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Our lives are rivers

Bathing in the sea is most purifying sacred because all rivers flow into the sea. Not that spirit that floats on most of the novels he has given us the Indian boom of recent years, from a good game, Vikram Seth, to The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, and, above all, Sutra the river, Mrs. Gita Mehta.
"When swimming, the river lit by the moon slipped his arms and looked as if he had a silver handle," writes Arundhati Roy. And such is the abundance of rivers in Indian novels either one gets the impression that they are the real characters, the rivers. Protagonist is also the river or underground spring, the "object of my meditations" on Sutra River: The river, revered as the daughter of the god Siva, is one of our most sacred places of pilgrimage. During trips in the area had further aroused my interest to find that the suicide attempt, a crime is often not considered as such if the offender tries to kill himself in the waters of the Narmada. "
Narmada River, which neutralizes the snakebite. Think
Suchiate one in the Usumacinta, the Yaqui, the Mighty, the Bravo loaded corpses, spanning Grijalva Villahermosa, the Papaloalan (Butterfly River), and infinite width Tlacotalpan brings the stubble and logs dead in the mountains of Puebla. Think one in the military history of the rivers, the Ebro, Rhone that halves the city of Lyon, the Yellow, the Volga and the Vistula. Think
one in the Mayo River. Next comes the river and the row of people: Macoyahui, Conicarit, Camoa, psyche, Tesia, Pueblo Viejo, Navojoa, Cohuirimpo, Tetanchopo, Citavaro, Las Parras, Etchoropo. To the north, the oasis. Water-laden rivers. Altar River rises in the Sierra de los Alisos. Orchards. The cold greenhouse. Parallel to River Street. Arribería and abajeria: Attila, Tubutama, the river of the design, Saric. The San Miguel River that flows in Cucurpe and sneaks in the sleepy dog \u200b\u200bdays of August. The nature of contrast of these lands, said Ignacio Almada, makes the rivers are major players: the growing left indelible marks on the landscape and in the collective memory of the locals.
think one also in some Andalusian poet recalls the Guadalquivir, or other troubadour who sings the Tagus, whose words flow from Toledo and away to scatter in the evocations of Fernando Pessoa in Lusitanian lands.
should be talking one day on a radio program that lets you see faces or rivers on the Soto La Marina, the Panuco Tuxpan, dogfish, the Tecolutla and Nautla, because the rivers summon all knowledge : reflection engineer, anthropologist, the military, the novelist. What would Sergio Pitol on the Vistula River or the River Congo or Almayer's Folly?
If the peninsula of Baja California has no rivers except in the Mexicali Valley, which is the Nile: the Colorado-the rest of the country hydrographic surplus allows us to understand why the river could be the subject of panel discussions, lectures, reports short films. The rivers converge million stories adventurous feats of imagination and guerrilla Cortazar wanderings as seeing the barges on the Seine, dreams like those of Mark Twain on the Mississippi. Think only in the Ganges, the Jordan in the Amazon and the Rio de la Plata, on the Danube by Claudio Magris, in Orrinoco Adolfo Castanon.
Through it sounds quite natural that next April will be held in Toulouse a literary conference on rivers. Fabio Rodriguez Amaya, Italian and Colombian, a professor at the University of Bergamo, will speak on the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, as a real landscape, moral and metaphorical in the novels of Colombian literature capital of the second half of the twentieth century: The general the maze and Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez, The other tiger stripe, by Pedro Gómez Valderrama; The last leg of Tramp-Steamer, Alvaro Mutis, and the ash liberator, Fernando Cruz-Kronfly. Fabio Rodriguez Amaya
intends to test the hypothesis that as the Magdalena river artery compulsory from the first settlements on the continent since the time peleolítica, becomes the subject matter and literary valences evocative, poetic, emblematic, symbolic, legendary and mythical.
In order to Juan Rulfo the Grijalva River is an idiot: "Thousands of feet above its mouth, and when it is completely level and may lie down to rest forever in the Gulf of Mexico, it gets crazy and overflows into everywhere outlaw any animal that does not straighten the road. "
" The puny river suddenly seems to lose memory, forgets that it has been night and day, for weeks, punching the mountains, rocks, fitting the hard arms violence in the jungle to find a crib where relief work. [...] How stupid how it behaves here, at the mouth of the delta, is how to wring the neck of the river and anyone who did something similar. That's what size force flow and stop so many to go whistling over there to make swamps, is what pisses me off. Yes sir. "

