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A good place to start
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On thirst for justice
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On the consequences of comical disposition
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Thaumaturgic sentence
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On Eugenio’s fisherman joke
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Charity as evidence — Not about feelings
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The knot
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Modern polymathy
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All day for me to mention
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One of those creatures on the beach
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Our profile pictures are a good match
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Driving back
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Violence on bus
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May trip to Barcelona
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On violins and drums — Barcelona by Cruyff
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Borges on Quevedo (Other inquisitions), own translation
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On eating and growing tall
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On cynicism, hypocrisy and irony
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Grok the evangelist
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A modest and obvious truth
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‘Presidenta’: el dilema entre platonismo y relativismo sofista en el uso del idioma
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Towards the thesis that the only thing safe from ridicule is evil
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Singular they and the best referee
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Refuse worker Beethoven, suicide and the parable of the talents
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Jon Juaristi, Historia mínima del País Vasco (A concise history of the Basque Country), own translation
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Poets in praise of suffering (G. A. Bécquer, P. Salinas)
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For the people
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Ethica — diei et noctis — ordine geometrico demonstrata
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On Pascal’s abêtissez-vous
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On ‘penis envy’
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De la pedantería
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My first impressions of Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024)
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The best of all possible worlds
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Let him now come down from the cross
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Hope as evidence — Not about feelings
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Optimism and longevity
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Not a 10 in any one aspect, yet a 9 in all of them
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‘But passion most dissembles, yet betrays’
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On the terrible ear of Spanish
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Higher education and cruelty: the price of knowing beyond one’s station
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Ringing people’s intercoms
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‘I do not believe in the Catholic religion, which is the true one; much less then am I likely to believe in yours, which is false.’
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Siempre se van los mejores: The good die first
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My books
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A week in Dartmouth, Devon
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Good metalhead, bad metalhead
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Esperanza
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Maribel
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Scandal
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On envy
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Taking yourself seriously, laughing at yourself, and the importance of what others think of you
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Ego versus egoism; miserly and ignoble propensities; and megalomania
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Physical self-defence versus intellectual self-defence: BODY MATTERS
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ABJECTION: vice opposed to HUMILITY by reason of excess
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Popular loner versus unpopular sociable person (introversion, extroversion, sociability, likeability, gregariousness, popularity)
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Frestón (from Don Quixote)
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Estás mojado: ya no te quiero (You’re soaked: I don’t love you anymore)
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Patterns: delayed effects of accumulation
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On the IQ test
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One never knows how close one has been to —
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On ‘emotional intelligence’
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On intelligence
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Do your magic with rubbish! (Haz tu magia con los residuos) [July, 2025]
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Calls to mind a self-esteem — El más feo de los hombres
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Day dream
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The Bequest-Inheritance
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Afán
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The world made it clear to me
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Matthew 6:25-34 (KJV)
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Grok on the Spanish word afán
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Among the most undignified and undesirable jobs, some are necessary — and some should not exist
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Own translation of Andrés Sánchez Pascual’s preface to Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo
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The sky is a good place to make noise
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Alternatives to the inevitable boredom
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On drugs
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Robbery at 3 O’Clock (1962) foreseeing The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) — Spoilers
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Taloo, paleja! (Bye bye, couple!)
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Cosas que una mente sana jamás podría imaginar
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On Carrefour’s statements about ‘sensory hypersensitivity’
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On my names
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New Year’s Eve compliment
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Driving instructor A. B.
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On feeling less idiomatic but more natural — and very little, bis (Another conversation with Grok)
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On feeling less idiomatic but more natural — and very little
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My last will (on Twitter)
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All creatures have two parents
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Hypotaxis and parataxis — A conversation with Grok, bis
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Hypotaxis and parataxis — A conversation with Grok
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On existence as a predicate of perfection
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On eugenics
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Unpublished books
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Parallel universes
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On my way home at midday
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Sides of sordidness
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The girl from the last summer of all summers
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On women as women, and men as men
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Literary versus cinematic
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On the idea of travelling by plane
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On being funny all the time
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On the classic BIC coloured mini lighter
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Yawn and tear
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Domino Danzig
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Yellow smell and outdoor seatings
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Bocadillo
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Rhythmic list of chores, tasks and errands
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Salt and failure
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How I discovered the existence of dubbing
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Detergent, fabric softener, start the washing machine
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Not hot enough for air conditioning — unless one’s sitting in a car with the windows closed
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On recognising one’s own hope, and one’s own voice, the way they really are
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On the mystery within a person
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I don’t look like I’m from here, but I look like many people who are?
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Distortion from being too close to silence