Reading Hemingway: Typical Spanish

“[There are] two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish: give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”
“He stayed as he was told. That´s the rarest thing that can happen in Spain.”
“French would saved [the bottle of whisky] what was left for another occasion. No, the true thoughfulness of thinking the [...]

¿Qué es la Vida?

Erwin Schrödinger titulaba así su libro más influyente. Un manuscrito de poco más de 100 hojas que resume una serie de conferencias impartidas en Dublin en 1943. Este brillante científico abordaba entonces el problema de definir la vida y la herencia genética, su visión que se aventuraba en la biología con herramientas propias de un [...]

Reading Hemingway: flags

“The old flag of yellow and gold we called pus and blood. The flag of the Republic with the purple added we call blood, pus and permanganate” -
Pilar, a republican defender (For Whom The Bell Tolls)