"Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win"
"El futbol es un deporte sencillo: 22 hombres persiguen una pelota durante 90 minutos y, al final, ganan los alemanes"

Gary Lineker. (Leicester, 1960). Jugador de futbol. Tras perder la semifinal del mundial de 1990 contra Alemania.

Nota: "Casi" siempre. He leido creo que en cinco sitios distintos esta cita hoy...umm...no soy nada original...pero al menos yo he acudido a las "fuentes" y la cito en inglés! :) Disfrutad mucho, hoy, del dulce sabor de la victoria!

"...Quelquefois je vois au ciel des plages sans fin couvertes de blanches nations en joie. Un grand vaisseau d'or, au-dessus de moi, agite ses pavillons multicolores sous les brises du matin. J'ai créé toutes les fêtes, tous les triomphes, tous les drames. J'ai essayé d'inventer de nouvelles fleurs, de nouveaux astres, de nouvelles chairs, de nouvelles langues. J'ai cru acquérir des pouvoirs surnaturels..."

"...Algunas veces veo en el cielo playas infinitas, cubiertas de blancas naciones jubilosas. Una gran embarcación, por encima de mí, agita sus pendones multicolores con las brisas de la mañana. He creado todas las fiestas, todos los triunfos, todos los dramas. Ensayé inventar nuevas flores, nuevos astros, nuevas carnes, nuevas lenguas. Creí adquirir poderes sobrenaturales..."

Extracto de "Adieu/Adiós" incluido en "Une Saison en Enfer/Una Temporada en el Infierno" de Arthur Rimbaud.

Nota al margén: Hace mucho me enseñaron las naciones sobre mapas coloreados con fronteras, vistas desde arriba. Prefiero pensar en ellas vistas desde abajo, mientras miro el cielo, tumbado en la tierra, formando playas infinitas. No hay fronteras, pero imagino el júbilo lleno de folclore, diferencia...¿extrañeza?. Ayer me acordé de estos versos haciendo tertulia después del triunfo de España en la Eurocopa. Me alegre de que ganara España. Pero sigo prefiriendo descubrir las naciones, jubilosas, formando playas infinitas en el cielo.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Me gusta ser consciente de que el mundo que veo es solo mi propia interpretación. Condicionada por mis propios ojos, con sus conos sensibles al rojo, al azul, al verde...y ya está. No es poco, es mi mundo, pero hay otros que existen y no veo. También hay otros que veo pero no soy capaz de interpretar. Un científico se preguntó en una ocasión: ¿si existiera vida en otros planetas y no adoptará la forma que conocemos, seríamos capaces de comprender que eso es vida?...

Cornelius. Omstart. Por Koichiro Tsujikawa

Cornelius es un músico japonés. Omstart está incluido en su disco "Sensuous". Podréis verle en el Summercase 2008!

"Vivíamos junto al mar. A la orilla del desierto.
Éramos un pueblo errante que flotaba sobre la arena
a la búsqueda eterna de agua, a la búsqueda eterna de sombra.
Reyes azules entre dunas sin nombre.
Entre dunas sin reyes..."
Texto de la exposición Refugiados en el Sahara

Hace 19 años y dos meses...

… [You saw the Tank Man confront the tanks that day] … What exactly did you see?

I was watching it from the Beijing Hotel, where we had rented a room that looked onto the north side of the square. That morning, I remember, my husband said to me, "You'd better get out here." I rushed out onto the balcony, and I saw this lone person standing in front of this long column of tanks. … The young man -- … I couldn't see his face but I think he was young because of the way he moved, he was very fluid, he didn't move like an older person. … He tried to step in front of the tank. … The tank turned to go around him; the tank did not try to just run him over. I thought, "Wow!" So the tank is turning and then the young man jumps in front of the tank, and then the tank turns the other way, and the young man jumps down this side. And I thought, "What's going on?"

They did this a couple of times, and then the tank turned off its motor. … And then it seemed to me that all the tanks turned off their motors. It was really quiet; there was just no noise. And then the young man climbed up onto the tank and seemed to be talking to the person inside the tank. … After a while the young man jumps down and the tank turns on the motor and the young man blocks him again. … I started to cry because I had seen so much shooting and so many people dying that I was sure this man would get crushed. [And] I remember thinking, "I can't cry because I can't see; I want to watch this, but I'm getting really upset because I think he's going to die."

But he didn't. … I think it was two people from the sidelines ran to him and grabbed him -- not in a harsh way, almost in a protective way. … Then he seemed to melt into the crowd. Then the tanks, after a moment, just started up the engines again, and then they kept going down the Boulevard of Eternal Peace. That was the end. It was amazing. …

Who do you think the people [were] who pulled him away? … Do you think it was concerned citizens or do you think it was the PSB, the Public Security Bureau?

… I think that the people who took the Tank Man away -- I call him the "Tank Man" -- were concerned people. I've thought about this, and given the timing, I don't think the security forces had kicked in that fast. … I think that was still too early. That's one reason … the timing. The second reason is the body language. If you've ever seen security people manhandle a Chinese citizen, they're really brutal. … They twist your arm, they make you bend over, they punch you a few times, they kick you. … So to me, I think he was helped to the side of the road. He wasn't being arrested.

And that raises the intriguing possibility that he's still alive. Do you think there's any likelihood of that?

I think that he is. … I think the chances are pretty good … that he's in China because if he had left -- and many people have left China -- he might have felt free to talk. The fact that we have not heard from him since that amazing incident tells me he's still alive, he's still there. He has not been caught, and he's certainly not telling anybody …

Jan Wong
Author and former Toronto Globe and Mail Beijing correspondent.