This is my second skin so far... It's a tribute to the argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges; the picture is a collage I made with some magazine cuttings and printed lines from some of his poems, and it's somehow the representation of my feelings about the poems (I put it into the anime category because of the style of the drawing). I also chose some specific lines to highlight them on the skin; those are the ones located at the lower part of the equalizer and the playlist, the equalizer bars and the main titlebar in skincheat mode. So, the skin is mainly based on those lines and the poems they're taken from (specially The Art Of Poetry), which you'll find in this readme file (only one in english, the rest of them are in spanish).
I really liked how the skin turned out, and I decided to publish it hoping someone will like it as well. Any comments are welcome.
Note: I've included in this archive the font I used for this skin, so you can install it on your pc if you want.
- che.
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* I started to make skins for the sole purpose of having fun and to give some meaning to the endless hours of spare time I have right now. As they seem to take a lot of that time, I have just made a few, but I've put into each one of them a lot of effort and meaning. So, if you wish to check out my skins, you can do it by searching for my user name: ana thema, at winamp.com. *
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Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Art Of Poetry
To gaze at a river made of time and water
And remember Time is another river.
To know we stray like a river
and our faces vanish like water.
To feel that waking is another dream
that dreams of not dreaming and that the death
we fear in our bones is the death
that every night we call a dream.
To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.
To see in death a dream, in the sunset
a golden sadness -- such is poetry,
humble and immortal, poetry,
returning, like dawn and the sunset.
Sometimes at evening there's a face
that sees us from the deeps of a mirror.
Art must be that sort of mirror,
disclosing to each of us his face.
They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders,
wept with love on seeing Ithaca,
humble and green. Art is that Ithaca,
a green eternity, not wonders.
Art is endless like a river flowing,
passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same
inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same
and yet another, like the river flowing.
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Mi Vida Entera
Aqui otra vez, los labios memorables, unico y
semejante a vosotros.
Soy esa torpe intensidad que es un alma.
He persistido en la aproximacion de la dicha y
en la privanza del pesar.
He atravesado el mar.
He conocido muchas tierras; he visto una mujer
y dos o tres hombres.
He querido a una nina altiva y blanca y de una
hispanica quietud.
He visto un arrabal infinito donde se cumple una
insaciada inmortalidad de ponientes.
He paladeado numerosas palabras.
Creo profundamente que eso es todo y que ni veré
ni ejecutaré cosas nuevas.
Creo que mis jornadas y mis noches se igualan en
pobreza y en riqueza a las de Dios y a las
de todos los hombres.
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La Lluvia
Bruscamente la tarde se ha aclarado
Porque ya cae la lluvia minuciosa.
Cae o cayó. La lluvia es una cosa
Que sin duda sucede en el pasado.
Quien la oye caer ha recobrado
El tiempo en que la suerte venturosa
Le reveló una flor llamada rosa
Y el curioso color del colorado.
Esta lluvia que ciega los cristales
Alegrará en perdidos arrabales
Las negras uvas de una parra en cierto
Patio que ya no existe. La mojada
Tarde me trae la voz, la voz deseada,
De mi padre que vuelve y que no ha muerto.
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Los Espejos
Yo que sentí el horror de los espejos
no sólo ante el cristal impenetrable
donde acaba y empieza, inhabitable,
un imposible espacio de reflejos
sino ante el agua especular que imita
el otro azul en su profundo cielo
que a veces raya el ilusorio vuelo
del ave inversa o que un temblor agita
Y ante la superficie silenciosa
del ébano sutil cuya tersura
repite como un sueño la blancura
de un vago mármol o una vaga rosa,
Hoy, al cabo de tantos y perplejos
años de errar bajo la varia luna,
me pregunto qué azar de la fortuna
hizo que yo temiera los espejos.
Espejos de metal, enmascarado
espejo de caoba que en la bruma
de su rojo crepúsculo disfuma
ese rostro que mira y es mirado,
Infinitos los veo, elementales
ejecutores de un antiguo pacto,
multiplicar el mundo como el acto
generativo, insomnes y fatales.
Prolonga este vano mundo incierto
en su vertiginosa telaraña;
a veces en la tarde los empaña
el Hálito de un hombre que no ha muerto.
Nos acecha el cristal. Si entre las cuatro
paredes de la alcoba hay un espejo,
ya no estoy solo. Hay otro. Hay el reflejo
que arma en el alba un sigiloso teatro.
Todo acontece y nada se recuerda
en esos gabinetes cristalinos
donde, como fantásticos rabinos,
leemos los libros de derecha a izquierda.
Claudio, rey de una tarde, rey soñado,
no sintió que era un sueño hasta aquel día
en que un actor mimó su felonía
con arte silencioso, en un tablado.
Que haya sueños es raro, que haya espejos,
que el usual y gastado repertorio
de cada día incluya el ilusorio
orbe profundo que urden los reflejos.
Dios (he dado en pensar) pone un empeño
en toda esa inasible arquitectura
que edifica la luz con la tersura
del cristal y la sombra con el sueño.
Dios ha creado las noches que se arman
de sueños y las formas del espejo
para que el hombre sienta que es reflejo
y vanidad. Por eso no alarman.
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