Hoy las palabras no me saben.

Marco Polo describe un puente, piedra por piedra.
-¿Pero cuál es la piedra que sostiene el puente?- pregunta Kublai Kan.
-El puente no está sostenido por esta piedra o por aquella- responde Marco-,sino por la línea del arco que ellas forman.
Kublai permanece silencioso, reflexionando. Después añade:
-¿Por qué me hablas de las piedras? Lo único que importa es el arco.
Marco Polo responde:
-Sin piedras no hay arco.

Italo Calvino, Las ciudades Invisibles

Es en aquellos medios que se escapan de las manos, en donde los pretextos me mantienen con vida.

Sunshine policy

At best, retaliation will merely be harmful.
He reflects the grim on reality
Or else proves to be useless
Strategic patience, he says

This was not development
Mind you, they despise and distrust
Easily played against one another
Decided to teach a lesson
Too troublesome to be simply ignored

He would do something along this line anyway
Since they’re not giving in

Opposites tend to have a similar effect on how things work out.

Chaos

Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black,
was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing
that could upset balances and knock down a line of
small dominoes and then big dominoes and then
gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time.
Ray Bradbury (1952)

El sonido del golpeteo de las ruedas del tren al viajar produce una sensación dolorosa y reconfortante a la vez.

Public encounters

Mind the gap

-The top 200 richest people in the world have higher income than the poorest 2 billion people combined...