I like to read Borges. A few days ago I heard a CD with his voice and a beautiful text entitled "Borges and I" . He knew, but hearing was different. As is my custom I stayed with a sentence with a small piece of his prose, which in my 'humble opinion' is the most beautiful of the text. It may not be the smartest or most successful or the most sensible, but I was beautiful.
"I like hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typography, the etymologies, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson
to me something like that happens, I also like the hourglass almost as much as I dislike other , these digital, with Roman numerals and sticks that show so unbearable as life goes on. I like hourglasses because they happen over time with different rhythm, occurs otherwise the five minutes are a magical hourglass. Similarly
I like maps . I've always liked. When small, while watching, travel drew in my head, dropped my index finger on some land and began to walk. Then went to a book to browse over there. The larger maps have been of great help to know the geography of 'things and the people. " I learned that great love build their own maps.
In the seventeenth century typography excuse me, I can not say much. However, more than anything I can say about the seventeenth paleography, although this has not been like Borges. Hours of hours of reading files epistolary, judicial and notary in the body. XVII know the script I take great pleasure, learning to read these texts, deciphered, revealing the spirit of the letter, giving life to a few stories forgotten.
For its part, the etymology excites me. Should be for that curious streak in me, something of a taste for history in the veins, do not know. That's around for the origin of words, meaning and forma-, me parece genial. Un ejemplo muy bonito es el origen de la palabra café que viene del árabe ‘qahwah’ que significa estimulante. La palabra se dio un paseo por el imperio turco convirtiéndose en ‘kahveh’, para llegar a Italia donde terminó llamándose ‘caffé’. Cómo me gusta la palabra, su sonido y por cierto el aroma a café.
De Stevenson he leído un par de obras, la gran mayoría alusivas a sus maravillosos viajes. “La Isla del Tesoro”, un clásico de literatura juvenil; “El extraño caso del Doctor Jeckyll y Mr. Hyde” que, según dicen los entendidos, es una de sus obras más famous, is a novel rather short, medium akin to the tale, where good and evil seem to meet in a single character.
I leave you now, as I contemplate the purchase hourglass, with the map open wide, evoking ancient Castilian my readings, investigating the origin of the words lost and having at least a couple of readings pending Stevenson, "The Devil in the Bottle" and a beautiful selection of poems. And all I have to admit, thanks to Borges.
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