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‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!’

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought–

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’

He chortled in his joy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Siempre me fascinó esta frase de Isaac Newton, desde que la leí en Cosmos:

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

En español:

He sido un niño pequeño que, jugando en la playa, encontraba de tarde en tarde un guijarro más fino o una concha más bonita de lo normal. El océano de la verdad se extendía, inexplorado, delante de mi.

“(…)uno no siempre hace lo que quiere

pero tiene el derecho de no hacer

lo que no quiere(…) “

Esto es un fragmento de un escrito de Mario Benedetti que realmente me conmueve cada vez que lo escucho (en especial una versión recitada por Edel Juarez), si quieren leerlo completo, vean el resto del post.

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