Archive for June, 2009

We have to take risks. We can only truly understand the miracle of life when we let the unexpected manifest itself. Every day — together with the sun — God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day we try to pretend that we don’t [...]


Recently I read an interesting polemic article in the American newspaper New York Times (25/03/2008). Written by Natalie Angier, the text is based on the research of prominent biologists and psychologists concerning monogamy. The conclusion that they reach is impressive: conjugal infidelity is present throughout the animal kingdom. And that’s not all: studies have shown [...]


Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this column. I do talk a lot — mostly about my questionings in the imaginary world. They insist: “but what’s your life like?” Well, then, for a whole week I went out with a notebook and jotted down more or less what [...]


How the city was pacified An old legend tells of how a certain city in the Pyrenees mountains used to be a stronghold for drug-traffickers, smugglers and exiles. The worst of them all, an Arab called Ahab, was converted by a local monk, Savin, and decided that things could not continue like that. As he [...]


nymph

I am a river sailing turning you into nymph with passionate tectonic balconies radiance of anguished lover by gulls in the sand unveil the path as the seer body of light curves your gentle lines, white hands sin the lust of black fields the youth of sculpture and the ecstasy reveals all of winepresses and [...]


aegean lamentations( a notebook)

  THURSDAY stolen soul fragments  grapes and figs seaweed beds and sails linear secrets snake skins  dressed you with silver and lace   stolen touch opium of lovers dream-light eyes moon-shadow smiles erotic ecstasy in the golden isles   i slept with you in velvet grass and love was born forever then       [...]