Sunday, September 26, 2010

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The gray woman


gray Women is a story written by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) in 1861. The editorial Alba, one of my favorites, was published in a book that was entitled "Gothic Tales." The book that I read also belongs to this editorial, which I ordered a collection under the heading "Women and Love" and was given away or sold at affordable prices along with the newspaper. It is not until now that I have read and do not know why I waited so long, because it is something done in one go, plus it really worth it.

This short story can be described as gothic, as it has some of the typical elements of the genre: wife locked in a gloomy castle which is joined by a desperate escape with interesting action, but the story being told by the protagonist in a letter to his daughter, has a certain predictability. Highlight the characters of the husband the dapper Mr de la Tourelle, and especially the brave girl Anna, who has the curious name of "Lover." Once again, Elizabeth Gaskell shows that it is one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era, so it certainly buy the book from the publisher Alba that includes all other stories. I'm sure I also love.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

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the edge of the cliff and no witnesses


After watching yesterday to Athena after a few years (in the real world) have encouraged me to update this blog that we have forgotten something. There are many readings I have had fun this summer but I decided to start the series I was hooked. Those who come here from time to time know that I really like the detective story ... I enjoyed so much with a couple of policemen who did not know, Lynley and Havers of Scotland Yard. The author is the American Elizabeth George and indeed the series was started nearly twenty years ago but I did not have the fortune to meet. There was also a series for BBC television in my admiration, so I also took the opportunity to see the detectives in action on YouTube (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small).
So far I've read only two novels, At the edge of the cliff and no witnesses (the seventeenth and fifteenth in the series, 2008 and 2005 respectively). The first is that I have won but I have to admit that the second is much better serial killings plus a good dose of real drama, as it is in this book that killed the pregnant wife of Inspector Lynley. Although Elizabeth George is known American deployment environment "brit" in novels, I guess with some of the topics with which you look at that are on both sides of the ocean. I think the characters are very well made and the contrasts between them mean that their relationship is very interesting. Sergeant Barbara Havers from the lower class, is a woman very sloppy in their appearance, which always gets into trouble because they are not well adapted to their social environment, but very intuitive, intelligent and with a big heart. The Inspector Lynley is nothing less than a Lord of Cornwall, very attractive and with a fine education. In the novels I've read the relationship and friendship between them is already well established so it should be thoroughly enjoyable, well, see how it evolves. In fact, I've got the first book of the series is not disappointing me at all.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Yellow Discharge In Underwear

of indulgences complacency and force

manifestations, isolated or not anti-Semitism in Venezuela will not stop until the institutions of the Kehilla make emphatic demands that the President punish these situations, especially in official circles

As a meeting "sincere" described Recently the president of the CAIV, Solomon Cohen, the sustained between the authorities of the Kehilla Venezuelan President Chavez. Referred in similar terms about a statement from the Confederation in which predicted that "this new dialogue (...) will bring positive results in favor of coexistence, peace and harmony Venezuelan society as a whole. " The president himself, meanwhile, boasted of the same event during a rally PSUV proselytizing, which called for "respect the Venezuelan Jewish community" and reiterated that "no one can say that the Government pursues here the Jews" legitimate to claim that Cohen's statements about it.

However, what is really behind this meeting, so similar to other occurred just moments before large waves of anti-Semitism in the country? Do not forget that it is not the first time Chavez met with Jewish community leaders; no es la primera vez que estos le presentan dossiers y pruebas de alusiones antisemitas en medios del Estado y pro gobierno, ni es la primera vez que Chávez niega ser antisemita.

Informes similares se dieron a conocer en 2006, justo cuando estallaba la guerra del Líbano, y el Presidente se envalentonaba para minimizar las relaciones con el estado de Israel al nivel de encargados de negocios. Declaraciones similares de Chávez ocurrían justo cuando estallaba la Operación Plomo Fundido y se ejecutó uno de los episodios más oscuros en la historia de los ataques a la comunidad judía venezolana: el ataque contra la sinagoga Tiféret Israel de Maripérez a principios del año pasado, almost parallel to expel the Israeli ambassador in Venezuela, Shlomo Cohen.

And both statements and similar reports met in December 2005 when the CAIV rejected warnings from Simon Wiesenthal Center in after an apparently anti-Semitic speech of President Chavez, and demanded that the organization does not interfere in the affairs of the Venezuelan Kehilla.

All this account is intended to express the concern that this meeting is one that falls on the deaf ears in the history of tensions and distensioines between the Jewish community and the Venezuelan government. With an attitude that can be described from naivety, naivete, and even fear, become community leaders to believe in the word of the president.

Meanwhile, in Aporrea repeat the commonplaces of the Jewish lobby in articles like this, or this one, which insist on the de-legitimization of Israel (which was published days after the "fruitful" meeting .)

Meanwhile, anti-Semitic (or "Zionist" as it has taken to calling, so "politically correct") confessed Vladimir González Cristina Acosta or remain in the official radio station, or while Walter Martínez try every day, disguised as brainy international analysis, add comments to ridicule or discredit the state of Israel.

All this goes on and is maintained, with hardly a promise of the President to "study everything we present, in the words of Cohen. A promise is enough to provide the most significant changes since even the most elemental, as the mere fact that the official website of the CAIV removing the link to denounce anti-Semitic.

And while questions are raised: Does the President shall order the cessation of anti-Semitic in the media and penalize Silva, Martinez, Gonzalez, Acosta and Nolia? Did the President understand the need to resume relations with the state of Israel (a subject on which the statement is silent CAIV) as an existential Kehilla in Diaspora around the world? The answer, naive, CAIV leaders seems to be yes, but some skeptics, we need hard evidence of this change in policy.

Photo: Aron Hakodesh of Maripérez after its desecration in February last year