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History The outcome of the captive soldier and died

Jorge Luis Borges story
This concludes my trilogy proposal for Engagement with Borges. Soon I'll be discussing some issues that I have marveled at this great writer.

On page 278 of Book Poetry (Bari, 1942), Croce, abbreviating a Latin text of the historian Paul the Deacon, tells the fate and the epitaph quoted Droctulft, they struck me singularly, then I understood why. Droctulft was a warrior in Lombard the siege of Ravenna left to their own and died defending the city had previously attacked. The Ravenna buried him in a temple and wrote an epitaph in which expressed their gratitude ("contempsit expensive, dum ille amat us, parent) and the peculiar contrast between the figure was warned that barbaric and heinous of its simplicity and goodness :
terribilis visu facies mind Benignus, robust Longaque
inspectors fuit beard!

Such is the story of the fate of Droctulft, barbarian who died defending Rome, and this is the excerpt from his story that could save Paul the Deacon. Not even know what time it happened: when the middle of the sixth century, when Lombard ravaged the plains of Italy, whether in the eighth, before the surrender of Ravenna. Suppose (this is not a historical work) first. Imagine
, sub specie aeternitatis to Droctulft, not the individual Droctulft, it certainly was unique and unfathomable (all individuals are), but the generic kind of him and many others like him have made the tradition, which is work of forgetting and memory. Through an obscure geography of forests and swamps, war was brought to Italy from the banks of the Danube and Elbe, and maybe did not know he was going south and may not know that war against the Roman name. Perhaps professed Arianism, which holds that the glory Son reflects the glory of the Father, but is consistent devotee imagine Earth, Hertha, whose idol was covered hut to hut in a cart pulled by cows, or the gods of war and thunder, which were clumsy wooden figures, wrapped in woven clothing and ornate coins and bangles. It came from the forests and wild boar inextricable uro; was white, cheerful, innocent, cruel, loyal to his captain and his tribe, not the universe. The wars you bring to Ravenna, and there is something that has never seen, or has not been fully. Go on and cypresses, and marble. See a set which is multiple without disorder, is a city, a body made of statues, temples, gardens, rooms, stands, vases, capitals, regular and open spaces. None of these plants (I know) is impressed by beautiful, as we now play it would play a complex machinery, designed to downplay, but guess whose design is an immortal intelligence. Maybe you just see a single arc, with an incomprehensible inscription in Roman letters eternal. Suddenly the blind and renews this revelation, the City. Knows that she will be a dog or a child, and not even begin to understand it, but he also knows that she is worth more than their gods and the oath and all the swamps of Germany. Droctulft abandon his own and fight for Ravenna. Dies and the burial recorded words that he had not understood:
Contempsit expensive, dum ille amat us, parentes,
patriam reputans Hanc esse, Ravenna, suam.
was not a traitor (the traitors do not usually inspire pious epitaphs), was a visionary, a convert. After a few generations the Lombards who blamed the defector came like him were Italians, Lombards and perhaps some of his blood-Aldíger-bred who could have fathered the Alighieri ... Many assumptions can be applied to the act of Droctulft, mine is the cheapest, if not true as fact, it will be a symbol.
