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la feria de vanidades y la desilusión,


SALON DU LIVRE PLEIN DE VANITÉ. ON S'EN FOUT? CUI PRODEST ?



---Nuits de satin blanc. Les lettres sont écrites n'étant jamais à envoyer. Des livres qui sont écrits et que personne ne lit à l'autre bout


antonioparragalindo


Une longue et fatigante promenade que j'ai faite à travers les bois agréables et la nostalgie qui faisait briller le dernier soleil de la journée dans des rayons de travers dans une soirée de juin en arrière et en avant au nord de Retire Pond.

Une lecture de la routine de chaque année. Cela faisait plus de 40 ans que j'avais acheté ma machine à écrire. Il ne se passait presque pas de journée sans le toucher des claviers. Je suis un mangeur compulsif, un fumeur compulsif et un gribouilleur compulsif. Des compulsions et des passions et des impulsions que ma vie a faites.

Icare tente de s'envoler vers le ciel. Tantalus nettoie les écuyers de la lagune stygienne et à la fin du voyage nous sommes entre Scylla et Caribdis.

Ils ne pètent pas. Ils n'écoutent pas. Sur mes mains, j'ai porté la torche de Diogène à la recherche de la flamme de la sagesse, de la connaissance et de la perception. Mais le Deus absconditus dans cette société de péan n'existe plus de nos jours.

Avec cette bougie, vous avez l'air d'un outsider, un Looney. Trop de livres poubelles, une quantité vertigineuse de titres qui traînent dans les étals des libraires pour être utilisés et jetés. User y tirar, mais un nouvel auteur signait son best-seller.

Je ne me suis jamais assis sur un tel trône des Neuf Muses.

Il est difficile d'être un écrivain non publié. Ils vous considèrent comme un extraterrestre d'une planète lointaine. Le rire diabolique se balançait des branches des érables.

-Hahaha

-Tais-toi ta gueule espèce de racaille d'oiseaux- racontai moi un pigeon gris qui m'avait dit des choses méchantes avec une voix humaine, un cas d'anthropomorphose au signet.

Puis remarquant que le pauvre animal n'avait pas une de ses pattes. il l'avait mangé lui-même. Je me suis senti désolé pour lui.

-Tu es un raté.

-Eh bien c'est ce que vous pensez. N'essayez pas de me prouver.

La pie déploya alors ses grandes ailes noires -c'est de mauvais augure- et disparut. J'ai continué à marcher. La foire du livre m'apparaissait comme un grand bûcher et là les nouveaux inquisiteurs levant leurs soutanes essayant de se réchauffer chauffaient leurs gros trous du cul monastiques. Ils surveillaient et contrôlaient chaque ligne imprimée.

Dans ma jeunesse, je rêvais de signer des acheteurs d'annonces assis et souriants dans ces huttes. Être célèbre. Recevoir l'acquiescement et la bienveillance du public. Voyez ma firme signer la troisième page d'ABC. Rêves. Rêves impossibles.

La Mégère apprivoisée. Personne ne me connaît. Vous envoyez vos manuscrits à la maison d'édition. Dévolution avec une réprimande en quelques lignes : nonobstant le bien-fondé de votre texte nous avons décidé de décliner votre offre de votre publication. Cela ne correspond pas aux schémas de notre comité éditorial.

- D'accord

-. Ne vous inquiétez pas. Le sourire. Soyez heureux. Chantez en écrivant.

- Quelle chanson?

-La ballade des rameurs de la Volga

-Volga… Volga, Volga, puanteur de Ruskin – ai-je proclamé à voix basse.

Ce travail est dur mais agréable. Vous vous asseyez et vous écrivez. Vous ramez. Votre stylo est comme une pagaie. Votre stylo est une épée. Parfois, vous vous sentez négligent ou indolent à votre bureau et cédant à la consternation, tous les écrivains se posent la même question. Qu'est-ce que c'est, qu'est-ce que je fais ? Votre pièce est comme le message dans la bouteille que le survivant de l'épave du navire lance vers l'océan. Y a-t-il quelqu'un à l'autre bout ?

On ne sait jamais. encore ne faut-il pas s'abattre, quand la célébrité vous saute au sort ou quand la proue de votre roman, essais, poèmes, vogue à contre-courant des malheurs. Nous ne pouvons pas tous vivre dans le courant dominant mais publier et être damnés. Big Brother vous regarde.

-Pas de chiens, pas de cueilleurs de fraises, pas d'écrivains

-Pas de sexe, nous sommes britanniques.

En passant devant les gradins, j'ai eu l'impression désagréable que la plupart des publications sont subalternes et accessoires. Là étaient assis les flatteurs de l'Establishment, les râleurs des Gaols qui racontaient la fausse histoire de leurs prisons qui n'ont jamais existé. Plauto est ressuscité pour écrire ses Miles Glorious. Ils mangent à leurs grands dîners, et ils vous laissent des miettes et des pellicules.

