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Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud!

A transnational author and voice crafter. Wrote a few novels and a medieval trilogy. And works hard to upload them on ACX before the inevitable vocal fold atrophy. javiertruben.substack.com

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Gold Plated

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/09/30

The rumbling swell woke me up in front of a breakwater wall that blocked my view of the sea, but the water sprays climbed above it, like a ranging whale expelling air from its blowholes, in each assault with the force of a geyser. Through the windshield of the car, I spotted Leire walking over the dike without caring about getting soaked from the volatilized foam in the air; she was barefoot to walk on her own.I opened the door and shouted her name, assuming she wouldn’t hear me. Returning to the

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9:11

Steamed Fish

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/09/23

Since I quit drinking alcohol and smoking pot or tobacco to avoid running out of steam and finish sentences skidding at the top of the gravel voice, my journaling has regained the life it once had, which is a pleasant surprise and a valuable benefit. When I did thick spirals of smoke, my quiet thoughts were lost forever. Or worse, if possible, from the deep buzz only reached to the edge of awareness such bland trifles as "I smoke. And I draw the leak from my breath." Of course, with that

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9:30

1999

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2024/09/15

I don’t believe this record can be broken, but who knows? All it takes is a madman to allow American missiles to be launched at Russia from Ukraine, similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Yet the final year of the last century still holds the record. Plus, in my lifetime, I won’t witness another turn of the millennium.But it turns out that yesterday, I received the news of the passing of a friend who suffered a heart attack. Astrid was two years younger than me. In 1999, she used to

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8:16

The Dog Star

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2024/09/03

September is my favorite month for several reasons. Once the haze dissipates, the crowds that come with summer in a beach town also disappear, especially now that social networks have attracted swarms of people to remote places. It is also a time for farewells to summer romances, a theme often found in coming-of-age novels. The posh urban girl promises to keep in touch with the besotted villager but ultimately doesn't, as the intense passion often fades with the return to daily life.I'm fortunate

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10:40

Wise Blood

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2024/08/22

With indescribable relief, I note that the summer storms have finally arrived and two-thousand-year-old festival known as Ferragosto is behind us. The festival, originally a celebration of Roman Emperor Augustus, was once a time when beasts of burden were adorned with flowers after the rigors of harvesting and threshing wheat and workers bet their wages on horse races, a ritual which is in some places preserved, such as the Palio di Siena. The ancient tradition is so instilled in the unconscious

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3:21

The Long Way Back

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2024/08/09

Marcel Proust had an epic quarrel in 1895 France with the literary critic Charles Sainte-Beuve on what the reader should know about any author and also wrote that every detail of the author’s life had to be kept in mind because his characters were simply an elaborated extension of the self, not natural creations.The most celebrated French author of the past century strongly disagreed. Consequently, he wrote an essay about that issue, Contre Sainte-Beuve. Readers who tried to make associations with

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5:43

Truman's Swans

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2024/08/03

Yesterday, after waiting six months for the release, I could finally gorge like Pantagruel in a bookish streaming series about the one and only Truman Capote, directed by Gus Van Sant and produced with infinite prodigality by the actual king Midas of showbusiness, Ryan Murphy.Two years ago, I wrote a post on this very writer’s platform about Truman’s swans, when Laurence Leamer’s book came up. But when I began from scratch last June to cut podcasts, that post went to the pile. So, it’s time to

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4:53

All Memory is Fiction, and All Fiction is a Memory.

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/07/26

Today, the Olympic Games in Paris will finally open after the mayoress has tried to convince us that the Seine River is cleaner than ever by taking a dip in a wetsuit, which offers some protection. The last time I visited Paris, I didn't even consider swimming in the river. However, I did enjoy my morning run along the riverbank, and it was priceless.The only time I had swum by myself in a river was a day before a rowing competition, and it was scary to do it, in fact, I did not stray just twenty

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1:12

Mary Flannery Full of Grace.

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/07/21

Last week I suggested a biopic called Wildcat, based on the brief life of the American writer Flannery O'Connor and the extraordinary work she was able to write before lupus, a chronic and complex autoimmune disease, the same one that her father suffered from and that left her half-orphaned at the age of 15, took her at the age of 39. In circumstances such as those described, it is by no means accidental that her work is imbued with a premature spirituality.I, during my thirties, was free of family

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3:31

The French Wolf

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2024/07/14

One day in June, during the three-year period of covid, a girlfriend whom I lost track of at the turn of the century so that her phone fell out of the agenda– like so many others before–despite the fact that I tried in vain to keep in touch at the time, suddenly appeared on Telegram, that app that is supposed to be better encrypted than WhatsApp.From what I found out, when such apparitions happen it is because they are looking for you. And she would probably write a message and then delete it. Since

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18:15

Hither, Thither, and Yon.

