Massive Total Recall

Massive Total Recall 

(O impronta de troquel deslastrado, tilde en regresión colectiva)

by James K. Dick

2 MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN RECENT TV SERIES

- Because, brother, when you were good, you were the best we had

Jimmy McNulty's Wake

"The Wire", Season 5, Episode 10.

- ... a place where we ache to go again

Don Draper's presentation of Kodak Carousel

"Mad Men", Season 1, Episode 13.

Mad Men. Carousel

- So have you figured out a way to work the wheel into it?

- We know it's hard because wheels aren't really seen as exciting technology, even though they are the original.

- DON DRAPER: Well, technology is a glittering lure, but there's the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on the level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product.

My first job, I was in house at a fur company with this old pro copyrighter, a Greek named Teddy. And Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is "new. " Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of... calamine lotion.

He also talked about a deeper bond with the product. Nostalgia. It's delicate... but potent.

Sweetheart.

Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.

This device... isn't a space ship. It's a time machine.

It goes backwards, forwards.

It takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

It's not called the Wheel. It's called the Carousel.

It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around and back home again...

to a place where we know we are loved.

- Good luck at your next meeting.

MOMENTO ESTELAR EN LA HISTORIA DE LA HUMANIDAD

"TODO TIENE UN NOMBRE"

Momento estelar en la historia de la humanidad

El 5 de abril de 1887 se produjo, a mi juicio, uno de esos momentos estelares 

en la historia de la Humanidad y de la humanidad (documentados).

Sucedió en una casa de Tuscumbia (Alabama, Estados Unidos). Una niña de 6 años ciega, sorda y "muda" (en el sentido de que desconocía la articulación del lenguaje y su simbolismo) desde los 19 meses, aprendió que “todo tiene un nombre”.

Se llamaba Helen Keller. La artífice de ese momento estelar fue Ann Sullivan, una joven profesora del Instituto Perkins para Ciegos. 

Ver la secuencia de ese momento en la película en la que se relata su vida ("El milagro de Ana Sullivan”, de Arthur Penn, de 1962) o leerlo en la autobiografía de Helen Keller, escrita quince años después o en las cartas de Ann Sullivan siempre me ha hecho llorar. Sólo de imaginar lo que sucedió en la mente de esa niña en ese preciso instante. Y de cómo así salvó su vida de  la condena a la que estaba destinada.

Estos son sendos extractos de la autobiografía de Helen Keller y de una carta de Ann Sullivan a su amiga Sophia Hopkins en los que se relata ese momento.

Fuente: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2397

Traducción: Américo Virus

 

Decisive moment in the history of humanity

On April 5th, 1887, it happened, in my opinion, one of those (documented) decisive moments of the history of humanity.

In a house in Tuscumbia (Alabama, US), a 6 years old girl, blind, deaf and dumb (in the sense that she couldn't articulate language) learnt that “everything has a name”. 

Her name was Helen Keller.The person who made this possible that  moment was Ann Sullivan, a 21 years old teacher of Perkins School for the Blind.  

When I watch the sequence of that moment in the movie about Helen Keller’s life, The Miracle Worker, by Arthur Penn, 1962, or I read it in her autobiography or in Ann Sullivan’s letters always made me cry, Just to imagine what happened in the mind of that child in that very precise instant. And how it saved her life from the damnation it was doomed to.      

These are excerpts from Helen Keller’s “Story of My Life” and Ann Sullivan’s Letters where this moment is told. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2397