Old men

"I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. More than that, I don't want to know. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He would have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

Ed Tom Bell, in the opening scene of "No country for old men"

Cada uno de nosotros tiene sus motivos para apreciar una obra de arte. Para algunos es la mirada, para otros la historia. O quizá el lenguaje, o los personajes.

Podría hablaros de la luz de Nuevo Mexico, o del paso del tiempo, o quizá del acento sureño. Pero para mi, NC4OM es ante todo un personaje: Ed Tom Bell. I sure as hell would like to share a beer with him someday.

"An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless

Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress."

W.B. Yeats - "Sailing to Byzantium"