Chantez et sifflez.

-Je ne t'ai pas vu à la grande foire. Soit vous êtes trop beau pour être vrai, soit un véritable échec.

-Je peux vous assurer que je ne ressens pas un échec. Je suis plein de poutres et prêt pour un grand combat. Un jour nous démasquerons les grands traîtres. Priez Dieu et passez les munitions mais nous n'aurons pas besoin d'armes à feu et de balles ou de gros bâtons. Seul mot et roses à condition que les apprentis du grand gémissement soient devenus une nouvelle religion. Némésis est leur déesse, et ils attendent dans le mur le mot rage. J'étais un peu inquiet mais fier. Je n'ai PAS léché le dos des nouveaux prêtres prêchant la Lager.

-Qu'est-ce que c'est? Une marque de bière de prison

-Ce dernier je crains que je devrais penser.

A quitté l'endroit en hâte et est entré dans un café près de Castellany. J'avais soif.

- Une pinte d'amer, s'il vous plaît.

Un de plus et un autre. Quand j'ai dégringolé le septième verre, j'ai retiré l'attirance du serveur. Il s'appelait Alfonso, et il portait une veste blanche non polluée pour servir du champagne

VANITY FAIRS artículo en inglés retrospectivo

 

ACCIDIA

la feria de vanidades y la desilusión,

BOOKFAIR FULL OF VANITY. WHO CARES? CUI PRODEST?


---Nights of white satin. Letters are written never being to send. Books that are written and no one reads at the other end

antonioparragalindo

A long and tiring walk I did through the pleasant woods and nostalgia shining the last sun for the day in askance rays in an evening June backwards and forwards north of Retire Pond.
A perusal of routine of every year. It was more than 40 years since I bought my typewiter. Hardly a day passed without the touch of the keyboards. I am a compulsive eater, a compulsive smoker and a compulsive scribbler. Compulsions and passions and impulses that what my life made.
Icarus tries to fly to heaven. Tantalus cleans the equerries of the stygian lagoon and at the end of the journey we are in between Scylla and Caribdis.
They don’t give a fart. They don’t listen. On my hands I brought the Diogenes torch searching for the flame of wisdom, knowledge and perception. But the Deus absconditus in this paean society any more none is these days.
With that candle you look an outsider, a Looney. Too many books garbage literature, a dizzyingly amount of titles laying in the stands of booksellers for use and disposal. User y tirar, but a new author was signing his bestseller.
I never sat on such a throne of the Nine Muses.
It is hard to be an unpublished writer. They regard you as an alien from far planet. The devil laughter swung from the branches from the maple trees.
-Ha...Ha... Ha
-Shut up your mouth you the scum of birds- told off I a grey pigeon which had been saying nasty things to me with an human voice, a case of anthropomorphosis at the bookmark.
Then noticing that the poor animal had not one of his legs. he had eaten it up himself. I felt sorry for him.
-You are a failure.
-well that is what you thing. Don’t try you proof me.
The magpie spread then its big black wings –it is bad omen- and disappeared. I carried on walking. The fair of the book seemed to me a big bonfire and there the new inquisitors lifting their cassocks trying to keep warm heated their big monastic arse-holes. They watched and controlled every line that went into print.
In my youth I dreamt to sign sitting and smiling ad buyers in those huts. To be famous. To receive the acquiescence and beneplace of the public. See my firm signing the third page of ABC. Dreams. Impossible dreams.
The taming of the shrew. Nobody knows me. You send your manuscripts to the publishing house. Devolution with a rebuke with a few lines: notwithstanding the fact the merits of your text we have decided to decline your offer of your publication. It doesn’t fit with the patterns of our editorial panel.
- Ok
-. Don’t you worry. Smile. Be happy. Sing as you write.
- Which song?
-The ballad of the Volga oarsmen
-Volga… Volga, Volga, Ruskin reek – I proclaimed in a low tone.
This job is hard but nice. You sit down and you write. You row. Your pen is like a paddle. Your pen is sword. Sometimes you feel remiss or indolent at your desk and yielding to dismay all writers ask themselves the same question. What is this, what am I doing? Your piece is like the message in the bottle the survivor of the ship wreckage launches to the Ocean. Is there any one at the other end?
You never know. still ought not to be despondent, when fame skips your lucks or when the prow of your novel, essays, poems, sail against the odds of misfortunes. Not all of us can live in the mainstream but publish and be damned. Big brother is watching you.
-No dogs, no strawberry pickers, no writers
-No sex, we are British.
As I walked past the stands, I had the uncomfortable impression that most of the being published is menial and ancillary. There they were sitting the flatterers of the Establishment, the moaners of the Gaols who were telling the untrue story of their prisons that never were. Plauto resurrected to write his Miles Glorious. They eat at their big dinners, and they leave crumbs and pellicles for you.
Sing and whistle.
-I did not see you in the big fair. Either you are too good to be truth or a real failure.
-I can I assure you I don’t feel a failure. I am full of beams and ready for a big fight. One day we shall unmask the big traitors. Pray God and pass the ammunition but we won’t need guns and bullets or big sticks. Only word and roses provided that the prentices of the big moaning has become a new religion. Nemesis is their goddess, and they are waiting in the wall the word rage. I was a bit disquietened but proud. I did NOT lick the backsides of the new priests preaching Lager.
-What is that? A beer brand of prison
-The latter I am afraid I should think.
Left the place in a rush and entered in café near Castellany. I was thirsty.
-Pint of bitter, please.
One more and another one. When I tumbled the seventh glass, I took the attraction from the waiter. His name was Alfonso, and he wore a white jacked unpolluted to seve champagne to the Laureate Poets. In El Gijon they call him Mr. Prix. He is the lackey of the famous. No body give a fuck, none cares.
-Drinking again?
-Yeah.
-Celebrating?
-Of course
-And what are you celebrating, mister, if I may ask.
- I am wetting the head of those infants murdered by the abortists, the hymens that never were pierced on wedding nights, and all those broken promises and the books that never were born by the decision of the new priest.. Herodes lives somewhere in Jerusalem. Had many followers. Herodias, my life for a dance, walks down to the cellar with the head of the decapitated Precurssor and patron of all the misunderstood literates.
Alfonso shook his head in disbelief.
-Those poets! - he muttered as he transported his tray full of schnapps to the customers drinking and gossiping in the big veranda. A few journalists from Madrid were having a big do.
That is how I celebrated the big fracas of the Bookfair. The stallion in the distance meadows neighed for its mares. Beautiful señoritas were flirting. Writers were getting pissed. When the bell struck ten with last ordered please my bowels nearly moved but only came a ferocious and alarming fart, like a thunder in glee, the shot of a gun in the battle of Navrone.. Get it out of your system. Puke it out.
-That was for the editors
The entire world became blank. What is the purpose of this strife of literature? Who cares? Who reads? I was very naif in the middle of my alcoholic spree and I did not realize that everyone was voting in the election casting fatal verdicts at the polls. If no body wants to listen, it is meaningless to preach. If they don’t want to read better that the scribblers all over the world change their jobs and do something positive. Writers we are in vain. We are the forced to the ominous galleys of Internet where the bread is bitter and no pay.
We are dead souls. Yes.

