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“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”

My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.

Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.

Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.

prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com

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dr0wnedperfectionist asked:

hey!! I have a question for you, do you have any like really difficult/high-level spanish books that you could recommend or maybe your followers could recommend?? also similarly, like high-level poetry, high-level songs (I usually only hear songs that are relatively easy to understand). Also for the books/poetry, I would definitely be more willing to read something with an interesting plot. I'm open to all genres of everything. Thank you so so much if you have recommendations

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spanishskulduggery answered:

I'll try and think of some, though the ones I know of tend to be older and more difficult just because they're old but I'll try and think of some that are more famously difficult or advanced that are more contemporary.

Aside from technical things that even I don't understand because of the specialized vocabulary I would recommend:

  • La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca [Calderón is a very famous Spanish playwright during the Spanish Golden Age, though his works tend to be more geared towards the upper class at the time, but La vida es sueño is probably his best known work]
  • Comentarios reales de los Inca by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega [An extremely important work; El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was one of the first mestizos, a son of a conquistador and an Inca princess and he wrote about the Inca Empire and the history of Peru to explain how the Inca Empire worked because the Spaniards didn't really understand the culture or customs and sort of saw themselves as above anyone they conquered]
  • Don Quijote by Cervantes [Very famous, very long, old usages of words and depending on your version it can be very strange to read; I'd recommend a newer edition of it only because the older ones have spelling differences that make it hard to understand; I'm talking like people saying fazer instead of hacer]
  • Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez El general en su laberinto El ahogado más hermoso del mundo El amor en los tiempos del cólera [Cien años is very famous and famously advanced; find one with a family tree because you'll be consulting it a lot, as the names tend to repeat and that's for a reason; I’m also attaching some of his other works that are particularly well-known]
  • El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan by Borges [This story is notoriously difficult. Even if you understand the words, the whole story is confusing and if you read it and got confused, you read it correctly. It's very trippy]
  • El libro de arena by Borges [A collection of short stories, also difficult in places]
  • El Cantar de mio Cid by Anonymous [Possibly one of the oldest and most important works in Spain's history, El Cid was a very popular figure in Spanish literature; in history during the 11th century El Cid was a battlemaster who fought and conquered different cities in Spain before Spain was unified and was in taifas and caliphates, and in literature he was more of a mythic figure where he also fights the King of Morocco
  • Hombres necios que acusáis by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. [Have you ever wanted to read feminist slam poetry from the 1500s? Sor Juana is who you want to read]
  • Poetry by Santa Teresa de Ávila [A little on the simpler side of poetry for being so old, but still really good especially Muero porque no muero which makes sense if you consider that she’s a very religious person highly tied to the mystic tradition and ecstatic traditions of Catholicism]
  • Assorted works by Rubén Darío [Relatively modern, but his poetry is really great. I particularly like A Roosevelt, El cisne, or El rubí]
  • The poetry of Pablo Neruda [Very famous for his “Odes”]
  • El laberinto de la soledad by Octavio Paz [He’s also a really well-known poet. His book is about Mexican culture and it’s kind of more like an essay but it’s really engaging]
  • Rayuela by Julio Cortázar La noche boca arriba [Cortázar is very well-known and prolific]
  • El almohadón de plumas by Horacio Quiroga La gallina degollado Los desterrados Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte El crimen del otro Cuentos de la selva [Quiroga is very well-known for his short stories and collections of short stories. Probably the best known is El almohadón de plumas though]
  • El burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina [Very very well-known and really interesting; it’s one of the major dramas about Don Juan the famous womanizer but this is the one where he gets his comeuppance]
  • La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca [Technically a play, but if you can find the script to read it’s very interesting. García Lorca is also very well-known for his poetry and is a very famous figure in Spain]
  • La casa de los espíritus by Isabel Allende [Isabel Allende is extremely well-known and La casa de los espíritus is her most famous work. She also has other works and is still alive so she’s very contemporary; La ciudad de las bestias and Eva Luna and La isla bajo el mar are just a few of her works]

I’m also going to attach a link to Biblioteca Ciudad Seva which is a great way to find different writers and poets, both from Spain and Latin America, as well as authors who were translated into Spanish. As in you could read some of the famous plays like Fuenteovejuna... or you could read the Spanish translation of Oedipus Rex

I would also suggest the Spanish language options on the Gutenberg Project; some are older writers, some are translations of things

If anyone has any other ideas, please add them in the comments below!

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