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2024/07/08

Emerging from the dark and foreboding forest, the jongleur made his way to a stunning glade adorned with a vibrant array of wild flowers. Over five hundred peasants had gathered around red flags with a palpable spirit of resistance. Those humble folks, known to the Parisians as Jacques Goodfellow, bore the weight of displacement caused by the harsh trials of war, plague, and famine. And their revolt was somewhat a consequence.At twilight, beneath the ominous shadow of the storm-ravaged castle, a

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10:33

The Jongleur's Chant

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2024/06/30

After the February killings of the marshals, the new governor of Paris Étienne Marcel was having trouble finding supplies in a city suffering from scarcity, using its last resources to fortify the walls against the imminent retaliation of the Dauphin, who ordered his allies to confiscate all property from their lands and raised taxation to his subjects, causing more harm and rampage than the Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War combined.That cold and rainy spring, the peasants rose in revolt,

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3:55

Portrait of the Artist as a Performer

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/06/22

I was a boy wonder, and I loved to hate the guts of whoever was a killjoy. And mostly, any authority figures who were poorly paid teachers, so I was bound to be a rebel and a self-taught. However, I had a professor who taught me to channel all that hate by reading aloud about any historical character of my choosing.Soon, I also became a performer aboard the school bus, which had loudspeakers and a microphone; I learned to read a comma and a semicolon and pause after a period without missing a beat

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9:22

Point Nemo

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2024/06/17

In my younger and starry-eyed years, like many other Jules Verne readers, I only knew Nemo as the daring and somewhat megalomaniacal captain of a submarine called Nautilus. It wasn't until later, while I was expanding the field of knowledge and therefore increasing the horizon of ignorance, that I realized the name was an homage to The Odyssey by Homer. This ideal everyman is found in many significant stories, creating what is known as the Monomyth, the framework that underpins all legends, fairy

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7:38

The Pact and The Dreamer

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/06/13

Had my fill of Karen Blixen for a long time. Because all the dramatizations I have watched this week about her are based on corny clichés, masquerades, and debatable constructions that cannot stand the passing of time. Anyhow, I have learned from her a lesson in courage to bear in mind. My intention, to share all that as it came to me, like a private investigation.Well, first of all, for a year, I was waiting for the release of The Pact by Bille August, based on the memoir of the Danish poet

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8:44

Wisdom Art

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/05/29

There was a long-past era when I used to rely on my shameless sex addiction to keep me feeling creative, lively, and protected from more harmful addictions like emotional co-dependency and the very stupid ones, alcohol and drugs. It felt like the energy and passion within me were pouring onto the blank page, creating an unstoppable force. Not for nothing, the stream of consciousness was the literary device I was fond of.I didn’t fuel my wild imagination with corny MTV music videos–the sign of the

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8:15

Up Close & Personal

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2024/05/18

For the last two months, I haven’t cut any podcasts. Oh, wait! A clarification is needed. Some people still think this is another newsletter, but if you look closer, will see a green rectangle over these words with the “play” symbol. And the one who reads aloud is me, a professional voice crafter, and not a lifeless synthetic voice or a famous actor. I know from my own experience that when I read a book, I miss the storyteller and the performance of the narrator. But some people don’t, because they

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11:08

Frilly

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/03/19

I have a confession to make. A friend of mine who still lives in Lausanne taught me a long time ago the only attractive thing about the internet, something that has brought me infinite joy over the years, to wit: being a ruthless pirate of content in the form of the many films, books, and series I couldn’t afford while I was a digital nomad living on the road without two cents to rub. Certainly, I admit it was against the law and looked awful for an author. Where were the principles to protect the

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4:10

Joseph Roth, Igor Stravinsky, and Rutger Hauer.

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/03/13

Writing is all about juggling two completely different ideas like when you’re on deck back-stitching a broken sail that the wind tore apart while you were sleeping. But today I feel so confident to do it with three—just to live up to the title which is not wanton.One of my dear literary heroes, Joseph Roth, was a German Jew writer born in Brody in 1894, East Galitzia, in the easternmost of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, actually Ukraine. Roth began a career in Vienna as a best-paid

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9:08

Uncut Book

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/02/29

Lucas Folch took at random a book from the stack of copies, placed by reflex the reading glasses at the top of the nose, and without noticing it, began to move his lips, as if instead of reading perhaps was counting money. Every morning, he went to the book distributor to restock some backlist and widely-publicised frontlist titles as well, many of which were the repetition of the same old promises: you are going to be captivated by this and by that, even for what follows beyond the first page.Those

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