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the moment you arrive here,to get on a bus is to realize you've put your life in the hands of a criminal who drives as fast as possible,who doesn't respect stop signs or red lights or any sort of traffic signals, a lunatic whose sole goal is to end up with the highest number of lives in his hands in the shortest possible time, said Vega. It’s terrifying, Moya, an experience that’s not recommended for cardiac patients

It’s incredible, Moya, the bus drivers have been pathological criminals since birth, criminals converted into salaried bus drivers, said Vega, they’re guys who were no doubt torturers and participated in massacres during the civil war and now they’re recycled as bus drivers
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There’s nothing more detestable to me than sports, Moya, nothing seems more boring and stupid than sports, most of all the National Soccer League, I don’t understand how my brother could give a damn about twenty-two undernourished morons running after a ball, only someone like my brother could almost have a heart attack about the stumbling of twenty-two undernourished men running after a ball.
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For fifteen days I haven't had a conversation that’s been worth it, Moya, for fifteen days these two have talked to me only about keys, locks, and doorknobs, and about the papers I should sign to make the sale of my mother's house possible, it’s horrible, Moya

I’ve been away from this country for eighteen years, and for eighteen years I haven't missed any of this, because I was precisely fleeing from this country, it seemed the cruelest and most inhuman thing that I was destined to be born in this place considering all the possible places in the world, I never could accept that of the hundreds of countries I could have been destined to be born in.

Climate change, both natural and induced by recent human activity, appears relatively small and slow on a human time scale because the atmosphere, the oceans, and the ice fields are vast reservoirs of energy and water.

carbon spends approximately 3 years in the atmosphere, 5 years in plants, 30 years in soils, 300 years in the oceans, and 150 million years in the geochemical cycle.

After these major four, there are seven that occur in relatively large numbers. These are, again in decreasing order, calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, potassium, chlorine, and magnesium. These 11 most common elements in the human body add up to more than 99.99% of all of our atoms. Interestingly, 10 of these are among the 11 most commonly found in seawater.

The most common elements in the solar system, in decreasing order, are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Together, these four elements add up to 99.6% of all atoms in the human body (and nitrogen actually plays but a small part in these terms). In fact, these four elements are the foundation of all of the complex chemical compounds involved in organic chemistry.

Some two-thirds of the carbon in our bodies is derived from the ongoing cycle of photosynthesis of plants and our direct or indirect consumption of these plants. The rest comes from atmospheric carbon dioxide created by the burning of fossil fuels and other processes, from where it cycles into plants, and eventually into our bodies.

The energy yield from nuclear reactions in the Sun is astounding: to power a human over an entire life span (of 70 years as an example, using the current world average of 2800 calories per day) requires the fusion of only half a gram of hydrogen into helium.

It has been suggested that our likes for fatty and sugary foods are directly linked to the ancient need to take advantage of times of plenty, when food was readily available. In times of shortage, the body would then have the reserves to sustain itself

A state of high blood sugar levels can be noticed in the body by healthy people too: it brings about a feeling of sluggishness and fatigue after eating, rather than an energized feeling when the body receives healthy “fuel”

Despite its name, however, the small intestine is not small at all: it has a total length of about eighteen feet (six meters) and an enormous surface area—approximately 2700 square feet (250 square meters), which would easily cover the floor space of a sizable house.

Our super-coiled DNA, if uncoiled and stretched out in a string, could wind around the world over two million times, or loop to the Moon and back 130,000 times, and even stretch to the Sun and back roughly 333 times!

When a person is overweight, it reflects a shifted balance of food intake and physical activity or energy usage. The excess food is converted into fat, which is accumulated in the adipose cells, which specialize in storing fat. They grow in size when too much energy is taken into the body.

Approximately 3% of our weight is made up of nitrogen. Oxygen dominates by weight, accounting 65% of the total. Although there is even more hydrogen by number, these atoms are so light that they amount to no more than 10% of the body's weight. Carbon accounting for 18% of our weight, is the key element of the solid compounds in our body.

There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,
grown hazy by morning.

Every beginning
is only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.

There were signs and signals,
even if they couldn’t read them yet.
Perhaps three years ago
or just last Tuesday
a certain leaf fluttered
from one shoulder to another?
Something was dropped and then picked up.
Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished
into childhood’s thicket?

Happenstance looks deep into our eyes.
Our head grows heavy.
Our eyelids drop.
We want to laugh and cry,
it’s so incredible.
From fourth-grade home room to that ocean liner.
It has to mean something.
To hell and back,
and here we meet halfway home.

We want to shout:
Small world!
You could almost hug it!
And for a moment we are filled with joy,
radiant and deceptive.

I survived you by enough,
and only by enough,
to contemplate from afar.

On tragic mountain passes
the wind rips hats from unwitting heads
and we can’t help
laughing at that.

Hatred. Hatred.
Its face twisted in a grimace
of erotic ecstasy.

I eat the sky, I excrete the sky.
I’m a trap within a trap,
an inhabited inhabitant,
an embrace embraced,
a question answering a question.

patches of sky, specks of sky,
gusts and heaps of sky.
The sky is everywhere,
even in the dark beneath your skin.

Life, however long, will always be short.
Too short for anything to be added.

There’s no life
that couldn’t be immortal
if only for a moment.

Time has passed like a courier with urgent news.
But that’s just our simile.
The character is invented, his haste is make-believe,
his news inhuman.

There are many families in which nobody writes poems,
but once it starts up it’s hard to quarantine.
Sometimes poetry cascades down through the generations,
creating fatal whirlpools where family love may founder.

Only what is human can truly be foreign.
The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.