Breve Historia de Este Puto Mundo / a Brief History of This Damn World
Language: Spanish
Published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC, 2016
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- Title
- Breve Historia de Este Puto Mundo / a Brief History of This Damn World
- Author
- Samper Pizano, Daniel
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 6073142048
- ISBN 13
- 9786073142045
- Item weight
- 0.692 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Ahora está aquí: desde el Big Bang hasta un ominoso anticipo de lo que nos espera. ¿Dónde empieza el chiste y dónde termina la realidad? Ni él mismo lo sabe.
Estos son algunos de los apuntes de este tratado universal:
• Todo empezó con una sola célula hace 5.000 millones de años, y miren cómo estamos
• Los egipcios han vivido siempre en Egipto, cosa meritoria si consideramos las diarreas que produce el agua de sus grifos.
• Los lugares que hoy atacan los drones de Estados Unidos ya los había atacado a caballo Alejandro Magno.
• Desde Da Vinci, al hombre que ejerce varios oficios se lo llama "renacentista" o "padre de familia de clase media".
• Lo que liquidó la Revolución francesa fue la manía de bautizar los meses con nombres raros que nadie pudo aprender.
• Darwin sostuvo que los hombres descienden de los monos, y sin embargo los monos no protestaron.
• El capital es un libro clave, si bien pocos de quienes lo citan lo han leído y pocos de quienes lo han leído lo entendieron.
• En 1975 pasaron a mejor vida el dictador Franco y España.
• Cuando se agote la energía del sol brotará en el espacio un espectáculo maravilloso, pero no quedará nadie para disfrutarlo
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A Brief History of the Damn World.
Nobody had dared to write the history of this damn world with the famous and caustic humor of Daniel Samper Pizano, which makes you laugh but also leaves you feeling slightly uneasy. Now it is here: from the Big Bang to an ominous prediction of what awaits us. Where does the joke begin and where does reality end? Not even he knows for sure. These are some notes from this universal treatise:
• Everything began with one single cell more than five billion years ago, and look at the condition we're in.
• The Egyptians have always lived in Egypt, which is quite a feat considering the diarrhea that their tap water produces.
• The places that American drones are now attacking were once attacked by Alexander the Great on horseback.
• Since da Vinci, a man who dabbles in many trades is called a "Renaissance Man", or "Middle-class Dad".
• What finished off the French Revolution was a fixation on calling the months bizarre names that nobody could remember.
• Darwin maintained that men are descended from apes, but yet the apes didn't complain about that.
• Capital is a key book, although most people who cite it haven't read it, and most people who have read it didn't understand it.
• In 1975, both Franco and Spain went on to a better place.
• When the energy of the sun burns out, there will be the most amazing spectacle in space, but there won't be anyone around to enjoy it.
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