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• Towards the Twilight

  It was the night. I aimed for the tube, going back home after having met someone, somewhere (unfortunately I can't remember who, nor where. It was an important... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Towards the Twilight

  KindleAfter having met someone, somewhere (pity I can’t remember who, nor where!: it was an important part of the story, but now it won’t ever be recovered), I... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Facebook’s Unsatiable Hunger for Data

  

  KindleSome of my friends tell me I’m too far fetched. Maybe they’re right. But when it comes to huge corporations, governments and the like, I’m afraid that no... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Facebook’s Unsatiable Hunger for Data

  

  Some of my friends tell me I'm too far fetched. Maybe they're right. But when it comes to huge corporations, governments and the like, I'm afraid that no... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Finnair Violates EU Resolution on Air Tickets Tax Refunds

  

  KindleDespite its unjustified prestige (or did I just imagined it?), derived mainly–rather solely–from the country whose flagship airline they are–or were,... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Is Finnair Violating EU Legislation on Tax Refunds?

  

  Despite its unjustified prestige (or did I just imagined it?), derived mainly-rather solely-from the country whose flagship airline they are-or were, Finnair... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Close Encounters of the Second Kind

  I liked him at first sight. He was a tall and somewhat ungraceful man of crude and unusual features-as if his face had been left unfinished by the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Close Encounters of the Second Kind

  KindleI liked him at first sight. He was a tall and somewhat ungraceful man of crude and unusual features–as if his face had been left unfinished by the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Omotenashi

  

  KindleActually the whole episode could’ve not been simpler, and if I had to put it down to some element more or less outside its direct players, I’d probably... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Omotenashi

  Actually the whole episode could've not been simpler, and if I had to put it down to some element more or less outside its direct players, I'd probably point... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Water Heart, Ice Heart

  So there I was, back in my hometown, being paid a spontaneous tribute by my country folk for having returned from my endless journeys around the globe; a... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Water Heart, Ice Heart

  KindleSo there I was, back in my hometown, being paid a spontaneous tribute by my country folk for having returned from my endless journeys around the globe; a... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Lem’s Pericalypsis

  

  KindleIn the foreword of that joke book that is Perfect Vacuum, where its author, the Polish essayist Stanislaw Lem, reviews a series of nonexistent literary... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• On Lem's Pericalypsis

  

  In the foreword of that joke book that is Perfect Vacuum, where its author, the Polish essayist Stanislaw Lem, reviews a series of nonexistent literary works... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The ‘Time Passed Away’ Carol

  

  KindleWhen passing by the function room at the Orthodox Institute, the man hears a choir of child-like voices, and –curious– peeps through the laces of the glas... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Wrestler

  

  KindleIf one decade ago I had been told, in light of Sin City and other films of the sort, that I’d ever be moved by Mickey Rourke on the screen, I would’ve... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• I Don’t Love You Anymore

  KindleOf all the memorable movie scenes, this is one of my very favourites: so straightforward, so descriptive, so harsh and life-like, so telling of women’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Visit

  KindleIn my dream, I was watching a boy who, sitting on a stool at the kitchen table, silently and obediently nodded to every of this mother’s warnings,... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dylan’s Nobel, a Display of Jewish Power

  KindleI swear I didn’t know.I didn’t know; and that’s why when I heard about Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize in literature I was as puzzled as the next, thinking what... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tarkovski Revisited

  

  KindleI was only a teenager when — by suggestion of a friend under the intelectual fever that, in the early 80’s, stroke some middle-class sectors in Spain — I... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 DESTINATIONS