Ley Nº 18.250 MIGRACIÓN NORMAS

Artículo 1º.- El Estado uruguayo reconoce como derecho inalienable de las personas migrantes y sus familiares sin perjuicio de su situación migratoria, el derecho a la migración, el derecho a la reunificación familiar, al debido proceso y acceso a la justicia, así como a la igualdad de derechos con los nacionales, sin distinción alguna por motivos de sexo, raza, color, idioma, religión o convicción, opinión política o de otra índole, origen nacional, étnico o social, nacionalidad, edad, situación económica, patrimonio, estado civil, nacimiento o cualquier otra condición.

On Exactitude in Science

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658

From Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew Hurley Copyright Penguin 1999 .

on irony - tracey thorn

I think it's really problematic that everything is now seen through an ironic tinge; it just makes it very difficult for people within the arts to be entirely sincere about things without looking like they just haven't thought it through properly. The problem with irony is it assumes the position of being the end result, from having looked at it from both sides and having a very sophisticated take on everything, so the danger of eschewing irony is you look as though you just haven't thought hard enough about it, and are just being a bit simplistic.


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