am a hopeless case
Friday, July 24, 2009
Olympus Charger Flashing Red
finally revealed
shrewd critic (I knew you were going to find out)
that I'm biased in my stories and tangentially
urges me to assume the neutrality
any
respecting intellectual
think he is right I'm biased
no doubt this further
I would say that a partial
unsalvageable
finally hopeless as much effort to make
can never become neutral
in several countries of the continent leading experts
have done everything possible and impossible
for curing me of bias
for example in my country's national library
ordered partial expungement of my books in Argentina partial
gave me
cuartenta-eight hours (if not kill me) so I left with my bias
finally slopes in Peru held incommunicado my bias
and deported me
being neutral would not have needed such intensive therapy
but what I'm biased
make partial incurably
and although it may sound a little strange
fully and partially
know that means I can not aspire to so many honors
and reputations and prayers and dignities
the world reserved for intellectuals
to respect for the neutral words with an aggravating
as fewer and fewer neutral
distinctions are distributed among very few
after all and
from my limitations
confessed I must admit that those few are neutral
I have some admiration
or better reserve them as some surprise
actually need nerves of steel to stay neutral
to episodes like girón
tlatelolco
trelew pando
currency is clear that a
and perhaps this is what he meant
critic might be biased in the private lives and neutral
belles lettres
say Pinochet indignant
for insomnia and daytime
write stories about the Atlantis is not bad
clear idea and has the advantage that
one hand you have conflicts of conscience and that always represents
good
nutrimeto for art and for other sides to not let it
bashing the bourgeois press and / or
neutral
not a bad idea but
and I am discovering or imagining the submerged continent
the existence of oppressed and oppressors and neutral partial
executioners tortured and that is the same player
Cuba itself
Yankees no non-submerged continent
so as it seems that I have no choice and I'm definitely lost
neutrality for the successful it is likely to continue writing stories
nonneutral
and poems and songs and novels, essays and non-neutral
but warn it will be so
but do not try to torture and prisons
or other topics that apparently
unbearable to be neutral and even
try to butterflies and clouds and goblins and little fish
Mario Benedetti
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