tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post113837974344557795..comments2023-10-03T12:20:53.726-04:00Comments on ¡Cecilieaux!: Passion meets a PopeCecilio Moraleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05283375962527765787noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-1138985177699999842006-02-03T11:46:00.000-05:002006-02-03T11:46:00.000-05:00Translation as requested:The Germans have always h...Translation as requested:<BR/><BR/>The Germans have always held the superstition that the French were powerful in love. (It would be worse to go out committing highway robbery, grandmother used to say.) I feel too estranged from everything related to all the Vaticans that may exist. The fellow who has ended up as pope spent from the age of 6 to 17 in the Hitler Youth and no one can rid you of something like that, at least in this Earth. Gombrowicz, a Polish writer who ended up in Buenos Aires made very funny comments, on the face of it very urbanely grateful for the way Germans received him with hospitality and good manners during the 1970s over there in Berlin. The words attributed to Jesus were marvelous but as Saint Francis said: what do they have to do with what is?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-1138919566940166702006-02-02T17:32:00.000-05:002006-02-02T17:32:00.000-05:00querido Cecilio: los alemanes siempre han tenido l...querido Cecilio: los alemanes siempre han tenido la superstición de que los franceses eran poderosos en el amor. (peor sería asaltar en los caminos, diría abuelita).Me siento demasiado ajena a todo lo que se relaciona con los vaticanos que existan. El pobre tipo que es papa se pasó desde los 6años hasta los 17 entre la juventud de Hitler y eso no se lo saca nadie, en la tierra al menos. Gombrowicz, un escritor polaco que se quedó en Buenos Aires por lo guerra, hizo comentarios muy graciosos y en principio urbanamente agradecidos sobre los alemanes que lo atendían con toda hospitalidad y buena educación hacia los años 70 allá en Berlín.<BR/>Los párrafos adjudicados a Jesús son maravillosos pero como decía San Francisco ¿qué tienen que ver con lo que hay? HebeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-1138572462973392842006-01-29T17:07:00.000-05:002006-01-29T17:07:00.000-05:00You are cornering me into a very weak spot to writ...You are cornering me into a very weak spot to write a comment in English, and about a subject I am not qualified, however, I will attempt to give a stab to it.<BR/> <BR/>To begin, two points of clarification: one, my vision of the world and life does not hinge around Ratzinger's declarations, or any other past Papas, but rather follows Russell's observation that "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge". <BR/> <BR/>And two, I believe strongly I may add that what really makes the world go round is the combined force of love and hate. Eradicate one and the other will go away with it.<BR/> <BR/>In a more mundane level, the one we walk more hours of our lives, what really seems to make the world go round is sex, which more often than not incarnates the drives to love and hate in all of us.<BR/> <BR/>TeoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171692.post-1138560262801201632006-01-29T13:44:00.000-05:002006-01-29T13:44:00.000-05:00"Only the French could sing so bold a declaration ..."Only the French could sing so bold a declaration without blushing."<BR/>Are you sure ?? they ARE blushing, but brave enough ( or fool enough )to do it however..<BR/>G.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com