Mys. Gepilar Montenegro

A coexistence of the different cycles of the vegetation in the same court may reveal who has the right look, the complexity of the whole in which, in each of its moments all aspects of his being present at once, and only mistakenly conceived as a succession.

Juan Jose Saer, The river without banks .

Leaving aside the inevitable innate constraints, the mere fact of being classified as a human being, homo sapiens , king of creation, or be rational thinking, we go around and lurk behind every statement, many Sometimes, more for convenience than accuracy, claim to have fully understood the meaning of some things.

Note the vagueness of the terms 'understand' and, more puzzling still, the 'things', but, as in the basis of all philosophy, religion or science, if we want to to understand something we must accept some basic assumptions. I venture to assume that the reader understands, as it were so, the meaning of the terms and dispenses with any clarification that, incidentally, I would be very difficult to pronounce. At the end of the day, as they say those who know: the communication does not exist, it is a pure misunderstanding (*).

It is precisely at the root of this misunderstanding that we operate, interact, negotiate, and, to the relief of many, we understand. Man lives perceptions and not the power that the gods gave to rationalize the complexity of the world around him. Because we agree, that both the cold indifference, as the pressure of hunger, the heat of passion or fear of death that permeates hospitals can cloud the most lucid and brilliant minds.

Empirically, we embrace the universe. A kind of vanity necessary to cope with the impossibility of grasping reality, so vague and broad, indeed. And then we give the bathroom thinking that gray matter segments, classifies, sorts and, finally, he says, to satisfy the endless desire to understand. Then the cry of Eureka is a need to write about the discovery. The role assists the senses at the same time confused. The nature of the writing is linear, this is its limitation: a sequence of characters that seek to unravel, word for word, the hologram of reality.

played forward, to translate, interpret and, ultimately, to betray the complexity of the world with our limited toys: words. Through a writing exercise of translation aims to decode the world of a work of popular science article or case studies, we witnessed the creation, healthy appearance of objectivity, of a world of seductive but dubious certainties. rehearsed the work of the omniscient creator who knows everything and permeates every corner of the maze of the mind. What is unique or appealing the way we hide the complexity or completely unattainable described. Because universe, literary or not, while overlapping set of relativities rather than successive, as the power that went into operation, it is plural nature and resists translation.

(*) Based on the idea of \u200b\u200ba transmitter that encodes and decodes a receiver, communication is an approach and sharing of meanings. Lacan, following the structure of Saussure's linguistic sign, called "sense" of the meaning, refers to experiences, the individual's history-conscious or not, which gives the only significant connotation. Therefore, the communication as such does not exist.

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This text I wrote in 2003 inspired by some discussion in a chair in translation. At that time, I could mention that the text is linear and limited. As he did not write blogs, saw in the text editor to read digital paper from beginning to end, without disruption of hyperlinks. After seeing The Machine is Us ... The Machine is Us / ing Us , the phrase "text-linear" writing makes this a bit obsolete.

Moreover, blogs come to perpetuate conference offered many representations of reality as bloggers. This scenario only complicates things further phenomenon of communication and translation. And that is why this text seems much more valid today than in 2003.

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