...its distance from death, and by the 21st century a soldier in Nevada can push a button and have five people in Pakistan burst into flame. Without the face, no ethics: this is an old idea." E tamén esta entrevista de Francesca Borri a Sinwar no 2018: www.europeanpressprize.com/article/gaza...

E vén ao pensamento isto de Carson: "Warfare has grown increasingly faceless throughout its history. Surely Hektor and Achilles looked into each other's eyes on the battlefield, but in 1092 Pope Urban II found it necessary to outlaw the crossbow as being inglorious due to...

Desde o pasado xoves non quito da cabeza o vídeo de Yahya Sinwar enfrontándose ao dron militar que o grava nun edificio en ruínas, mirando á cámara e cun brazo amputado, e aínda así resistindo con admirable dignidade momentos antes de morrer.

alégrame ben que che gustara, Joki. Mándoche unha aperta!

Radu Vancu é un poeta rumano que coñecín hai unha semana e que levo unha semana admirando como escritor e amigo. Traducín canda el este fantástico poema seu, no que recorda cando traballaba de mozo de almacén, entre outras cousas. t.co/y2Uedj9qHT

"the blue sky is a particular of life that we have thought of often, even though unconsciously, and that we have felt intensely in those crystallizations of freshness that we no more remember than we remember this or that gust of wind in spring or autumn" —Wallace Stevens (The Necessary Angel, 1951)