Cuentos de Terramar

Júntense una historia de fantasía única, unos estudios de animación maravillosos y una edición de lo más cuco y tendrá usted ante sí el próximo regalo de cumpleaños que pienso hacerme:

Evidentemnte, si alguno se adelante, yo encantado.

Hay puertas que no deberían abrirse

Es la adaptación de una hermosa y terrorífica novelita para niños de Neil Gaiman que no deberían leer los niños fácilmente impresionables.

Amor monstruoso (1)

The baby was a dear little thing. Sherilyn had an extraordinary pram cum buggy for her – I’d never seen anything like it. It was state of the art, all aerodynamic lines and huge plastic wheels and so silent they’d be on you before you realised they were there. It was dreadfully distracting – you were so busy admiring this expensive carriage, you had to remind yourself there was a real live baby in it. Mind you, she was so quiet and still she could have been make-believe, like the dolls they give little children in nativity plays in case they drop baby Jesus. I’d never subscribed to any religion, but after they found her I had this niggly question batting around in my mind: would it have made it any easier if I’d had a faith to cling on to? If I’d believed in all that nonsense, would the idea of a credible evil have helped? I didn’t think so. I’d always rather prided myself on never having slid into religious faith as insurance as I got older, so I wasn’t about to become a docile penitent, even in the face of this appalling tragedy.

(...)

Monster Love by Carol Topolski

La extraña enfermedad de Terry Pratchett

Leo en Boing Boing sobre la extraña enfermedad que sufre el escritor al que más he leído en el último lulstro, Terry Pratchett. Refieren una carta que ha enviado el creador de Mundodisco y en el que enfatiza que, pese a sufrir una extraña y temprana variante del Alzheimer, "no está muerto". Su mente sigue lúcida, como se puede leer en la carta remitida:

Folks,

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet :o)

Terry Pratchett

PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell. I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do", but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

Quiénes somos, dónde estamos

Diremos a modo de ejemplo que los humanos estamos en el dominio eucaria, en el reino de los animales, en el filum de los cordados, en el subfilum de los vertebrados, en la clase de los mamíferos, en el orden de los primates, en la familia de los homínidos, en el género Homo, en la especie sápiens.

Bill Bryson, Una breve historia de casi todo, página 430.

Ya lo tengo más claro.

Y tú, ¿quién eres? ¿Sabes en realidad dónde estás?

Resaca dominical

Así se llama la columna que semanalmente hace el inglés Warren Ellis en la imprescindible Suicide Girls. Son ideas deslavazadas, apuntes no más que emanan de un tipo que trabaja mogollón y casi siempre en su propio beneficio, que vive de contarle a los demás las locuras que se le ocurren. Siempre con un estilo violento, rompedor aunque no en exceso, y muy entretenido.

Y si te gustan las mujeres que ilustran la página, por una cantidad ridícula puedes tenerlas en tu ordenador. Y por algo más, a mano (o boca, eso ya va por gustos).

¿Lo encargo ya?

Dudo dudo. Creo que sí... Saldrá más barato, creo. Vamos. Que lo hago...


¡Hecho!

Crooked little vein

Ya falta menos. Exactamente...

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