G - Miguel Angel Dorelo, Giselle Aronson and Saurio

In the beginning you seemed unreachable. You were standing as in a pedestal, an authentic Greek goddess. I used to look at you from below and always saw you: hieratic, undaunted, and brilliant.
One day I dared to come close to you stretching my hands out, willing to touch you. I saw you coming towards me, trembling, as if you were getting out of balance. And all I thought I knew about you fell apart in that brief instant.
"Head trauma" the doctor said. "You were lucky that bronze statuette didn’t kill you".

Original title: G
Translation: Alexandra Jamieson Barreiro

Miguel Angel Dorelo
Giselle Aronson
Saurio

Versión en castellano

Dialectic of Enlightenment - Saurio

"What a pain in the ass chicks are with this stuff about dieting!" exclaims Adam and throws with all his might the apple that Eve has just given to him.
The fruit flies through the centuries and hits squarely on the head of Isaac Newton.
He analyzes the gravity of the situation and files a complaint at the Vatican.
"Ah, no. Claims related to Old Testament episodes are the jurisdiction of Judaism" alliterates the Pope. "We assume responsability from Jesus on, and that only if we are in a good mood".
Newton unsuccessfully visits several synagogues. In Prague he is pursued by an army of golems. He flees to Pisa, where he meets Galileo throwing things from the leaning tower.
"I’m fed to the gills with these guys" Newton says.
"What if we fuck up the religious corporations’ business, uh?"
"Cool. I’ll tell Darwin, Einstein and Freud and you go and fetch Copernicus, Kepler and Marx, okay?"
"And who’s gonna tell Nietzsche?"

"Nah, don’t bother, he'll appear anyway ..."

And that's how Modernity began.

More or less.

Orignal title: Una fábula uanacrónica
Translation: Saurio

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En español

All that is solid melts into air - Saurio

It started as one of those viral emails that within hours spread throughout the world. And then it continued spreading virally but by word of mouth. The slogan was simple: to overcome social inequality people should refuse to work and to consume more than is strictly necessary for subsistence. Doing so, the evil system would fall. No, it wasn’t just another strike, here there was no complaints, no demands, it was simply refusing to work.
It worked.
Not immediately, of course, employers, union hierarchies and the other gears of the system reacted and repressed the protesters. But people, thanks to the viral message, were not afraid and defended themselves. Many died, of course, but as they were majority, they finally were victorious. In addition, the system needed for consumers, and if no one consumed, the production of goods lost all meaning.
That's how the system fell.
Victory achieved, the sensible thing should have been to distribute the wealth equally. But wealth had lost its value in a unconsumerist world, and the very act of sharing was working, so that millions of goods that once had been coveted were abandoned and forgotten.
When food and the accumulated resources ran out people faced with another problem: providing new resources for self-support was working; and working was simply to revive the system.
That's how people died.
Someone wrote that if a group of chimpanzees were given computers and enough time, one of them would end up writing the works of Shakespeare. But nobody thought that before this happened he could write a viral email and send it.
That's how we became the dominant species on the planet.

Original title: Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire.
Translation: Saurio

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http://brevesnotanbreves.blogspot.com/2008/08/todo-lo-slido-se-desvanece-en-el-aire.html

Love story - Saurio

After several disencounters –when the one was looking for the other, the other was away looking for the one– finally the paths of Mohammed and the mountain crossed.

And although they had spent the last years looking for each other, neither knew what to say.

So each went their own way and lost any contact. Until they found each other on Facebook, several years after. They exchanged photos, caught up - she had a large mountain range, he a monotheistic religion - and agreed to meet for a coffee mid-way through their respective houses.

"I hope this time is different" both thought before leaving out.

The Last Supper (Director's Cut) - Saurio

When Jesus said the bread was His body he thought it was okay, a human sacrifice taken to the symbolic realm was a good idea.

When Jesus said that wine was His blood he hesitated, this didn't sound very kosher to be honest, but, let's face it, the Mosaic law was a bit absurd as food is concerned.

When He said the beer was His pee he felt it was tasteless joke, but, well, all of them were half drunk, and it is understood that in this condition one says nonsense, messiah or not.

It was when Jesus grabbed a glass of milk that Judas knew what he should do.

Original Title: La última cena

Translator: Saurio

About the Author: Saurio