Las Aventuras en el Abismo Estrecho

Adventures on the Narrow Straights:
an analysis of the stretched abyss

19.7.11

Me

In retrospect, it seems, my identity forms itself. Almost as if soul-searching requires you to step away. How can you get close to who you really are when it requires you to step back from who you really are? I am not who I was two years ago, and now I can objectively look at her. In order to grow I sometimes feel I need to look at myself, understand who people see... but I am too close to myself. It's like being pressed to a mirror, and all you want to do it take a step back to look clearly. So does that mean that I'm really there... if I can't see me?

4.7.11

Golden Age Spanish Vintage

Garcilaso de la Vega

Si para refrenar este deseo
loco, imposible, vano, temeroso,
y guarecer de un mal tan peligroso,
que es darme a entender yo lo que no creo,

no me aprovecha verme cual me veo,
o muy aventurado o muy medroso,
en tanta confusión que nunca oso
fiar el mal de mí que lo poseo,

¿qué me ha de aprovechar ver la pintura
de aquel que con las alas derretidas
cayendo, fama y nombre al mar ha dado,

y la del que su fuego y su locura
llora entre aquellas plantas conocidas,
apenas en el agua resfriado?