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Entries from 2014-10-01 to 1 month

Museum conversation in the open air

"Did you know the color red is invisible under moonlight?" "No, I didn't. Did you know once the taraxacum blooms, its head dries out for a couple of days, its stamens fall, the bracts bend backwards, and its parachute ball opens into a ful…

Oath of eternal love (apropos of 'Mother Joan of the Angels')

Hey, would you marry me? How about a lifetime? You and me? Hm? Actually, God, give me eternal life. I'd strain spaghetti for Billy with a racquet every night, I'd stay at home, at the crime scene, with the Long Island skyline behind the gl…

Fly me to the drain

Pouring it down. Four floors above some tiny street of downtown Madrid. 1:50 p.m. A boat's cockpit, a few windowed square meters that the landlord stole from the terrace, that's the kitchen there (or what my roommates call a testing ground…

Real sights

A city made of nougat lying at my feet. I had never seen that place before, but a feeling of having dreamt of it was melting its corners like fondue. I had already tasted it, of course. Perhaps it was a forgotten dream, perhaps that's what…

Rosa's revelations attack again

"It doesn't matter what your job's all about, you'll end up alienated." "Oh, c'mon." "You can turn your head, you can live with your back to reality Carmen, but trust me, this is for sure: the system leaves no escape, this show is meant to…

Prayer for those who don't need it

Blessed are those who saw the unscathed light, who woke up today and didn't raise the blinds because they had been up all night. Who left the place where the pain was, those who headed to it once, twice, too many times. Blessed are those w…