Letras y Alcohol

THE SALT OF THE EARTH

directed by WIM WENDERS, JULIANO RIBEIRO SALGADO

— Central Park, New York City

— Barcelona, Spain

— Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

— Male, Maldives

— Niagra Falls, USA/Canadian border

— Tulip fields, Holand

— Egyptian Pyramids

— Artificial Islands, Dubai

— Venice, Italia

Martin Heidegger and D.T. Suzuki　ハイデガーと鈴木大拙

In philosophy, Martin Heidegger is quoted as saying: “If I understand [Dr. Suzuki] correctly, this is what I have been trying to say in all my writings.”  Lynn White is not the molder of modem thought that Jung and Heidegger have been, but he is a fine historian, and he predicts: “It may well be that the publication of D. T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem in future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the ftfteenth.”

Hace unas semanas empecé una serie que espero acabar alguna vez. Esta es la primera de las piezas que realicé, me gustaba un poco la relación entre las formas rígidas de la arquitectura y flexibles de la planta. Al tiempo es una referencia directa a la cubierta-jardín de Le Corbusier y a la alusión a lo genérico de la arquitectura moderna y lo local (que se manifestaría en la planta), la relación entre contenedor y contenido.

Knut Hamsun - Hambre

Castellano translation of Hunger, by Buenos Aires-based publisher EDITORIAL TOR. The cover is signed either ‘odazo’, ‘cd azo’ or ‘D A Z’ with flourishes. Searches for the artist so far have thrown up nothing.

Maybe Tor were a small press, but either way the pages are untrimmed (or very, very roughly cut) and the publication date is exact to the day: