LA CIUDAD Constantino Cavafis Dices: «Iré a otra tierra, hacia otro mar, y una ciudad mejor con certeza hallaré. Pues cada esfuerzo mío está aquí condenado, y muere mi corazón lo mismo que mis pensamientos en esta desolada languidez. 1/3
Giedre Pavalkyte
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Literature. Writing. Music. Languages. Photography. Nature. Cofounder of The Write Salon literary nonprofit. Cofounder of @lib-parenthesis.bsky.social, a new bilingual bookshop in Madrid. She/her.
"To learn a foreign language is to create a new self, to discover a self that is unknown to you." - Yoko Tawada, Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Me hace mucha ilusión este homenaje a Roberto Juarroz, uno de mis poetas favoritos. ¡Nos vemos el viernes!
Librería parent(h)esis@lib-parenthesis.bsky.social · 2mo agoEl viernes, 3 de julio, a las 19:30 celebraremos el centenario de Roberto Juarroz junto a Jaime Correas, autor de "Roberto Juarroz: La palabra necesaria" y el periodista y escritor Juan Cruz. Nos vemos en Parent(h)esis (c/ Valencia 30). lapalabranecesaria.eventbrite.com #robertojuarroz
"Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future." - Sylvia Plath
"To drill one hole after another into it [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through — I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer." - Samuel Beckett
"Me asombra la poca cuenta que me daba de que cada presente, una vez pasado, me dejaba un bagaje para el futuro. En el después ya no importaba nada la diferenciación entre pasado y presente." - Herta Müller
“…todo relato surge de suspender una exclamación de horror o de maravilla, y ahí, en el claro momentáneamente abierto por la ausencia del grito o del llanto, deslizar unas palabras antes de que se extinga la expectación general.” - Fabio Morábito, Un idioma materno
«Alegría de escribir. Poder de eternizar. Venganza de una mano mortal». Wislawa Szymborska es la autora del mes en la librería Parent(h)esis de Madrid @lib-parenthesis.bsky.social. No os perdáis esta preciosa librería, que abrieron hace un año en Lavapiés @giedrep.bsky.social y Eitan Felner.
Queremos programar actividades por toda España, en solitario o en colaboración con otras entidades. ¿Nos ayudas?
“Maybe this is the truly weightless time, after the front page loses interest but before the history books arrive.” - Omar El Akkad, “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”
No te pierdas nuestras próximas actividades: un conversatorio sobre Georgia O’Keeffe, un encuentro con la autora Vanessa Fabiano (en inglés), el club de lectura de #librosincómodos (en español e inglés), un taller de escritura con la autora María Ovelar y mucho más. linktr.ee/libreriaparenthesis
#PoemOfTheDay XVII Hugo Mujica Animal herido nace el hombre cojeando entre lo que es y el no serlo nunca del todo; bastaría no quererlo todo, bastaría hacer casa en la herida que somos.
A coincidence or do bookstore spiders know how to read… spiderwebs?
“I know now, what I didn't then, that affection can't always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.” - Magda Szabó, “The Door”
I had to read some of it twice, and it still reads like bad joke, only it’s not.
NPR@npr.org · 12mo agoThe digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.
Called my parents in Lithuania about the dates of a potential visit. Dad texts me saying they are in class. A few hours later we confirm the trip and I ask him what class it was. “One where they tell you how to prepare your backpack for emergency.” Yes, emergency=war, in case of doubts. They are 70.
The intensity, the brilliance. “I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.” - Sylvia Plath, 1951 (she was 18)
“One of the many secrets to writing is paying attention to the small things in life. Making the micro macro.” - Andrew Miller
A friend working in a national park in Lithuania shared this note with me, written in a guest book by visitors from Spain… “Visitors from Baeza, Jaen, in the Baltic countries, wish you a prompt integration into the USSR.” A tastless joke or…?
“The word 'freedom' gives rise to an important enticement, perhaps the most important enticement that can be expressed. We always wish to get away, and when there is no name for where we want to get to, when we do not know and there is no border in between, then we call it 'freedom'.” Elias Canetti
In case you had doubts about ChatGPT getting dumber.. got this comment today on a text that mentioned Saturday, July 26th. “Just one small detail: "Saturday 26/07" should be "Saturday 26/07" only if July 26 actually falls on a Saturday. But in 2025, July 26 is a Saturday, so you're good!”
“I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor.” Jia Tolentino writes about how the internet broke her brain.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
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For a happy several decades I seriously believed that ours were better times than ever.. www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...
Lavrov’s foreword to false Lithuanian history: it's a warning sign, says Swedish analyst
A newly published book in Russia distorting the history of Lithuania – complete with a foreword by Foreign Minister Serg...
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#poemoftheday #poemadeldia INVOCACIÓN Raquel Lanseros Que no crezca jamás en mis entrañas esa calma aparente llamada escepticismo. Huya yo del resabio, del cinismo, de la imparcialidad de hombros encogidos. Crea yo siempre en la vida crea yo siempre en las mil infinitas posibilidades.