Podemos recordarlo todo por usted

Ofrecemos una traducción mejorada de "Podemos recordarlo todo por usted", de Philip K. Dick; también fue actualizado el link al mismo en el Cronograma de Prácticos.
El mencionado cuento será visto en las clases de prácticos la semana próxima.

Retratos (18): Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Retratos (17): Truman Capote

Truman Capote

All literature is gossip

Retratos (15): J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger

He was a skinny little weak-looking guy, with wrists about as big as pencils. Finally, what he did, instead of taking back what he said, he jumped out the window. I was in the shower and all, and even I could hear him land outside. But I just thought something fell out the window, a radio or a desk or something, not a boy or anything. Then I heard everybody running through the corridor and down the stairs, so I put on my bathrobe and I ran downstairs too, and there was old James Castle laying right on the stone steps and all. He was dead, and his teeth, and blood, were all over the place, and nobody would even go near him. He had on this turtleneck sweater I'd lent him. All they did with the guys that were in the room with him was expel them. They didn't even go to jail.

Retratos (14): Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." That's all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven't been able to define reality any more lucidly.

Retratos (12): Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Retratos (11): Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

(Mark Twain)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.

Retratos (10): Aurora Levins Morales

Aurora Levins Morales

Nothing divides the suffering. One bird full of bullets and roses,
one bird with its wounded pinions,
one heart that if it breaks is broken. I know there are two bloody
wings,
but it is one bird trying to lift itself into the air,
one bird turning in circles on the ground, because
two wings rising and falling together,
is the forgotten principle of flight. Two wings
torn by tempestuous weather.
One bird struggling into the light.

Retratos (9): Stephen King

Stephen King

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Retratos (8): Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition—that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.

Retratos (7): Herman Melville

Herman Melville

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb

Retratos (6): Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place.

Retratos (4): Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Retratos (2): John Cheever

John Cheever

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.