Afrodita en el trópico

De todo corazón desearía comer el fruto del árbol de la ciencia, y me parece que la prohibición de comerlo es bastante extraña. Puesto que Dios concedió la razón al hombre, debía parecerle bien que se instruyese, ¿o acaso prefería que su servidor fuese un ignorante? Desearía también hablar con la serpiente, tan ingeniosa ella. Anunciar únicamente la moral, ¿no sería prestar un servicio a los hombres? Esa moral es tan pura, tan santa, tan universal, tan clara y tan antigua, que bien debe provenir del mismo Dios, como la luz que entre nosotros se tiene por su primera creación....

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...