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Andrés Porras Chaves – This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense

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Andrés Porras Chaves – Adjunct Professor of Humanities. IE University. Reading: This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense (Este que ves, engaño colorido) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). A refutation of flatteries perceived as blind error; inscribed by the truth on a portrait of the poet. This that you see, this brightly-hued […]

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Facundo Vázquez – The righteous

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Facundo Vázquez – Associate Finance & Control Manager. IE University. Reading: The righteous (Los Justos) by Jorge Luis Borges (1981). A man who cultivates a garden as Voltaire wanted. The one that is grateful that there is music on earth The one that discovers the pleasure of an etymology Two coffee shop employees in […]

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Ted Lechterman – A Theory of Justice (Excerpt)

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Ted Lechterman – Assistant professor of philosophy. IE University. Reading: A Theory of Justice (Excerpt) by John Rawls (Harvard University Press, 1971). Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws […]

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Only

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Director of the Center for the Governance of Change. IE University. Reading: Only (Solamente) by Alejandra Pizarnik from book La última inocencia, 1956. now I understand the truth— it shatters in my desires, in my misfortunes, in my dissonance, in my unrest, in my delirium. now I understand the truth— […]

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Juan Alcalde – The Ten Books of Architecture (Excerpt)

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Juan Alcalde – Seminars and Advisor Program Coordinato. IE University. Reading: The Ten Books of Architecture / De Architectura (Excerpt) by Vitruvius (15 a. C). Book One. Chapter Three. The departments of architecture. There are three architecture departments: the art of building, Gnomonic, and the construction of machinery… Regarding the buildings,… All these must […]

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Maria Paula Nieto-Angel – Love of Farmland

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Maria Paula Nieto-Angel – Program Coordinator Corporate & Special Projects. IE University. Reading: Love of Farmland (Amor de Conuco) by Juan Luis Guerra (1986). Tell me if she would love me I am a man of few words, Consuelo I have nothing to offer A farmland, a rooster, and a bright star And the […]

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Jesús Sánchez – The Dawn of New York

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Jesús Sánchez – Program Assistant en el International MBA. IE Business School. Reading: The Dawn of New York (La aurora de Nueva York) by Federico García Lorca (1930). The dawn of New York has four pillars of slime and a hurricane of black doves that paddle in rotten waters. The dawn of New York […]

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Natalie Rose – The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It (Excerpt)

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Natalie Rose – MBA Programs Assistant – Talent & Careers – . IE University. Reading: The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It (Excerpt) by Mark Twain (1869). Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot […]

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Pablo Castro Rodríguez – Goodbye, rivers (Excerpt)

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Pablo Castro Rodríguez – Senior Associate Director.Legal Sector – Talent & Careers. IE University. Reading: Goodbye, rivers (Adiós ríos) Excerpt by Rosalía de Castro (1861). Goodbye, rivers, goodbye, springs, Goodbye, trickling streams; Goodbye, all I see before me: Who knows when we’ll meet again? Oh my home, my homeland, Soil where I was raised, Little garden […]

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Irene Pujol – Complexus

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Irene Pujol – Junior Manager – IE Center for the Governance of Change. IE University. Reading: Complexus by Irene Pujol. I have neither children nor nieces nor nephews But if I had them And I had to share with them Or with anyone A lesson from the road I would say Dear ones, life […]

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