Winter

     It is the time to burn the branches that have been pruned after harvesting the olives.

Rubble

     I have to give you unfortunate news. This is how I found the workshop this morning when I opened the door.

     Between one sentence and another, our teacher included a photo with the pieces of rubble that had fall off the roof.

Webster and Wallace

Stunning story I have known a few days ago about two Scots who founded an insurance company to cover the last years of life of the widows of the Scottish Church ministers.

Take off your hat, Lennie

Children are children. In childhood – fearing to be alone - children have the virtue of dividing in other people and thus being accompanied. This way, while waiting for George, the child Lennie started chattering with his aunt who reproached him his behaviour with his best friend.

The light was growing soft in the barn

Now it´s Curley's wife who relieves herself with Lennie and tells him that if some things had not been distorted she wouldn´t be there.

72 horas

Dear Fran,

Possibly the best thing that has happened to me in these last two years has been to join the painting workshop. I am living a kind of second youth that, unlike the first one, is providing me with experiences that I had never imagined before. Already the fact of going once a week to Carlos's workshop and being two and a half hours changing impressions and laughs — how little we laughed when we were young! — with my classmates, time passes without realizing it.

Don´t come in a place where you´re not wanted

There were still the noses of the males perceiving the smell of female when the narrator introduces us to Crooks. Crooks is a stable buck and also cripple, therefore he was the worker who spent more time in the same job. Steinbeck makes a correlation of the most naive? natural? between being disabled and moving from one ranch to another, from one city to another. Also, as he was accumulating personal belongings — he had a room for himself — this was a real nuisance every time he had to undertake a transfer.