sábado, 15 de octubre de 2011

Gran predictor

The War is going to be All Right, my son. The English Language is safe to be the world language. The very Germans will treat their own tongue as a dialect. Goethe will be like Dunbar, or perhaps Burns. Scandinavians and Latins will cultivate English. German is a shotten herring. It’s all right…. Their only chance was to bully their language up to a cock position, and they have failed. On its own merits it hasn’t a chance.

(Carta de Walter Raleigh a John Sampson, 6 de julio de 1917)

domingo, 2 de octubre de 2011

Randroide

Hace un par de años empecé a ver el nombre de Ayn Rand por todos lados. La semana pasada exorcicé el demonio: