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Le Commandant Alias a passé la nuit chez le général à discuter logique pure. Ça ruine la vie de l’Esprit, la logique pure, Puis il s’est épuisé, sur la route, contre d’interminables embouteillages. Puis il a trouvé, en rentrant au Groupe, cent difficultés matérielles, de celles qui vous rongent peu à peu comme les mille effets d’un glissement de montagne que l’on ne saurait contenir.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de Guerre

Consultant and guru talk is always perfect, perfectly inside the limits of logic. Well, you know what it follows :-P

Distrust who runs before nasty reality enters scene. Should do a “distrust this post” post soon.

Back to Saint-Ex. Good thing (not much of a surprise) is I’m loving it. It doesn’t matter how piercing but humanist his quotes are. His books are a must.

Bad thing is my copy of Vol de Nuit is missing in action. Or I’ve never had one… I’m not sure anymore…

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You gotta love it, nice history.

Second double on a row, with a migraine topping. Still productive, not much funnier. Let’s do the closing (or die) today.

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On the move

Fires were started and they are coming. One of them won’t be back. And life cannot but keep going on. In this thirty nine seconds sequence their faces already say they’ve been there, and will go again.

So a simple story, but got me deep. Love that kind of narrative.

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So it follows

The shortest path from A to a point totally different from B goes through F, H and K, takes a detour at P and does not make sense until it’s too late.

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—No thanks, I don’t drink. I think it’s a weakness.
—I grant you that.
—I don’t like weakness, do you?
—No, I don’t like weakness, but I like to drink.

Weakness versus threats, weaknesses that aren’t, escaping sin avoiding temptation…

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—Pohl! Pohl! You ran those concentration camps, you and Eichmann. They say we killed millions of people. Millions of people! How could it be possible? Tell them! How could it be possible?
—It’s possible.
—How?
—You mean technically? It all depends on your facilities. Say you have two chambers that accommodate 2,000 people apiece. Figure it out. It’s possible to get rid of 10,000 in a half hour. You don’t even need guards to do it. You can tell them they are going to take a shower, and then instead of the water, you turn on the gas.

It’s not the killing that is the problem. It’s disposing of the bodies. That’s the problem.

That’s what you get by asking. And by not wanting to know. Better to know too much than know it too late.

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Toy Soldiers from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.

When a parade is not a parade, but still is. Never saw so a charming little toy soldiers parade. It leaves me craving for video in my camera, but its not the moment.

Short moments that helps me get into focus, regroup forces and hit myself back to work.

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On August 11, I attended a small ceremony for a British soldier from this base in Helmand who was killed in combat the day after Benjamin passed. His name was Joseph Etchells. I was told how Joseph died in a bomb ambush, and that his last request was to be cremated, loaded into a firework, and launched over the park where he used to play as a kid. When Joseph’s last request was explained, I burst out laughing and the British soldier who told me also was laughing. The absurd humor of Joseph’s request was familiar, and it was as though Joseph were standing there with us, laughing away.

As seen here.

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—You’re fired. Your songs are too sad for me anyway. I’ll hire a gypsy band.
(Hours and bottles later)…
—Aradi, if we’re going to sleep together in one bed, let’s drop the ”Mister”. Laszlo!
—Andras.
—Andras… Andras. You’re re-hired.
—The poor gypsies.

Nuestro trío favorito derrocha clase. ¡Por Szabó!

Y, cómo es habitual, la realidad supera con mucho a la ficción.

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Raus!

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—Raus!
—Raus! Raus!
—Raus!

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—Now, what’s this? Stone, stone, stone and scissors. Now, scissors cut everything, don’t they?
—Not stone, sir.
—They’re very good scissors…

Buen intento, pero las reglas son las reglas.

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Pasando lista


—Marèchal.
—Present.
—Boeldieu.
Capitaine de Boeldieu.

No es que sea borde, es que tiene clase, este capitán de Boeldieu, y sabe que el diablo está en los detalles. Y es un buen tipo, con clase hasta el final. Me cae mejor que su contraparte prusiana, que interpreta impecablemente Erich Von Stroheim.

¿Alguien adivinará alguna vez cual es la puñetera película que me he tragado antes de escribir cada uno de estos posts? :’(

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De vez en cuando es bueno parar y repasar nuestras vidas. Lo que podemos llegar a descubrir. Por cierto, os salváis del haiku, una cosa es levantarse a una hora razonable y otra ser capaz de contar sílabas bien.

Visto aquí. ¡Gracias, ejecutivo!

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Décimo y último libro de la Compañía Negra terminado. ^_^

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Hay otras guerras, pero están en esta.

Dejando aparte las fotos, algunas estupendas (¿estaré ya mayor para intentarlo?), hasta en los peores contextos hay historias que vale la pena conocer.

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