Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

October 15, 2020

A bend in the river



The river was always close by
One needed only the wish for the water and it was there
The wonderful feeling of the flow
To swim against the current and still
to remain in the same spot
All moving and nothing moved
The hot dry weather and the fresh wet water
all in the same glimpse of space and time
A sort of eternity
Like in the Naipaul book
A turmoil of change and the same river though

July 14, 2020

The rule of law

I read those cholera days the Court of the Red Czar, a well documented and well written book about Stalin's rule. Confined as we were I wanted to shout "Not an inch of power to the Soviets" whatever  they might be called nowadays to the right or the left.
Out of limits, muelle del Kursaal