This swarm of information travels, preferably, through the platforms of facebook, instagram, twitter, and through the instant messaging system par excellence, whatsapp. A curious creation favor by the intensive use of this digital shebang, which travels from here to there and is forward by clueless virtual passers-by, is what we will call, with a convolut expression (forgive what may be a tic of my professional training) , “the spurious attribution wise quote.” it is a short text – although, sometimes, it can be a poem of regular length – with a sententious tone attribut to some intellectual, artist or famous politician, but which, normally, is a passage that was never written (or by a saying that was never utter) by the character to whom it is happily attribut.
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Of course: in some few cases those quotes are authentic, but, when this is the case, the problem is that they are not record (at least, lately, i have seen that some victims of these spurious attributions (a social phenomenon generat by the exchange in the network of networks, as you can see) have been jorge luis borges , pablo neruda and josé saramago. Of course: there are many more. Encourag by the enthusiasm of the anonymous spreaders of these falsely attribut quotes, i felt the desire to make a short list business database of my own crop of frequent readers of physical books (when it comes to quoting, i almost always run away, as if it were the plague.
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This is, let’s say, the counterpoint to the lightness with which information circulates on the internet, that digital tide that, along with priceless jewels of culture, also drags the tinsel of false information. There are ten passages of those that i consider of singular value by virtue of the strength with which they have stood out in the midst of my readings, thereby spurring the exercise of thought, as well as the cultivation of sensitivity. I decid to make a very free, incidental comment about each of these fragments: something like an Country List experiential record that collects some ideas and even memories associat with its inspiring content. Let’s get to work (pun intend). William shakespeare. “life is nothing but (…) a story told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, meaning nothing.” florilegio on the move against the digital tide i know little about
