la poesia de Charly Garcia

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me llevó solo 26 años
pero al fin interpreté una de esas
frases famosas de Charly
que nunca me pude tomar en serio
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de PIANO BAR (1985)
Raros peinados nuevos
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"de chiquito fui aviador,
pero ahora soy un enfermero
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capo!
tal vez hay que ser jovato para que te pegue...
ja!

On growing up

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from Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander"
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...it appears to me that this is a critical time for him... a time that will settle him in that particular course he will never leave again, but will persevere in for the rest of his life.
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It has often seemed to me that towards this period (mid twenties) men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them. Merriment, roaring high spirits before this: then some chance concatenation, or some hidden predilection (or rather inherent bias) working through, and the man is in the road he cannot leave bust must go on, making it deeper and deeper (a groove, or channel), until he is lost in his mere character -persona- no longer human, but an accretion of qualities belonging to this character.
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James Dillon was a delightful being. Now he is closing in. It is odd -will I say heartbreaking?- how cheerfulness goes: gaiety of mind, natural free-springing joy. Authority is its great enemy - the assumption of authority. I know few men over fifty that seem to me entirely human: virtually none who has long exercised authority.