Sunday, 07 June 2009

 

 

ACCIDIA Y CANSANCIO DE TANTA PROPAGANDA MENTIROSA

desaliento

Hoy estoy bastante mal, me levanté con el pie izquierdo. Mis enemigos triunfan por doquier. Vermis sum et no homo (cita al santo Job), tengo complejo de gusano pisoteado, leo una entrevista en el Pais que me enfurece; hace una laudatio de la Thatcher que murió borracha. Este indito cuyas novelas me son impalatables, desconoce la Inglaterra que yo amé, pero los malos triunfan y los buenos son portados a rastras a la gehenna. ¿Será así? Cristo bendito ten compasión de mí, pecador

MURIO LA VIEJA PUTA JUDIA BARBARA WALTERS

 

Barbara Walters’ most fascinating interviews in her five-decade career

Barbara Walters, the pioneering broadcaster and grande dame of celebrity journalism, made her mark when she was only 34 years old. It was the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 and Walters was then a reporter on NBC’s “Today Show”.

Host Hugh Downs turned it over to a very young-looking and somber Walters, who proceeded to give a detailed, flawless and moving 5-minute report — without benefit of a teleprompter or video footage — about what she saw and heard in Manhattan in the hours after JFK’s murder.

Walters’ poise and articulation in the middle of one of the biggest news stories of the century foreshadowed an astonishing career of more than 50 years in front of the camera.

She went on to interview 10 US presidents in her lifetime. But as the news became more intertwined with showbiz, Walters really hit her stride, drawing up to 70 million viewers for her sometimes controversial, sometimes poignant, often pointed and provocative interviews with celebrities and news-makers.

Here are some of her most fascinating interviews:

DONALD TRUMP

Sitting uncomfortably close to one another, when Trump’s businesses were on the precipice, Walters did not hold back when grilling the future president in 1990 about his precarious finances. Trump attempted to wave away doubts about his wealth as “lies” and claimed bankers had told him he was “stronger than ever.” But Walters wasn’t having it. She announced Trump was on the “verge of bankruptcy” and had been “bailed out by the banks.”

