Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

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Cuerpo de mujer, blancas colinas, muslos blancos,
te pareces al mundo en tu actitud de entrega.
Mi cuerpo de labriego salvaje te socava
y hace saltar el hijo del fondo de la tierra.

Fui solo como un túnel. De mí huían los pájaros
y en mí la noche entraba su invasión poderosa.
Para sobrevivirme te forjé como un arma,
como una flecha en mi arco, como una piedra en mi honda.

Pero cae la hora de la venganza, y te amo.
Cuerpo de piel, de musgo, de leche ávida y firme.
Ah los vasos del pecho! Ah los ojos de ausencia!
Ah las rosas del pubis! Ah tu voz lenta y triste!

Cuerpo de mujer mía, persistiré en tu gracia.
Mi sed, mi ansia sin límite, mi camino indeciso!
Oscuros cauces donde la sed eterna sigue,
y la fatiga sigue, y el dolor infinito.

-Pablo Neruda

"For the last 10 years we've been talking about "the post-cold-war world." We've described the world by what it isn't -- it's not the cold war -- because we don't know what it is. Well, what it is is a new international system called globalization. Globalization is not just a trend, not just a phenomenon, not just an economic fad. It is the international system that has replaced the cold-war system. And like the cold-war system, globalization has its own rules, logic, structures and characteristics."

-Thomas L. Friedman

A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.

The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."

Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."

Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says "What do you want it to equal?"

Spring, tulips, Davidson College, pollen, BBQs, stress, work, more work...

Ten Good Reasons to Study Economics


1. Economists are armed and dangerous; "Watch for their invisible hands."

2. Economists can supply on demand.

3. When you are in the employment queue, at least you know why you are there.

4. When you get drunk, you can tell your colleagues that you are just researching the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility.

5. You can talk about money without ever having made any.

6. Economists do it with models.

7. If you arrange the letters in Economics, you get "Comic Nose".

8. When you call a Chat Line and get Candy Keynes, you will always have something to talk about.

9. Economists do it risk-free, and in an Edgeworth Box cyclically.

10. You can say "trickle down effect" and keep a straight face - and your job!