Galego | English

Non fiction

Liquidación de Existencias

By Marcos Lorenzo

About this book

Galiza has undergone significant social and cultural transformations in the past decades as a result of the destruction of traditional structures and the mass invasion of the images of the Modern Age. The generation gap was traumatic among those people that moved from the countryside to the city. The results can be seen in the conflict between parents and children (house struggle), lack of life patterns (neurosis) and the predominance of what the author calls a “culture of fear” against other groups’ psychologies that are more desirable (“culture of will”). This hidden drama has great impact in the intimate experience of many Galicians and has, however, been hardly addressed by those in academia in our country.

This is a Promethean text that links thoughts, moods and poems without respecting any style or theme restriction of any kind. The writing is between a diary similar to those of Nietzsche, Benjamin or Pessoa and experimental anthropology without clear references ,at least in our context. It is the beginning of the aphoristic genre in Galicia. Through this collage the author tries to access his personal and integrated understanding of the world we live in, suggesting a new way of interpreting reality.

Book fragment

The drama of the seducer: if you are not adored, you don’t exist.
Photons don’t have mass if they do not move at the speed of light.

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‘There is another life’: perfect for feudal subjects.
‘There is no other life’: perfect for Capitalist movements.
The first one is static: it resists and stands.
The other one is dynamic: get moving, burn the bridges.

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I’m lying in the park of Bonaval. A group of tourists arrives.
Almost always, without being aware, we are the landscape.

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Realism is within reality
but reality is not realistic.

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Art is an unfulfilled possibility
fulfilled.

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If everything flows too fast, nothing remains.

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The change, the journey, to select new paths for life
is influenced by an anticipatory fantasy
and the limitations and attractions
of our own fear.

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Learn to love yourself: how to say ‘no’.
Learn to love: how to say ‘yes’.

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Capitalism makes us waste our time.

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The risk of throwing out more than one premature idea is in that the thread may split and the idea may start floating, following the rules of fate.

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A far future dies as a collective construct (the revolution) and the immediate future is imposed on individuals as an ecosystem (desire). Adverts draw faster than imagination.

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The old criticise the young for their rebelliousness., The young criticise the old for their pretended surrender.

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