HAMBRE

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"I want to be fat again, fatter than ever before. I want a belly that gurgles with contentment when I fold my palms over it, I want to feel my chin sink into the cushion of my throat and my breasts wobble as I walk. I want a life of simple satisfactions. I want (vain hope!) never to know hunger again".

J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians.

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Perdido en Londres

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Fragmento de un texto de Ros Coward publicado el 23 de julio en The Guardian "Stockwell station is somewhere I go a lot. My family use it all the time too. It's not somewhere I particularly like; it's always a bit edgy. There was an armed bank robbery a few years ago and drug dealers hang around late at night. But edgy is different from what happened yesterday when heavily armed police chased a man on to the tube there and shot him dead in front of terrified passengers. According to witnesses there was blind panic and passengers emerged from the station crying and shaking. The local vet's, better known for its sensitive treatment of bereaved pet owners, was commandeered for witnesses of a suspected suicide bomber. Surreal was the word someone used and that's what London now feels like to me. [..] Accounts of the Oval incident describe three passengers struggling with a man with a rucksack while a woman standing next to them hugged a baby and sobbed. On Thursday, at
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"La canción del pulque", de Everardo González, es un crudo documental sobre la Ciudad de México. Ese espacio de consumo que puede destruir todo. Alcanza en su onda expansiva y "Pirata" el espacio mismo donde se produce lo que ahí se consume, por ejemplo, las magueyeras o la vida tlachiquera. Quizá ahí radica su belleza efímera, tan potente en los utensilios y formas de la pulquería. Junto con la tierra, el color, en todo México, es el eje central, lo que se marchita y palidece sin cesar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPITon26ck8
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