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Walters spoke with Donald Trump in 1990.
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“Skating on thin ice and almost drowning, that’s a businessman to be admired?” asked Walters.

CHRIS CHRISTIE

Walters started off the 2012 sitdown with the portly Republican New Jersey governor by admitting she felt “very uncomfortable asking this question,” before noting, “You are a little overweight.” Christie chimed in, affably, saying he was “more than a little.” Walters paused for a minute before asking, “Why?” Said Christie: “If I could figure that out, I’d fix it.”

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Barbara Walters, Chris Christie
In 2012, Walters interviewed former Governor Chris Christie as part of a Disney special called “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2012.”
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Walters sat down with the former governor.
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The interview was released as a 90-minute special alongside 9 other interviews.
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BROOKE SHIELDS

Shields, now, 57, complained in November that she felt taken advantage of by Walters’ biting questions during a 1981 sitdown with her mother, Teri Shields, shortly after Shields’ famous Calvin Klein jeans campaign.

“She asked me what my measurements were and asked me to stand up,” Shields, who was 15 at the time, told Drew Barrymore. “And I stand up, and she was like comparing herself to this little girl. And I thought, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t understand what this is.’”

“But I just behaved and just smiled,” she said, acknowledging that she “felt so taken advantage of in so many ways.”

MONICA LEWINSKY

Walters scooped the world with her 1999 interview with Lewinsky after her scandalous affair with then-president Bill Clinton, garnering 74 million viewers in the process. Walters grilled Lewinsky about whether she still was in love with Clinton. Lewinsky said: “No. Sometimes I have warm feelings. Sometimes I’m proud of him still, and sometimes I hate his guts. And, he makes me sick.” Walters asked Lewinsky, “What will you tell your children, when you have them?” Lewinsky said simply: “Mommy made a big mistake.”

Barbara Walters, Monica Lewinsky,
The innovative journalist also sat down with Monica Lewinsky in 1999.
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FIDEL CASTRO

When Walters flew to Havana to interview Castro in 1977 she expected a lot of pugnacity and suspicion. Instead, she said, it turned into a 10-day adventure which included her driving around Cuba in Castro’s open Jeep — and sometimes holding his gun. Castro took her to the Bay of Pigs and Sierra Maestra, the mountainous region where Castro lived and trained with his rebel fighters before overthrowing Batista in 1959.

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Walters rides along with Fidel Castro during her 1977 interview.
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CHRISTOPHER REEVE

Walters sat face-to-face with the actor in 1995 not long after he was rendered a quadriplegic in a freak horse-riding accident. Walters drilled down on the details of his accident, as well as Reeve’s difficulties being paralyzed — and how sometimes his air hose could get disconnected by mistake at night and he could only hope someone would get to him in time. Walters’ questions didn’t spare Reeve but the emotion showed on her face.

Christopher Reeve, Barbara Walters
Christopher Reeve was interviewed in 2002 at his upstate New York home.
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MUAMMAR GADDAFI

In January 1989, when the Libyan dictator was flying high and enjoying his power, Walters flew to Tripoli to interview him in one of his famous tents. Gaddafi criticized American leaders and called the media “Zionists” out to get him. Walters called him “crazy” in the interview but later backtracked in the ABC studios speaking to George Stephanopoulos. “He was crazy like a fox,” Walters said. “He thought that he was going to be the king of the whole Arab world.”

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RICKY MARTIN

The singer said last year that his grueling sit-down with Walters in 2000 left him with PTSD. Ten years before he would come out as gay, Walters goaded him to address the gossip: “You could stop these rumors,” she said.

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Walters spoke with performer Ricky Martin on “The View” in 2010.
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“You could say, ‘Yes I am gay or no I’m not.’ ” Coolly, Martin responded, “I just don’t feel like it.” Years later, Walters said she regretted asking him about his sexuality. ““I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was,” she said in 2010. “A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now, I feel it was an inappropriate question.”

MIKE TYSON AND ROBIN GIVENS

Seven months after the then-heavyweight champion and actress Givens married in 1988, the couple made the dubious decision to be interviewed by Walters.

On "The Barbara Walters Special" in 1988, Barbara Walters interviewed heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson and his wife, actress Robin Givens.
On “The Barbara Walters Special” in 1988, Barbara Walters interviewed heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson and his wife, actress Robin Givens.
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Tyson sat next to Givens, who starred in ABC’s “Head of the Class,” while she described being married to him as “torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine.” Asked Walters, “Does he hit you?” Givens paused for a beat, then said, “He shakes. He pushes. He swings. Sometimes I think he’s trying to scare me … He’s got a side to him that is scary. There are times when I thought I could handle it, and just recently, I’ve become afraid. I mean very, very much afraid.” The pair, not surprisingly, divorced a few months later.

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