https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8sAf_qBtw
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Window
The central chapter was about a formal ball.
Millions of interactions happened. The chapter is 100 pages long.
Well, 99. If each page is calculated as consisting of 392 words.
There is one very important chapter left to write. I already have the structure, the first draft. But there is a transition chapter that must come first (unwritten). And a side chapter that is almost completely written (events that run parallel to the major chapter). Finally I'll have to write a final brief chapter that ends the entire blockbuster.
This novel has already changed me. I had no idea it was possible to write such a story. It's my War and Peace.
Since April of this year I have been writing everyday. Even if it was just tweaking (which is endless), going back to previous pages and adding or polishing.
I've changed the Title. It's more poetic now.
Just two words.
Top Secret.
(No, that's not it, hahahaha.)
In my book of poems, Torbellinos en lo claroscuro (Whirlwinds in the Half-Light), in a poem entitled Aphorisms, it says: "I write because my life depends on it".
Working on my novel has kept me sane and I go to bed every night, happy.
It's my window on the marvelous world of the mind's creation. Oh enthralling paradox: It is my daily life of unremitting solitude, advancing decadence (I mean in the sense of physical decrepitude, old age), the broken dreams and failures that put paid to every material project I ever dreamt of achieving ... being a LOSER pushed me to my own SEIN u. DASEIN.
What that is, God and my angels know.
I'm a writer of fiction. I say it now with 100% ownership.
Emotional _and_ psychological truth.
Friday, July 04, 2025
LISTEN TO THE SILENCED
You can watch the docu here, it's from Del Bigtree, The Highwire, wonderful people:
AND:
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
WHO WERE THE BEAT GENERATION?
Watch it.
You'll see how the system commodified what it feared: the power of youth to change the world.
I learned that "Beatnik" was coined by the media; it had connotations of disparagement.
In Manila, the beatniks didn't exert any influence on Filipino culture, because deep, hard U.S. culture never reached us. The civil rights movement, MLK, Malcolm X did not break through the mainstream media filters. Elvis did. The Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwxf3Crrcw
SO THE VIBE WENT FROM CAFE GATHERINGS
AND THE GREENWICH VILLAGE SCENE
TO THE COMMODIFICATION
FACT: The Beat Generation birthed the Counterculture.
Really interesting how central music (jazz and folk) was to the Beat Generation, just as it was to the hippie movement (rock), because the hippies were the children of the beat generation.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
EMILY DICKINSON, MARY SHELLEY, ANNIE ERNAUX
The world of writers. I love to watch videos of writers talking about their creative worlds.
Also videos of academics who are experts in literature, such as one I just saw on Mary Shelley's classic, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.
And I learned about Annie Ernaux, French writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2022. Fascinating woman.
I also saw an interview with Nora Ephron, author of Heartburn and screenplays such as When Harry Met Sally.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
GLAD I'M ME regardless -- RANT --
Just sent this e-mail to my beloved youngest brother.
I'm recovering from flu. Second week, but I'm just a human fire hydrant of mucous, it's cleaning out my system.
There's just the little detail of kerosene poisoning.
(Explained below... I use kerosene heaters and it's autumn - winter in Chile.)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Pure Beauty - Maison
I've just discovered this poignant song, sung by a beautiful young girl, accompanied on the piano by a wonderful pianist, both of them I believe are French.
Pure poetry.
Emilio
Piano ft. Lucie - Maison
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fyI3M65ypko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLrCWCv38Y
Lyrics in French with video window:
https://www.letras.com/emilio-piano/maison-part-lucie/
Où va-t-on? Est-ce qu’un jour on sait vraiment? Au-delà Où va-t-il? Pourquoi le monde semble si grand
Au-delà
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Where do we go? When you no longer have a home? Flowers under concrete Mom, tell me, where are we going? Do we ever really know? Or do we pretend all the time? Where does the heart go when it's lost? In doubts and winters? Why do the days look the same? Do we end up seeing what we put together? Mom, tell me Beyond the storm there is love, love, love When the sky opens up All is calm And all is well Where does it go? Happiness, that fragile thread When it wavers and breaks Mama, tell me, where's it going? Why does the world seem so big When you get a little bigger than before? What happens to the dreams that vanish? And the memories we forget? Will I always have questions? Maybe I'll turn them into songs Mama, tell me Beyond the storm there is love, love, love When the sky opens up All is calm again And all is well |