{"id":6127,"date":"2021-09-17T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=6127\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:15:03","slug":"came-outside-saw-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2021\/09\/17\/came-outside-saw-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AND WE CAME OUTSIDE AND SAW THE STARS AGAIN&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/And-we-came-outside-and-saw-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/And-we-came-outside-and-saw-stars-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/And-we-came-outside-and-saw-stars-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/And-we-came-outside-and-saw-stars.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/And-we-came-outside-and-saw-stars-200x300@2x.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>This is a book about coronavirus and the view of pandemia through the eyes of writers and journalists from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>From the story about <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;A boy and a girl, fraternal twins born in India on March 15, 2020, were named Corona and Covid&#8221;<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<strong>(Javier Sinay)<\/strong> to the story of <span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;&#8230;while the death count for COVID-19 was rising in Iran and elsewhere, the island of Mauritius kept baiting tourists, seducing them with half-priced plane tickets, offering the privilege to buy three bottles of whiskey at the duty-free store upon arrival instead of the customarily approved two&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><strong> (Shenaz Patel)<\/strong>, it was a very eye opening lecture for me.<\/p>\n<p>The next words were written by <strong>Mario Vargas Llosa<\/strong> on March 15,2020:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;With time, the coronavirus will be no more than an old news story that people barely remember.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>What will never pass is our fear of death, of the afterlife, which is at the heart of a collective dread like the fear of plague.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Mankind must respond to them and acknowledge the fleeting nature of existence.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>It is difficult for us to accept that all of life&#8217;s beauty, all the adventures life has to offer, belong ultimately to death, and that at any moment it may all come to an end.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>It is difficult to acknowledge, too, that if death did not exist, life would be infinitely boring, without adventure and mystery, a cacophonous repetition of the most banal and unpleasant experiences ad nauseam.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>It&#8217;s thank to death that we have love, desire, fantasy, art, science, books, and culture &#8212; all the things that make life unpredictable, exciting, and bearable.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Reason explains all this, but the turmoil that lies within us stops us from accepting it.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Fear of the plague is, quite simply, fear of death, which accompanies us through our lives like a shadow.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: RESTLESS BOOKS Brooklyn, New York 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book about coronavirus and the view of pandemia through the eyes of writers and journalists from all over the world. 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