When I read in the book of history Croce Warrior, it touched me in an unusual and it seemed to recover, in various forms, something that had been mine. Fleeting thought of the Mongol horsemen who wanted to make China an infinite pasture and then aged in the cities they had longed destroy the memory was not that I sought. Finally I found it was a story I heard once in my English grandmother, who has died.
Borges in 1872 my grandfather was head of the northern and western borders of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe Southern Command was in Junin beyond four or five miles of each other, the chain of forts, and beyond, what was then called the Pampa and Tierra Adentro. Sometime, between wonder and mocking, my grandmother said her destiny English banished to the end of the world, he said it was not the only and I said, months later, an Indian girl who slowly crossed the square. Wearing two red blankets and was barefoot, her tresses were blonde. One soldier told another British wanted to talk to her. The woman nodded, walked into the command without fear, but not without misgivings. In the copper face, daubed in fierce colors, the blue eyes were half-hearted that the English call gray. The body was light, like deer, hands, strong and bony. It came from the desert, Inland, and everything seemed to have outgrown: the doors walls, furniture.
Perhaps the two women felt for a moment sisters, were far from their island home and in an incredible country. My grandmother spelled out a question, the other replied with difficulty, looking for words and repeating them as amazed an ancient flavor. Fifteen years would not speak the native language and it was not easy to retrieve. He said he was from Yorkshire, which his parents emigrated to Buenos Aires, who had lost in a raid, who had led the Indians and was now the wife of a chieftain, who already had two children and was very brave. That I was saying in a rustic English, interspersed with Araucanian or plain, and behind the story is glimpsed a feral life: the horse-hide tents, the fires of dung, charred meat feast or raw viscera, the stealthy march at dawn, the assault of the pens, the howl and looting, war , the mighty herding farms by riders naked, polygamy, the stench and magic. At that barbarism had lowered an Englishwoman. Moved by the shame and scandal, my grandmother urged not to return. Swore to protect, vowed to rescue her children. The other replied that he was happy and turned that night into the desert. Francisco Borges died soon after the revolution of 74, perhaps my grandmother, then, could perceive in the other woman also washed away and transformed by the implacable continent, a monstrous mirror their destiny ...
Each year, the blonde used to come to India from shops on Junin, or Fort Lavalle, in search of trinkets and "services" did not appear, from the conversation with my grandmother. However, they were again. My grandmother was hunting, on a ranch near the marshes, a man slaughtered a sheep. As in a dream, India spent on horseback. He threw himself down and drank the warm blood. I do not know if he did because he could not do otherwise, or as a challenge and a sign. Thirteen hundred years
sea mediate between the captive's fate and destiny Droctulft. The two, now, are equally unrecoverable. The figure of the barbarian who embraced the cause of Ravenna, the figure of the European woman who opts for the desert, may seem antagonistic. However, the two snatched a secret impulse, an impulse more profound than reason, and both complied with the momentum that had known no justification. Perhaps the stories I mentioned are one story. The obverse and reverse of this coin is, for God, equal.