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Hammett and could not write

LIKE A FIST HAND WHEN OPEN

46 years ago that the American novelist Dashiell Hammett be finished in this world.
As you know, many of his novels were brought to the film and its famous private investigator Sam Spade, the classic hero of the "crime novel" - is known throughout the world with the melancholy face of Humphrey Bogart.
In The Maltese Falcon, the characters do not hang like puppets of the rope stretched taut over the frame. Have another dimension, more humane, less stuffy, more dramatic. The motivation of a character like Sam Spade is to find the murderer of Miles Archer, his colleague in the private detective agency they have in San Francisco. This is its momentum: it is a matter of principles and the fact that Spade walk with Archer's wife belongs to a different moral order-the-periphery relations and does not count.
If Dashiell Hammett, born in St. Mary, Maryland, in 1894, and did not know the craft of detective because between 1915 and 1918 he worked at Pinkerton agency, which also served as strikebreakers brought to the detective genre-psychological dimension and aesthetics that he lacked, it was because rather than a "copyright police" was a writer without adjectives. One might think from the perspective of our time in Mexico, which at heart he was a stickler for ethics and therefore his hero, his alter ego, Sam Spade, acting on logical consequence.
More than an idea of \u200b\u200brevenge, in a final section of the novel traces a sense of justice or solidarity whose text could be placed at the entrance to every group of journalists when they kill a fellow,
"When one would kill their partner is supposed to do something about it. Opinion does not matter that one has of him. It was your buddy and you're supposed to do something. "
With these lines you explain to Brigid O'Shaughnessy, the delinquent girl Maltese Falcon," why, though perhaps love can not miss.
In an earlier scene in Chapter VII, Hammett had put the two characters in dialogue. Cairo while waiting to return to the enigmatic black bird begins to tell Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaughnessy story apparently has nothing to do with his situation at that time.
is a nice story, a story within the novel: A man named Flitcraft came a day of its offices in Tacoma and was never heard from him. Others disappeared. Organized civil death. The classic disappeared, like Hawthorne's Wakefield or Mattia Pascal, Pirandello, which disappears and adopts another identity. His wife and children never saw him again. When Spade was in Seattle working for one of the great detective agencies in 1927 was commissioned to look at Flitcraft, found him in Spokane. Seven years had elapsed since his disappearance. Mr. Flitcraft
Spade explained that a morning spent in front of a demolished building that was only the skeleton and suddenly, from about ten stories high, fell, touching a beam. "He felt as if someone had lifted the lid that covers the life, allowing you to see the mechanism." The mechanism of the fragility and randomness.
"The life I knew was a clean business, orderly, sane, responsible. Now, a detached beam showed him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen, good husband, good father, could be wiped off the world into his office and the restaurant, thanks to interpolation of a detached life. He realized then that the men died by accident and lived only while blind chance respected them. "
felt at odds with living life. And I would never know peace until they have adjusted their behavior to this new glimpse into the essence of life. "Your life could end by the hazard of falling beam: he would change his life for a mere chance of escape."
paragraph illustrates what another author, Marshall Berman, think of all that is solid melts into air: those who are happier in their homes may be most vulnerable to the demons that haunt: the daily routine of the parks and bicycles, shopping, meals and cleaning, the usual hugs and kisses can be not only infinitely joyous and beautiful but also infinitely precarious and fragile, but "to maintain this life can cost desperate and heroic struggles, and sometimes we lose." The story within the story turns out, also, ua meditation on chance and contingency.
But what most intrigued him Brigid in the course of his conversation with Sam Spade, in that first scene Hawk Maltese, was the sense of history: a story of what was coming: "Brigid listened, obviously more surprised by the fact that the story tell that by being interested in it, the more intrigued by the earlier intention to tell that Spade history itself. "
And, apparently without coming to the case, without any preliminary remarks, Sam Spade began to tell the girl delinquent Flitcraft episode:
" It was just like that, "Spade said," like a fist when you open your hand. "
Hammett died on January 10, 1960. In the past 26 years of his life he returned to writing and publishing a single line. Never could concentrate more, never regained the ability to concentrate persistent behaves the making of a novel. Dispersed in several political causes, spent much of his talent to help Lillian Hellmann when he wrote his plays, including The Children's Hour, for example. One of the biographers of Hammett said that maybe it was a case of self-immolation: the artist who canceled his literary talent and moves to another person, to the woman he loved, for example.
In the early months of 1939 he began writing again. A novel. He bought a new typewriter and engaged the services of a macanógrafa, but spent the morning talking without working. Everyone told him he was writing it and allowed his publisher announced that appearance was imminent. Perhaps he thought that if I said I was writing something, and he said quite often, and let his promise was published in the press, some sense of honor would compel him to comply with the above. If I say I write, the better I write. However, the truth was that I could write and when people asked about a new book the first thing I said was in her head.
no longer had many illusions about himself. Ideas to spare, as all writers. But he could not perform them. With his partner Lillian Helmann, Diane Johnson says in his biography of Hammett, was more candid:
"I know, I know this sounds to project strength." It was even more honest with himself: he could not write. "Because there was nothing to write about." Apparently his life was over when he went to San Francisco and left the dark, work, family and social class to which he said owed allegiance, but which was uncomfortable.
"I could not give meaning to their existence any longer, but the most direct way to put an end was the drink," says Diane Johnson.
had been become dispersed. Not concentrated. Squandered what was left of their savings, having come to hold more than one million dollars. Wrote manifestos and letters. Is excited in the project of a new regular combat.
"But ideas and words faded from his mind as soon as they sat at the typewriter, and were replaced by empty exasperating, and if I could write a paragraph or a line, suffered an almost incorrigible need to minimize destructive , reduce it, destroy it. "
In no other book I've read a more accurate description of what may become the hell of impotence literature. Why at some point in your life a writer can not keep writing? Hammett Dasiell
rewrote what he had written and shrinking. It was a kind of torture. He sat at the typewriter and the momentum expected never came.
trying to deceive himself: a new typewriter, a different type of paper, handwriting, start writing letters hoping that once you reach the words would slip imperceptibly into narrative work.
A glass of whiskey before work, do not drink whiskey until they have completed a day of decent work, a walk, get up bluntly of the bed in the morning, or six p.m. on time: no their strategies gave fruit. And so she lived or survived during the last 26 years of his life. Follow that routine, that simulacrum of writing, the torture, the impotence, to the end. But unable to regain the thread of his creativity.