como una luna en el agua


Capítulo 7

Toco tu boca, con un dedo toco el borde de tu boca, voy dibujándola como si saliera de mi mano, como si por primera vez tu boca se entreabriera, y me basta cerrar los ojos para deshacerlo todo y recomenzar, hago nacer cada vez la boca que deseo, la boca que mi mano elige y te dibuja en la cara, una boca elegida entre todas, con soberana libertad elegida por mí para dibujarla con mi mano por tu cara, y que por un azar que no busco comprender coincide exactamente con tu boca que sonríe por debajo de la que mi mano te dibuja.

Me miras, de cerca me miras, cada vez más de cerca y entonces jugamos al cíclope, nos miramos cada vez más de cerca y nuestros ojos se agrandan, se acercan entre sí, se superponen y los cíclopes se miran, respirando confundidos, las bocas se encuentran y luchan tibiamente, mordiéndose con los labios, apoyando apenas la lengua en los dientes, jugando en sus recintos donde un aire pesado va y viene con un perfume viejo y un silencio. Entonces mis manos buscan hundirse en tu pelo, acariciar lentamente la profundidad de tu pelo mientras nos besamos como si tuviéramos la boca llena de flores o de peces, de movimientos vivos, de fragancia oscura. Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua.



Cap. 7 de "Rayuela" en la voz de Julio Cortázar

Rayuela, Cap. 7 - Julio Cortázar

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Cortázar habla de Rayuela en TVE "A fondo" (1977)

you'll be a Man, my son!


IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

If - Rudyard Kipling

say something! / stay alive! eh! / we've got a life to live.




Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved and be loved?

Woo

Don't let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We've got a mind of our own,
So go to hell if what you're thinking isn't right!
Love would never leave us alone,
A-yin the darkness there must come out to light.

Oh, no!

(The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light;
Could you be loved? Could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
............................ thing's gonna be all right!
Could you be loved? Could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?)

Don't let them change ya, oh!
Or even rearrange ya! Oh, no!
We've got a life to live.
(live, live, wuu)
They say: only - only -
only the fittest of the fittest shall survive
Stay alive! Eh!

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, wo now! - and be loved?

(The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you)
Love your brotherman!
(Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?)

Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!
Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!
Get up! Get up!
Get up! Get up! Get up, now!
We've been - we've been a-sit down too long!
Get up! Get up! Get up, now!
Get up, now! Up now - eh!

(You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry;
No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied.)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something!
(Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something! (Say something!)
Say something! Say something! (Could you be loved?)
Say something! Say...

· Could you be loved? · Bob Marley & The Wailers (1980)

yo no quiero saber por qué lo hiciste...




Yo no quiero un amor civilizado,
con recibos y escena del sofá;
yo no quiero que viajes al pasado
y vuelvas del mercado
con ganas de llorar.
Yo no quiero vecínas con pucheros;
yo no quiero sembrar ni compartir;
yo no quiero catorce de febrero
ni cumpleaños feliz.

Yo no quiero cargar con tus maletas;
yo no quiero que elijas mi champú;
yo no quiero mudarme de planeta,
cortarme la coleta,
brindar a tu salud.
Yo no quiero domingos por la tarde;
yo no quiero columpio en el jardín;
lo que yo quiero, corazón cobarde,
es que mueras por mí.

Y morirme contigo si te matas
y matarme contigo si te mueres
porque el amor cuando no muere mata
porque amores que matan nunca mueren.

Yo no quiero juntar para mañana,
nunca supe llegar a fin de mes;
yo no quiero comerme una manzana
dos veces por semana
sin ganas de comer.

Yo no quiero calor de invernadero;
yo no quiero besar tu cicatriz;
yo no quiero Madrid con aguacero
ni Rosario sin ti.

No me esperes a las doce en el juzgado;
no me digas "volvamos a empezar";
yo no quiero ni libre ni ocupado,
ni carne ni pecado,
ni orgullo ni piedad.

Yo no quiero saber por qué lo hiciste;
yo no quiero contigo ni sin ti;
lo que yo quiero, muchach[a] de ojos tristes,
es que mueras por mí.

Y morirme contigo si te matas
y matarme contigo si te mueres
porque el amor cuando no muere mata
porque amores que matan nunca mueren.

Y morirme contigo si te matas
y matarme contigo si te mueres
porque el amor cuando no muere mata
porque amores que matan nunca mueren.

· Contigo · Joaquín Sabina junto a Fito Paéz

working class hero




As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and class less and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

· Working class hero · John Lennon

my beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors




And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions, with all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

· Sleepy head · Passion Pit

...you silly clown




Come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there’s a breeze
There’s a shadow, you can’t see my eyes
And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies

Let’s get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy
I’ll safety-pin his clothes all cool and you’ll grafitti up his toys
I’ve got a perfect body, though sometimes I forget
I’ve got a perfect body cause my eyelashes catch my sweat
Yes, they do, they do…

Now i’ve been sitting on this abandoned beach for years
Waiting for the salty water to cover up my ears
But every time the tide come in to take me home
I get scared, and I’m sitting here alone
Dreaming of the dolphin song…

Maybe one day you will understand
I don’t want nothing from you but to sweetly hold your hand
Til' that day just please don’t be so down
Don’t make frowns, you silly clown

Just come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there’s a breeze
There’s a shadow, you can’t see my eyes
And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies

There’s a shadow, you can’t see my eyes…

· Folding chair · Regina Spektor

Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?