7 Month Old Coughing For 2 Weeks

Jorge Luis Borges

That a man in a suburb of Buenos Aires, but a sad compadrito without virtue infatuation courage, he went into the deserts equestrian Brazil's border and reach captain smugglers, it seems impossible beforehand. People who understand this, I want to tell the fate of Benjamin Otálora, who perhaps does not remain a memory in Balvanera and died in his law, shot in the confines of Rio Grande do Sul I do not know the details of his adventure, when I revealed, I will rectify and expand these pages. For now, this summary may be helpful. Benjamin
Otálora account, around 1891, nineteen years. It is a young man of forehead, of sincere blue eyes, of manliness Basque, a stab happy has revealed that it is a brave man; not concerned about the death of his adversary, not the immediate need to flee the republic. The leader of the parish gives a letter to a certain Azevedo Bandeira, Uruguay. Otálora embarks the journey is stormy and crispy, the other day, wandering the streets of Montevideo, with unspoken and perhaps sadly ignored. Not in Azevedo da Bandeira, around midnight in a warehouse in the Paso del Molino, attends an argument between herdsmen. A knife gleams; Otálora not know which side is right, but what attracts the pure taste of danger, as the deck or other music. For, in the brawl, stabbed a pawn down throws a man of dark hat and poncho. This, then turns out to be Azevedo Bandeira. (Otálora, to unknowingly break the letter because debérselo prefer everything to himself.) Azevedo da Bandeira, but sturdy, the unwarranted impression of being deformed, in your face, always too close, are the Jewish, black and Indian ; on its packaging, monkey and tiger, the scar that crosses his face is a more decorative, such as black bristly mustache. Projection
alcohol or error, the argument stops at the same speed with which it occurred. Otálora baby with the drovers and then accompanies a binge and then a mansion in the Old City, with the sun well up. In the last yard, which is of earth, men tend his message sleeping. Darkly that night Otálora compared with the previous steps on solid ground now, friends. What worries some remorse, yes, not surprising to Buenos Aires. Sleeps up to prayer, when he wakes up the peasant who assaulted him, drunk, Bandeira. (Otálora remember that this man has shared with the other week of tumult and joy and Bandeira was sitting to his right and forced him to continue drinking.) Man tells the employer sends him to search. In a sort of desk facing the hallway (Otálora never seen a vestibule side doors) is waiting Azevedo Bandeira, with a clear and contemptuous woman with red hair. Bandeira as weights, offers you a glass of sugarcane, he repeats that he is looking like a brave man, he suggests going to the North with others to bring an army. Otálora accepts, to the morning are on the way towards Tacuarembó. Otálora
then begins a different life for a life of vast dawns and days that have the smell of horse. That life is new to him, and sometimes bad, but already in his blood, because the same thing that men of other nations worship and sense the sea and us (also the man who weaves these symbols) crave the endless plains that resonates under the helmets. Otálora bred in the neighborhoods of career and cuarteador, before a year is gaucho. Learn to riders, entropillar the estate, to slaughter, to manage the bond holding and the bolas that knock down, to resist sleep, storms, frost and sun, to herd with the whistling and shouting. Only once, during that time of learning, see Azevedo Bandeira, but he is well aware, as a man of Bandeira is to be considered and feared, and that before any man, the gauchos say Bandeira do better. Someone believes that Bandeira was born across the Cuareim, Rio Grande do Sul, that, that should lower it, dimly populated forests, enhanced, of swamps, intractable and almost infinite distances. Gradually, Otálora understands that businesses are Bandeira multiple and that the main smuggling. Be drover to be a servant; Otálora proposed amount to a smuggler. Two colleagues, one night, cross the border to return items with a cane; Otálora causes one of them, it hurts and takes his place. It also moves a dark ambition and loyalty. That man (think) ends understand that I am worth more than all his oriental together.
Another year passed before Otálora return to Montevideo. Walk the shores, the city (which seems very large Otálora) come home from the pattern, the men tend the messages in the last yard. Days pass and has not seen Otálora Bandeira. Say, with fear, who is ill, a tan is often up to his bedroom with the boiler and the mate. One evening, I entrust this task Otálora. This feels vaguely humiliated but happy too.
