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“If the mountains were paper and the oceans ink,/ If the stars were scribes, and all the world could think,/ Not all their words upon words, in the event, / Could come to the end of my love’s testament,” sang Jaroslav with the violin still at his chest, and I felt happy inside these songs (inside the glass cabin of these song) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and soul, where they dance in joy, jump into the Danube in despair, where love is still love and pain is pain, where values are not yet devastated; and it seemed to me that inside these song I was at home, that I derive from them, and if I had betrayed this home, I had only made it all the more my home; but I was equally aware that this home was not of this world, that what we were singing and playing were only memories, recollections, an imaginary preservation of something that no longer was, and I felt the ground of this home sinking under my feet, felt myself falling, clarinet in mouth, falling down into the depths of years, the depths of centuries, into fathomless depths (where love is love and pain is pain), and I told myself with astonishment that my only home was this descent, this searching, eager fall, and I abandoned myself to it and to my sweet vertigo.” —Milan Kundera, the Joke.
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♫ Timber Timbre - I Get Low ♫ → open.spotify.com
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BBC - Earth News - Barbary macaques recognise photos of their friends → news.bbc.co.uk

“Adult monkeys recognise photographs of their friends, according to scientists.”

News about monkeys are always good news.

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Cuando era un muchacho, me apasionaban los mapas. Podía pasar horas mirando Sudamérica, África o Australia inmerso en los placeres de la exploración. En aquella época quedaban muchos lugares desconocidos en la tierra, y cuando veía en un mapa alguno que pareciera particularmente atractivo (aunque todos lo parecen), ponía el dedo sobre él y decía: “Cuando sea mayor iré allí”. Recuerdo que el Polo Norte era uno de aquellos lugares. Bueno, aún no he estado allí y no voy a intentarlo ahora, ha perdido su encanto. Había otros lugares dispersos alrededor del Ecuador y en todas las latitudes de los dos hemisferios. He estado en algunos de ellos y… bueno, mejor no hablemos de eso. Pero quedaba uno todavía, el mayor, el más vacío por decirlo de algún modo, por el sentía un especial anhelo.

Es cierto que por entonces ya había dejado de ser un espacio en blanco. Desde mi infancia lo habían llenado ríos, lagos y nombres. Había dejado de ser un misterioso espacio en blanco, un parche blanco sobre el que un niño podía tejer magníficos sueños. Se había convertido en un lugar de tinieblas. Pero había en él un río particular, un río grande y poderoso, que aparecía en el mapa semejante a una inmensa serpiente desenrollada, con la cabeza en el mar, el cuerpo quieto curvándose sobre un vasto territorio y la cola perdida en las profundidades de la tierra. Y mientras observaba el mapa en un escaparate, me fascinó, como una serpiente fascinaría a un pájaro, a un pequeño e incauto pajarillo.

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—Joseph Conrad, En el Corazón de las Tinieblas.
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♫ Roy Orbison - In Dreams ♫ → open.spotify.com
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Kingsley's Crossing by Olivier Jobard on MediaStorm → mediastorm.com

“In the developed world, illegal immigration is a hotly debated political issue. From the eyes of the world’s very poor, it is an excruciating personal decision, made to make life a little bit better for one’s self and one’s family.


Kingsley is 23 years old, and lives in a two-room house with his parents and seven siblings in a West African coastal village in Cameroon. He is raised with an image of Europe as a kind of promised land: if he can only get there, life for himself and his family will improve.


Photojournalist Olivier Jobard introduces us to Kingsley as he makes the difficult decision to embark on his “mission,” and then accompanies him, documenting his perilous journey. Step by step, across desert and ocean, we come to see immigration through one man’s eyes, and learn the rewards — and the costs — of such a dream.”

Click the link to watch it.

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