He talked a lot about design. He did it because he described the situations from his physical, palpable, visible side. From there he reached the sentimental, to the ideological, to the conceptual even or the spiritual. Thus, almost anything: a bag, his chair, a lamp, a boyfriend perhaps, or what served at home when he organized a dinner, prepared the way to talk about design, that is: to rethink life.
analyzed what it means to bring a bag: “Women who hate the bags know that their bags are a reflection of their negligence in domestic tasks, of irremediable disorganization, of a chronic inability to throw anything[…]. Their bags are an ICT TAC candy landfill, lost ibuprofenos, lipstick without a cover, unknown harvest lip lipstick, tobacco remains (even if they have been without smoking for at least ten years), tampons that have left the English case and English coins of A trip to London last October. They wear glasses with scratched crystals and a toothbrush without a case of having used to clean the silver. ”
For Ephron, the waste of a life accumulates in the bags. In general, he defended the maxim that what is never fashionable, never goes out of style. He lived as a lost battle to need a bag. But he wrote against the rigid that hangs his arm: “He throws you ten more and on top of you immobilizes half of the body.” What did she do? Ended up loading a bag, a tote bagfrom the New York subway.
Now that two of his articles books are gathered in I neither like my neck nor I remember anything (Asteroid books) With translation by Catalina Martínez Muñoz and illustrations by Patricia Bolaños, it is easy The time to choose an apartment, a city or even what you choose to give dinner to your guests.
Ephron liked to cook. Partly because I enjoyed eating a lot. He had memory on the palate. Also because, although he assured that he bored her, she had a Proustian memory for the meat cake, the puff pastry and almost all the meals that related to her childhood. What he liked was “at the same time sweet, salty and totally surprising, like all good things.” Thus he was fond of cooking. But … already with some age, he wrote that the menus that had served his guests were too elaborate and calculated. “I saw with horrible clarity that all my life, until that moment, had been a mistake.” Understood that, he resigned from culinary neurosis and became a relaxed cook. Do not explain how he altered his dishes, tablecloths and drinks that decision.
Born in 1941, Ephron moved to, with her family, when she was just a girl, and lived a nostalgic childhood in which she dreamed of returning to Manhattan. His adult life was that return. And an learning: “In a move we throw in the trash of lots of parts of our life.” He settled in the city where he would die in 2012 by starting a pilgrimage for several buildings – and apartment income – for several couples and for multiple articles, books and film scripts – was nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay for, (1989) and Something To remember (1993) -. Thus, he described those removals such as dying and reborn at the same time “until he is in a position to start accumulating hit again.”
With that life, it is understood that New York was almost one more protagonist in his writings. “The change is part of the idyll with caffeine of this city that never sleeps.” And it has, as we have almost all had somewhere in the world, the feeling that she did caught the good time of her city: “The limitations to the rental price were an inseparable part of life in New York, such as the posts of puppies hot ”.
Beyond humor, boldness and intelligence, Ephron left a sociologist look: “In the fifties, only seven percent of American women dyed their hair.” I talked about a time when “if you didn’t make the manicure you felt careless.” A time?
Mother of two children, one of her most exciting writings helps cope with adolescence. Of course, he talked about current upbringing almost as an excess of design “in the times when there were only mothers and fathers, instead of people committed to parenting, things were quite simple.”
