Passionate Bits' Who I Am
Welcome to my homepage. My name is Eduard Fabra, and while not in the cyberspace I live in Mallorca, quite a beautiful island west of the Mediterranean Sea.
After some years of wandering about the Internet, I've finally been able to settle down. This is my third try in having my own page, and I'm happy I've done it at last. This page began in February 1998. I'm thirty-two years-old now and still I don't have a clear goal in life. Other things I don't have are: a wife, children, an owned house and some good savings.What I certainly have and esteem most are friends and a brother; a passion for knowing and a longing for intelligence.
I'm growing old. Now and then, I like looking back in nostalgia and tenderness. That's great if you feel you've enjoyed the years left behind and the only way you'll be able to say that in the future about the present days is to keep a constant eye on the way you're living, every day, every minute. Awareness is the key concept know why you're doing what you're doing, and constantly asking yourself if you're living the life you want to live (or its most faithful approach). If you enjoy every minute of your life you'll find that growing old becomes meaningful. For me, enjoying life is being aware that you're living it you living life and not let life play with you.
Mediocrity is not having the guts to do what you know you should be doing. At school we were told we had to fear God as a means to behave rightly. I've replaced the fear of God for the fear of mediocrity. Every day, I make my best not to become mediocre, and the only way I've got for not to is living life honestly (i.e., living life)
Júlia makes the design
This page wouldn't be possible without the brilliant work and immense talent of my heart-friend and flatmate Júlia D. Montolío. I'm in complete debt to her for her generous and unselfish dedication to this page. She makes all the graphic design here that is to say, the only thing that deserves praise. She's the master of tables, frames and gifs. If you find some graphical element you don't like, don't blame her she surely would have wanted to do it the way you like, and it's me that typically will have countered her claims of beauty by such mean considerations as loading time and memory usage. So I want to highlight that the whole design of this website is her merit, not mine. She says she would be pleased if you email her with comments, suggestions or technical questions
Llucalcari (Mallorca), or the platonic idea of the Mediterranean landscape
The contents
But what can you expect to find here? Some content, of course. I've managed to organize it in three categories:
I always thought diaries-writing people where so eager somebody could ever secretly read what they otherwise were hiding to the world!. And now, the world can read: they're just a click away. I'll be writing here about my life, as it goes (and perhaps you're in my life, so expect to be part of the play) Almost everything fits in here. I'll make my best to make it interesting to you.
And some research. Being somehow a sociologist, a would-be amateur mathematician, and a literature-loving guy, I've read some few books. Most of them don't deserve a comment (perhaps the only thing worth saying about them is they're not worth the reading). Other books, on the contrary, are well written, say something interesting and make you think. Those are the ones I'll be reporting here, with all my admiration for the authors, in amazement at their intelligence and in gratitude for their teaching. I'll include citations and comments. And if you think I should read some books you couldn't live without, please come here and tell me!
I'll be putting here all those valuable and interesting things that don't fit elsewhere: great bits of email I've got from my friends; pictures, songs and lyrics; comments about anything; other people's worthy work and writings; links to the places I like, and much, much more.
About the language of this site
English is not my native language. I know that my choosing of English as the instrumental language of this site can be catastrophic! My Catalan and Spanish speaking friends (and visitors) may not feel comfortable about it, and my English speaking friends (and visitors) surely will find my English a bit awkward (perhaps more than a bit). I apologize to all and nobody! To be sure, all three languages are being used here unfortunately I can't translate every text, so many of them will be shown in the language they were originally written. New writings will be in English, as far as I'll be able to put my thoughts in it! And please: tell me about my mistakes be cruel about that.
Did you know that Altavista is offering an online translator? All you need is to put there the URL of the page you want to have translated. If you want to try with this page (it's funny), here's the link.
If this is not your first visit to this page, perhaps you'll prefer to go to the
. So, Júlia: moltíssimes gràcies per la teua ajuda.
An edited recollection of e-mail messages, featuring passionate discussions and outstanding messages I've been sent (10% finished).
A commented bibliography of Patricia Highsmith (10% finished, waiting for Amazon to deliver a bunch of books!).
My top ten list of software programs. Those ten programs I couldn't live without (or at least, which make your computer sessions pleasant and productive), along with a little explanation of what they do, where can be downloaded and how to make the most of them. I've actually completed half of the task.
What it began as a simple sidebar for another section has become an end by itself I'm talking about the Ausiàs March's poems. Besides increasing the number of poems transcribed there, I plan to add summary translations in English and Spanish, and comments on my own as well if I'm courageous enough. Júlia's working on a new design of the page to make it more readable and nice (75% finished)
Two in-depth (but not boring, I hope) analysis of the works of sociologists Emile Durkheim and Peter L. Berger. Durkheim has always impressed me as an extraordinarily rigorous and honest thinker. He insightfully identified and conceptualized the powerful collective forces implicated in both social organization and individual behavior. His work contributed in a leading way to build the field of knowledge of Sociology not in vain he's regarded as one of its founding fathers. Just read this little assertion of him about the educational system (in Spanish). Berger, along with Thomas Luckmann, wrote in 1966 The social construction of reality a capital, terribly intelligent and delicious book which has become a landmark in the history of Sociology. Since then, Berger has written a bunch of equally penetrating books about religion, the economic culture, the process of modernization and even the "redeeming laughter". Here's an example of Berger's wittiness. (These are rather long-term undertakings, and the actual completed task is 2%)
Scattered about on the website, there are public demands of things I'd like being sent, told about, corrected, praised or anything. If you don't have the patience to look for them, but are kind enough to have a look at them to see if you can help me, here they are.
Lyrics featuring infuriated girls (click here to go there)
From all ex-Tagorians around: any messages you may have kept from Tagore BBS.
The Raimon recording of Veles e Vents, and some Ovidi Montllor's recitations of March's poems.
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