The bedroom is dismantled and dark. There is a balcony overlooking the West, there is a long table with a glowing thalers disorder of herders, tapes, firearms and weapons, there is a remote mirror that has tarnished the moon. Bandeira lying on your back, sleep and complains, a vehemence of the sun finally defined. The large white bed seems to impair and obscure; Otálora notice the gray hair, fatigue, weakness, cracking the years. The revolts that is sending that old. Think that a blow sufficient to account for it. In this, look in the mirror that someone has entered. It is the red-haired woman, is half-dressed and barefoot and watch it with cold curiosity. Bandeira is incorporated, while talking about things of the season and shipped mate after mate, her fingers play with the braids of women. Finally, it gives license to Otálora to go.
days later, I get the order to go north. Arrive to stay lost, it's like anywhere in the endless plains. No trees or a stream of cheer, the first and the last sun hit it. There are stone corrals for the estate, which is guampuda and needy. The sigh is called the poor establishment. Otálora
conference hears Bandeira pawns will soon come to Montevideo. She asked why, someone explains that there is a stranger who is willing to send agauchado too. Otálora understands that it is a joke, but it flattered that joke already possible. See, then, that Bandeira has alienated one of the political leaders and it has withdrawn its support. I like this news.
boxes guns arrive, get a pitcher and a basin of silver for the women's room, come intricate damask curtains, comes from the blades, one morning, a dark rider of beard and a poncho. Ulpiano called Smith and is the capanga or bodyguards de Azevedo Bandeira. He speaks very little and a abrasilerada way. Otálora not know whether to attribute booked hostility, contempt or mere barbarism. You know, though, that for the plan that the machine has to earn his friendship. Sign
after the fate of Benjamin Otálora a red rope that brings black South Azevedo Bandeira and looks implement carona plywood and edged with tiger skin. That horse is a symbol of liberal authority of the employer and the greed that the boy, who also comes to desire, with desire rancorous women hair shining. Women, implement and color are attributes or adjectives of a man he seeks to destroy.
Here the plot thickens and deepens. Azevedo Bandeira is skilled in the art intimidation of progressive, in the satanic move to humiliate the party gradually, combining truly and ridicule; Otálora ambiguous decided to apply this method to the hard task proposed. Solve supplant, slowly, Azevedo Bandeira. Achieved, in days of danger, the friendship of Suarez. He confides his plan, Smith promised his help. Many things are happening later, which I know a few. Otálora not due to Bandeira, gives to forget, to correct, to invest their orders. The universe seems to conspire with him and quick facts. One afternoon, occurs in areas of gunfire with people Tacuarembó Rio Grande do Sul; Otálora usurps the place of Bandeira and commands East. Pierced his shoulder by a bullet, but that afternoon Otálora sigh back to the red of the head and that afternoon a few drops of blood stain the skin of a tiger and that night the woman sleeps with shiny hair. Other versions change the order of these facts and deny that they occurred in a single day.
Bandeira, however, always is nominally the head. He orders that do not run, Benjamin Otálora not touch it, a mixture of routine and pity.
The last scene of the story corresponds to the turmoil of the last night of 1894. That night, the men of freshly butchered lamb Sigh eat and drink a brawler alcohol, someone infinitely laborious strums a milonga. At the head Tables, Otálora, drunk, stands on exultation exultation, joy on joy, that tower of vertigo is a symbol of their irresistible destination. Bandeira, taciturn among those who shout, let it flow clamorous night. When the twelve strokes resound, stands as one recalls an obligation. He gets up and gently knocks at the door of women. It opens at once, as if waiting for the call. Sale half-dressed and barefoot. With a voice that is effeminate and drag, the boss tells you: "Since you
and Buenos Aires are to be both, right now you'll give a kiss to view.
Adds a brutal fact. The woman wants to resist, but two men have seized his arm and throw it on Otálora. Filled with tears, kisses his face and chest. Ulpiano Suarez has wielded the gun. Otálora understand, before he died, that from the beginning they have betrayed, who has been sentenced to death, which have allowed the love command and win, because they gave up for dead, because he was already dead Bandeira.
Suárez, almost with disdain, guns.