Life is much too short to sit and wonder
Who's gonna make the next move and will slowly pull you under when you've always got something to prove?

I don't want to wait a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?
Your lifeline, your lifeline
The lifeline, your lifeline

You say that I misheard you but I think you misspoke
I hear you laugh so loudly while I patiently await the joke

I could hold out for a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?
Your lifeline, your lifeline, the lifeline
Your life...

It's a crime with only victims
We're all laid out in a row
It's hardest to listen to what we already should know

I don't want to waist a lifetime
Not yours, not mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?
Your lifeline, the lifeline
Your lifeline, your lifeline
The lifeline, your life... your life... line.

· Lifeline (San Remo 2008) · Ben Harper (feat. Jovanotti)

Io lo so che non sono solo anche quando sono solo




Io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo

sotto un cielo di stelle e di satelliti
tra i colpevoli le vittime e i superstiti
un cane abbaia alla luna
un uomo guarda la sua mano
sembra quella di suo padre
quando da bambino
lo prendeva come niente e lo sollevava su
era bello il panorama visto dall'alto
si gettava sulle cose prima del pensiero
la sua mano era piccina ma afferrava il mondo intero
ora la città è un film straniero senza sottotitoli
le scale da salire sono scivoli, scivoli, scivoli
il ghiaccio sulle cose
la tele dice che le strade son pericolose
ma l'unico pericolo che sento veramente
è quello di non riuscire più a sentire niente
il profumo dei fiori l'odore della città
il suono dei motorini il sapore della pizza
le lacrime di una mamma le idee di uno studente
gli incroci possibili in una piazza
di stare con le antenne alzate verso il cielo
io lo so che non sono solo

io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango

la città un film straniero senza sottotitoli
una pentola che cuoce pezzi di dialoghi
come stai quanto costa che ore sono
che succede che si dice chi ci crede
e allora ci si vede
ci si sente soli dalla parte del bersaglio
e diventi un appestato quando fai uno sbaglio
un cartello di sei metri dice tutto è intorno a te
ma ti guardi intorno e invece non c'è niente
un mondo vecchio che sta insieme solo grazie a quelli che
hanno ancora il coraggio di innamorarsi
e una musica che pompa sangue nelle vene
e che fa venire voglia di svegliarsi e di alzarsi
smettere di lamentarsi
che l'unico pericolo che senti veramente
è quello di non riuscire più a sentire niente
di non riuscire più a sentire niente
il battito di un cuore dentro al petto
la passione che fa crescere un progetto
l'appetito la sete l'evoluzione in atto
l'energia che si scatena in un contatto

io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che nn sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango

e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango

e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango

e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango

· Fango (San Remo 2008) · Lorenzo Cherubini "Jovanotti" (feat. Ben Harper)

Don't you wanna just curve away when it's such a perfect day?


They were sitting,
They were sitting in the strawberry swing
Every moment was so precious

They were sitting,
They were talking in the strawberry swing
And everybody was for fighting
Wouldn't wanna waste a thing

Cold, cold water
Bring me 'round
Now my feet won't touch the ground

Cold, cold water
What you say?
It's such,
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day

I remember
We were walking up to strawberry swing
I can't wait 'til the morning
Wouldn't wanna change a thing

People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don't you wanna just curve away
When it's such,
It's such a perfect day
It's such a perfect day

Ahhhh....

Now the sky could be blue, I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time
Could be blue, I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time

The sky could be blue, could be gray
Without you I just slide away
The sky could be blue, I don't mind
Without you it's a waste of time

· Strawberry swing · Coldplay
··
[video directed by SHYNOLA]

If I only knew your name, I'd go from door to door




If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door
Searching all the crowded streets
For the place that I once saw

If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door
Tell me have you seen the girl
I’ve met just once before

One night of love
Nothing more nothing less
One night of love
To put my head in a mess
Is that you on the bus?
Is that you on the train?
You wrote your number on my hand
And it came off in the rain

One night of love
Nothing more nothing less
One night of love
Has left my bed in a mess
Is that you on the bus?
Is that you on the train?
You wrote your number on my hand
And it came off in the rain

If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door
Searching all the crowded streets
For the place that I once saw

If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door
Tell me have you seen the girl
I’ve met just once before

Woah-Oh-Oh

Young Love
Never seems to last
Far too young
Until they have a past
Playing games
People move so fast
You don’t need eyes to see
If someone's got a heart of glass

Young Love
Never seems to last
Far too young
Until they have a past
One night of love
Nothing more nothing less
One night of love
Has left my heart in a mess

If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door
Searching all the crowded streets
For the place that I once saw
If I only knew your name
I’d go from door to door

Tell me have you seen the boy
I’ve met just once before

Woah-Oh-Oh

· Young Love · Mistery Jets (feat. Laura Marling)

If I see you in my mind, I'll say to you it's not your fault




You put a note in my pocket
Said “be good to yourself” and that was all
Life being what it is
We all dream of revenge
Open your eyes for a second
Just to roll them at me

I stared straight into the sun
Something to concentrate on

Oooo oooo

And if you turn it on you’d find
I’ve written you a thousand times
You would do anything
You’d give up everything for
God knows why

I just can’t stay till your gone
I won’t wish you well
I won’t see you off
I won’t try to call, if I see you in my mind
I'll say to you it’s not your fault

You said I’ll see you in September
But that’s not long enough for me
You put a note in my pocket
So it would take care of me
But that was all

· Life being what it is · Kaki King

everything is illuminated


· People Katamari ·

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