Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Medio Pan y un Libro!

Little inspiration for writing lately... but at least some good stuff gets in my inbox every now and then... good enough to share it with whoever reads this, if there's any!

No sólo de pan vive el hombre. Yo, si tuviera hambre y estuviera desvalido en la calle no pediría un pan; sino que pediría medio pan y un libro. Y yo ataco desde aquí violentamente a los que solamente hablan de reivindicaciones económicas sin nombrar jamás las reivindicaciones culturales que es lo que los pueblos piden a gritos. Bien está que todos los hombres coman, pero que todos los hombres sepan. Que gocen todos los frutos del espíritu humano porque lo contrario es convertirlos en máquinas al servicio de Estado, es convertirlos en esclavos de una terrible organización social.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Not only of bread can man live. Myself, if I was hungry and I was homeless on the streets i wouldn't beg for bread; but for half a bread and a book. And I violently attack from here those who preach about economical claims without ever mentioning the cultural claims which is what the people ask out loud. Very well that everybody eats, but that every man knows. That everyone takes pleasure of the fruits of the human spirit because otherwise is turning them into machines at the order of the State, is turning them into slaves of a terrible social organisation.

Federico Garcia Lorca