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Emma Zunz The Revenge

Jorge Luis Borges

On January 14, 1922, Emma Zunz, returning from the textile mill Tarbuch and Loewenthal, found at the bottom of the porch a letter dated in Brazil, which he learned that his father had died. Was deceived at first glance, the seal and the envelope, then the troubled unknown letter. Nine or ten lines scribbled wanted to fill the sheet; Emma read that Mr. Maier had accidentally ingested a large dose of veronal and died the third of current hospital Bage. A pension partner of his father signed the notice, such a Fein or Fain, Rio Grande, which could not know that was going to the daughter of the deceased. Emma
dropped the paper. His first impression was of discomfort in the abdomen and knees, after blind guilt, of unreality, cold, fear, then tried already the next day. Continuous act that will realized that was futile because the death of his father was all that had happened in the world, and continue going on without end. Picked up the paper and went to his room. Stealthily put it in a drawer, as if somehow already knew the facts later. He had already begun to see, perhaps, it was the it would be.
In the growing darkness, Emma cried until that day to the suicide of Manuel Maier, who in former days was Emanuel Zunz happy. Recalled summers on a farm near Gualeguay recalled (tried to remember) to his mother, he recalled the house of Lanús topped them recalled the yellow lozenge of a window, he recalled the arrest warrant, the reproach, recalled the anonymous with the loose on "the embezzlement of cash," he recalled (but that never forgot) that his father, the last night, had sworn that Loewenthal was the thief. Loewenthal, Aaron Loewenthal, before the factory manager and now one of the owners. Emma, \u200b\u200bsince 1916, kept the secret. No one had revealed, not even his best friend, Elsa Urstein. Perhaps shunned profane incredulity, and perhaps believed that the secret was a link between it and the absent. Loewenthal did not know she knew, Emma Zunz tiny derived from that fact a feeling of power.
did not sleep that night, and when the first light defined the rectangle of the window, and his plan was perfect. He tried that day, what seemed, was like the others. There were rumors at the factory to strike said Emma, \u200b\u200bas always, against all violence. At six, finished work, went with Elsa to a women's club, which has a gym and pool. Registered, had to repeat and spell your name and surname, had to celebrate the vulgar jokes discuss the checkup. With Elsa and the smallest of the Kronfuss discussed what would cinema on Sunday afternoon. Then he talked about boyfriends and nobody expected that Emma spoke. Meet in April nineteen years, but men inspired him, still, an almost pathological fear ... In turn, prepared a soup of tapioca and some vegetables, ate early, went to bed and forced to sleep. Thus, laborious and trivial, spent Friday Fifteen yesterday.
Saturday's eagerly awoke. Impatience, no anxiety, and relief of being unique in that day, finally. Did not have to plot and to imagine, within a few hours reached the simplicity of the facts. Read in La Prensa that the Nordstjärnan, Malmö, would sail that night the dam 3; phoned Loewenthal, suggested she wanted to, unbeknownst to the other, something about the strike and promised to pass on the desktop, at dusk. Her voice was trembling, the trembling suited to an informer. No other memorable event happened that morning. Emma worked until midnight and set with Elsa and Pearl Kronfuss the details of the walk on Sunday. He lay down after lunch and summarized, eyes closed, the plan was hatched. He thought the final stage would be less horrible than the first and that would bring, without doubt, the taste of victory and justice. Suddenly alarmed, got up and ran to the dresser drawer. He opened it, below the portrait of Milton Sills, where he had left the night before, was the letter from Fain. Nobody could have seen, began to read it and broke it. Referring
with some reality the events of that evening would be difficult and perhaps inappropriate. An attribute of the infernal is unreality, an attribute that seems to mitigate its terrors and perhaps aggravates. How to make plausible an action in which almost did not believe he's running, how to recover the brief chaos that today the memory of Emma Zunz repudiates and confused? Almagro Emma lived on the street Liniers, we know that the evening was the port. Perhaps in the infamous July Paseo was multiplied in mirrors, lights and stripped published by hungry eyes, but it is more reasonable to conjecture that the principle was wrong, inadvertently by the indifferent arcade ... He entered two or three bars, saw the routine or the machinations of other women. He at last Nordstjärnan men. From a very young, he feared that inspire some tenderness and opted for another, perhaps more than she and rude, for the purity of horror not be mitigated. The man led her to a door and then a shady porch and then to a winding staircase and then to a hall (which was a window with lozenge identical to those of the house in Lanús) and then a hallway and then a door closed. Serious matters are out of time, and because in them is the immediate past and the future cut short, and because consecutive seem that the parties are.
