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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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8:51

Offensiphobia and the Destroying Angel

Don"t You Dare To Think Out Loud! ·

2024/02/25

During the past week, I have learned how to drive on Substack without fear, as I did one summer on the narrow paths of the island of Majorca while taking a literary retreat in Portocolom; the olive fields had stone walls so that I stood my ground and hoped the other driver was not intoxicated, and if such was the case, he would not brake in time, and we might crash head-on.The locals advised me to honk the horn repeatedly, but I was fearless and loved the peace of the inland too much to bother

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8:50

Mighty Books

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2024/02/19

In the first month, my New Year's Day happiness went wrong. I donated my old printed books to a friend, thinking sixteen years of storage would not go badly. And Hell, yes! It did. More than half went to the fire due to its moldy state. Paper is alive like a mummy and cannot be moist. The last picture I had of all of them was on a luminous loft above the club Razzmatazz where I lived in 2008.When I became a Digital Nomad, I left my mighty books behind because I read them all during my teen years and

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7:41

A Transnational Authoress

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2024/02/17

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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7:07

Pandering

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2024/02/11

Sometimes, I wonder why the mere reading of some books stirs in me the irrepressible appetite of writing. Like just yesterday, when I watched with an old friend of mine a French movie about the creation of the first restaurant, Delicious by Éric Besnard, and we ended up so hungry that we checked if we had enough butter on the fridge. Lucky me, the craving vanished, otherwise I would have ruined my one-meal-a-day diet.Nonetheless, I swear I was hungry until I fell asleep reading Erasure by Percival

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5:41

Truman's Swans

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2024/02/03

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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5:21

Kapuscinki

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2024/01/30

It came to my attention in Russia by Antony Beevor, a British military historian whom I have followed since he wrote the astonishing Stalingrad, the story of the Devil’s apprentice that he quotes from Sentimental Journey by Viktor Shklovsky. In the story, to reforge the old man into a young one, the Devil’s apprentice needs to set the old man on fire. Leave the old and embrace the new. After the fire, the Devil’s apprentice tries to perform the miracle. And he finds out that could not revive the old

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5:00

Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead

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2023/12/12

Three weeks ago, I lost my father. He was 92, a retired pediatrician revered and loved by many generations of patients, and I was his caregiver in the last years, a unique chance to reconnect with him after having a long and stupid battle of wills and pride. My old man wanted for me the same prosperous career that he had as a doctor, instead of the risky and ambitious adventure of being a fiction writer. I was only 13 and solemnly declared to him that my goal in life was not healing the bodies of

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4:11

After a summer like the one we endured

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2023/11/07

After a summer like the one we endured, it's an honor to write again and record a podcast without a fan whirring at my feet. Still, the paradoxical issue I want to explore in the following post is the AI in Substack that is totally robotic, and it made me think about standards for narration.I’d always thought that reading aloud and faking another identity made the craft of narration sound cartoonish, despite my respect for the artist who recorded Donald Duck in the Walt Disney early days. Can I do

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4:11

Joseph Roth, Igor Stravinsky, and Rutger Hauer.

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2023/11/03

Writing is all about juggling two completely different ideas like when you’re 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… But not for long, if you have read the news about the

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3:55

Portrait of the artist as a performer

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2023/10/29

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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4:08

Memories of Outlived Sorrow

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2023/10/26

There is some kind of relief when old flames reach menopause and practice ghosting by default. For starters, I have more time to read the many books I badly ought to know like the back of my hand, and of course, I can write more focused than ever. A big improvement compared to 25 years ago when I began this wandering in the wilderness. Most of the time, I was deeply hurt. Because I found myself opening the mailbox for an awaited letter that never came.  It was like constant bleeding. No wonder why

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3:20

The Long Way Back

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2023/10/22

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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3:29

Lately

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2023/10/18

Lately, I’m trying to know summer constellations by heart, and not the real stars but the ones that twinkle in my imagination. Two novellas, one of 47K words and one of just seventeen with the author’s drawings. These novellas have the right length to be read aloud. In my twenties, I did it with small audiences, and I was always reading certain common nuances, especially the fact I could feel as if I were talking to a distant woman. So, over the years, I read about authors who cannot be

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4:36

Agfacolor, Technicolor, and Kodachrome.

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2023/10/14

Bored to death with these ramblings of the so-called modern cinema, where all the novelties are about superheroes as if the audience became idiotic, I had no choice but to find some thrilling films harking back to the 40s. When cinema was the ultimate art form. And Agfacolor challenged Technicolor and Kodachrome.The twelve years of nationalist revolution and collective delirium that was the infamous German Third Reich, besides a brutal war in order to achieve the same privileges as the declining

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2:27

Faulkner, Cortázar, Coltrane, and Gillespie.

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2023/07/20

William Faulkner is the best writer I have ever read. He first got me with The Sound and the Fury, which he wanted to print in four different inks, to make it abundantly clear that they were four different monologues. As you might imagine, the publishers of that era were too focused on profit to take risks and alter the intensity of black letters on white paper.Even today, nobody has tried to make good on Bill’s wishes in 1929, and I quote, “I wish publishing was advanced enough to use colored ink…

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1:46

The knife-grinder

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2023/07/16

Inside my head, I knew it was a summer morning. But I didn’t know anything else in my childhood. And yes, indeed. I could hear the thirty-second notes coming from that wooden pipe, a pan flute. Like a migratory birdcall, blew many times announcing the peddler’s arrival, after a full year of absence. All of a sudden, the help comes with big scissors too, and many men pack the knives with a cloth.The knife-grinder, maybe the last of his kind, bends over the stone rolling fast, and everybody is

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2:21

Mesmerised by a thousand halyards

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2023/07/04

There are lazy sounds that are coming one at a time to me. As if these sounds rose slowly from the underworld. Or they would have crossed a remote distance before ringing, a tintinnabulation that fades out to come back higher after a few moments to drift again into silence. Flags and rags --both at the sailboat and fishing trawler fleet-- keep gently awaiting the offshore breeze.There are backfires from a diesel motor that comes rough, and afterward, it goes away, followed by an aquatic gurgle and

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3:52

The Secret Drawer

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2023/07/04

Long before this era of senseless over-sharing, there was an intriguing piece of furniture called a rolltop desk, where our ancestors used to sit and write. It had secret drawers to keep handwritten letters and faded portraits of their loved ones. These secret drawers were kept locked, and the key to open them was hidden. Sometimes, the women wore the key sewn into their garments. I've just opened this Substack with the same intention as those women of the past -- that is, to keep these inklings

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