The military regime banned long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, new math and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in ancient greek.

Z ★★★★½

Juegos de guerra en el trabajo en los que me niego a participar · Aunque tiene un poso triste, me gustaron mucho los Daguerréotypes de Varda que nos pusimos esta noche para cenar. Mientras la veía no dejaba de pensar en otro fantástico retrato urbano: Souvenirs de Madrid. Documental que, por cierto, se puede ver aquí por la cara.

“Try to imagine a culture where arguments are not viewed in terms of war, where no one wins or loses, where there is no sense of attacking or defending, gaining or losing ground. Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way. In such a culture, people would view arguments differently, experience them differently, carry them out differently, and talk about them differently. But we would probably not view them as arguing at all: they would simply be doing something different. It would seem strange even to call what they were doing ‘arguing’.”

“Metaphors We Live By”, George Lakoff y Mark Johnson