"At that time outside of time, in that perplexing disorder of feeling disconnected and atrocious, Emma Zunz thought once the dead man who motivated the sacrifice? I have for myself than once thought and that at that moment she endangered her desperate purpose. Thought (he could not not think) that her father had done to her mother the horrible thing that made her now. He thought with a weak shock and took refuge at once in the dizziness. The man, Swedish or Finnish, did not speak English, was a tool to Emma as she was for him, but she served for the enjoyment and for justice. When he was
one, Emma's eyes opened immediately. In the light table was the money he had left the man, Emma stood up and broke as he had broken the letter. Breaking money is an impiety, like throwing bread Emma repented, just did. An act of pride and on that day ... The fear was lost in the sadness of her body in disgust. The disgust and sadness the back, but Emma slowly got up and proceeded to dress. In the room there were no bright colors, the last sunset was getting worse. Emma was able to leave without being warned, in the corner rose to Lacroze, who went west. Elected under its plan, the seat more forward, so you will not see his face. Perhaps check comforted him in the dreary grind of the streets, that what happened had not contaminated things. Declining neighborhoods traveled and opaque, seeing and forgetting in the act, and got off at one of the intersections of Warnes. Paradoxically, her fatigue was to be a force, as required to focus on details of the adventure and covered her bottom and the end.
Aaron Loewenthal was, for all, a serious man, to his few intimates, a miser. He lived in the highlands of the factory alone. Established in the suburb dismantled, he feared the robbers in the yard of the factory had a big dog and the drawer of his desk, everyone knew, a revolver. She had cried with decorum, the previous year, the unexpected death of his wife - a Gauss, who brought a good dowry - but the money was his true passion. With deep embarrassment was known less able to win it to keep it. He was very religious, he believed he had with the Lord a secret pact, which exempted him from doing good, in exchange for prayers and devotions. Bald, portly, somber, smoky Quevedo beard, was standing next to the window, the confidential report of the working Zunz.
saw her push the fence (which he had narrowed the way) and cross the shady patio. He saw her make a little detour when the dog tied barked. Emma's lips were busy as those who pray quietly, exhausted, repeated the statement that Mr. Loewenthal hear before dying.
Things did not happen as planned Emma Zunz. From the previous night, she had often dreamed, the firm revolver, forcing him to confess the miserable miserable guilt and exposing the bold gambit that would allow the justice of God to triumph over human justice. (No fear, but by being an instrument of justice, she would not be punished.) Then, a single bullet in the middle of the chest would seal the fate of Loewenthal. But things do not happen that way. Aaron Loewenthal
view more the urge to avenge his father, Emma felt the need to punish the outrage she had suffered. I could not not kill him after that thorough disgrace. Did not have time to waste on theatrics. Sitting, shy, apologized to Loewenthal, invoked (by dint of informer) the obligations of loyalty, he gave some names, he suggested other and cut as if overcome fear. Loewenthal got out to get a glass of water. When man, incredulous of such a fuss, but indulgent, returned from the dining room, Emma had already removed the heavy gun from the drawer. Pulled the trigger twice. The considerable body collapsed as if the explosions and smoke had shattered the glass of water broke, his face looked at her with astonishment and anger, the mouth of the face and insulted in English ídisch. The bad words did not slacken, Emma had to fire again. In the courtyard, the chained dog began to bark, and a sudden effusion of blood flowed from the obscene lips and stained his beard and clothing. Emma began the accusation that he had prepared ("I have avenged my father and I will punish ..."), but not over, because Mr. Loewenthal was already dead. Never knew nor comprehend. Barking straps
reminded him that he could not even get some rest. She messed up the couch, unbuttoned his jacket the corpse, took off his eyeglasses and left splattered on the file. Then he took the phone and repeated so many times repeated, with these and other words: There was one thing that is amazing ... Mr Loewenthal made me come on the pretext of the strike ... He abused me, I killed him ...
The story was incredible, in fact, but it impressed everyone because substantially it was true. True was Emma Zunz tone, true was her shame, true hate. True also was the outrage she had suffered: only the circumstances were false, the time and one or two names.

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Welcome

The year 2011 will bring us only positive things, I'm almost sure. After the Christmas break back into my kitchen, yes, preparing healthy things that I am more than hinchadísima and my belly is growing in the last month I've gained a lot.

To finish the year gave me good news, my baby is gaining weight so it is not necessary to induce labor or anything like that. I fear that a healthy diet does not like as much as the excesses of Christmas and nougat, jejejeje.

Finally, I offer (with non-alcoholic apple beer, of course) by tod @ s you wishing the best for this year has just begun.