"Mendel el de los libros" (1929), de Stefan Zweig

 "[...] los libros se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido."

Félix Vallotton - La bibliothèque (1921)

Copa romana (h. 15 a. C.)

 

The decoration consists of two scenes of male homosexual love-making, set in interiors elaborated with textile hangings. On the obverse the older, active lover (erastes) is bearded and wears a wreath, while the younger, passive partner (eromenos) is a beardless youth. On the reverse the erastes is a beardless youth, crowned with a wreath, and the eromenos is a boy. The boy at the door with short hair, who is observing the scene, is a probably a slave.

The British Museum. London

"El país del agua" (1992)

 

"Waterland" (citywide) is a rarity --a movie about mood and memory that doesn't send you into a stupor. The pull of the past is an almost palpable presence in this film; it overhangs everything like a mist, but the film itself is anything but misty-eyed. Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons), the history professor who unspools his own sorrowful past to his secondary school class, isn't some sentimentalized twit. He's a man in anguish trying to survive his own life by historicizing it. His lingering pauses and measured delivery are the ballast that keep him from flying apart.

Peter Rainer (November 6th, 1992).

"The Past Flows Poetically Through 'Waterland'". Los Angeles Times.