sistema de GPS que todos tenemos instalados en nuestros móviles. Es decir, hasta hay huellas informáticas para verificar lo que has hecho hoy. Si no haces los mandados ¡te llamarán! Jaja, bueno, no sabemos cómo estos datos se utilizarán (suena mejor: como se utilizarán estos datos). Seguro que hay una suegra por ahí que quiere saber dónde y como navega por la vecindad su nuera con sus nietos. O quizá sea la novia que quiere saber dónde anda su novio cuando dice que trabaja las noches. Perdónenme por la digresión y los estereotipos (es más fácil hablar usando paradigmas comunes cuando se habla de un tema abstracto).
Si dejo de hacer mandados, ¿dejo de existir? En la juventud, una persona es juzgada por muchos factores, sin embargo, no hay tanto énfasis en logros materiales. Antes, calificabas como buena gente porque te gustaba tal tipo de música, o porque creías que la guerra era inútil (otra forma de decir lo mismo: antes calificabas como buena a la gente en función del tipo de música que le gustaba o de sus ideas pacifistas). Luego te vas dando cuenta de las innumerables matices que hay en la vida, y que las cosas no son tan simples. Todo tiene una nueva consideración. De cierta manera, la vida es mucho más interesante así. Hay que hacer estrategias nuevas continuamente. La vida se convierte en un juego. Es interesante, pero, recordemos que en un juego hay ganadores y perdedores. Toda esta estrategia nos puede alcanzar al egoísmo (supongo que quieres decir, hacer/volver egoistas, se alcanzan las metas, y el egoismo no es una meta que nos propongamos alcanzar) . Lo mejor, a veces, es portarse uno tal como es, a ver lo que pasa. Y después, dejar caer "the pieces where they may." Perdónenme por el uso del Spanglish, jaja. "Let the pieces fall where they may" es una expresión que usamos para indicar la resignación, un concepto prohibido en la época moderna... un concepto que me encanta.0 votedJune 3, 20141- Nigth and Stars (3) It poured all the night. The water was covering the floor. Both the bed and table look like fixed boats onto a lake. In the morning, when the rain stopped and we opened the door, we could see the people working, moving things around. The water rose up their knees. We stayed on the sidewalk looking at the flooding fields. We had to wait until the water level drops. It was so high that we were afraid of spending all the day there. But amazingly, in a few hours the floor was dry and we were able to leave the place.May 23, 201410
Duolingo: Más conjunctiones
Él duerme mientras yo cocino.
Ella bebe vino aunque no bebe cerveza.
Yo no puedo aunque quiero.
Él no bebe vino blanco cuando come pollo.
No veo hombres sino mujeres.
Él es un hombre como tú.
Si no cocino, no como.
Ella come pan cuando quiere.
No como pasta.
Si como no duermo.
Yo como cuando quiero.
Yo no quiero vino sino agua.
Hablo mientras como.
Él come pollo aunque no come pescado.
No puedo aunque quiero.¡Perfecto! Parece un poema.
0 votedMay 22, 20140- Night, stars and... Hi, Yesterday I wrote “put the package on the table”, sorry, I want to say the baggage. The room was too small. If we had left it on the floor, we would have jumped over it to go around the bed. I’m going to tell you why it was on the table, better than under. We had dinner into a circle of burning spirals to protect us from insects. The night was vibrant, and we stayed longer outside chatting, laughing and drinking some teas that our guide prepared in a ceremoniously way. The sky became dark. We couldn´t see the stars, not anymore. Suddenly a light flashed far away, after that, and strong and lazy noise (it took long time to sound) announced it was time to go bed. The storm was coming. Later everything happened very quickly. Before entering in the room, I felt a drop on my arm. Just after closing the door I could head the rain blowing the sidewalk beside the building. I was frightened lied on bed, thinking about lightning conductor, I knew that there was no one there, when I noticed the wet sheet. It was dropping in. The roof had more holes than the strainer used to the tea. To be continued Thank you for reading and correctingMay 21, 201420
- Night and stars Hi, It´s my second day and I’m just thinking about holidays. It doesn’t mean I want to leave Italki. The thing is that today I woke up remembering a strange night I lived in the middle of the nothing, felling the strong power of the nature. I was in Sub-Saharan Africa resting of my stressing working live. It was my first time out of Europe. We have been driving all the day by dusty trials. Before sunset we got accommodation in the only place you could find it in the surrounding. A row of rooms rised up the ground as a miracle. All of them have its own door and window. Indoor one bed for two people and one table to put the package on. Outdoor the night overfull of sparkling stars. Tomorrow I´ll tell you what happenedMay 20, 201440
